FCS Southern Illinois stuns Northwestern as Wildcats become first Power Five to lose to FCS team in 2022

Here are two college football picks for Saturday's college football slate. Also check out my betting strategy for the Iron Bowl between longtime rivals Alabama and Auburn: Northwestern has put together a remarkable season. Many left the Wildcats for dead after the Pat Fitzgerald scandal. But interim coach David Braun willed his team to victories…

Purdue (3-7 overall, 2-5 Big Ten) is fresh off a convincing win over Minnesota this weekend, snapping a four-game skid in the process, but now have another challenge during a trip to Evanston to take on Northwestern (5-5 overall, 3-4 Big Ten) next weekend. Boiler Upload takes a first look at the Wildcats ahead of Saturday's matchup. When, where,…

Week 10 of the 2023 college football season is a big one for the Pac-12. The most contested power conference race will gain some clarity with two key games: No. 5 Washington at No. 20 USC and No. 19 UCLA on the road against a scorching-hot Arizona squad. The Huskies are the only undefeated team remaining in the Pac-12 and have serious College…

The slate for week four of the college football season is the most appetizing of any to this point, and that certainly rings true in the Big Ten. More teams are beginning conference play, with a few preparing for high-stakes matchups inside and outside of the league. Presented by DraftKings Sportsbook, here are the odds for every football game…

Matt Vierling hit a grand slam, Reese Olson pitched six sharp innings and the Detroit Tigers beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-2. Akil Baddoo also went deep for Detroit, which salvaged the finale of the three-game series. Olson permitted one run and two hits. The rookie right-hander struck out seven and walked four. Spencer Steer and TJ Friedl homered for…

Non-conference games continued to treat the Big Ten well in the second week of college football, as the conference combined for an 11-3 record. Every team but Maryland - which will play Friday - is slated to play Saturday, including one conference matchup. Here are the opening odds for every game involving a Big Ten team in week three, presented by…

Northwestern Football has not won a game on American soil since October 16th, 2021, but they look to turn things around this year. It is time to continue our college football odds series with a Northwestern football over/under win total prediction and pick. Pat Fitzgerald and Northwestern started the year solid. They beat Nebraska 31-28 in Dublin…

The Big Ten regular season is quickly drawing to a close. And while that reality is certainly disappointing to fans, it does mean things are heating up for the league and fans are getting to see some of the season's best matchups, including a few fantastic games last week. Highlights included Northwestern's win over Indiana and Maryland's dominant…

The Big Ten kept things rolling last week, with a litany of conference matchups and a few marquee games elsewhere, including battles against teams like Arizona and Tennessee. Of course, all the action shook up the rankings considerably. So, let's jump into this week's Power Rankings. The Boilermakers scored two solid wins this week, beating Hofstra…

Illinois Fighting Illini (7-4) vs. Northwestern Wildcats (1-10) November 26, 2022 3:30 pm EDT The Line: Northwestern Wildcats+13 / Illinois Fighting Illini -13; Over/Under: +36.5 (Click here for latest betting odds) The Illinois Fighting Illini and the Northwestern Wildcats meet Saturday in college football action from Ryan Field. Illinois is…

For the only time in a regular season that features eight home games and only four road games, Ohio State will play back-to-back road games as it heads to Evanston, Illinois, this weekend to play Northwestern one week after traveling to Penn State. On paper, this game shouldn't be near the challenge last week's game in State College was. 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…

The Iowa Hawkeyes will try to snap their three-game losing streak when they face the Northwestern Wildcats on Saturday afternoon. Iowa is coming off a disastrous performance against No. 2 Ohio State, losing in a 54-10 final last week. Meanwhile, Northwestern is on a six-game losing streak since its season-opening win against Nebraska in…

With Week 8 of the college football season approaching, sole possession of first place in the Big Ten West is once again up for grabs as a wonky year in one of the sport's quirkiest divisions continues. If Purdue (5-2, 3-1 Big Ten) wins as a slight underdog at Wisconsin (3-4, 1-3), the Boilermakers will sit alone atop the standings ahead…

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…

As we head into Week 6 of the college football season, we have a good idea of which teams are contenders. A handful of teams have drastically performed well below their preseason expectations too. Notre Dame, Texas A&M and Michigan State, to name a few, are on the latter list. Let's run through those and the other biggest disappointments of the…

Week 4 was our first week under.500, and an easy scapegoat is a team that's doomed us all year… the Georgia State Panthers. Yes, Georgia State came up small again, getting blown out by Coastal Carolina last Thursday. And after our largest under-the-radar card of the season, the board isn't exactly speaking to me this week. But all winning tickets…

Penn State opens October with its second Big Ten foe of the season on Saturday. The Lions are a massive favorite over Northwestern. The Wildcats will be visiting State College for the first time since 2014. They are currently listed as a 26.5-point underdog. "Obviously at home," Penn State head coach James Franklin said. "It'll be a challenge.…

The Northwestern Wildcats will try to snap their two-game losing streak when they host the Miami (OH) RedHawks on Saturday night. They opened the season with a 31-28 win over Nebraska in Week 0, but they proceeded to lose consecutive games against Duke and Southern Illinois after that. Miami (OH) is coming off a 38-17 loss to Cincinnati last…

The offseason coaching carousel was a wild one, with several big-name programs making changes. As a result, there are 29 head coaches making their debuts during the 2022 season. Fourteen of the new faces are coaching in the Power Five, too. After three weeks, let's check in on how each is doing. No, we're not hitting the panic button on anyone…

Welcome to Week 4 of the college football season. Each week, our VSiN experts will combine to give their best bets on select games. It was a 6-6 showing for Week 3, but we're dusting ourselves off and we're back at it for Week 4. Odds are from DraftKings (unless noted) as of Wednesday night. Thursday, 7:30 p.m. ET Adam Burke: We started to see some…

A MAC team has defeated a Big Ten team in 15 consecutive seasons, excluding the 2020 pandemic-riddled campaign when both conferences played exclusively within their league for the regular season. That streak is in serious jeopardy as only two MAC vs. Big Ten showdowns remain this year. One is Central Michigan at No. 14 Penn State this Saturday. If…

Week 1 ATS: 7-8-1 (2-5-1 B1G, 5-3 National) Season ATS: 11-11-1 (4-5-1 B1G, 7-6 National) Going nearly.500 in the first week of the college football season isn't all that bad. What makes it sting so much is we were so close to a number of underdog upsets. West Virginia, Purdue, and Illinois were all leading in the last five minutes of their games.…

The Ohio State Buckeyes enter a new a month that just may feel like a new season now that Tuesday's first batch of College Football Playoff rankings were revealed. The Buckeyes will enter the final stretch of the regular season ranked No. 2 in the CFP poll, right behind Tennessee (with whom they are tied with at No. 2 in the AP rankings) and in…

a 31-0 win over Iowa, Penn State returns to the road for another Big Ten game next Saturday at Northwestern. The Wildcats will host the No. 6 Nittany Lions at noon ET, representing PSU's final matchup before a midseason bye week. It's the first meeting in Evanston between these programs since 2017, and Penn State aims to build a 10-game win streak…