Swan song: Last year for 11-team Big Ten
By RUSTY MILLER, AP Sports Writer
It’s the end of the Big Ten as we know it.
With Nebraska joining in 2011 — not to mention the possibility of others also climbing aboard the expansion train — the Big Misnomer puts its 11-team alignment on the field for one final time this fall.
Next season the conference will go to a divisional setup and begin playing a conference championship extravaganza.
It’s enough to bring pause to many longtime Big Ten lovers.
“It’s truly an end of an era,” said Ohio State coach Jim Tressel. “A new era will begin in ‘11.
Holliday ready for his Marshall debut
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — It took more than three decades for Doc Holliday to become a college head football coach but only a few hours of fall practice to affirm that he has plenty of work to do at Marshall.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Doc Holliday had a close-up view of Tim Tebow at Florida and watched Pat White set an NCAA career rushing record for quarterbacks at West Virginia.
Fortunately those playmakers were on his tea.
Surprise: Buckeyes In National Championship
By KEN?HALLOY
Ohio State will run the table and win the BCS National Championship IF:
Coach Jim Tressel gives quarterback Terrelle Pryor the freedom to do ‘his thing’ similar to the way he allowed Troy Smith in...
Tressel speaks out, sort of, on Michigan game
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — What’s brewing with the 2010 Ohio State Buckeyes ...
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By BETTY POKAS
WYATT Earp is no longer around so he can’t provide help when Marshall University’s Thundering Herd, coached by Doc Holliday, will be gunning for a victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes at the Horseshoe.








