Thursday, October 1, 2026

Big Ten Preview Week 5

There are a couple interesting conference games this weekend.  Including Ohio State traveling to Iowa.  Don't sleep on Friday's night game with Penn State at Northwestern.  Only 7 Big Ten games this weekend. 


Friday:
Penn State (-3) @ Northwestern:  I haven't watched either team this year and PSU got upset by Wisconsin last week.  I like Northwestern in this game but Penn State is probably the better team.  Northwestern 27 PSU 20

Saturday:
Ohio State (-14.5) @ Iowa: It's hard playing at Iowa and the Hawkeyes will keep this one close for maybe a half.  Then OSU will find out they can pass on this defense and score a ton of points, if they just score points in the red zone. No upset this weekend for Iowa.   OSU 28 Iowa 13

Maryland @ Nebraska (-14.5):  Nebraska continues to dominate the lower teams in the Big Ten, they could be schedule good this year.  Nebraska 31 Maryland 9

Purdue @ Illinois (-10):  Illinois looked decent at times against OSU last weekend, Purdue does not play defense.  Illinois 38 Purdue 24

Washington @ USC (-9.5):  Trojans has a tough weekend and so did the Huskies.  USC should be able to rebound from the Oregon beat down.  USC 41 Wash 31

IU (-23.5) @ Rutgers:  This is a night game?  Why?  IU 44 Rutgers 21 


Michigan and Minnesota injury report:


Marsh, Nichols, Sprague, and JHD on Questionable is not great, but last week most guys on "questionable" played.  So we got that going for us.  Yes, Michigan needs all 4 guys on Saturday. 


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