Tom Oates: Badgers regain footing with gritty win over division rival Hawkeyes
(World News USA)

IOWA CITY, Iowa - After Black Saturday exposed the Big Ten Conference as a paper tiger last week, the real fallout became apparent. Seven Big Ten teams lost to unranked opponents on Sept. 15, heaping ridicule upon the conference from coast to coast. But hidden within that unsightly statistic was this nugget: Five of the seven teams that lost were from the Big Ten`s West Division. It was an eye-opening end to a dismal non-conference season for the West, which was thought to be on the upswing this season. Instead, the West is now destined to spend the rest of the season trying the shed its label as the worst division among the power-five conferences. The results of the season`s first three...