#Paul Chryst

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…

If you want to bowl games this season, there are plenty of opportunities among the 42 games. But not every game is worthy of risking your money. With transfers, injuries and opt-outs, many of the rosters will look vastly different than in the regular season. Here are some of the matchups we would be wary of betting on. Saturday, Dec. 17, 11 a.m.…

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,…

Oklahoma State football is hoping to end the 2022 season on a positive note and continue its historic success in bowl games when it takes on Wisconsin at the Guaranteed Rate Bowl in Phoenix on Tuesday. Kickoff is scheduled for 9:15 p.m. CT and will air on ESPN with Beth Mowins, Kirk Morrison and Stormy Buoantony on the call. Here is a look at the…

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…

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 10 slate. podcast. Spotify and Apple for episodes and follow Stadium Bets on Twitter for more sports betting content. Alex Symonds, Stadium Senior Producer: UAB (+100) over UTSA. UAB lost a crucial…

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…

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…

The NCAA Tournament has Cinderellas and buzzer-beaters. Madness belongs to bowl season. A record 43 bowl games will be played over the next few weeks - more than double the number of bowl games held in 1997 - and 17 of them will feature at least one team without a winning record. A dizzying number of coaches and coordinators have already ditched…

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…

With College Football Bowl Season on the way, it's time to look at upset picks. Oklahoma State Cowboys head coach Mike Gundy's team is an underdog against a Wisconsin Badgers unit in the midst of a coaching transition. Who else can beat the favorite? Read on for our best college football upset picks for bowl season. College Football Bowl Season…

WEST LAFAYETTE - Jeff Brohm couldn't turn down his alma mater a second time. After six seasons at Purdue, the former Louisville standout quarterback is returning to take over the Cardinals, per ESPN's Chris Low. Here is a list of names Purdue could consider to succeed Brohm: Babers knows a lot about Purdue's program. He's coached for the…

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…

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…

Following an offseason that again delivered a taste of conference realignment (USC and UCLA to the Big Ten in the future) and typical college football controversy (Nick Saban and Jimbo Fisher going at it over recruiting), time has come to concentrate on what's actually going to happen on the field throughout the 2022 season. There's no better way…

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…

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…

I'll go ahead and get the Spencer Rattler update out of the way: no touchdown passes or interceptions, so his season totals remain at eight and nine, respectively. It's hard to believe that after 10 games, neither one has reached the magic number of 10 that would dictate his fate (local hero or bench warmer, respectively). His South Carolina…

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…

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…

The Hawkeyes and Badgers will square off at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Kinnick Stadium. November 10, 2022 The Iowa football team will take on Wisconsin at Kinnick Stadium Saturday with the Heartland Trophy on the line. The Hawkeyes have lost six of their last eight of matchups with the Badgers. The last time the Hawkeyes held the Heartland Trophy was…

Check out FanDuel's 2022 college football over under win total odds, including the Wisconsin over under win total prediction, part of our college football odds series. The Wisconsin Badgers have been a noticeably consistent program ever since Barry Alvarez authored a remarkable turnaround in the early 1990s. Since Alvarez guided the Badgers to the…

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…

The Illinois Fighting Illini take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Check out our college football odds series for our Illinois Nebraska prediction and pick. The Illinois Fighting Illini are having the time of their lives. They control their fate in the Big Ten West Division. If they win out, they win the division championship and would earn their…

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…

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…

A new college football betting season brings excitement across the board. Bettors are ready for nonstop action, the fans are loading the coolers and prepping for tailgates, and players are counting down the seconds until they get to run out of the tunnel each week. As for the coaches - it's all relative. Some enter the season with loaded rosters,…

The final college football game of the 2017 calendar year will be played Saturday night in Miami between the runners-up in the ACC and Big Ten Championship Games. This one should be a good one as Wisconsin heads south to play the suddenly resurgent Miami Hurricanes. Despite a banner season in Miami with the first trip to an ACC Championship Game,…

Things to watch during Week 9 of play in the Big Ten Conference: GAME OF THE WEEK No. 2 Ohio State (7-0, 4-0 Big Ten) at No. 13 Penn State (6-1, 3-1) Penn State fans expect James Franklin to produce, and big, after signing that 10-year, $70 million contract last November. The Nittany Lions must win this one to have a realistic chance to reach the…

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…

Wisconsin vs Michigan State prediction, game preview, how to watch. Week 7, Saturday, October 15 Date: Saturday, October 15 Game Time: 4:00 ET Venue: Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, MI How To Watch: FOX Record: Wisconsin (3-3), Michigan State (2-4) - Did Wisconsin snap out of it? Granted, beating Northwestern is about as difficult as dogging the NFL…

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 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…

The college football regular season will be halfway over when this week is complete. Week 14 is reserved for conference title games and Week 15 belongs to Army vs. Navy. The season is flying by and hopefully you've gotten a lot of good nuggets from us here at VSiN. We have some good ones to share this week, including some intriguing situational…

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…

Coming off a bye week following their first loss of the season, the Minnesota Golden Gophers (4-1) hit the road for a matchup against the No. 24-ranked Illinois Fighting Illini (5-1), in what has suddenly became a critical game for both teams seeking pole position in the Big Ten West. The name you need to know is Chase Brown. The former Western…

The majority of Big Ten football teams have reached the halfway point of their regular seasons, and the conference is in business. Four Big Ten teams cracked the latest AP Top 25, including No. 24 Illinois making its first appearance in the poll since 2011. Three Big Ten teams - No. 2 Ohio State, No. 5 Michigan and No. 10 Penn State - remain…

Remember last week when I sat here and said "It's Minnesota's division to lose?" Good times! After last week's results, every team except Wisconsin is in a tie for first in the West. The preseason favorites, of course, sit alone at seventh in the division, sitting at 0-2 in conference play. This, and other assorted reasons, led to Paul Chryst being…

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…

In two weeks, the Big Ten has gone from having five ranked teams to three: Wisconsin fell out of the rankings after Week 2 and this week, Michigan State was dropped after a poor showing at Washington (39-28 final). The three teams that remain in the top 25, though - (3) Ohio State, (4) Michigan, and (14) Penn State - looked great in Week 3 matchups…

Over the past decade, we have tabulated Alabama's brilliance on a seemingly unending number of occasions. Nick Saban, riding an endless train of success, has made it easy to do. We're going to do it again right now, even if it's a bit differently. On Saturday, Alabama beat Arkansas 49-26 on the road to move to 5-0. The Crimson Tide covered the…

college football odds series for our Iowa Illinois prediction and pick. The Iowa Hawkeyes would be one of the best teams in the country … if they had a quarterback. This was said in the offseason. It was said at the start of the regular season. It is being said one month into the regular season. If Iowa had a reasonably competent quarterback to…