This is a first for the two years I’ve been doing the college football 77 in 77- having to move a team WAY DOWN the rankings before the season has even started. And putting the Penn State Nittany Lions this high, is still way too high. But there’s nothing else I can do given the extreme unprecedented circumstances.

With sanctions imposed by the NCAA, as well as those imposed by the Big Ten, Penn State will be a shell of what they could have been. With a four year bowl ban, nothing to play for, all that money that was fined, 14 years of wins vacated, the air was taken out of the Penn State sails today. The 2012 season in State College will be Unhappy Valley. There’s no coming back from this, at least not for awhile.

You’ve heard of “keeping it on the field,” focusing on not the “off the field stuff.” Well, that’s impossible now; there is no separation. The off-the-field has now determined the on-the-field.

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Sally Mason, Big Ten Chairman of the council of Presidents and Chancellors delivered the news today via teleconference. The B1G will follow up on the ruling by the NCAA presented by Mark Emmert a couple hours earlier this morning. Here’s what the activity of Jerry Sandusky, and inactivity of Joe Paterno, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley etc. will cost Penn State.

The conference will impose these penalties:

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