It’s painfully evident that independent thinking doesn’t stand a chance against the Big Ten overlords, Tad Stryker writes. More commentary: McKewon, Sipple, Wetzel, Bonesteel,* Forde, Kiszla*
BTN’s Gerry DiNardo says Scott Frost “needs something that says, ‘We’ve stopped the bleeding.'”
Before he was a Husker, Brenden Jaimes was just a “tough, nasty, competitive dude” at Texas power Lake Travis.
Fox Sports’ Joel Klatt is continuing to call for a re-examination of college football’s targeting rules.
The Big Ten has said no to a proposed nonconference game Saturday between Nebraska and Tennessee-Chattanooga. | Discuss | Home-opener roulette
1970 Day by Day: Quarterback Jerry Tagge is injured in practice, but it doesn’t keep him off the 47-man travel roster for the game in Boulder.
Steven M. Sipple says the Big Ten ought to allow the Huskers to arrange a nonconference game Saturday. More commentary on the cancellation: Shatel, Chatelain, Vogel, Carriker
Another year, another canceled game for Scott Frost. | More hits to come? | B1G tiebreakers, etc. | Alvarez video
The Wisconsin game is canceled as the Badgers have opted to pause all football activities for seven days. Head coach Paul Chryst is among those testing positive for COVID-19. | Discuss
The 1970 coaching staff had everything to do with the team’s breakthrough season. | Photo
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Stryker: Big Ten denial puts kibosh on independent thinking
Wouldn’t it be something if schools actually acted in the interests of their student-athletes and took risks to act in their best interests, instead of just mouthing platitudes and virtue-signaling…
1970 Day by Day: Oct. 29
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Tuesday presser, 2020 Wisconsin week
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Monday Morning Quarterback: Feel better about the Huskers’ progress after the OSU game?
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Feit: Five Questions for the 2020 Season
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Alternate uniform for 2020?
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B1G Standings
2020
| WEST | Conf. | Division | Overall | |||
| DIVISION | W-L | % | W-L | % | W-L | % |
| Northwestern | 1-0 | 1.000 | 0-0 | 0.000 | 1-0 | 1.000 |
| Purdue | 1-0 | 1.000 | 1-0 | 1.000 | 1-0 | 1.000 |
| Wisconsin | 1-0 | 1.000 | 1-0 | 1.000 | 1-0 | 1.000 |
| Illinois | 0-1 | 0.000 | 0-1 | 0.000 | 0-1 | 0.000 |
| Iowa | 0-1 | 0.000 | 0-1 | 0.000 | 0-1 | 0.000 |
| Minnesota | 0-1 | 0.000 | 0-0 | 0.000 | 0-1 | 0.000 |
| Nebraska | 0-1 | 0.000 | 0-0 | 0.000 | 0-1 | 0.000 |
| EAST | Conf. | Division | Overall | |||
| DIVISION | W-L | % | W-L | % | W-L | % |
| Indiana | 1-0 | 1.000 | 1-0 | 1.000 | 1-0 | 1.000 |
| Michigan | 1-0 | 1.000 | 0-0 | 0.000 | 1-0 | 1.000 |
| Rutgers | 1-0 | 1.000 | 1-0 | 1.000 | 1-0 | 1.000 |
| Ohio State | 1-0 | 1.000 | 0-0 | 0.000 | 1-0 | 1.000 |
| Maryland | 0-1 | 0.000 | 0-0 | 0.000 | 0-1 | 0.000 |
| Mich. State | 0-1 | 0.000 | 0-1 | 0.000 | 0-1 | 0.000 |
| Penn State | 0-1 | 0.000 | 0-1 | 0.000 | 0-1 | 0.000 |
| Through games of Oct. 24 | ||||||