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UPDATE: Penn State IS Headed To Capital One Bowl. Aw, Shucks! (Sarcasm)

Per the Centre Daily Times: PSU to the Capital One Bowl is a done deal. LSU is the most likely opponent.

The World Reacts To This Historic Night In Big Ten Basketball

After a decade of domination courtesy of the ACC, the Big Ten finally prevailed for the first time ever in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. It didn’t come however without lots of blood, sweat, and tears. Penn State needed a big second half against Virginia then almost blew it at the end, same story with Wisconsin [...]

HHV’s Big Ten Power Rankings 2009 (Oct. 14th)

That’s right boys and girls, no pre-rank ramblings from Yours Truly this week. Let’s get right to the rankings, shall we?
1. Ohio State – Say what you want about Terrelle Pryor’s ineffectiveness as a passer but the Buckeyes just find ways to rack up points as two pick-sixes by the defense helped turn what should’ve [...]

Big Ten Pick ‘Em (Week 5)

Unfortunately, no time for Big Ten Power Rankings this week. Instead, I’ll quickly put up my postings for this week’s Big Ten Pick ‘Em challenge sponsored by Gopher Nation. Here are the standings so far after five weeks, as you can see, I’m representing the PSU blogosphere pretty well thus far.

Standings
Pts

1
Maize N Brew
42

2
Happy Hour [...]

Blue-White Roundtable Is Ready For A Road Trip- NOT

The video above describes my feelings after last Saturday’s prison rape courtesy of the Iowa defense. To be honest with you, I knew we were going to blow the game after JayPa brilliantly decided to call for a pass in our own end zone despite the fact our O-line was pass-blocking like a kid trying [...]

HHV’s Big Ten Power Rankings 2009

Three things are certain at the end of every September: Fall foliage begins, Conference play in college football begins, and HHV’s Big Ten Power Rankings rise from the woodwork. Now in its third season, the rankings have become some sort of a staple of this blog that has led to plenty of praise along with [...]

Blue-White Roundtable Is Giving Blank Answers This Week

Did you hear? The most critical game of PSU’s season is this Saturday. Did you also hear how they’re encouraging everyone to wear white shirts? Yeah, apparently they’re referring to the whole thing as a “White out.” Sounds pretty effin’ sweet, doesn’t it? And if that isn’t enough to get you aroused: Chris Folwer, Lee [...]

The Kirk Ferentz Twitter-Tracker

(Photo courtesy of the uproariously hilarious Iowa blog Black Heart Gold Pants)
With the much-awaited showdown against Iowa coming up, I figured I would try something a little different this week by using Twitter as a means of keeping tabs on what might be going through the head of the opposing coach, Kirk Ferentz. I’m not [...]

HHV’s Half-Assed, Arrogant, Football Preview 2009 (Part I)

With the start of the football season less than two weeks away, season previews are beginning to flock out of the woodwork. Needless to say, 99 percent of these previews follow the same formula: Say a few nice things about your opponents, throw out a key stat or two, predict the final score, rinse, wash, [...]

Happy Friday, Here’s Some Big Ten Power Rankings

That’s right, boys and girls: Fresh off the grill in time for the arrival of summer are 2009’s first batch of what has become a fan favorite here at HHV…And by “fan favorite” I mean the few friends who’ve drunk-dialed me in the past to tell me how much they love the Big Ten power [...]