The Big Ten has a lot going for it. It has the sport's richest TV contract. It has three teams in the top 10. It is the sport's chief exporter of cheese, beef and punts. What is often missing from Big Ten games, however, is drama.

It's not that the Big Ten doesn't have good games, necessarily. It's just the drama often feels more "Masterpiece Theater" than "Alien vs. Predator" -- a slow burn built upon subtle character studies and power run games. Like a 20-year cheddar, it's made for refined tastes.

But every so often, the Big Ten offers a surprise. We'll spend a Saturday wallowing in another defensive stalemate, poised to invest in one of those eye-opening contraptions from "A Clockwork Orange" just to stay awake, and then suddenly Indiana - Penn State becomes something utterly une

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