Big Ten football expert picks, predictions, and odds for Week 3

The Big Ten Conference takes another big step toward the second of its third big showdowns with Penn State-Michigan NEXT weekend, but rolls out a schedule in Week 10 that features no ranked-on-ranked matchups. Ohio State is in action for the first time since securing the No. 1 spot in the first set of rankings released by the College Football…

The schedule is set for Week 4 of the 2023 Big Ten football season with a couple headliners coming Saturday as No. 6 Ohio State visits No. 9 Notre Dame and No. 24 Iowa takes on No. 7 Penn State and the Beaver Stadium Whiteout. Both those contests are slated for 7:30 p.m. ET kickoffs on NBC and CBS, respectively. Here's a look at the full Week 4 Big…

The schedule is set for Week 2 of the 2023 Big Ten football season, and while a few blowouts are expected with Big Ten teams tackling FCS opponents, the schedule does have a few gems. There might not be a more intriguing game in all of college football than Nebraska's trip to No. 22 Colorado. Iowa also plays a rivalry contest against Iowa State,…

After one full week of the college football season, the Big Ten produced a few observations: Michigan is stacked again; Ohio State has some offensive work to do; Wisconsin still will run the ball; and Nebraska is better but still mistake-prone. With that in mind, here are this week's Big Ten picks. (The Gophers-Eastern Michigan prediction will be…

A total of games on the Week 2 college football schedule feature a Big Ten team, including the matchup between the Wisconsin Badgers and the Washington State Cougars. Here is the betting info to break down ahead of Week 2 in college football. BetMGM Sportsbook. Odds updated Tuesday at 9:15 PM ET. For a full list of sports betting odds, access USA…

The 2023 Big Ten football season is officially under way following Thursday's opening win by Minnesota over Nebraska. Here's a quick look at key TV and streaming info, betting odds and over/under totals for every matchup featuring a Big Ten team. You can watch many college football matchups without cable by signing up for: fuboTV (7-day free…

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.…

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 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…

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…

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Every week RockyMtnBlue asks me to "write something clever" here, and every week I am at a complete loss for what to do. This website is making me dumber. Anyway onto our picks. Seamless transition. (all times CT) Straight-Up: All Death Star Against the Spread: Indiana 8-6 MaximumSam: WEATHER CHECK Columbus should be around 40 degrees with mild…

It's hard to get interested, isn't it, when you know your team is heading into certain destruction this weekend. A couple of interesting Big Ten games... Purdue at #21 Illinois and Wisconsin at Iowa. I don't expect these to be things of beauty, but they might be interesting. Otherwise, you have what appears to be a gob of ass-kicking. What will be…

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…

Purdue is off this week along with Wisconsin, Indiana, and Maryland, but we still have five games to look at. It is likely the last chance for someone other than Michigan or Ohio State to make a statement in the East, but the odds are long that Penn State is going to be able to upset the Buckeyes on B1G Nude Saturday. That kicks off our week. #2…

Our in-state teams may be off, but our Big Ten picks roll on. Both Michigan and Michigan State have byes this week ahead of their Oct. 29 showdown in Ann Arbor. So we'll pick the other five games on this week's schedule while mulling over what's going to happen at Michigan Stadium in a week. In our standings, Andrew Kahn turned in a perfect week…

The Big Ten Conference kicks off Week 6 of college football beginning on Friday at 7 p.m. ET when Nebraska goes on the road to face Rutgers inside SHI Stadium in Piscataway, N.J. Penn State and Minnesota are enjoying bye weeks this week. Through five weeks of play, three conference programs remain undefeated, as Ohio State, Michigan State and Penn…

In Week 4, there was bad, and there was worse. All five of our pickers were below.500 in the nine games we selected last week. Aaron McMann and Andrew Kahn were the best at 4-5. Our Michigan State beat, meanwhile, both went 2-7 (yours truly picked two lone wolves in Maryland and Iowa…and went 0-5 in the other five games). Visit MLive's Betting…

Apparently, the league got underway last night. Illinois hosted Chattanooga in their FCS game and won easily. The defense gave up only gave up 142 of offense and seven first downs as the Illini won easily 31-0 in Champaign. Everyone else plays on Saturday, which is the last major non-conference weekend for the league. Also, we're saved from having…

Big Ten football is back for another week and so are our weekly picks. Here's how the Spartans Wire staff has fared so far:Andrew Brewster: 17-6Robert Bondy: 14-9Cory Linsner: 13-10 Here are our picks against the spread for each Big Ten game on this week's slate - odds courtesy of BetMGM.

Every year (and every week of the CFB season) we have a little friendly competition among our writers for world domination when it comes to picking Big Ten and some of the bigger college football games. We'll bring you our expert picks and predictions on all the league games against the spread, and straight-up throughout the season. We'll even give…

It's officially time to get excited because it's a game week for the Ohio State football team. And not just any game, mind you, but a massive top-five matchup with Notre Dame in the'Shoe at night - on national television. It's sure to be an unbelievable atmosphere in the grand old Horseshoe on the banks of the Olentangy, and one that will go a long…

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…

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…

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…