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New Midweek Madness 🏀

We’re back after a holiday break and we play catch up with all 18 Big Ten Teams

👉Who’s making March Madness this year?
👉Did anybody waste a ton of NIL?
👉Who’s the worst team in the league?
👉Who’s winning the Big Ten?
& more 👇

https://t.co/bRjp16MQpg

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We have just 4 weeks left in the Big Ten regular season

It’s time to do an updated Tier Ranking of the conference based off what their goals should be rest of season

Who can win the Big Ten? Who should move onto March? Who is on the bubble? Who’s done?👇
https://t.co/XIASHjccqP

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Introducing:

The 21 College Basketball Teams that Matter in 2025

With the calendar changing, more people are watching CBB again. I catch you up on the highs, lows, & odds for the 21 teams who can win it all

I guarantee the National Champ is on this list
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Luke Altmyer is the most underrated quarterback in all of college football

He’s returning for a 3rd season as the Illini’s starting QB and will have @IlliniFootball thinking CFP entering 2025

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Building something special here in Champaign. Grateful to be part of it and wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.

See y’all at the Citrus Bowl.

#famILLy

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Here are the teams with the EASIEST schedules (least conference games vs teams who finished 2024 with 6+ wins)
🏈Michigan, Indiana (4)
🏈Illinois, Washington, USC, Nebraska, Minnesota (5)

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2025 Big Ten schedules are out

Here are the teams with the TOUGHEST schedules (most conference games vs teams who finished 2024 with 6+ wins)
🏈Wisconsin, Purdue (8)
🏈Oregon, Michigan State, Rutgers, Iowa, Northwestern (7)
🏈Ohio State, Penn State, UCLA, Maryland (6)

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Fixing the CFP isnt hard:
👉Keep auto-bids, but eliminate conference champions games. Just use the regular season champion
👉Top 4 teams get the bye regardless of conference
👉re-seed teams after the first round. Helps the #1 seed gets the favorable path it earned

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The Best 5 Big Ten games this week via @JordanFloorSlap

👉Wisconsin & Illinois need a bounce back W
👉Wolverines vs Hogs in Madison Square Garden
👉Primetime Cy-Hawk Rivalry in Carver-Hawkeye
👉A top-20 showdown in the Indy Classic
👉114th meeting in the UCLA Arizona rivalry

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New month, New Super Sixteen Power Ranking for CBB🏀

One month in, whose stock has gone up and whose has gone down? A new no.1, 6 new teams in the Super 16 and a record breaking number of teams in the Waiting Room to get in👇

https://t.co/X9GyZsSF1h

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Big Ten post-season line movement:

Penn State (-7.5)➡️(-9) vs SMU
Rutgers (+6.5)➡️(+8.5) vs KSU
USC (+1)➡️(+3.5) vs Texas A&M
Nebraska (-6.5)➡️(-3.5) vs BC
Minnesota (-3.5)➡️(-4.5) vs VT

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Ohio State already getting started on retooling their offensive line for 2025

Thompson was Northwestern's starting RT and did not allow a sack in the team's final 8 games

Expect other suitors to emerge for the Michigan native

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Northwestern offensive lineman Josh Thompson is scheduling an official visit to Ohio State according to Bucknuts.

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@patsmithradio As if the SEC was ever considering a 9-game conf schedule? They need their precious November cupcakes every year!

And complaining about SOS when Alabama's losses were to Oklahoma & Vandy is CRAZY. The way they played in those games they would've lost to a number of ACC teams

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Add Iowa vs Missouri to the list! They will face off in Music City Bowl

Only the 2nd meeting in the last 115 years between these two programs. They last met in the 2010 Insight Bowl - a 27-24 Hawkeye victory

1 of 4 Big Ten vs SEC bowl games this season🍿

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Big Ten Bowl Games:
Las Vegas: USC vs Texas A&M (12/27)
Rate: Rutgers vs KSU (12/26)
Pinstripe: Nebraska vs BC (12/28)
Citrus: Illinois vs South Carolina (12/31)
Sun: Washington vs Louisville (12/31)
ReliaQuest: Michigan vs Alabama (12/31)
Duke's Mayo: Minnesota vs VT (1/3)

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Early Big Ten post-season spreads:
Penn State (-7.5) vs SMU
Ohio State (-7.5) vs Tennessee
Indiana (+7.5) vs Notre Dame
Illinois (+10.5) vs South Carolina
Nebraska (-5.5) vs Boston College

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Big Ten Bowl Games:
Las Vegas: USC vs Texas A&M (12/27)
Rate: Rutgers vs KSU (12/26)
Pinstripe: Nebraska vs BC (12/28)
Citrus: Illinois vs South Carolina (12/31)
Sun: Washington vs Louisville (12/31)
ReliaQuest: Michigan vs Alabama (12/31)
Duke's Mayo: Minnesota vs VT (1/3)

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First order of business for Odom MUST be finding a way to keep S Dillon Thieneman, LB Yanni Karlaftis, DE Will Heldt, & TE Max Klare

That's 3 All-Big Ten caliber players at each level of the defense & probably the best TE in the Big Ten next year. Can't let them walk #BoilerUp

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Odom took over a UNLV team that won 7 total games from 2020-22 and brought them to b2b MWC title games

Before UNLV Odom went 25-25 over 4 seasons at Missouri, where he played LB from 1996-99

Will be interesting to see if he brings UNLV OC Brennan Marion with him
@BoilerFootball

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Odom took over a UNLV team that won 7 total games from 2020-22 and brought them to b2b MWC title games

Before UNLV Odom went 25-25 over 4 seasons at Missouri, where he played LB from 1996-99

Will be interesting to see if he brings UNLV OC Brennan Marion with him
@BoilerFootball

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BOiler Up!

The 38th head coach in Purdue Football history is @Coach_Odom 🚂

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Most All-Big Ten players by team:
Oregon: 10
Ohio State: 8
Indiana: 8
Iowa: 7
Michigan: 6
Penn State: 5
Minnesota: 5
Illinois: 4

Wisconsin & Michigan State were the only two schools without a single player selected to one of The Floor Slap's All-Big Ten teams

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All-Big Ten teams came out last week, but we didn't agree with every selection

Check out The Floor Slap's 2024 All-Big Ten teams &awards (🧵):
#CollegeFootbal #CFB #CFB2024 #BigTen @bigten

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The Floor Slap's 2024 Big Ten Awards: