Thursday, October 16, 2025

Big Ten Weekend Preview Week 8

Last week every Big Ten had an interesting story line, the one game we thought didn't NW at PSU ended up having the biggest impact as the Nittany Lions lost their starting QB and head coach in one game.  


Now to this week, with much less interesting games:

Friday: 
Nebraska (-7.5) @ Minnesota: The Golden Gophers are home dogs to the 25th ranked team in the nation.  Yes, Nebraska is ranked.  I think Nebraska is a better team but not by a TD and a hook.  Nebraska 23 Minnesota 17

Saturday:

Purdue @ Northwestern (-2.5):  Northwestern is 4-2 and Purdue continues to rebuild.  Either team can win this game.  Northwestern 20 Purdue 17

Ohio State (-26.5) @ Wisconsin: Remember when this used to be a big game?  This might be Luke's final game in Madison.  Ohio State 41 Wisconsin 7 

Oregon (-17.5) @ Rutgers:  Be careful Ducks if your still hung over from the IU slap.  Rutgers will grab an early lead and then give it up in the 2nd half.  Oregon 31 Rutgers 20

Penn State @ Iowa (-3.5): Now this is an interesting game now.  When the season kicked off what was the chance Iowa would be favored in this game? Zero Chance!  That is why they play the games.  Nobody knows what is going to happen here.  PSU 17 Iowa 14 

Maryland @ UCLA (-3.5): Is UCLA the hottest team in the Big Ten?  No IU is but still they have comeback from the dead and we are close to Halloween..  UCLA 28 Maryland 23

USC @ ND (-9.5):  Football insiders believe ND is close to a lock to make the playoffs.  I have yet to see them play a complete game (I did not see last week's win over NC State).  Vegas is not buying USC after the Michigan win.   This might be the last chance for someone to knock out ND from making the playoffs after going 0-2.   I like USC if the team that beat Michigan shows up, if its the team that played Illinois, no thanks.   USC 34 ND 28 


2 comments:

MichiganMan said...

Chris Carr is legit give me ND 42-24. He is much better passer than Underwood.

Blue for life

Chowman said...

CJ? I haven't watched ND lately, but he had his moments and I would expect him to be better at this stage as even though he didn't start, he is a 2nd year player. we're not playing Bryce because he's an elite talent right now. Bryce is the starter because there is nobody else and he got paid bu qua dollars. donors tend to like to see an immediate return on their investment.