Ed. note — I understand this may sound like sour grapes being published immediately after a Minnesota loss, but I swear I felt this way well before any of these early-season conference games were played. All you have to do is read my previews to know I think December conference games are stupid.
Did you know the Big Ten conference season started last week? If you were still in a deep non-conference slumber I don’t blame you for missing the tilts with Rutgers and Nebraska, but I can assure you it wasn’t a misprint that the Big Ten began it’s conference season on freakin’ December 2nd.