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Big Ten no longer just the big two

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 9, 2005

CHICAGO -- The iconography is so strong and so enduring that it perpetuates to this day. Anyone who remembers college football in the '70s can conjure up the image: Bo in his blue jacket on one side of the frozen Astroturf, jaw muscles pulsing as he hammers his gum. Woody glaring through his glasses on the other side, raging at officials and cameramen and the chain gang. Handoffs and furious physical confrontations in front of them, massive crowds roaring behind them. The Big Ten divided betwee ...

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