Big Ten Football Morning Coffee: Cupcakes Are Not Part of a Balanced Breakfast

Rise and shine, friends. Here's what's going down in the Big Ten today.

- Penn State needs to stop scheduling zeroes and start scheduling heroes, says the York Dispatch (in a few more words, anyway), and it's true: PSU's non-conference scheduling is a far, far cry from the slates it used to challenge itself with back when the program was independent.

That all said, it is (sadly) rare that a team's bowl bid is affected by the difficulty of a non-conference schedule over the actual record itself. Thus, it's almost always in a team's best interests to schedule wins. That is what Penn State is doing. C'est la vie, PSU fans!

- Michigan WR Junior Hemingway is climbing on draft charts, according to AnnArbor.com. Hemingway shined at the combine with the fastest three-cone and short shuttle times of all wide receivers, and apparently more and more teams are realizing that Denard Robinson was the guy in charge of getting Hemingway the ball.

Meanwhile, TE Kevin Koger's already modest draft stock took a huge hit when he tore an Achilles tendon during March workouts. He will miss a significant portion of the 2012 NFL season.

- Wisconsin LB A.J. Fenton is freshly shorn after a season of long hair and long bearded-ness, and he has also worked his way into the starting role at strong-side linebacker. As a proud member of Team Hirsute, this is concerning to say the least. Correlation does not equal causation, and people should not look at their hair as a football performance inhibitor. Take care, keep your hair!

- Alfonzo Dennard posted bond after getting arrested for, among other things, throwing a punch at a police officer after being involved in separate incidents in downtown Lincoln after the bars were closed last Saturday morning. Presumably, alcohol was a factor. Steven M. Sipple writes that Dennard should prove his doubters wrong with his performance, but presumably NFL GMs won't be looking the other way come this weekend just because Dennard is good at football.