Big Ten football items: Wisconsin-Nebraska a night game, Ohio State makes a Top 25 'underrated list'

It's rainy and chilly in Iowa today. Summer seems like a dream to me now, let alone the college football season that follows. We need items, darn it! Click on the links for fuller stories.

1) The Nebraska-Wisconsin game on Oct. 1 will be played at night in Madison, and will be an ESPN game. Wisconsin will also play UNLV at night, exactly one month before on Thursday, Sept. 1. That's in Madison, and is one of the very few 15 games that will kick off the season that evening that looks remotely interesting. Ten of those games pit FCS (I-AA) teams against FBS (I-A) squads. That Fordham-Connecticut game should be a jewel, huh? Here's the schedule.

2) ESPN's Beano Cook predicts Urban Meyer will be Ohio State's coach in 2012. Which means one thing: Urban Meyer will not be Ohio State's coach in 2012.

3) Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany only knows "one bowl intimately," and that's the Rose. But in an interview with the Omaha World-Herald, he expressed appreciation for the embattled Fiesta Bowl's annual "spring retreat" in Arizona, which brought coaches, athletic directors and others together.

4) Tickets to Ohio State's football scrimmage Saturday in Ohio Stadium are $7 in advance, $15 at the stadium. So much for that recession.

5) Ohio State (and Iowa State) made

a Top 25 Underrated list. That's the top 25 most-underrated Masters of Fine Arts Creative Writing Programs.