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Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg

Guess what? I have flaws. What are they? Oh, I dunno, I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I'll hit somebody with my car. So sue me -- no, don't sue me. That is opposite the point I'm trying to make.

• Former Penn State running back Austin Scott filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against officials from Penn State and others because he was dismissed from the team following a rape arrest, John Beauge writes in The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News.
• Terrelle Pryor knows there's some grumbling about Ohio State's offense, but he sees better days ahead, Doug Lesmerises writes in The Cleveland Plain Dealer. No more Hineygate at Ohio State, Bruce Cadwallader writes in The Columbus Dispatch.
• Michigan head coach Rich Rodriguez backs off his claim about a team-record GPA, which the school doesn't even record, Jim Schaefer and Michael Rosenberg write in the Detroit Free Press. Here are the statements from Rodriguez and the school. In actual football news, a comprehensive midseason review from annarbor.com.
• Meeting expectations at Michigan State remains a tough challenge, Eric Lacy writes in The Detroit News. The Spartans won't win the Big Ten this year, but their turnaround has been impressive, Jamie Samuelsen writes in the Detroit Free Press.
• Big Ten Network's Dave Revsine reviews his preseason predictions halfway through the fall.
• Wisconsin quarterback Scott Tolzien draws inspiration from a 6-year-old fighting cancer, Jeff Potrykus writes in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Badgers running back Montee Ball knows his grandfather is watching, Jim Polzin writes in The Capital Times.
• Iowa and Wisconsin still play old-school Big Ten football, Susan Denk writes in The (Burlington) Hawk Eye.
• Northwestern cornerback Sherrick McManis is a coach's dream, Teddy Greenstein writes in the Chicago Tribune.
• Illinois is a broken team, but hope remains that things can be fixed, Lindsey Willhite writes in the Daily Herald.
• If Purdue could just get a handful of plays back on offense, things would be very different for the Boilers, Mike Carmin writes in The (Lafayette) Journal and Courier.