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Looking out the window at the gray skies Thursday served as a timely reminder. Now that the calendar has flipped to November, it's important for bettors to also be meteorologists and check the weather reports. For example, the forecast this weekend across Big Ten country calls for nasty weather, the kind that makes you want to cancel all your…

It was an eventful summer for Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher, who openly challenged the most powerful man in college football, and the first month of the season has been a similarly wild ride for his Aggies. After getting upset by Appalachian State on Sept. 10, Texas A&M rebounded by grinding out low-scoring victories over Miami and Arkansas. An…

The Big Ten has been in the news cycle often this offseason and not because of its reigning champion nor its biggest national brand. But we're not here to talk realignment- let's dive into the landscape of the Big Ten conference for the 2022 college football season. As a refresher, the Michigan Wolverines won their first outright conference title…

Every week I log into this article to enter my picks and take care of some of the miscellany that RockyMtnBlue leaves for me as part of our work on these picks articles, and every week it says "MNW wit goes here." I am really letting you all down. We're to the end of another Big Ten season, this one perhaps simultaneously dumber and more…

The College Football season is winding down, and this week we march on to Week 12. There are plenty of big matchups this week, but which are worth putting into a parlay? You can bet this right now, and if you don't have an account at DraftKings Sportsbook receive a $1000 deposit bonus. Michigan is the No. 3 team in the nation and is at home, but…

Texas quarterback Casey Thompson faces the team that his father led when he and the No. 21 Texas Longhorns square off against the No. 6 Oklahoma Sooners in the 2021 Red River Showdown on Saturday in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Thompson, a junior from Newcastle, Okla., is the son of Charles Thompson, who played quarterback for the Sooners in 1987…

The Iowa Hawkeyes can earn a trip to the Big Ten title game with a win over the Nebraska Cornhuskers on Friday afternoon. Iowa was sitting at 1-3 in conference play earlier this season, but it responded with a four-game winning streak that it is hoping to extend on Friday. Nebraska is on a five-game losing streak following a 15-14 setback against…

LINCOLN - The Big Ten's current TV contract has paid out roughly $50 million per school in recent non-COVID years. The new contract, which starts next year, could eventually pay out $100 million. Could some of that money be used to buy some damn offense in this league? Some coordinators? Some better playbooks? A few how-to guides on how to recruit…

College football's regular season has come to a close after an exhilarating final weekend of action. Five Big Ten teams saw their seasons come to an end, but nine qualified for a bowl game and will have one final chance to tie a bow on the 2022 campaign. Most notably, there's a new No. 1 team for the rest of the field to chase. Here's how all 14…

Game: Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Iowa Hawkeyes Date: Friday, November 25, 2022 Location: Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, IA TV: BTN Odds/Point Spread: Hawkeyes (-10) Total/Over-Under: 37 Kinnick Stadium is where the Iowa Hawkeyes (7-4) will compete against the Nebraska Cornhuskers (3-8) on Friday. Iowa is 10-point favorites. The over/under comes in at…

After a very, very long wait, college football is back. What a freaking time to be alive. Obviously, it's only week zero. But football is football in my book... even if it is an absolutely horrendous slate of games. There are only 11 games that feature FBS teams and only 6 Power 5 teams are playing this weekend. While Florida State being one of…

Iowa Hawkeyes punters Tory Taylor (9) and Ryan Gersonde (2) carry the Heroes Trophy after winning against Nebraska at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Neb., on Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) Iowa has faced Big Ten teams with a mix of offensive styles. Purdue wins when it throws the ball well. Ohio State relies on its Heisman…

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Its fate in its hands, Iowa plays host to Nebraska Friday in the regular-season finale for both teams. A Hawkeye victory means a return trip to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Championship Game. A loss by the home team opens the door for Purdue and Illinois. The Hawkeyes (7-4 overall, 5-3 Big Ten) are riding a four-game winning…

Sam LaPorta will lead the Iowa Hawkeyes (7-4) into their matchup versus the Nebraska Cornhuskers (3-8) at Kinnick Stadium on Friday at 4:00 PM ET. The Hawkeyes enter the matchup after winning 13-10 over the Minnesota Golden Gophers in their last outing on November 19. The Cornhuskers are coming off of a loss to the Wisconsin Badgers by the score of…

Here is a capsule look at today's games of interest: Kickoff: 3 p.m. TV: Fox Radio: WDBQ-FM 1097.5 Series record: Minnesota leads, 62-51-2. What's at stake: The West Division title is back in play in for both teams with each on three-game winning streak. The Hawkeyes and Gophers are in a four-way tie for first place with Illinois and Purdue,…

Our Week 12 college football best bets include a home underdog in the SEC, a Pac-12 rivalry game, and a player prop from a Big Ten clash. The penultimate college football Saturday of the season is upon us. Although this weekend's schedule lacks marquee matchups between big-name schools, there are still plenty of compelling games on the board. As…

There's only two weeks left in the college football regular season, meaning this is one of your last chances to throw together parlays and teasers for the huge Saturday slate. We've hit four of our past five college football parlays by throwing together the teams with the best value to win outright. We also smashed our two-team teaser with ease…

The Nebraska Cornhuskers and Wisconsin Badgers will both be playing under interim head coaches when they square off on Saturday afternoon. Nebraska has already clinched a sixth straight losing season, while Wisconsin is coming off a loss to Iowa. The Badgers have won eight consecutive meetings between these teams. Kickoff is set for noon ET. The…

It's dress rehearsal week for No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Michigan as the Big Ten East rivals make their final preparations for their all-important showdown next week. The Buckeyes travel to Maryland as 27.5-point favorites while the Wolverines host Illinois as 18-point favorites in a game that, unfortunately, has lost some of its luster over the…

It's the penultimate week of the 2022 college football season. Can you believe we only have two football Saturdays remaining for most teams? Many will be playing their final home game this week. Where did the season go? While nothing has changed atop the Big Ten East, the West Division opened up with an upset by the Purdue Boilermakers over the…

The Nebraska football team faces quite a conundrum on Saturday morning. The Wisconsin Badgers have likely never been weaker since the Huskers joined the Big Ten than they are this year. The only problem is that the Huskers have likely never been weaker since joining the Big Ten than they are this week. The Cornhuskers are down Casey Thompson again.…

Free College Football Picks For Today 11/14/2022 Navy at UCF-Navy fell to 3-7 with their 35-32 home defeat to Notre Dame. Midshipmen gained 363 yards with 255 rushing on 46 attempts. On defense, they held the Fighting Irish to less than two yards per rush with 269 passing on 21 attempts. Xavier Arline went 2 of 4 for 57 yards and a touchdown. He…

What a rough night for the Pac-12's College Football Playoff hopes. First, Oregon loses at home to Washington, and now Arizona stuns UCLA in the Rose Bowl. The Wildcats came to play, and quarterback Jayden de Laura was a chaos engineer with 312 yards passing and a pair of touchdowns. There weren't many stops to go around, but Arizona made just a…

The year was 2007 and Alabama was still looking more like a college football has-been than a program on the cusp of a dynasty. Nick Saban's first regular season as the coach of the Crimson Tide ended with a four-game losing streak that included a loss to Louisiana-Monroe. That was the last time Alabama lost consecutive games in a regular…

Every week RockyMtnBlue asks me to "write something clever" here, and every week I am at a complete loss for what to do. This website is making me dumber. Anyway onto our picks. Seamless transition. (all times CT) Straight-Up: All Death Star Against the Spread: Indiana 8-6 MaximumSam: WEATHER CHECK Columbus should be around 40 degrees with mild…

On Saturday at 3:30 p.m. EST, the 9-0 Michigan Wolverines will take the field against the 3-6 Nebraska Cornhuskers. The maize and blue have a small lead against the Huskers in the series. Michigan leads Nebraska 6-4-1 all-time. The Wolverines are ranked No. 3 in the College Football Playoff rankings and they are coming off a 52-17 victory against…

Danny Mogollon The 2021 season was a pivotal one in the Jim Harbaugh era. It started with many calling for his ouster. The Michigan Wolverines responded with their first win over Ohio State since 2011, their first Big Ten title since 2004, and their first-ever College Football Playoff appearance. The Wolverines opened the season with three…

For the first time this season, the Michigan Wolverines are in the top-four for the College Football Playoff rankings. Now they have the Nebraska Cornhuskers in their way before what will likely be two ranked matchups to round out the season. With not much time left to pad the resume, the Wolverines will have to perform well this week to make their…

Week 10 was not kind to us here on Betting the Big Ten. We correctly bet the Michigan game and the Ohio State game but that's it. The Big Ten West as a whole was baffling with Illinois falling to Michigan State and Purdue forgetting how to score points. On the whole, we went 2-5. I'm choosing to be optimistic heading into Week 11. Here's what's in…

Michigan football will be looking to improve to 10-0 this week against Nebraska and here's a breakdown of the odds and a prediction. It's hard to believe it, but we have just three regular-season games left in the Michigan football season and next up is Nebraska. The Huskers have had a tough 2022 season. Head coach Scott Frost was fired after the…

The Nebraska Cornhuskers and Northwestern Wildcats take the stage as the first FBS vs. FBS matchup of the college football season on Saturday. The Big Ten opponents face off at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland as part of the 2022 Aer Lingus College Football Classic. The teams faced off in 2021, with Nebraska winning in lopsided fashion. Both teams…

Big Ten opponents will do battle when the Minnesota Golden Gophers (5-3) face the Nebraska Cornhuskers (3-5) at Memorial Stadium (Lincoln, NE) in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Golden Gophers, listed at -16 on the spread, take the field as visitors on November 5, 2022 at 12:00 PM ET on ESPN2 against the Cornhuskers, +513 moneyline odds to win. The point…

As is tradition, the annual Battle for the $5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy has intrigue baked in. Minnesota (5-3, 2-3 Big Ten) can lock up bowl eligibility for the fourth time in P.J. Fleck's six years as head coach. Nebraska (3-5, 2-3) works diligently to find any measure of momentum following a 28-9 loss to Illinois. As the Huskers enter the…

Hopefully everyone's been too caught up in the Michigan-Michigan State game fallout to tally up how the last week of games went for MLive's college sports pickers. But we have to come clean: we had a dreadful week. As a group, we went 3-17 in Week 9 Big Ten games. That includes an 0-5 performance from yours truly. Our overall records took a hit as…

Illinois continues to look like the class of the Big Ten West and looks to make another big step towards doing that by winning at home against a lowly Michigan State team. The Spartans were once a top 10 team about a year ago, but now look anything but that top tier team from a season ago. They currently sit at 3-5, fresh off a 29-7 loss to…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Former Minnesota co-defensive coordinator Adam Zimmer, an NFL assistant for 17 years and the son of previous Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer, has died. He was 38. Corri Zimmer White, his younger sister, confirmed the death on her Instagram account on Tuesday. Adam Zimmer died on Monday, she said. No cause was given. Copyright 2022…

Mohamed Ibrahim and the Minnesota Golden Gophers (5-3) will visit Trey Palmer and the Nebraska Cornhuskers (3-5) on Saturday at 12:00 PM ET, in a battle featuring a pair of the brightest stars in college football. The Golden Gophers squared off against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights in their most recent outing, winning 31-0. The Cornhuskers are coming…

The Indiana football team returns to Big Ten play with a visit to Nebraska. The Hoosiers (3-1) saw their season-opening winning streak fall against Cincinnati. IU fell behind too far early to keep up with the Bearcats in a 45-24 defeat. The Hoosiers were -2 in turnover margin, including a fumble Nebraska recovered for a touchdown. Nebraska (1-3) is…

Let's take a look at the College Football Week 9 odds, picks, and predictions for this week's game: Illinois vs. Nebraska. I may have been against the public on Tennessee and the Over play in that game but the ASU game and this game I'm adding to the public cause! Early in the week the overwhelming amount of cash has been on the under in this…

Finally, Illinois football is back in action this weekend with a tough matchup on the road against Nebraska. One wouldn't have said the Cornhuskers were a tough matchup for the Illini just a month ago, but they have rebounded nicely since firing their head coach. Nebraska is now in the running for a bowl game, so they have something to play for…

With the start of college football season getting closer, it's worthwhile to see how oddsmakers are handicapping the power conferences. To start, we'll be looking at the favorites, sleepers, and best long-shot bets to win the Big Ten. The Big Ten East division has reigned supreme, winning every Big Ten championship game since the creation of the…

Big Ten foes will do battle when the Purdue Boilermakers (4-2) face the Nebraska Cornhuskers (3-3) at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Cornhuskers, on the moneyline to win, and the Boilermakers, listed at on the spread, kick things off on October 15, 2022 at 7:30 PM ET on BTN. Sportsbooks have installed a point total of points for…

The Purdue Boilermakers host the Nebraska Cornhuskers for a share of the Big Ten West lead. Purdue (4-2, 2-1) held off Maryland 31-29 last weekend and Nebraska (3-3, 2-1) edged Rutgers 14-13. Here's what you should know about the matchup. The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette,…

One of the top wideouts in college football will be on display when Charlie Jones and the Purdue Boilermakers (4-2) host the Nebraska Cornhuskers (3-3) on Saturday, October 15, 2022. In their most recent outing, the Boilermakers knocked off the Maryland Terrapins 31-29. The Cornhuskers' most recent outing ended in a 14-13 win over the Rutgers…

The Purdue Boilermakers (4-2) will face off against the Nebraska Cornhuskers (3-3) in a matchup of Big Ten teams on Saturday, October 15, 2022 at Ross-Ade Stadium. The Cornhuskers are currently an underdog by 11.5 points. The over/under is set at 57.5 in the contest. Purdue has two wins against the spread, and is 3-0 overall, over its last three…

We have reached the halfway point of the season and Purdue is 4-2. We're two plays from 6-0, really. Even though the dream of an undefeated season is dead, some great hings can still be accomplished. A second straight bowl game is very likely, and there is a real chance to win the West Division. It's a good place to be. Let's look around the league…

The Hoosiers take on the Cornhuskers in a late Saturday night game on the Big Ten Network, as Indiana football looks to battle as road warriors and come out of their second Big Ten game of the season undefeated in conference play at 2-0. Since 1992, the Hoosiers have started 2-0 in Big Ten play just once (2020) and finished that shortened season,…

Things to watch during Week 6 of play in the Big Ten Conference: GAME OF THE WEEK Iowa (3-2, 1-1 Big Ten) at Illinois (4-1, 1-1) Illinois is riding a wave of momentum under second-year coach Bret Bielema, and he put out a call to fans to fill the stadium for an "Orange Out" at only the third Saturday night Big Ten game in Champaign since 2014. An…

We're getting an early start on the Week 6 college football schedule on Friday with four games on tap for today across the country. That includes a matchup between Big Ten teams in the early slate before a kickoff featuring two AAC rivals and a pair of games coming out of the Mountain West. Here's your schedule for the college football games on TV…

The Nebraska Cornhuskers play their first true road game of the season when they visit the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on Friday in a Big Ten matchup. Nebraska (2-3, 1-1 Big Ten) opened the 2022 campaign with a neutral-site contest against Northwestern before playing four consecutive home games, a stretch that concluded with a 35-21 victory…