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Around the Big Ten, Week 12: Back to LOLinois

Every Sunday, after an entire Saturday’s worth of college football, we’ll take a look around the Big Ten. As the conference as a whole fights as respectability in the non-conference, or as its power dynamics shift on a week-to-week basis this fall, we’ll follow every team and try to piece together the puzzle that is the 13-week-long season all the way up to Indianapolis.

Here are the top storylines from Week 12:

Iowa 63, Illinois 0

That scoreline pretty much says it all, folks. Iowa took out some pent-up anger after a third consecutive loss to the Wildcats, and it resulted in the worst loss in the history of Illinois football.