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• Terrelle Pryor made a huge statement in Ohio State's dominant win at Penn State, Bob Hunter writes in The Columbus Dispatch. Pryor and the Buckeyes are once again peaking at the right moment, The Sporting News' Dave Curtis writes.
• Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald tells recruits to "get on the boat" after the program's huge win at Iowa, Lindsey Willhite writes in the Daily Herald. Fitzgerald also fired this shot at Stanford and Notre Dame in Stewart Mandel's column at SI.com.

"Even though we're similar academically, we're in a little different boat as Stanford and Notre Dame," said Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald. "We've been consistently winning since 1995. They're still saying they can do it, but we're doing it."

• Big Ten bowl projections from the Chicago Tribune's Teddy Greenstein.
• Purdue quarterback Joey Elliott shares a major accomplishment with Bob Griese, Mike Carmin writes in The (Lafayette) Journal and Courier.
• Iowa fans must get to know quarterback James Vandenberg this week, Andrew Logue writes in the Des Moines Register.
• Minnesota coach Tim Brewster can't possibly put a positive spin on Saturday's loss to Illinois, Jim Souhan writes in the Star Tribune.
• The rebuilding process at Michigan shouldn't be as big as Rich Rodriguez has made it out to be, Lynn Henning writes in The Detroit News.
• Penn State's season can be declared "a total loss" after another big-game defeat, Walt Moody writes in the Centre Daily Times.