Watching the Michigan schools, well, I couldn't watch them for very long. Yeah, I kind of knew that MSU was over-matched, but I thought UM would be competitive. I can't believe that Rich Rod's firing wasn't announced at halftime.
UW was a good game, and really that very makeable FG that was not made in the first half, may very well have been the ballgame, as much as a single play in the first half could be.
Remember though, the Big Ten did do fairly well against the SEC last year, coming close to sweeping them on New Years day, with the exception of the OT loss of NW to Auburn.
Still the SEC, like it or their fans or not, are clearly the dominate conference in football. There's no shame losing to them, but there is shame when it looks like you don't belong on the same field with them, and the two Michigan schools clearly did not.
Thank god that Iowa and Illinois got wins when they were both underdogs going in or it could have been really, really ugly. Ohio State, I can't hardly even root for them Big Ten or not. With the mess that they have with those five players (by the way if it had been anyone else, they wouldn't be playing), I'm almost hoping they get hammered too.
Even though I've never been an Ohio State fan, I have always thought (until now) that Tressel was a class guy. Now I see that he puts NCAA rule-breaking (talented) players above integrity. Do you think if these players were at the bottom of the depth charts that this would be the outcome?
We could debate the severity of their crimes (even I agree they didn't exactly commit felonies here), but the point is that precedence had been set that the NCAA completely ignored. And remember even though the NCAA wrongly allowed these players their eligiblity for this one game, OSU Administration (AD or higher) or Tressel, either one could have sat these players down on their own, and they didn't.
I've never been "with it", just been an interested observer of carnivals for more than 50 years.
Johnny's United Shows..."A Family Tradition" and "All for Fun, Fun for All".
The carnival of my youth, which had roots that originated in my hometown.