Bob Chesney and his surprising Bruins top the list of AP Big Ten midseason awards

By the looks of it, Bob Chesney is well on his way to fixing the fixer-upper he acquired when UCLA hired him. The No. 12 Bruins have their highest ranking in four years, reached midseason as one of nine unbeaten Football Bowl Subdivision teams and are tied with No. 4 Ohio State and No. 5 Indiana at 3-0 in Big Ten play. Not bad for a team that was picked to finish 13th in the 18-team Big Ten and was 8-16 overall and 6-12 in conference games the previous two years under Deshaun Foster and Tim Skipper.