Wednesday (I think it should be Thursday) August 27 Open Thread
Hey, there's football tomorrow!
It is time once again to start a new season of B1G Survivor as the 2025 football campaign approaches. Rules are the same as last year's competition at a similar website. There are 2 brackets, Winners and Losers. Everyone starts in the Winners bracket and continues in the
Let's discuss the Bruins in as Hollywood of a way as possible, with lots of name-dropping
What the hell, man.
This is how everyone thinks it will go!
Let's offend 17 Big Ten fanbases by ranking their mascots too low
While others pivot to generative AI and chatbots to find their traffic, we're turning to the water cooler, the grapevine, the OG social media network: word of mouth. If you get what we're trying to build here, tell someone. We hope you'll both stick around.
Dear Mr. Petitti, Commissioner Petitti? Commish? Tony? Can I call you Tony? Tony feels right. Hello. Hi. I'm a writer at this humble, upstart Big Ten sports blog. I'm technically the one with the sweater-wearing pugilistic otter as a profile picture and the stupid pun for
If you missed the original post from last week, we took all 153 different Big Ten matchups and winnowed them down to get a top 25 by using stats, methodology, and a good amount of vibes. Now we're doing the harder part: it's time to rank
Update: The original version of this post included Purdue-Ohio State in the final 25. This was in error; Purdue has lost over 70% of the games against Ohio State, failing test number 4 below (despite its more recent win percentage against the Buckeyes). The final top 25 now includes Our
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Esoterica, Historical References, and Other Nonsense
Well, that was a good start to the season! Thanks to all who hung around the OTR Pub and shot the shit on Saturday. ISU-KSU was a messy, sloppy, delightful affair, UNLV needed a lot to break right to beat Idaho State (!), the Rainbow Warriors nailed a walk-off FG to
And now for something completely different.
FOOTBALL IS BACK, BABY
The AVCA First Serve Showcase begins with #1 Nebraska at 7 CT/ 8 ET
Football, Mansions, and Lawsuits. What's more American than that?
Lot of news yesterday. Let's get to the links! 1. The SEC is finally moving to a nine game conference schedule like the Big Ten! Cue the "who hates who more?" debate to determine the eventual protected rivalries. 2. Nearly two years after the hazing scandal
It's time for Michigan to embrace who they are, and that is the Champions of the West, and the Auburn of the North.
The most recent case studies with any data past the breakthrough
48 hours out, all. Hold on to your butts.
Welcome to week 0. College football is back - whoop dee frickin' doo says the Purdue fans. This is the last week to collect points for our offseason trivia competition. A new competition will start in week 1. Let's see how everyone did last week before we
I didn't want to cheat you of my thoughts on this matter.