While most people would argue that the two teams facing off in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis Saturday for the Big Ten Championship are more similar than they are different, their routes to the big game were forged in very different lights.
The No. 6 University of Wisconsin and No. 7 Penn State University football teams are two of the biggest surprises in college football. Both began the season unranked and both suffered two losses along the way, doing so with coaches who couldn’t make a headline if they lived their lives with a microphone at the hip.