Illinois football will not make the College Football ... Illinois is one of five Big Ten Conference teams in the ranks, with the other four all expected to make the playoffs: No. 1 Oregon, No ...

From Big Ten West to Big Ten best, in their first year as members of the conference the Oregon Ducks ... Oregon was likely headed to the College Football Playoff no matter the result of the ...

Or the Big Ten championship ... college football officials, as they evaluate this season, need to think carefully about where conference championship weekend fits in the bigger picture.

Check! Big Ten champion? You betcha! With its victory over Penn State at Indianapolis, the Ducks reign supreme in their debut season in the college football’s oldest conference. To relive all t ...

Week 11 of the college football ... top of the conference standings could look quite similar next week. In fact, there are multiple scenarios in play that would require the Big Ten to use ...

INDIANAPOLIS — From the moment a giant inflatable duck floated along the White River within a few blocks of Lucas Oil Stadium, the Oregon football ... Big Ten invited Oregon to join the ...

Oregon Ducks coach Dan Lanning punched his ticket as the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff with the 45-37 win over the Penn State Nittany Lions in the Big Ten Conference championship game ...

it was easy to forget the College Football Playoff picture appears to have cleared up quite a bit. The Big Ten will likely send four representatives to the 12-team field, along with four SEC teams ...

You could not ask for more out of a football game, and I hope that sets the tone of this weekend. Welcome to a historically exciting college football conference ... the Big Ten and SEC have ...

Conference championship weekend is complete as the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff picture continues to ... over the Nittany Lions in the Big Ten Championship Game.

The No. 3 Penn State Nittany Lions are set to take on the No. 1 Oregon Ducks on Saturday in the Big Ten Championship game ... the line ahead of the College Football Playoffs, and there’ll ...