"We're Number Six! We're Number Six!"

The Big Ten currently has arrangements to send member teams to six bowl games- and is considering a seventh!

Yes, that's what I said. Of the eleven teams in the Big Ten (they didn't change the name of the conference when Penn State joined) six- no matter what- get bowl bids- and the the team that finishes seventh may be going to a bowl, too!

The sixth-place finisher, it seems, gets an automatic bid to the Insight Bowl. I thought there was a minimum number of games you have to win to go to a bowl game, or something!

I know the Big Ten is a respected football conference, but even a Big Ten fan like yours truly thinks that giving more than half of a conference automatic bowl bids is a bit ridiculous!

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No, it's been a long time since NU was bad, in fact! I'd say that by now NU has definitely established that it belongs!

I watched their Rose Bowl appearance in a bar across the street from the campus. It was fun, even if the result wasn't.

Still, the days when they set the record for most consecutive defeats by a Division 1 school had some good memories. Remember:

That's OK! We'll take the loss!
In twenty years, we'll be your boss!


My favorite though, was the vandalism on a local road sign, causing it to read:

Interstate 94
Northwestern 0