ESPN's FPI predicts B1G West champion in 2022

Welcome to the 2023 college football season. Week 0 games took place this weekend with top teams including No. 13 Notre Dame and No. 6 USC picking up win No. 1 on the season.[affiliatewidget_smgtolocal] Wisconsin and the rest of the Big Ten get underway this weekend as out-of-conference play leads into the conference schedule later in the month.…

Michigan football has dominated the Big Ten Conference the last two years, but can they make it a three-peat? It is time to continue our College Football odds series with a special 2023 Big Ten Conference winner prediction and pick. Last year, Michigan went through the regular season undefeated on their way to the Big Ten Title game. There, they…

The 2023 college football season is rapidly approaching and at this time, every team's hopes and dreams are still alive. Some may come crashing down sooner than others, but that is neither here nor there yet. The Big Ten is always an intriguing conference to try and predict. Like it or not, the Big Ten East is a three-team race of Michigan, Ohio…

The Fighting Illini football season gets underway in less than a month. The team is hoping to build off its best season in 15 years, going 8-5 and nearly winning the Big Ten West in 2022, though lacking a daunting schedule. This season's schedule looks a little tougher, but still quite manageable. Which games can the Illini expect to really be…

Are you ready for some college football? On Wednesday, we learned (tentatively) the 12 Big Ten conference games that will be on NBC this season (barring any games being "flexed" to another network). All NBC games can be streamed on Peacock. Here's how they rank in terms of anticipation. Odds below are from BetMGM, including season win totals found…

The preseason Big Ten poll for the 2023 season has been released with Cleveland.com publishing its 13th edition of the B1G media poll. At this point, it should come as no surprise but 2-time defending league champion Michigan is the favorite. The Wolverines received 27 of a possible 37 first-place votes to win the B1G Championship Game this…

The college football season is inching ever so closer, now close to just a month and a half away from the start of the best sport in the country. The Big Ten is expected to have some of the best teams in the FBS once again, with perhaps a bit of a dropoff behind the best in the league. Everyone seems to have an opinion and prediction on how things…

Last year, Iowa won seven regular season games and will look to improve on that this year. It is time to continue our college football odds series with an Iowa football over/under win total prediction and pick. Last year, Iowa football struggled on offense. They scored just 18.7 points per game and that led to offensive coordinator Brian…

With summer here and much of the big football transfer moves completed, college football rosters have largely taken shape. Las Vegas and sportsbooks are already taking futures bets on the 2023 season. While it is no perfect science it is an interesting way to look at potential projections for the next season, since Vegas isn't in the business of…

Big Ten conference and school officials meet next week to perhaps decide the Big Ten's scheduling model in 2024 when USC and UCLA join the conference. The Big Ten appears set to end 13 years of divisional play, including 10 involving geography, following the 2023 season. League brass appears likely to select a 3-6-6 scheduling plan during a…

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…

Everything is on the line in the final week of Big Ten regular-season football. Ohio State and Michigan will play for the Big Ten East title. In the Big Ten West, Iowa and Purdue are tied for first at 5-3 in conference play, and Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin are one game behind at 4-4. Nine Big Ten teams are already bowl eligible, and Michigan…

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…

Illinois football has hit a bit of a rough patch the past couple of weeks, but that doesn't mean we are out of the running to win the Big Ten West. Yes, the loss to Purdue made things a lot more complicated for the Illini. There is still a path for the Orange and Blue to take on either Ohio State or Michigan in the Big Ten Championship game,…

NCAAF12:52 PM, November 17, 2022TJ Inman There are seven Big Ten games this week, and every conference team is in action for this penultimate week of the regular season. The lines have been released and are as follows: Illinois at Michigan (-17.5) - Total of 42.5 points A lot of the luster of this matchup has worn off over the past few weeks as…

Ho hum. The winner of OSU- Michigan will win the East. Both teams have a 1 game lead over PSU and own the tiebreaker over the Nittany Lions. This week doesn't even matter in terms of Big Ten standings, but both teams will need to win to keep pace in the CFP race. West 256. There are 256 combinations of outcomes for the Big Ten West division,…

Every Tuesday, Matt Hayes tackles the 10 hottest topics in the Big Ten … If this bowl of puke that is the Big Ten West Division doesn't convince conference presidents to eliminate divisions, nothing will. Let me give you a quick West Division breakdown, entering the 2nd week of November: - Illinois has 2 conference losses, 1 of those to the worst…

There's a lot of news each day. Illini Inquirer will try to make it easier to digest each weekday morning with the Daily Digest. ***** Michigan State suspended four players for their involvement in Saturday's postgame melee in the tunnel following a 27-9 loss at Michigan. Michigan State announced Tank Brow n, Khary Crump, Angelo Grose and Zion…

It was a relatively light week on the Big Ten schedule in Week 8, but that doesn't mean there was a lack of development in the Big Ten championship hunts. The Big Ten West took an interesting turn this weekend, much to the delight of Illinois on a bye week. In the east, Michigan had the week off while Penn State and Ohio State did what they needed…

LINCOLN - Nine weeks. Eight games each. One bye week each. A rigorous, three-horse race in the East with a potential speed boat in the West. The nonconference preamble is over. The Big Ten revs up its conference games for real this week. Nebraska hosts Indiana, Iowa hosts Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin tangle in "Bret Bowl II" and Minnesota,…

Michigan won the league last year, but Ohio State enters the 2022 college football season as the overwhelming Big Ten favorite. Not since 2010-13 has OSU gone two-plus seasons without standing atop the conference. Ryan Day's team still finished 11-2 last year and returns All-American quarterback C.J. Stroud and wide receiver Jaxon…

Ranking 13th out of 14 teams in the Big Ten in total offense didn't stop the Iowa Hawkeyes from reaching the conference title game. However, the 42-3 loss to Michigan showed how much of a gap there was in the Hawkeyes' quest to win the conference championship. Quarterback Spencer Petras and tight end Sam LaPorta are among the top returnees on…

Now that the deed is done - no matter how dumb - how is it going to work? That's the question facing Big Ten football with the addition of UCLA and USC bringing the league to 16 teams. A 16-team superconference has been attempted just once before, though the SEC will join the B1G in doing it no later than 2025. The WAC existed as a 16-team entity…

The Big Ten saw plenty of surprises last season. Michigan won the conference for the first time since 2004 and went to the College Football Playoff, while Ohio State and Michigan State played in New Year's Six bowls. In the conference's West division, Minnesota recovered from a down 2020 to win nine games, as did Purdue, which notched its highest…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings are still in flux with less than a week to go in the regular season. Iowa is positioned nicely for a strong finish. The Hawkeyes thrashed Indiana by a 90-68 margin on Tuesday night, improving to 11-8 in conference play and completing a season sweep of the preseason conference…