Big Ten Week 5: Predicting All The Games’ Winners And Scores

This is officially the second week of Big Ten conference play but it’s the first game of conference play for a few of the teams.

Some of the games are promising to provide us with division champion favorites in the early part of the season. Other games are looking like they might go a long ways towards telling us just how bad a season some of these teams are going to have in 2016.

The marquee matchup for the Big Ten conference is, of course, Michigan versus Wisconsin. The Badgers toppled Michigan State a week ago and are in the second of three games against the three best teams in the Eastern division.

Michigan has dominated every team it’s gone up against, though none of the teams it’s squared off with have been as good as Wisconsin. In the battle of the also-rans, Maryland is trying to show it’s 3-0 start is for real.

Purdue, on the other hand, is attempting to show it can actually make even a little noise in the Big Ten. In the most unlikely of “payback games,” the Nebraska Cornhuskers are taking on the Illinois fighting Illini.

Inexplicably, the Huskers lost to Illinois a year ago, 14-13. That game might have been the worst played game of the Mike Riley era, as the Husker offense was stymied by a team that hit it’s high point in that victory. Check out who we think is going to win and who is going to lose later today.