Locked On Big 10 – Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast

USC football coach Lincoln Riley went from the hot seat to the middle of the college football mix with the Trojans impressive win vs Ohio State.  And that was just the tip of the iceberg on a crazy Big Ten football weekend. 

How about Minnesota and Indiana trading 60-yard field goals in the final :19 seconds of regulation only to see Curt Cignetti's Hoosiers win in overtime?  The Iowa Hawkeyes brought the Wisconsin Badgers down to earth with a 30-0 shutout.  Illinois beat Maryland at the horn with a field goal and got their starting quarterback back as well! ...

Lincoln Riley and his USC football team beat #2 Ohio State and got themselves back in the college football playoff mix but their crosstown rivals UCLA Bruins are now 8-0 and ranked 5th in the country!  Indiana and Minnesota trade 60-yard field goals in the final :19 seconds to race to overtime in another remarkable Hoosiers win for Curt Cignetti.  Nebraska finds another way to lose and Wisconsin gets a reality check at Iowa!  Plus Oregon's new offensive coordinator seems to have unlocked quarterback Dylan Raiola.  We break down every Big Ten Team and every Big Ten Game in our RAPID RECAP of...

Lincoln Riley coached like his job was on the line as his USC football team jumped on the Ohio State Buckeyes who struggled with true freshman quarterback Luke Fahey.   

Meanwhile Minnesota and Indiana traded 60-yard field goals in the final :19 seconds of regulation only to see the Hoosiers win.  Curt Cignetti benched quarterback Josh Hoover in favor of Grant Wilson who threw the winning touchdown to Charlie Becker in overtime! 

Elsewhere Iowa destroyed a Wisconsin football team that had just beat USC the week before.  Oregon came from behind to defeat Northwestern.  Illinois kicked a last-s...

The Georgia-Florida rivalry heads to a new home, while Ohio State faces a frightening challenge on the road against USC.

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Saturday night's Big Ten game at the coliseum is a must-win for Lincoln Riley and his USC football team as they take on an Ohio State football program looking for their next start quarterback while trying to maintain their #2 national ranking in the college football polls.  

Elsewhere around the Big Ten for Week 9 of the college football season Wisconsin plays Iowa for the 100th time!  Illinois travels to Maryland while the Terps debut a new football coach.  Kyle Whittingam will try to drum up some offense with quarterback Tommy Carr at Rutgers. 

We also get to se...

Big Ten playoff hopes teeter as quarterback questions dominate conference headlines. With Ohio State, UCLA, and Indiana battling adversity — especially at the QB spot — experts debate whether the Big Ten could be limited to just one playoff team this season. Shocking upsets, strength of schedule concerns, and the impact of injuries have fan bases on edge, sparking tough conversations about the league's true contenders.

The discussion explores Ohio State’s playoff path, UCLA’s surprisingly resilient campaign, and whether Wisconsin can keep its hot streak alive. Panelists break down the pivotal Ohio State vs. USC matchup, Iowa-Wisconsin’s defensiv...

Ohio State's game at USC is HUGE for so many reasons.  First we will see if USC football coach Lincoln Riley can keep his job if he loses this game - or any others the rest of the way.  Remember, this season is college football playoff or bust for Lincoln Riley and the Trojans!  Secondly, we will get to see if Ryan Day and the Buckeyes can maintain their #2 AP ranking without injured starting quarterback Julian Sayin!   

Elsewhere around the Big Ten we have bad injury news for the Iowa Hawkeyes as they prepare to take on red-h...

The Oregon football season has not gone as planned with Dante Moore's concussion, unexpected losses and Dan Lanning firing his offensive coordinator.  Now it appears Moore's season, and probably his career at Oregon, are over.  My, how the college football season inside the Big Ten can change in an instant!  Also we note how the 2026 Oregon Ducks season mirrors that of the 2025 Penn State football season.  Tune in an listen as we compare the two Big Ten football teams. 

Also, we explore whether Indiana quarterback Josh Hoover is healthy enough to keep playing.  He was hurt in the Oh...

Michigan football coach Kyle Whittingham already benched his $12 million dollar quarterback Bryce Underwood for Tommy Carr.  Now it may be time to bench his offensive coordinator Jason Beck because the lack of offense is destroying Michigan's chance to be a great college football team in the Big Ten! 

We take a look at the AP Top 25 and note several Big Ten football teams are out and there is some new blood in there.  Plus the Big Ten has 3 of the top 7 teams in the country.  Don't forget the new college football playoff poll comes out next week! 

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There is some chatter about Maryland hiring Jon Gruden as its next football coach to replace recently fired Mike Locksley.  While Gruden does come with some baggage which includes an on-going lawsuit vs the NFL, we think he is dying to get back into the coaching game and the Maryland football job may be the right ticket for him to get back on the sidelines! 

We weight the pros and cons of a possible Gruden hire at Maryland.  And we certainly think he'd be fun to have in the Big Ten!  What do you think?  Does "Maryland Footb...

Tune in to find out EXACTLY how Indiana SURVIVED at the Big House when neither the Hoosiers or Michigan scored a touchdown in regulation!  Oregon and USC got embarrassed this weekend.  We will explain what happened.  And Iowa and Minnesota went down to the wire.  Meanwhile UCLA and Northwestern are the HOTTEST teams in the conference!  We take just 10 minutes of your time and tell you what you missed and what you need to know in our RAPID RECAP of the entire Big Ten College Football weekend on Locked on Big Ten! 

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Many prominent Big Ten football teams like Michigan, Oregon, USC and Iowa lost this past college football weekend and are severely dimming their college football playoff chances and we aren't even to November yet!  Michigan lost at home to Indiana for the first time since 1967 and neither team scored a touchdown in regulation.  Oregon lost at Illinois and fired their offensive coordinator.  USC scored one touchdown and lost at Wisconsin while Luke Fickell's team appears to be turning things around.  And Kirk Ferentz's Iowa Hawkeyes lost to Minnesota on a last second field goal and lost the Floyd of Rose...

Indiana football dodged a close call at the Big House when Josh Hoover ran for a 4 yard touchdown in OVERTIME to beat Michigan 13-6!  Nobody scored a touchdown in regulation and Josh Hoover never completed a pass in the second half of regulation but Indiana's defense was good enough to spoil the starting debut for Michigan's true freshman quarterback Tommy Carr.  What a crazy way to start another exciting college football weekend of Big Ten action! 

Elsewhere around the Big Ten Northwestern improved to 6-1 with a big 42-14 win over Rutgers.  Aiden Chiles threw 3 touchdown passes and...

Arch Manning and the Texas Longhorns have to rebound NOW if they want to keep their playoff hopes alive.

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Our FEARLESS Pigskin Picks segment follows our in-depth PREVIEW of every Big Ten football team and every Big Ten football game for this weekend's college football slate.  We explore Michigan's lone path to victory over the Indiana Hoosiers with freshman quarterback Tommy Carr.  But will he be enough to take on a loaded and healthy Indiana football team led by Curt Cignetti and QB Josh Hoover? 

Elsewhere Northwestern needs to take care of business vs Rutgers to stay in the Big Ten and college football playoff race.  The same can be said about UCLA as they host Mich...

UCLA’s playoff surge stuns the Big Ten as Julian Sayin’s injury shakes up the race—could the Bruins overshadow Ohio State and Iowa for a spot in the College Football Playoff?

Spencer McLaughlin leads a spirited debate on UCLA’s impressive resilience, Iowa’s smooth path after navigating Minnesota and Nebraska, and Michigan’s quarterback change with Tommy Carr replacing Bryce Underwood. The crew scrutinizes Penn State’s and Washington’s setbacks, dissecting coaching expectations and roster depth. Key storylines include Josh Hoover’s health ahead of Michigan’s showdown with Indiana, analytics giving an edge to Iowa, and th...

We discuss at length the possibility of Big Ten football power houses like Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State leaving the Big Ten to become Independent like Notre Dame in the world of a 24 team college football playoff.  One ESPN pundit is actually PREDICTING this WILL happen.  We weigh in on Locked on Big Ten! 

Mike Locksley is out as the head coach of Maryland football.  The Terps have really struggled the past few years.  The Ohio State Buckeyes received more bad news in addition to quarterback Julian Sayin's injury.  Now starting running back JaKobi Jackson's foot injury...

Texas quarterback Arch Manning is in the midst of another disappointing college football season and his NFL Draft stock is cratering.  But he does have another year of eligibility left and we suggest he take his talents to Bloomington and play for QB-whisperer Curt Cignetti at Indiana.  Cignetti turned around three straight one and done veteran quarterbacks like Kurtis Rourke, Heisman winner Fernando Mendoza and now Josh Hoover!   

Speaking of quarterbacks the news gets worse for Ohio State football as Julian Sayin appears to be done for the year after suffering an arm/shoulder injury during the Buck...

Nobody wants a 24-team college football playoff except the greedy conference commissioners like Tony Petitti, Greg Sankey, Jim Phillips and Brett Yormark plus ESPN!  College football has the best regular season in sports and they are ruining it by letting "everybody" in the CFP!  Take this past weekend, for example.  Five of the top seven teams lost (Mostly SEC teams by the way).  With this year's 12-team college football playoff, teams that lost are getting nervous about making the CFP.  That adds excitement.  With a 24-team college football playoff losses are no big deal.  The expanded field acts as a safet...

Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood left the team over his bye break ahead of the Penn State game.  We discuss where he went, who he met, and what he did.  But we think he would have been better off in Ann Arbor working on his timing and chemistry with his current (for now) teammates. 

He was ultimately benched in that Penn State game.  And we have a pretty good idea that true freshman Tommy Carr will get the call for this weekend's game vs Indiana.  However coach Kyle Whittingam is tight lipped about who will be under center.  Tune i...

The Ohio State rolled into Bloomington and hung on to beat Curt Cignetti and the Indiana Hoosiers but they lost starting quarterback Julian Sayin for several weeks with a shoulder injury in a crazy college football weekend!  We also discuss the wild ending to the game where Indiana receiver Nick Marsh appeared to catch the go ahead touchdown with a minute remaining but he stepped out of bounds and the Buckeyes held on for the win. 

Meanwhile Michigan football coach Kyle Whittingham benched his $12 million dollar NIL quarterback Bryce Underwood in favor of Tommy Carr at halftime of...

Designed for busy Big Ten fans on the go, our Rapid Recap podcast gives you everything you need to know from this past crazy college football weekend in under 10 minutes!  We cover the Ohio State nailbiter at Indiana in a game where the Buckeyes lost their starting quarterback Julian Sayin.  Michigan BENCHED its starting quarterback Bryce Underwood.  And the UCLA Bruins are 6-0 and ranked 9th in the country after this weekend's win over Wisconsin.  Plus the Nebraska Huskers are spinning after blowing 4th quarter leads two weeks in a row and this time it happened at the hands of t...

Ohio State hangs on to WIN at Indiana as the Hoosiers largely held Jeremiah Smith in check and the Hoosiers potential game-winning touchdown catch by Nick Marsh was correctly ruled out of bounds!  The Buckeyes control their destiny in the Big Ten for the rest of the college football season but the win may have been costly as quarterback Julian Sayin injured his shoulder and left the game in the 4th quarter.   

In more Big Ten college football action Northwestern kicked a field goal with :02 left to beat Michigan State in the Pat Fitzgerald revenge game.   And Rutge...

This is a huge Big Ten college football weekend and no game is bigger than #4 Ohio State at #5 Indiana in a rematch of last year's Big Ten Championship game where Indiana won on its way to an undefeated national championship.   

Other huge games include Michigan coming off its bye to host Penn State which is fresh off its Whiteout loss to USC.  Can you imagine Penn State playing at a smaller crowd at the Big House after setting an attendance record last week of over 114,400 fans at home?   

Nebraska suffered a close loss to Indiana at ho...

Big Ten College Football Playoff chances take a hit as Oregon Ducks falter—are only Ohio State and Indiana still truly in contention? Hosts break down the impact of Oregon’s disappointing season, discussing how losses from heavyweights like Michigan, Washington, and Penn State threaten the conference’s national relevance and reduce opportunities for playoff berths across the league.

Key matchups including Ohio State vs. Indiana and UCLA vs. Wisconsin come under the spotlight, alongside debates over USC’s slim chances, Iowa’s playoff hopes, and the fading strength of Big Ten schedules. Insights on player injuries, quality wins, and...

One of the best weeks in college football is on tap with a number of top 25 matchups.

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Ohio State and Indiana football square off in a Top 5 college football matchup that is the highlight of the Big Ten weekend schedule.  But as we hit the halfway point of the college football season with an eye toward the 12-team college football playoff we are concerned the Big Ten is too top heavy with Ohio State and Indiana.  Does anybody else have a great chance to make the CFP?  Can you imagine only two Big Ten teams in the playoff?  It could happen.  We break down likely scenarios for UCLA, USC, Iowa, Northwestern and Oregon. 

Speaking of Ore...

The Ohio State Buckeyes travel to play the Indiana Hoosiers in a Top 5 college football matchup Saturday which will help determine a possible Big Ten champion and a Heisman Trophy winner if Jeremiah Smith has a big day!  Speaking of day…Ryan Day vs Curt Cignetti offers a classic coaching matchup as well on Big Noon on Fox.  Don't forget, Locked on Big Ten will go LIVE for a postgame reaction show immediately after the game! 

We also take our first look at Week 7 around the Big Ten with awesome matchups and great story lines as Purdue goes...

Michigan football coach Kyle Whittingham spent the team's bye week mulling  tough decisions in this disappointing college football season and decided to do - nothing!  Bryce Underwood is still the starting quarterback and Jason Beck is still the offensive coordinator.  What does this mean moving forward for the rest of Michigan's Big Ten schedule which includes a date vs Penn State on Saturday?  We discuss this hot topic in depth.   

We also have bad news about UCLA quarterback Nico Iamaleava and his knee injury suffered at Oregon on Saturday.  Tune in for details.  We look at the new AP T...

Nebraska football cannot beat Top 25 college football teams.  This 0-32 streak dates back to 2016 and continued when the Nebraska football team blew an 11-point lead to the defending national champion Indiana Hoosiers Saturday in front of the home fans in Lincoln. 

We look at the history of the streak and offer reasons why this is happening so Nebraska Huskers coach Matt Rhule can fix the problem.  What suggestions do you have?  If you are a disappointed Nebraska football fan let us know what you think at Locked on Big Ten! 

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USC and UCLA have a combined 11-1 record and are in perfect position to make a run at the Big Ten championship at the end of this exciting college football season.  Making their current status more amazing is they just picked up impressive road wins as USC beat Penn State during their annual Whiteout game in front of 114,000 people and UCLA went into Autzen Stadium and beat Oregon, knocking Dan Lanning and the Ducks out of the AP Top 25! 

Curt Cignetti and Indiana remained undefeated after falling behind by 11 points at Nebraska!  And the Huskers continued their 0-31...

In less than ten minutes we fly through everything you missed this Big Ten college football weekend, including how USC defeated Penn State in the Whiteout game, how UCLA remained undefeated with a win at Oregon, or how Indiana avoided disaster at Nebraska! 

We also tell you how Jeremiah Smith kept the Heisman talk going strong with Ohio State's win over Maryland.  We discuss Bret Bielema's puzzling decision that almost cost Illinois the win at Michigan State.  Purdue won its second Big Ten game in a row by deflating Minnesota.  Iowa ran all over Washington and Northwestern crac...

USC quarterback Jayden Maiava was FANTASTIC as Lincoln Riley's Trojans put a damper on the annual Penn State Whiteout game at Beaver Stadium!  It capped a tremendous day of Big Ten college football as the UCLA Bruins remained undefeated by winning at Autzen Stadium and defeating the Oregon Ducks.  But they did lose quarterback Nico Iamaleava to a leg injury.  Meanwhile Dan Lanning had to bench fill-in quarterback Dylan Raiola who struggled tonight. 

Earlier in the day defending national champion Indiana had to come from behind, down 11 points, to win at Nebraska as the Huskers fell to 0-31...

Oregon coach Dan Lanning BENCHED quarterback Dylan Raiola and the UCLA Bruins relied on its defense and running back Wayne Night on its way to a tough 17-15 road win at Autzen Stadium!  The game was ugly on both sides as the teams combined for 10 turnovers and UCLA's defense held Oregon to just one 3rd down conversion all day! 

Elsewhere Indiana pulled a magic trick out of their hat to win at Nebraska.  Curt Cignetti's Hoosiers were down by 11 and never led until midway through the 4th quarter.  Ohio State had no problem with Maryland as Jeremiah Smit...

We can't believe Penn State is favored vs USC in the annual WHITE OUT game!  We also can’t wait to see if UCLA is for real when they travel to Oregon and Curt Cignetti and his Indiana football team roll into Lincoln to face an undefeated Nebraska Huskers team.  And don't forget we have Friday Night Lights as Iowa travels to Washington tonight! 

Join us here at the ONLY place you'll get a preview of EVERY Big Ten Football team and EVERY Big Ten Football game for this weekend's exciting slate of college football!  BUT that's not al...

Big Ten playoff hopes waver as Iowa, Ohio State, and Oregon face mounting pressure. Can the Big Ten still send more than two teams to the College Football Playoff, or will the SEC dominate the expanded field? The panel dissects Iowa’s must-win clash at Washington, Ohio State’s playoff outlook, and Penn State’s credibility as Vegas favorites against USC.

Lively debate spotlights quarterback injuries, defensive struggles, and rising concerns about the conference’s depth. Hot takes include whether Curt Cignetti’s Indiana Hoosiers can stay relevant and if Minnesota, Northwestern, and Wisconsin are unexpectedly holding up the Big Te...

Alabama and Georgia face off in a massive SEC battle. Plus, will someone take control of the Big 12 already?

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ANOTHER reason Michigan's offense is so bad, according to a CBS pundit, is quarterback Bryce Underwood is NOT dedicated to college football.  He allegedly is more enamored with his multi-million dollar lifestyle and does not love college football enough to immerse himself into being the best he can be 24-7.  Clearly Michigan football is at a crossroads during its bye week and Kyle Whittingham and offensive coordinator Jason Beck need to figure something out ASAP before this Big Ten season gets away from them! 

Also in this episode of Locked on Big Ten we look into the hea...

More PROBLEMS surround Michigan football as at least one player, tight end Zach Marshall shreds offensive coordinator Jason Beck in a group chat and then apologizes to the team.  This was supposed to be a quiet week for the Michigan Wolverines during their bye week within the Big Ten schedule.  There is never a dull moment in college football when Michigan is involved.  Kyle Whittingham needs to get this puzzle figured our quickly and he needs to figure out what to do with quarterback Bryce Underwood before next weekend's game vs Penn State.  For all the latest keep tuning in t...

Quarterback Josh Hoover has been great this year as the Indiana Hoosiers jumped out to a 5-0 record but it seems like he is so turnover adverse that he is leaving open touchdowns on the field.  Twenty point victories could be fifty point victories!  What does that matter?  To this point it has not mattered but leaving touchdowns on the field could come back to bite the Indiana football team in two weeks for their Big Ten showdown vs Ohio State!  Either way that game promises to be one of the best this college football season! 

We also...