#Jim Leonhard

LINCOLN - One more offseason. One more preseason. One more football season. And one more postseason. All with a new commissioner, and an eye toward a larger future in the league. One more trip around the sun with this iteration of Big Ten football. And one more year with divisional schedules. One more year, for certain, of a Big Ten title game. The…

During the college football season, the Stadium staff will provide weekly betting picks and advice in this roundtable. Here are our thoughts on the Week 7 slate. podcast. Spotify and Apple for episodes and follow Stadium Bets on Twitter for more sports betting content. Alex Symonds, Stadium Senior Producer: Southern Miss -4 over Arkansas…

During the college football season, the Stadium staff will provide weekly betting picks and advice in this roundtable. Here are our thoughts on the Week 6 slate. podcast. Spotify and Apple for episodes and follow Stadium Bets on Twitter for more sports betting content. Alex Symonds, Stadium Senior Producer: Wisconsin -10 over Northwestern. After…

The Wisconsin Badgers officially concluded spring camp last Friday night and now head into the summer months preparing for the fall. While spring football is generally a time for self-improvement and overall development, the 15 extra practices also provide players the opportunity to step up and show the coaching staff that they warrant playing time…

The end of an era, the start of a promising future, and an early look at 2023? Make no mistake, the Guaranteed Rate Bowl has plenty of reasons for Wisconsin fans to be glued to their televisions on Tuesday night. The Badgers will say goodbye to DC Jim Leonhard as he begins the next chapter in post-Madison life. Paul Chryst was fired for Leonhard,…

For the first time in a month, all 14 Big Ten teams are playing each other this weekend. As the final month of the season arrives, the conference division title races are heating up and the spotlight continues to brighten on some of the conference's top teams competing for a national title. Let's take a look at what the odds are in the Big Ten this…

Oklahoma State faces Wisconsin in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl Tuesday in a game that features two programs going through different transition periods. Wisconsin is in the midst of a transition with Luke Fickell taking over the program after being lured away from Cincinnati. Interim coach Jim Leonhard will coach the bowl game after the Badgers went 4-3…

Although a nationwide cold front chilled the holiday weekend, bowl season is ready to heat up significantly. After a dozen days of one matchup, maybe two, we're ready for a complete week of three or four showdowns. This is, in fact, the most wonderful week of the postseason. This edition covers the biggest bowl-season questions, as determined by…

Chase Field hosts an intriguing bowl matchup on Tuesday evening. The 2022 Guaranteed Rate Bowl wraps up a four-game bowl slate on Dec. 27, with the Wisconsin Badgers taking on the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Wisconsin won three of the last five games to finish 6-6 overall. Oklahoma State is 7-5 overall, though the Cowboys dropped four of the last five…

Predicting what happens in a bowl game is one of the toughest things to do in college football, given the intangibles surrounding each game like the new transfer portal, coaching changes, opt-outs, and general questions around motivation. That's especially true when considering the case of the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. Wisconsin and Oklahoma meet up in…

LONDON (AP) - Results from English football: Monday Summaries from English football (home teams listed first): Wisconsin and Oklahoma State are looking to finish with a flourish at the Guaranteed Rate Bowl after inconsistent seasons. The Badgers fired coach Paul Chryst after a 2-3 start, but beat Nebraska late in the season to become bowl eligible…

Coastal Carolina quarterback Grayson McCall (10) is lifted in the air by offensive lineman Will McDonald, bottom, after scoring a touchdown during the first half of an NCAA football game against Georgia State on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, in Atlanta. Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022 | 2 a.m. The beginning of bowl season turned out every bit as sloppy,…

Wisconsin and Oklahoma State are both going through massive transitions this offseason and will look to finish underwhelming seasons. Neither Wisconsin or Oklahoma State will have their regular starting quarterback as both Badgers' Graham Mertz and Cowboys' Spencer Sanders hit the transfer portal, among other key contributors on both sides. The…

It would be tough to find a better turnaround story in college football than Max Duggan, the Texas Christian quarterback who started the season on the bench and is now attracting Heisman Trophy hype. Duggan is the main reason the Horned Frogs are 6-0, ranked No. 8 and tied atop the Big 12 standings. The senior has completed 69.5% of his passes…

Interim head coach Jim Leonhard and the Wisconsin Badgers (3-3, 1-2 Big Ten) hit the road on Saturday to visit the Michigan State Spartans (2-4, 0-3 Big Ten) at Spartan Field. Wisconsin is coming off a 42-7 beatdown of Northwestern this past weekend - a game in which they dominated from start to finish. On the flip side, Mel Tucker and the Spartans…

10 best predictions for the big Saturday of college football. What games appear to be the best bets and best picks for the Week 7 games? Results So Far: 41-29-1 What have you shown us? We're halfway through the season and now we've got enough of a sample size to have a good feel about just how good and bad these teams are. This week I'm staying…

With Week Zero of the college football season fast approaching, it's worth analyzing the current odds to win this season's Big Ten Championship, via BetOnline. The reigning champion Michigan Wolverines ended Ohio State's four-year (2017-20) string of dominance by claiming their first Big Ten title since 2004 with a convincing victory over Iowa. Jim…

ATHENS - Georgia offensive coordinator Todd Monken is the highest-paid assistant coach in college football with a $2.01 million salary, per the latest USA Today data. Beyond reporting facts, there's not much "newsy" about that because Monken's value is understandably higher than any other assistant in college football at this time. One could make…

With the firing of Western Michigan football head coach Tim Lester having been announced Monday afternoon, athletic director Dan Bartholmae says he has already begun the program's search for a leader of the program. With plenty of coaches around the country looking to tackle a new opportunity, here is who Bartholomae and his team should be looking…

A big bowl season awaits the Big Ten. There will be a minimum of 9 B1G bowl games this postseason, with Michigan and Ohio State both earning the opportunity to play in a 10th for the national championship. The Big Ten's first year with 2 teams in the College Football Playoff has a trickle-down effect on the rest of the conference's bowl bids.…

college football odds series for our Kansas Kansas State prediction and pick. The Kansas State Wildcats have played in the Big 12 Championship Game before, but not since the Big 12 Championship Game was renewed. The Big 12 Championship Game debuted in 1996, when Texas knocked Nebraska out of the BCS National Championship Game, but in 2011, the Big…

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…

The coaching carousel is moving quickly with college football coaching hires being made faster than ever before. We'll be grading every hire made in the FBS, ranging from the Nebraska Cornhuskers to the Colorado Buffaloes. This time of year is really like no other in professional or collegiate sports. Top programs coming off disappointing seasons…

The coaching carousel is moving quickly with college football coaching hires being made faster than ever before. We'll be grading every hire made in the FBS, ranging from the Nebraska Cornhuskers to the Colorado Buffaloes. This time of year is really like no other in professional or collegiate sports. Top programs coming off disappointing seasons…

NCAAF05:30 PM, November 21, 2022TJ Inman There are seven Big Ten games this week, and every conference team is in action for this final week of the regular season. It is often said you should "throw out the records for rivalry games," but no one ever told you to throw out the point spread! The lines are as follows: Michigan at Ohio State (-7.5) -…

Local police have arrested former Virginia walk-on football player Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a lone gunman who killed three members of the 2022 Cavaliers football team and injured two others on campus Sunday night in Charlottesville, Virginia. Football players Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D'Sean Perry were all fatally shot, according to…

Reaching a bowl game wasn't a problem for Michigan State last year. The Spartans won their first eight games and capped a resurgent season with a Peach Bowl victory against Pittsburgh to finish 11-2. Now at the midpoint of this season, Michigan State is facing an uphill battle just to reach six wins and become bowl eligible. That is the result of…

Betting stats are provided by BetMGM.* A new set of rankings rules college football in Week 10 with the release of the first set of rankings from the College Football Playoff committee on Tuesday night. One of the biggest surprises in the rankings came in the Big Ten, when Michigan was put outside the top four at No. 5, behind ACC leader…

With a 6-2 record and four games left, Maryland football is set to play meaningful football in the month of November. The Terps sit just outside the AP and Coaches Polls, 28th and 27th, respectively, and could stake a claim nationally with a win over Wisconsin on the road this Saturday. Maryland is a 6.5-point underdog heading to face Wisconsin…

Betting stats are provided by BetMGM.* A new set of rankings rules college football in Week 10 with the release of the first set of rankings from the College Football Playoff committee on Tuesday night. One of the biggest surprises in the rankings came in the Big Ten, when Michigan was put outside the top four at No. 5, behind ACC leader…

college football odds series for our Wisconsin Michigan State prediction and pick. The Wisconsin Badgers have entered a new era. Now we get to find out how permanent or long-lasting that era will be. The school fired head coach Paul Chryst after an abysmal start to the 2022 season. There were worries that Wisconsin football had stagnated and that…

IOWA CITY, Iowa - A few weeks ago, it looked like Big Ten West Division preseason favorites Iowa and Wisconsin could be headed for unusually disappointing campaigns. The programs have since turned things around. The Hawkeyes (5-4 overall, 3-3 Big Ten) have won two games in a row after dropping three consecutive contests. The Badgers (5-4, 3-3) have…

college football odds series for our Purdue Wisconsin prediction and pick. The Purdue Boilermakers have never won the Big Ten West Division championship. The Big Ten went to a divisional setup with a conference championship game in the 2011 season. A total of 11 Big Ten Championship Games have been played. Purdue has not appeared in any of…

college football odds series for our Maryland Wisconsin prediction and pick. The Maryland Terrapins are 6-2 and the Wisconsin Badgers are 4-4. This might seem to indicate that Maryland is a better team, and to be sure, Wisconsin has had a rough season, but Maryland's 6-2 record is hard to evaluate, as weird as that might seem. Maryland lost to…

Betting stats are provided by BetMGM.* A new set of rankings rules college football in Week 10 with the release of the first set of rankings from the College Football Playoff committee on Tuesday night. One of the biggest surprises in the rankings came in the Big Ten, when Michigan was put outside the top four at No. 5, behind ACC leader…

Maryland football is fresh off its bye week with its toughest stretch of games coming up, starting with a road matchup against Wisconsin this Saturday at noon. Maryland will then travel to Penn State before playing Ohio State at home, a brutal stretch against premier opponents in the Big Ten. The Terps will finish the regular season at home against…

NCAAF12:52 PM, November 2, 2022TJ Inman There are seven Big Ten games this week, and every conference team is in action. The lines have been released and are as follows: Ohio State (-38.5) at Northwestern - Total of 61.5 The Ohio State Buckeyes travel to Evanston to play a beleaguered Northwestern team and enter the contest favored by nearly 40…

MSU's football team badly needs some sort of positive identity. If one is going to take hold this season, it's likely to be the strength of the Spartans' offensive playmakers. That's their only potential matchup advantage through most of the rest of their schedule. But no offense in the history of football has ever been productive if its offensive…

College football's week eight has arrived, and Big Ten teams are fully in the midst of conference play. Week eight kicks off tonight with a Sun Belt showdown between Georgia State and Appalachian State, and the Big Ten will have 10 teams in action Saturday. The conference has two games at noon, two games at 3:30 p.m. and one primetime game on ABC.…

After a trying week that saw Paul Chryst removed as head coach, the Wisconsin Badgers responded by soundly defeating Northwestern, 42-7. The Badgers (3-3, 1-2 Big Ten) have no time to rest on their laurels, as they have to travel to East Lansing to take on the Michigan State Spartans in Big Ten crossover play. For newly-promoted interim head coach…

With Paul Chryst gone and Jim Leonhard now at the helm, the Wisconsin Badgers have already shown some encouraging signs of improvement. As such, we're backing them as 7.5-point road favorites when they head to East Lansing to take on the reeling Spartans. A pair of underachieving Big Ten programs face off in Lansing on Saturday where the Michigan…

We went 3-7, falling to 32-33 on the season, the first time we've gone negative on the picks all year. A lesser man would run and hide, but not this one. Now is the time to start making plays and building our way back up. This is the week we turn the tide, gambling glory beckons. So let's get rolling. We're going 11-0 this week. OutKick will be in…

WEST LAFAYETTE - Head coaches were the first to go. Who's next? How about assistants? In the Big Ten, two assistants - Indiana offensive line coach and run-game coordinator Darren Hiller and Rutgers offensive coordinator Sean Green - were fired over the weekend. The dismissals come at the midway point of the season and are no surprise in the…

The Wisconsin Badgers (3-3 overall, 1-2 B1G) will head to East Lansing (Mich.) this weekend for a Big Ten battle with the Michigan State Spartans (2-4 overall, 0-3 B1G). The game figures to be a close contest with the Badgers early four-point favorites and plenty on the line for both teams. In an attempt to preview the big game, let's take a look…

Wisconsin will travel to East Lansing and take on Michigan State from Spartan Stadium in Big Ten action this Saturday on FOX. The Spartans and Badgers have met sporadically since the expansion of the Big Ten. Michigan State leads the all-time series 30-24, but Wisconsin has won the last two matchups. Wisconsin is 3-3 after beating Northwestern in…

The search continues for Nebraska, and one home run hire keeps coming to mind. Damon Benning, of course. Yes, for that other search - Husker football color analyst. Benning would be perfect. A natural. The Omaha native and former Husker running back has proved his mettle behind a microphone. Of the former players on the air in Nebraska - and…

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where fans were introduced to the varied animal life- green dogs and rats -in Tuscaloosa: A new, attractive FBS coaching option materialized Monday when the Carolina Panthers fired Matt Rhule. He was a bad fit in the NFL-or at least a bad fit with a franchise that never gave…

There's bad, there's really bad, and then there's Oklahoma. The Sooners aren't just one of the biggest flops of the season in the Bowl Subdivision - they're a disaster on both sides of the ball heading toward the program's worst finish this century. Saturday was rock bottom. Texas demolished Oklahoma 49-0 to hand the Sooners a third loss in a row…

It has been an interesting week at Wisconsin. The Badgers fired head coach Paul Chryst and promoted defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard. Regardless of who is coaching, Wisconsin hasn't earned the right to be a 10.5-point road favorite. The biggest issue with the Badgers this season is their inability to run the football. Wisconsin has been known for…

We're back with more winners! Last week's columns also made you money, and we are batting pretty well this season. This week's board is BRUTAL, so we are proceeding with caution. Tulsa vs. Navy (Navy+5.5; O/U 45): In their 4 games this year Navy has scored 7, 13, 23 (in overtime), and 10 points. That offense has struggled this year, and they are…