2013 Big Ten Conference football season


The 2013 Big Ten Conference football season was the 118th season for the Big Ten. The conference began its season on Thursday, August 29, as Minnesota and Indiana began their 2013 season of NCAA Division I FBS competition. Michigan State began their season the following day, and the rest of the conference began their season on September 1.
This was the league's final season as a 12-team conference before Maryland and Rutgers join the Big Ten Conference for the 2014 season. It was also the final season with the "Leaders" and "Legends" divisions; when Maryland and Rutgers join, the conference will reorganize its divisions on a pure geographic basis. The six schools in the Central Time Zone will be joined by Purdue in the new West Division, with the other schools making up the East Division. Under the new setup, the only protected cross-division rivalry game will be Indiana–Purdue.
Michigan State upset undefeated Ohio State to win the Big Ten Championship Game. The B1G put seven teams into bowl games, including two into the BCS with Michigan State going to the Rose Bowl and Ohio State to the Orange Bowl. The B1G went 2-5 in bowl games with the only wins coming from Michigan State in the Rose Bowl and Nebraska in the Gator Bowl.

Rankings

Spring games

April 6
April 12
April 13
April 20
April 27
All times Eastern time.
† denotes Homecoming game

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

DateBye Week
September 21Illinois

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Big Ten Championship Game

Bowl games

The Big Ten did not have enough teams available to fill the Heart of Dallas Bowl and Little Caesars Pizza Bowl due to landing two teams in the BCS and also a lack of bowl eligible teams.
Bowl GameDateSiteTelevisionTime OpponentVisiting TeamHome TeamScoreAttendance
Texas BowlDecember 27Reliant Stadium • Houston, TXESPN6:00 PMACCSyracuseMinnesotaL 32,327
Buffalo Wild Wings BowlDecember 28Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZESPN10:15 PMBig 12MichiganKansas StateL 53,284
Gator BowlJanuary 1EverBank Field • Jacksonville, FLESPN212:00 PMSECNebraska#23 GeorgiaW 60,712
Outback BowlJanuary 1Raymond James Stadium • Tampa, FLESPN1:00 PMSECIowa#14 LSUL 51,296
Capital One BowlJanuary 1Citrus Bowl • Orlando, FLABC1:00 PMSEC#19 Wisconsin#8 South CarolinaL 56,629
Rose BowlJanuary 1Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CAESPN5:00 PMPac-12#5 Stanford#4 Michigan StateW 95,173
Orange BowlJanuary 3Sun Life Stadium • Miami Gardens, FLESPN8:30 PMACC#12 Clemson#7 Ohio StateL 72,080

Records against FBS conferences

2013 records against FBS conferences:
Through January 3, 2014
ConferenceRecord
ACC2–2
American3–2
Big 121–1
C-USA1–0
Independents3–3
MAC11–2
Mountain West4–0
Pac-123–3
SEC1-3
Sun Belt0–0
Total29–16

Players of the Week

Players of the Year

All-Conference Players

Coaches All-Conference Selections
HONORABLE MENTION: Illinois: Jonathan Brown, Steve Hull, Nathan Scheelhaase; Indiana: Ted Bolser, Tevin Coleman, Cody Latimer, Jason Spriggs; Iowa: Austin Blythe, Conor Boffeli, Christian Kirksey, B.J. Lowery, Tanner Miller, Louis Trinca-Pasat; Michigan: Jibreel Black, Michael Schofield; Michigan State: Jack Allen, Fou Fonoti, Dan France, Jeremy Langford, Marcus Rush, Trae Waynes; Minnesota: Caleb Bak, Aaron Hill, Peter Mortell, Eric Murray; Nebraska: Jason Ankrah, Kenny Bell, Corey Cooper, Andrew Rodriguez, Jeremiah Sirles; Northwestern: Ibraheim Campbell, Tyler Scott, Brandon Vitabile; Ohio State: C.J. Barnett, Drew Basil, Joey Bosa, Doran Grant, Marcus Hall, Jeff Heuerman, Cameron Johnston, Devin Smith; Penn State: Adrian Amos, Glenn Carson, Christian Hackenberg, Ty Howle, Jordan Lucas, C.J. Olaniyan, Donovan Smith; Purdue: Ricardo Allen; Wisconsin: Beau Allen, Rob Havenstein, Tyler Marz, Pat Muldoon, Jacob Pedersen, Dezmen Southward.
Coaches selected six players as First Team All-Conference defensive backs and two players as First Team punters which resulted in less second team selections
Unanimous selections in ALL CAPS
Media All-Conference Selections
HONORABLE MENTION: Illinois: Houston Bates, Steve Hull; Indiana: Tim Bennett, Ted Bolser, Tevin Coleman, Mitch Ewald, Collin Rahrig, Jason Spriggs; Iowa: Austin Blythe, Conor Boffeli, Carl Davis, Anthony Hitchens, Christian Kirksey, Casey Kreiter, John Lowdermilk, Tanner Miller, Louis Trinca-Pasat; Brett Van Sloten; Michigan: Jibreel Black, Frank Clark, Devin Gardner, Brendan Gibbons, Raymon Taylor; Michigan State: Connor Cook, Fou Fonoti; Dan France, Michael Geiger, Jeremy Langford, Isaiah Lewis, Marcus Rush, Trae Waynes; Minnesota: Caleb Bak, Josh Campion, Zac Epping, Peter Mortell, Eric Murray, Brock Vereen; Nebraska: Jason Ankrah, Kenny Bell, Cole Pensick, Andrew Rodriguez, Jeremiah Sirles, Pat Smith; Northwestern: Chi Chi Ariguzo, Ibraheim Campbell, Damien Proby, Brandoo Vitabile; Ohio State: C.J. Barnett, Drew Basil, Joey Bosa, Corey Brown, Doran Grant, Marcus Hall, Jeff Heuerman, Cameron Johnston; Penn State: Glenn Carson, Sam Ficken, Christian Hackenberg, Ty Howle, Jesse James, Jordan Lucas, C.J. Olaniyan, Donovan Smith; Wisconsin: Beau Allen, Michael Caputo, Tyler Marz, Pat Muldoon, Jacob Pedersen, Sojourn Shelton, Dezmen Southward, Joel Stave.

All-Americans

There are many outlets that award All-America honors in football. The NCAA uses five official selectors to also determine Consensus and Unanimous All-America honors. The five teams used by the NCAA to compile the consensus team are from the Associated Press, the AFCA, the FWAA, The Sporting News and the Walter Camp Football Foundation. A point system is used to calculate the consensus honors. The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and three points for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation.
The teams are compiled by position and the player accumulating the most points at each position is named a Consensus All-American. If there is a tie at a position in football for first team then the players who are tied shall be named to the team. A player named first-team by all five of the NCAA-recognized selectors is recognized as a Unanimous All-American.
2013 First Team All-Americans
PlayerSchoolPositionSelector
Ryan ShazierOhio StateLBUSA Today, Athlon Sports, ESPN, AP, SI, Phil Steele
Darqueze DennardMichigan StateDBUSA Today, Athlon Sports, Walter Camp, Sporting News, ESPN, AP, CBS Sports, SI, AFCA, FWAA, Phil Steele
Jeff BudzienNorthwesternPKBleacher Report, Sporting News
Allen RobinsonPenn StateWRSporting News, CBS Sports, Phil Steele
Taylor LewanMichiganOLSporting News
Jack MewhortOhio StateOLESPN
Mike SadlerMichigan StatePESPN, CBS Sports
Chris BorlandWisconsinLBFWAA, Phil Steele

Academic All-Americans

Once again the Big Ten led all conferences with eight student-athletes being named to the Capital One Academic All-America first or second teams as announced by CoSIDA. The Big Ten has now led all FBS conferences in Academic All-America selections for nine straight seasons, with a total of 72 honorees over that time span.
First Team: Mark Murphy, Indiana; James Morris, Iowa; Max Bullough, Michigan State; Mike Sadler, Michigan State; Spencer Long, Nebraska; John Urschel, Penn State; Second Team: Jake Long, Nebraska; C.J. Zimmerer, Nebraska.

National Award Winners

2014 NFL Draft

30 Big Ten athletes were drafted in the 2014 NFL Draft.
TeamRound 1Round 2Round 3Round 4Round 5Round 6Round 7Total
Illinois0
Indiana112
Iowa213
Michigan1113
Michigan State11
Minnesota112
Nebraska1113
Northwestern0
Ohio State22116
Penn State1113
Purdue22
Wisconsin21115
Total466451430

N.B: In the explanations below, ' denotes trades that took place during the 2014 Draft, while ' indicates trades completed pre-draft.

Round two

Round three

Round four

Round seven

Trade references

NFL Draft Selections by NCAA Conference

SEC - 49

ACC - 42

Pac-12 - 34

Big Ten - 30

Big 12 - 17

Mountain West - 16

American - 12

C-USA - 9

Independents - 9

MAC - 8

Sun Belt - 4
Non-FBS Conferences - 26

Head coaches