Big Ten

Stop pretending the college football four-team playoff was about justice. It was a country club. Same cast, same endings, same excuses when outsiders knocked on the door. If your school did not have the logo or the history, you needed to be perfect and then some. One loss and your season was erased because the...

Watching Penn State get steamrolled by UCLA today and then remembering last week’s collapse to Oregon, you can’t help but think this program is addicted to a very specific kind of denial. When you ask a Penn State fan an actual question about what’s going wrong, half the time the reply is some glazed, tribal...