Indiana’s Greg Middleton attempts to tackle Ohio State’s Terrelle Pryor on Saturday, Rich Janzaruk | Hoosier Times
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- Ohio State was every bit the No. 9 team in the country it came into Memorial Stadium advertised to be, Dustin Dopirak writes. Because of that, Indiana never had a chance.
- Building a winner does not come easy, Chris Korman writes, and Bill Lynch’s path to that goal is different than the one Tom Crean can take.
- The player of the game was, who else, Terrelle Pryor.
- Chris Korman Tweeted during the game that Cody Zeller and a host of younger players were with the basketball team during the game.
IT’S INDIANA
- Being a fan of Indiana football means continually being let down, the Indianapolis Star’s Bob Kravitz writes.
- The final score may have been respectable, but it was misleading, the Star’s Terry Hutchens writes.
- Terrelle Pryor was too much to handle, the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette’s LaMond Pope writes.
- Jammie Kirlew said Indiana was flat and sloppy, the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel’s Pete DiPrimio reports.
- There was no joking when Bill Lynch said Indiana had not seen anybody like Pryor, the Indiana Daily Student’s Greg Rosenstein writes.
SWEATER VESTS FOR EVERYONE
- The Columbus Dispatch’s Ken Gordon compared Indiana’s effort Saturday to batting practice.
- Pryor said the new Memorial Stadium was a beautiful facility, but that was side-stepping the obvious — same old Indiana, the Dispatch’s Bob Hunter writes.
- Ohio State is shoving the bottom of the conference around with a purpose and ferocity, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer’s Doug Lesmerises writes.
BIG TEN GRAB BAG
- For Tate Forcier and Michigan, the magic finally ran out Saturday, AnnArbor.com’s Dave Birkett writes. Michigan State exposed Michigan’s flaws, AnnArbor.com’s Michael Rothstein writes.
- Michigan State’s Blair White said beating Michigan in overtime was one of the greatest things he has felt in his life, the Lansing State Journal’s Joe Rexrode writes. The much-maligned Spartan defense was the key to the win, the State Journal’s Chris Solari writes.
- Illinois fans arrived in orange, but left blue, the Champaign News-Gazette’s Bob Asmussen writes. It may be time for a change at quarterback, the News-Gazette’s Loren Tate writes.
- Penn State’s offensive line came alive to make this rout go, the Harrisburg Patriot-News’ Bob Flounders writes. Ron Zook may be done at Illinois, the Patriots-News’ David Jones writes.
- Purdue suffered a Homecoming meltdown, the Lafayette Journal-Courier’s Mike Carmin writes. All things considered, the Boilermakers probably played well enough to win, the Journal-Courier’s Jeff Washburn writes.
- Northwestern gutted this one out, the Chicago Tribune’s Teddy Greenstein writes.
- Yep, same old Minnesota Gophers, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s Jim Souhan writes.
- Wisconsin had to survive another thriller, but takes home Paul Bunyan’s Axe, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Jeff Potrykus writes.
- Iowa is not perfect, but it is undefeated, the Iowa City Press-Citizen’s Pat Harty writes.
AROUND THE NATION
- Miami once again shocked everyone, beating Oklahoma in dramatic fashion, the Miami Herald’s Susan Miller Degnan writes.
- Case Keenum threw ball the 76 times, but Houston’s shot at a BCS Bowl went down in flames Saturday with a loss to UTEP, the Houston Chronicle’s Steve Campbell writes.
TAKE A LOOK
No embeddable video, but here is the Big Ten Network’s highlights of Saturday’s loss.
