The second week of the Big Ten season continued to invite intrigue both on and off the field. The unexpected headlines surfaced before the games were played and then continued into the weekend.
We take a look at the conference’s winners and losers from the past seven days:
Winners
Mel Tucker
In the wake of a disconcerting loss to Rutgers, Mel Tucker was asked if the honeymoon phase of his Michigan State football tenure was over.
The question is whether it ever really began.
The guy was up against it from the very beginning as he inherited a broken program with a depleted roster a month before a global pandemic began to disrupt the country.