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Big Ten Championship: Best Bets, Predictions, and Preview for Purdue-Michigan
Week 12 in the Big Ten included surprising scares for the two best teams in the conference, as No. 2 Ohio State (11-0) escaped a close one at Maryland (6-5) and No. 3 Michigan (11-0) needed a last-minute field goal to survive against Illinois (7-4) at home.
A possible explanation is that both teams were already looking ahead to Week 13, when…