Big Ten Weekend Preview

For the second week in a row the Wolverines are playing in the best Big Ten game of the week.   As you know, that game will be previewed on Friday morning.

Let's take a look at the rest of the games:

Indiana at Illinois (Ill. -2):  Neither of these teams are any good but Indiana has been playing better of late.  IU pulls the upset:  IU 41 Ill. 28


Iowa at Northwestern (NW -6):    Northwestern has two Big Ten loses and Iowa has one after getting blown out by Penn State at home last week.   Northwestern plays pretty well at home. 
NW 28 Iowa 21

Purdue at Minnesota (Pur -3.5):  I haven't seen Minnesota play at all this year.  Purdue took OSU to OT in Columbus last week.  If they have the same effort this week, they should win easy.  Purdue 24 Minn 14

MSU at Wisconsin (Wisc -6):  How about State's Big Ten schedule: OSU, IU, Iowa, Michigan, Wisc, Nebraska, NW and Minnesota.   State has either lost or was close to losing all these Big Ten games so far.   Now they travel to Madison and have Nebraska in East Lansing next week.   State just doesn't have enough offense.  Side note: Is there 2 more wins for MSU to get to a Bowl game? Wisconsin 18 MSU 13

Ohio State at Penn State (No line):  The NCAA Probation Bowl.  Neither team is allowed to play in the post season and both teams are un-defeated in league play.    These are two very strange teams.   OSU was taken to OT by a very poor Purdue team last week in Columbus and Penn State has lost to another Ohio (Ohio U) team already in Happy Valley, but they blew out Iowa last week.    Ohio State has not played good football for a couple weeks now, Penn State is getting better week by week.   Penn State 24 OSU 21


Games to Watch:

3:30:  MSU at Wisconsin  ABC
5:30: OSU at Penn State ESPN
8:00:  Michigan at Nebraska  ESPN2

How about a good Noon game Big Ten?