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Analysis: With Big 12-SEC Game Comes Uncertain Ripple Effect

Posted on May 18, 2012, in BCS Football, with 0 Comments

Less than a year ago, when conference realignment began to shift significantly, few could have imagined that Texas A&M’s decision to bolt the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference would eventually lead to Virginia Commonwealth’s move to the Atlantic 10..

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Big 12, SEC champs to play New Year’s bowl

Posted on May 18, 2012, in BCS Football, with 0 Comments

Updated: May 18, 2012, 12:16 PM ET ESPN.com news services The champions of the Big 12 and SEC conferences will meet in a New Year’s Day bowl game annually beginning with the 2014 season, the conferences said Friday in a.

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Big Ten Friday mailblog

Posted on May 18, 2012, in Big Ten, with 0 Comments

Hoping everyone has a great weekend. Ben from Columbus, Ohio, writes: “Hi Adam!” WAIT!!!!!!! You can’t say a word back to me or its an NCAA violation!! Are you kidding me? Sounds like Meyer was between a rock and a.

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Technology helps Illinois’ early recruiting

Posted on May 18, 2012, in Big Ten, with 0 Comments

OAK BROOK, Ill. — Five Big Ten head coaches have official Twitter accounts, but none other uses it as consistently as new Illinois boss Tim Beckman. If there aren’t a few tweets sent out from Beckman’s account (@coachbeckman) every morning.

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SEC, Big 12 plant their own Rose

Posted on May 18, 2012, in Big Ten, with 0 Comments

The Big Ten and Pac-12 have their Rose Bowl. And now, the SEC and Big 12 are trying to create something just like it. In a wildly interesting development, those two leagues announced today that their champions would meet annually.

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Imitation is the highest form of flattery

Posted on May 18, 2012, in Pac 12, with 0 Comments

SEC and Big 12 folks been tweaking the Big Ten and Pac-12′s love of the Rose Bowl of late. That made me grin because the primary motivation for those tweaks was jealousy. Don’t buy that assessment? Well, then what do.

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Five Big Ten teams in Schlabach’s top 25

Posted on May 18, 2012, in Big Ten, with 0 Comments

Four Big Ten teams made colleague Mark Schlabach‘s post-spring top 25, led by the Michigan Wolverines. Schlabach ranks LSU No. 1, followed by USC. Michigan’s opening opponent, Alabama, is ranked third. The Wolverines cracked his top 10 at No. 9..

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Big 12 and SEC Agree to Participate in a Game They Will Never Play

Posted on May 18, 2012, in BCS Football, with 0 Comments

A very odd announcement came out today from the Big 12 and the SEC. Starting in 2014, the year the current BCS system ends and the four team playoff begins, the two conferences have agreed to pit their conference champions.

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ACC’s lunchtime links

Posted on May 18, 2012, in ACC, with 0 Comments

Heather Dinich Dinich covered ACC and Big Ten football for five seasons before joining ESPN.com in November 2007. She’s an Indiana grad but somehow her favorite day of the week is Saturday. Send questions and comments �

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Big Ten lunchtime links

Posted on May 18, 2012, in Big Ten, with 0 Comments

Adam Rittenberg Rittenberg joined ESPN.com in 2008 after four years at the Arlington Heights (Ill.) Daily Herald, where he covered sports at Notre Dame, Northwestern, DePaul and several other colleges. He lives in Chicago. Send questions and comments � Brian.

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