Football in November begins this weekend. We’ve reached the point of the season when wheat and chaff head in their own directions -- Separation Saturday, as it were.
Those that survive the on-field battles in the coming weeks will soon after find themselves fighting a new war. It’s a war waged on paper and by Internet prognosticators aimed at belittling the accomplishments of one group or another. The Ain’t-Played-Nobody tribesmen are stirring in their dens.
The Big Ten will no doubt be on the receiving end of some conferencewide smear campaigns based on the league’s lack of depth in recent history.