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Ohio State's rise, Illinois' resurgence highlight Big Ten's season

By Bruce Hooley
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, December 10, 2007

News that a Big Ten team would return to the national championship game -- or that two league teams would reach BCS bowls -- wouldn't have shocked anyone in August. Specifying which team would play for the BCS title, and which would land an at-large berth in the BCS rotation, would have arched eyebrows everywhere. Michigan, No. 5 in the preseason polls, and Wisconsin, picked second in the conference behind the Wolverines and eventually the nation's No. 4 team in September, didn't deliver o ...

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