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Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, now in his 21st season as the Hawkeyes coach, is currently the Big Ten football coach who has held his job the longest. But Northwestern’s Pat Fitzgerald looks like he could go far beyond whatever the 64-year-old Ferentz’s final...

Ryan Day liked what he saw from Ohio State’s offensive line in last Saturday night’s 34-10 win over Michigan State. He liked it so much that he expects even more out of that group the rest of the season. “I think we learned a couple things about the...

Is Mark Dantonio the greatest football coach in Michigan State history? The numbers say he is. His 111 victories are the most by an MSU football coach. Two weeks ago, he passed Duffy Daugherty, who held the record since the early 1970s. The numbers also say Dantonio...

Urban Meyer called his Tuesday practices “Bloody Tuesday.” They were tough. They were meant to be tough and focus his players on the task at hand. Even without the name, that tradition continues in Ryan Day’s first year as Ohio State’s football...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Ohio State was supposed to get its first big test of the season at Nebraska. It hardly turned out that way. Justin Fields threw for three touchdowns and ran for another, Nebraska quarterback Adrian Martinez was intercepted on three of the...

When Nebraska hired Scott Frost as its football coach before last season, it was a move that appeared very similar to Michigan hiring Jim Harbaugh in 2015. Both were former quarterbacks at the school where they now coach. Both had been successful coaches in places...

Nebraska could be the best team No. 5 Ohio State has faced this season or it could be the sports version of what former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan used to call irrational exuberance. Despite coming off a 4-8 season last fall, the Cornhuskers were...

COLUMBUS — Ohio State had its slowest start of the season Saturday but followed with its fastest finish. The result: a typical big victory for the Buckeyes against in-state Mid-American Conference opponent. Ohio State trailed Miami (Ohio) by five points and...

COLUMBUS — Middle linebacker Baron Browning said first-year Ohio State linebackers coach Al Washington has tried make the position group a little meaner. Compared to last season, Ohio State’s defense has been downright nasty so far this season. The...