2010 Big Ten Conference football season The 2010 Big Ten Conference football season was the 115th season for the Big Ten . The conference started its season on Thursday, September 2 , as conference member Minnesota traveled to Murfreesboro, Tennessee to face Middle Tennessee , and Ohio State hosted the Thundering Herd of Marshall . The conference’s other 9 teams began their respective 2010 season of NCAA Division I FBS competition on Saturday, September 4 . It was also the final season for the conference before the Nebraska Cornhuskers joined the conference from the Big 12 the following season .Preseason After a 2010 NFL Draft , which saw 34 Big Ten athletes selected, 12 2009 first-team All-Big Ten selections, 8 second-team selections and 33 honorable mention selections returned for the 2010 season. The Big Ten held the 2010 Football Media Days and 39th annual Kickoff Luncheon on Monday and Tuesday, August 2–3.Schedules In a given year, each Big Ten team will play eight of the other Big Ten teams. Thus for any given team in a given year, there are two others which will not be competed against. Below is the breakdown of each team and its two "no-plays" for 2010:Illinois: Iowa, Wisconsin Indiana: Michigan State , Minnesota Iowa: Illinois, Purdue Michigan: Minnesota, Northwestern Michigan State: Indiana, Ohio State Minnesota: Indiana, Michigan Northwestern: Michigan, Ohio State Ohio State: Michigan State, Northwestern Penn State: Purdue, Wisconsin Purdue: Iowa, Penn State Wisconsin: Illinois, Penn StateRankings In Weeks 3 and 4 , the Big Ten had six teams ranked in both polls for the first time since September 13 , 2004.Spring games April 17 Indiana Iowa Michigan Purdue Wisconsin April 24 Illinois Michigan State Minnesota Northwestern Ohio State Penn StateSeason Homecoming games October 2 Penn State @ Iowa 7:05 p.m. CT Northwestern @ Minnesota 11:00 a.m. CT October 9 Illinois @ Penn State 12:00 p.m. ET Minnesota @ Wisconsin 11:00 a.m. ET October 16 Arkansas State @ Indiana 12:00 p.m. ET Iowa @ Michigan 3:30 p.m. ET Illinois @ Michigan State 12:00 p.m. ET Minnesota @ Purdue 12:00 p.m. ET October 23 Indiana @ Illinois 11:00 a.m. CT Michigan State @ Northwestern 11:00 a.m. CT Purdue @ Ohio State 12:00 p.m. ET On September 25 , Joe Paterno became the fifth head coach to earn 150 victories as a member of the Big Ten Conference. On October 9, Jim Tressel became the first Big Ten head coach to earn 100 victories in his first ten seasons, surpassing Bo Schembechler and Lloyd Carr who achieved the milestone in their 11th seasons and he did so in the third fewest games, behind Schembechler and Fielding Yost and ahead of Henry Williams . On November 6 , Paterno became the first FBS coach to total 400 career wins.Big Ten vs. BCS matchups Attendance Week 3 attendance set an all-time Big Ten single-day attendance record with an average of 78,844. All eight games had crowds of over 50,000; Michigan State, Wisconsin, Ohio State and Michigan had sellouts; and 100,610 patrons were in attendance for Penn State. It surpassed the September 3 , 2005 eight-game single-day average of 76,475. On October 9, the Big Ten set a five-game attendance record of 88,034, surpassing the 87,620, set on October 28 , 1995. Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State and Wisconsin all hosted sellouts.Team Stadium Capacity Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5 Game 6 Game 7 Game 8 Total Average % of Capacity Illinois Memorial Stadium 62,872 52,217 50,569 62,870 53,550 50,371 55,549 325,126 54,188 86.2 Indiana Memorial Stadium 52,929 35,242 42,258 52,929 40,480 37,818 42,991 251,718 41,953 79.3 Iowa Kinnick Stadium 70,585 70,585 70,585 70,585 70,585 70,585 70,585 70,585 494,095 70,585 100 Michigan Michigan Stadium 109,901 113,090 110,187 109,933 113,065 112,784 111,441 112,276 782,782 111,826 101.8 Michigan State Spartan Stadium 75,005 75,769 78,411 70,926 73,108 74,441 71,128 71,111 514,984 73,556 98.1 Minnesota TCF Bank Stadium50,805 49,554 50,422 49,368 49,228 48,479 48,717 50,805 346,573 49,510 97.5 Northwestern Ryan Field 47,130 25,471 30,075 33,847 41,115 47,130 177,638 35,527 75.4 Ohio State Ohio Stadium 102,329 105,040 105,454 105,075 105,017 105,291 105,387 105,466 105,491 842,231 105,278 102.9 Penn State Beaver Stadium 107,282 101,213 100,610 104,840 107,638 108,539 104,147 102,649 729,636 104,233 97.2 Purdue Ross–Ade Stadium 62,500 47,301 54,124 42,068 47,319 45,227 50,268 50,136 190,812 48,063 76.9 Wisconsin Camp Randall Stadium 80,321 78,469 81,332 77,224 80,328 81,194 80,477 80,011 559,035 79,862 99.4
Bowl games The following is the Big Ten Bowl game schedule.Head coaches Ron Zook , Illinois Bill Lynch , Indiana Kirk Ferentz , Iowa Rich Rodriguez , Michigan Mark Dantonio , Michigan State Tim Brewster , Minnesota and Jeff Horton , Minnesota Pat Fitzgerald , Northwestern Jim Tressel, Ohio State Joe Paterno, Penn State Danny Hope , Purdue Bret Bielema , Wisconsin Awards
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