It's only June, but Penn State's Class of 2010 is already shaping up to be pretty strong. Tuesday, the Lions added a verbal commitment from Miles Dieffenbach , verbal No. 6 so far.

Dieffenbach is 6-foot-4, 277-pound offensive lineman from Pittsburgh and a four star center recruit according to both Scout.com and a three star offensive tackle according to Rivals. Scout rates him as the No. 3 center prospect in the nation, helping put Penn State seventh in Scout's team rankings despite having just six commitments. That may seem like fair amount in early June, but not if you look at the teams ahead in the rankings -- particularly No. 1 Texas and its 20 verbals.

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Big Ten expansion has been a hot topic recently because of Joe Paterno's recent comments, and Sports Illustrated's Andy Staples put together a nice package dealing with the possible scenarios.

Personally, I'm all for adding a 12th team and having a championship game. Not that conference title games are necessary, but I'd like to see consistency. Honestly I wish all six of the BCS conferences had 12 teams and staged title games -- either that, or no one plays one. It wouldn't be too much of a problem for the Big Ten and Pac-10 to expand to 12, but the Big East would have some trouble given that it already has 16 teams for all the other sports.

It's not going to happen, but JoePa's 100 percent right when he says it makes no sense for Big Ten teams to be sitting at home for two weeks as the SEC and Big 12 take the national spotlight in the first week of December.

-Matt Brown