Which the main reason I'm so down on the Big-10 (even though I live in Big-10 country) in bowl games. They don't schedule tough out-of-conference opponents (they play a lot of MAC schools), and since they don't play a championship game like all the other conferences (except the Pac-10) they have a longer lay-off between their last regular game and the bowl game, giving them too much time to get rusty and out of sync.