No. 6 Oregon puts its Bowl Subdivision-leading 10-game road win streak on the line Saturday when it visits Iowa in the spotlight game on this week's Big Ten schedule. Iowa still has a chance to reach the playoff if it wins the rest of its regular-season games. This matchup starts a difficult November schedule for Oregon. The Big Ten schedule also has No. 2 Indiana seeking to win at Penn State for the first time in school history.
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Indiana coach Curt Cignetti is the unanimous choice for top coach in the Big Ten at midseason by a panel of 10 Associated Press writers who cover the conference. The Hoosiers have built on their College Football Playoff appearance, starting 6-0 and reaching their highest ranking ever at No. 3. Cignetti brought in 23 transfers to join a team that returned eight starters. Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza was voted top offensive player and top first-year transfer. Northwestern was voted the Big Ten's surprise team after a 4-2 start. Nebraska's Emmett Johnson is most surprising player.
The grumbling from the Southeastern Conference spring meetings in Destin, Florida, this week was loud, relentless and easy to translate.
Turn up the volume. The serious hollering is about to begin.
This football coaching hire is different for Indiana University.
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A source confirmed the initial report by Zach Osterman of the Indianapolis Star that the Hoosiers dismissed Allen on Sunday, less than 24 hours after IU finished 3-9 with a 35-31 loss at Purdue.
With only three weeks remaining in the regular season, Eric and I will have to score big to catch Mr. Lane.
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Casey Thompson threw threw for two touchdowns and ran for another and Nebraska beat a Football Bowl Subdivision opponent for the first time in 364 days with a 35-21 victory over Indiana. Thompson threw a 71-yard touchdown pass to Trey Palmer early in the fourth to break a 21-all tie and followed with a 1-yard run to give the Cornhuskers a two-score cushion. The win ended a nine-game losing streak against Bowl Subdivision opponents and was Mickey Joseph’s first since he was named interim head coach following the firing of Scott Frost on Sept. 11.
Will the Hoosiers be the Indiana of 2019 and 2020 or the team that went winless in the Big Ten last season?
Of 130 Football Bowl Subdivision programs, more than 42% earned at least one vote, including the Cards, who finished tied with Florida State and Texas San Antonio for No. 53.