Bigger Ten

Miller and Deace offer up their 2019 predictions relative to win totals…over and unders…in this podcast

Miller and Deace offer up their picks for the best Big Ten players they have seen play at each school….which covers nearly the last 40 years of football in the conference.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Iowa continues solidifying itself as Tight End U. Former Hawkeye George Kittle is coming off a historic season with the San Francisco 49ers. T.J. Hockenson and Noah Fant are entering the league as the first teammates at the position ever to be picked in the first round of the same NFL Draft. Former Iowa tight end Brandon Myers feels like that trio has raised Iowa’s profile at the spot. Even he is amazed at their high level of talent. Hawkeye fans old enough to remember understand Myers’ contributions to the program’s tight end lineage. His catches in the 2008 upset of Penn State at Kinnick Stadium rank up there with some of the most clutch during the coach Kirk Ferentz Era. Myers, who played at small-school Iowa, Prairie City-Monroe High and grew up on a farm, grabbed a Hawkeye scholarship late in the process and wrestled with his decision to decommit from Northern Iowa to accept it. After a successful run in Iowa City, he played eight seasons in the NFL. We caught up with Myers, who now lives in Arizona with his wife and young child, in our latest Hawkeye History podcast. He talked about how he ended up at Iowa, his time there, his NFL career and more. Please give it a listen.

Urban Meyer won at an historically unprecedented level in his seven years at Ohio State. Steve Deace shares some research that had he not, had he lost just one more game per year which still would have given him one of the best winning percentages in Big Ten history, they might not have won any Big Ten titles…and this underscores the challenges ahead for Ryan Day and Buckeye fans moving forward.

Miller and Deace discuss ten camp questions in advance of Big Ten teams heading into practices in the coming days

IOWA CITY, Iowa – When Kirk Ferentz took over as Iowa’s head coach before the 1999 season, he was looking for bodies. That’s what A.J. Blazek was. The Butler Junior College center received his only FBS offer from the Hawkeyes. Ferentz would later tell him what he lacked in natural ability, he made up for in work ethic and toughness. That’s served Blazek well as he’s climbed the college football coaching ladder. He began as an Iowa graduate assistant and continued on a path that took him through JUCO and the Big Ten. He became the North Dakota State offensive line coach this past offseason. Blazek leaving his position as the Rutgers O-Line coach and assistant head coach for an FCS job caused outsiders to wonder what he was doing. The same could be said about the time he took his hat out of the ring to return to his alma mater a few years ago. While his journey has brought questions from others, Blazek couldn’t be more comfortable with the decisions he’d made. He spoke with us about that, his time as a Hawkeye, watching the recruitment of his nephew Xavier Foster and more in the latest Hawkeye History Podcast. Please give it a listen.

Miller and Deace discuss ten takeaways from the recently concluded Big Ten Kickoff media event.

Deace shares his final Big Ten predictions for the 2019 football season in this episode of the Bigger Ten podcast.

Miller and Deace discuss trends from Phil Steele’s 2019 College Football Preview relative to Big Ten teams.

Steve Deace shares his 13 best win total bets of the 2019 College Football season. He has been 8-3 on these the past two years but feels more confidence in the totals he is seeing this year.

Steve Deace has finished his 2019 College Football Preview. It’s not yet time to release it, but he shares some pretty amazing college football stats and oddities in this podcast.

Miller and Deace discuss some anonymous college football coaches talking about their Big Ten peers, and Gerry Dinardo’s comments on each of the Big Ten teams as we begin to talk college football preview magazines.

Miller and Deace discuss the Big Ten’s hiring of Kevin Warren as it’s Commissioner in Waiting and what we think his top priorities should be once he takes the helm of the league.

Steve Deace shares his first set of Big Ten Hoops Power Ratings for the 2019-2020 season now that NBA Draft decisions have been made.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – These days, Matt Sherman works for Gopher Sports Properties. Say what!? Yes. The former starting quarterback at Iowa works is connected to the University of Minnesota as an employee of Learfield IMG College. Don’t worry, Hawkeye fans. He says he’s still one of you. I caught up with Sherman this week about the dynamic of working with the Gophers after trying to beat them with his alma mater. He spoke about his time at Iowa, where he experienced ups and downs, most of it very public, the recent passing good fiend and former teammate, Ryan Driscoll, and a lot more in our latest episode of the Hawkeye History Podcast.