The Big Ten – in all its football excellence – is a cumulative 55-point underdog for its seven bowl games this holiday season. Better yet, not one Big Ten school is favored in any of the bowls. See: Bowl Big Ten Opponent Line Meineke Minnesota Texas Tech TT -13 Buffalo Wild Wings Michigan St TCU […]

OK, degenerates, ready to make some bets on the college football season? At Vegas Insider, these are the odds you can get on Big Ten teams to win the BCS championship on Jan. 7: Nebraska: 40/1 Wisconsin: 40/1 Michigan: 50/1 Michigan State: 50/1 Illinois: 300/1 Iowa: 300/1 Penn State: 300/1 Ohio State: Off, feeling shame […]

Here’s a look at the latest lines on the four Sweet 16 games involving Big Ten teams, along with our picks.. Wisconsin vs Syracuse Open: -3.5 Current: -3.5 Pick: Wisconsin Cincinnati vs Ohio State Open: Ohio State (-7.5) Current: Ohio State (-7.5) Pick: Ohio State Louisville vs Michigan State Open: Michigan State (-5) Current: Michigan […]

Where‘s the money headed are the lines moving in second first-round games involving Big Ten games in the NCAA tournament? Mostly toward Big Ten teams. The line has gotten at least a half-point bigger in all but the Michigan-Ohio game, with the Michigan State line moving by 2.5 points: Game Open Current Indiana/New Mexico St IU-5.5 […]

Here are the early lines for games involving Big Ten games in this week’s first round tournament games: Ohio State (-17) over Loyola (Md.) Indiana (-7.5) over New Mexico State Wisconsin (-8.5) over Montana Michigan State (-17.5) over LIU Brooklyn Michigan (-6) over Ohio Purdue vs Saint Mary’s (Calif.) PK Bet wisely.

Indiana at Purdue (-3) Can anyone point out the key word in this: Indiana at Purdue.  You guessed it: “at.”  This Indiana team still has a few people fooled with a top 25 ranking and smaller lines.  But in this road game, I’m not expecting anything other than their recent road blunders.  Purdue is favored?  […]

Today we explore the Michigan Wolverines visiting the hot Indiana Hoosiers. Michigan travels to Indiana where they are a 7’ point underdog. There are some key trends that have me leaning towards the Hoosiers on this one. (Pause, while the Hoosier homers on this site collect themselves). Indiana is 6-0 ATS when playing a team […]

Do you have four TVs? Do you have four TVs in the same room? Get out your Capital One credit card and head to Beef O’Brady’s because four Big Ten teams will all be playing at the same time. Six teams have games over the next two days including the Badgers (Rose Bowl) and Wolverines […]

If your baseball, NFL, NBA or even NHL fantasy leagues aren’t enough, perhaps you’d like to consider starting a Big Ten fantasy basketball league like the one my friends and I have run for several years. Here’s how it works: Points are tallied (via old school spreadsheet, no fancy websites here!) by adding up the […]

Rodney Dangerfield got more respect than some of these remaining Big Ten teams. The following three bowl games are what remain of Big Ten Football in 2011. This is how I see it them shaking out, proceed at your own risk. Insight Bowl: Iowa vs Oklahoma Recently, the line has held steady at Oklahoma -14/-13’ […]

Someone hop on the Pony Express, get a message out to Lincoln: Every Big Ten home team covered the spread in the openers this week – except you. Why does this matter right now?  Well, there’s one more game to play this week. Penn State travels to Ann Arbor, where the Wolverines are currently handing […]

    Here they are, your official Daily Big Ten bowl picks (against the spread). There is no unanimous pick and only two games with four of the five in agreement (Purdue and Illinois). May want heavy up on Western Michigan and UCLA. Good luck!

It’s ACC-Big Ten Challenge day – or as we like to call it: Big Ten-ACC Challenge day, because we’re parochial like that. (Note: The Big Ten is up 4-2 after Day 1. A game-by-game recap is here. The Day 2 recap can be found here.) Before we get to our picks, here’s some trivia: The […]

Here are the official Daily Big Ten team picks from contributors to this fine site, which will surely help you get rich this weekend: NEBRASKA 9.5 over Iowa Nebraska: Tony, Matt, Bandana Guy GBG Iowa: Goldy MICHIGAN 7.5 over Ohio State Michigan: Goldy Ohio State: Tony, Matt, Bandana Guy GBG Michigan State 7 over NORTHWESTERN Michigan […]