The Big Ten Betting Extravaganza: Week 12

Iowa will own the Buckeroos on Saturday. After two weeks of less than acceptable play on the road, the Iowa seniors are looking at this game as bigger than any game they will play in their entire Iowa careers. The seniors will be grunting fire and farting thunder.

to try and match Wisco in the scoring dept.

MSU -20.5 easily

Iowa wins straight up! Lock it in and ship the money-line.
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for no other reason than to see Wisconsin fail.

This Michigan Over business is like housing prices: Small blips but no way in hell it’s going to crash completely.

Take a bow, chumps!

I have this image in my head

because I posted t foreget these choices, take Utah and give points. I could not fathom Notre Dame showing a pulse for the first time in 5 years, with a brand new QB. My ND-fan buddies were stunned themselves. I was all over that but thankfully, not in Vegas.

Anyway, back to the Michigan over. Since Bielema has decided it’s cool to throw bombs when up 50, this should be something to see. But did I vote that? No. Becuase my only thinking in approaching tomorrow’s game is exactly as written. I don’t know how, don’t care how, but somehow, F it, Iowa wins.

because nothing seemed… safe. In retrospect it’s easy. I suspected UM & Ill would be tired after their track meet but it doesn’t count because I didn’t say anything.

This week though.
Penn St, MSU, Illinois, the Michigan over.
I voted Penn St, which is probably the least safe of the bunch because, fuck it. I just like JoePa. Go get ’em old man!

Not cuz I think it will happen necessarily, but because that one had naughty words in it.
I also picked Indiana to win last week, so I pretty much am a stone cold lock to be right.

Because while Wisky took a walk on the wild side of prolific offensive production last week, no team in America is more shackled to that style of play than Michigan. This game will resemble those ridiculous run and gun Loyola Marymount basketball games with Bo Kimble and Hank Gathers. They would play UCLA and the Bruins were all about slowing the pace down and controlling the boards—that is, right until tip off—then their inner undisciplined pick-up ball mindset kicked in and voila…a 134-110 beat down at the hands of a school that almost encouraged you to score against them.

Wisky (and more importantly, B-enema) just might believe they can produce another 11 touchdown game….Michigan has them right where they want them.

I have never been surer of anything in my life than Michigan covering this spread.

Iowa wrestlers win first match with Iowa Central 45-0. The team did not give up a takedown for a good start to the season. They are currently wrestling against Coe college. Andy hamilton is covering the meet in a live blog here

Our former captain has a checklist in his bathroom of the coaches he is trying to displace.
Brewster- get to demonstrate lack of control to on field post game to show Admin is is losing it… Going for 2 might do it… CHECK
Lynch- curb stomp until he can’t yell anymore… CHECK
Rodriguez – get to bench DR and TF because they can’t outscore us and our power run game….

We all know BB well enough to know he is going to enjoy making RR absolutely miserable tomorrow…. His level of douche-bagged-ness is top shelf and putting the screws to someone on the hot seat must make his stinkhole tingle….

I’ll Take the OVER…

I totally forgot that Persa was damaged…

Wisky -4.5… J.J. Watt comes up big and makes the RichRods cry.

PSU-Indiana: I don’t know how Indiana is only getting 10.5 for this game. This seems like an unholy lock for PSU to cover. I’d also go under; feels like a 38-7 type game.

MSU-Purdue: I think MSU sends out the seniors with a big win. Kerrigan can’t cover this by himself. Also thinking under here; if Purdue can’t score on Michigan they can’t put up more than 10 on us, and MSU is pretty consistently in the 30s but doesn’t hit 40 often.

Wisconsin-Michigan: Holy mother of God is that a high over-under. It’s still the best bet on the board; the weather won’t be a factor this time, so take the over to the bank. As for the spread … I wouldn’t touch it with a 39 1/2 foot pole. Wisconsin never plays well in the Mitten State (got smoked by a bad, bad 2004 MSU team and lost to the Worst Michigan Team Ever in ’08), but their offense should be able to name their score against the Michigan sieve.

OSU-Iowa: Iowa and the under. Part ARM PUNTS AHOY, part “you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry”, and part hope that you can do your part in giving me a New Year’s holiday in Pasadena. Not a whole lot of confidence on the under, though.

Illinois-NW: Basic rule of Northwestern betting: if the spread is more than 7, take the points. Always. You’ll lose occasionally (the NW-PSU game, for instance), but you’ll win the vast majority of the time. Leaning over as well.

Is worse than anything I could possibly imagine. I’m so sorry.