Big Ten Morning Coffee: Ohio State Loses Former Top Center Prospect to Gophers

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

— Last week, center Brian Bobek announced that he would be leaving the Ohio State football program after falling to third on the Buckeye depth chart.

As it turns out, he won't be going far.

The Columbus Dispatch reported that Bobek released a statement on Sunday announcing that he was joining the Minnesota football team.

Bobek loses a year of eligibility and will have two years to play starting in 2013.

— Per AnnArbor.com, Michigan head coach Brady Hoke noted Michigan's aggressive anti-drug policy, which stands in stark contrast to the SEC's laissez-faire attitude by providing frequent testing and immediate loss of playing time for first offenses, no matter which player it is.

So I guess we can cross Snoop Dogg off the list of halftime marching band themes, then. And also the Kottonmouth Kings.

— The Big Ten Network's Tom Dienhart had a chat with the Patriot-News about the state of Penn State football and the Big Ten as a whole. As with most things Dienhart, he got a lot right (Michigan State is the team to beat, Matt McGloin was Penn State's only real option as a starter) and depended on old-school thinking too much (Silas Redd is better than Gerald Hodges or Michael Mauti).

— Wisconsin added two commits over the weekend, per the Wisconsin State Journal: offensive lineman Hayden Biegel, who will be grayshirting, and wide receiver Jazz Peavy.

Biegel's name should sound familiar to Badger fans, as his brother Vince is a 4-star linebacker recruit from the class of 2012.

Jazz Peavy, by the way, is not the name of White Sox pitcher Jake Peavy's new fusion album that he recorded with Chick Corea over the offseason; that album is called Groovin' Fastballs, and Pitchfork.com hated it.