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Big Ten Football 2011 Power Rankings: Conference Season Kick-off Edition
College football is in mid-season form as Big Ten play begins this week. The Illini are 4-0 for the first time since 1951, and they just completed their first undefeated non-conference season since...
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Iowa Hawkeyes’ All-Time Receiver (and Coolest Name): Marvin McNutt
Iowa Hawkeyes wide receiver Marvin McNutt, Jr. set the school record for career touchdown receptions with an 80-yarder on Saturday. He added two more scoring receptions in the second period, giving...
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Big 10 Football Power Rankings: Mediocrity, Parity, Blah Edition
There are only two times when doing a power rankings can be fun- way early in the season/preseason, or when everything is jumbled, disorganized chaos and blah. Doing a power rankings when the...
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Big 10 Bowl Projections; Much Hinges on Wisconsin Badgers
When looking at the Big Ten conference standings, and trying to figure out the hierarchy for the college football bowl system, I can’t help but think of one of my favorite lines from the ’80s movie...
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Penn State is “Radioactive” to Bowl Selection Committees; Big 10 Bowl...
“They’re radioactive,” a bowl official told Herb Gould of the Chicago Sun-Times yesterday. “[Bowls] wanted Joe Paterno ‘s last game, not a nightmare.” The Nittany Lions finish the season at Ohio State...
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Nebraska Cornhuskers-Iowa Hawkeyes Rivalry: Tom Osborne is Excited
On the last Friday of November in Lincoln, Neb., the college football teams from the University of Iowa and the University of Nebraska will square off in the first of what is expected to be a long and...
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Next K.C. Chiefs Coach: Iowa Hawkeyes Kirk Ferentz?
Now that Todd Haley has been canned by the Kansas City Chiefs front office, defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel wil serve as Head Coach in the interim. His first game will be versus the undefeated...
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Iowa Hawkeyes Suspend Star RB Marcus Coker for Bowl Game
Iowa Hawkeyes tailback Marcus Coker goes from 2010 Insight Bowl MVP to 2011 Insight Bowl suspendee today. Last year he set Iowa bowl records for rushing attempts (33) and rushing yards (219) in the...
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Kirk Ferentz Not Taking K.C. Chiefs Job, Staying at Iowa
Iowa Hawkeyes coach Kirk Ferentz, the longest tenured in the Big Ten, reiterated Wednesday his long-term plans to remain the head coach in Iowa City. Apparently, his boy Scott Pioli wasn’t able to...
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Iowa Hawkeyes Star Riley Reiff Declares for NFL Draft
Iowa Hawkeyes junior offensive tackle Riley Reiff announced he will enter the 2012 NFL Draft, forgoing his final year of college football eligibility. He figures to be a first round pick, possibly...
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Hawkeyes Leading Rusher Marcus Coker Leaves Program
The Iowa Hawkeyes announced that sophomore running back Marcus Coker withdrew his application to enroll in spring semester. He also asked for a release from his football scholarship and it was...
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Iowa Hawkeyes name new defensive coordinator
Phil Parker, DBs coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes the past 13 seasons, has gotten a major promotion- to defensive coordinator. Kirk Ferentz announced late last night. Parker, a member of the Iowa staff...
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#34 Iowa Hawkeyes: College Football 77 in 77
One thing I won’t get to do this year when writing about Iowa Hawkeyes football is say Marvin MCNUTT! Because the greatest receiver in UI history and funnest name to say is now gone, haven re-written...
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Illini WR Mike Dudek: rare bright spot in lost season
Champaign, IL- While your statistics professor might give you a decent argument disputing it, Saturday’s loss to Iowa effectively ended the season for the Fighting Illini. Sitting at 4-5, Tim...
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Hawkeyes Marvin McNutt, Illini Whitney Mercilus on College Football All-Name...
With a name like Mercilus, pronounced merciless, you have to be a college football player. And a player at the very aggressive attacking position of defensive end too- that helps. Illinois Fighting...
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