College football Week 5 betting action sees the Minnesota Golden Gophers taking on the Michigan Wolverines on Saturday September 27 at The Big House in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Cappers Picks provides free college football handicapping tips all season long.
The Big Ten has officially expanded to 14 teams (go figure…) and with the first annual College Football Playoff on the horizon, it’s time to look at who the favorites are in this particular conference in 2014.
The explosive offense of Ohio State will face off against the tenacious defense of the Michigan State Spartans. Somethings got to give in this match up where both teams have their eyes set on Pasadena, California.
The college basketball season is just days away. It’s never too early to start doing your homework so you can beat up on the books from November all the way through March Madness. CappersPicks will be previewing all the major conferences over the next few days. Up next is the Big Ten.
The Big Ten Conference will have a completely different look next year, but it is the Legends and Leaders once again this season. Wisconsin and Nebraska met in the Big Ten Championship game last season. Ohio State finished the 2012 season undefeated, but they were ineligible for postseason play. Penn State is the only team ineligible for postseason action this year.
The Wolverines are the second highest ranked team in the conference despite finishing tied for fourth in the standings. As a result they didn’t get a bye like Wisconsin even though they were tied with them.
2012 NCAA Men’s Basketball Team Previews—Michigan Wolverines
The Michigan Wolverines were a regular season contender last season who couldn’t get it done when tournament time came around. They enter the 2012-13 season once again with buildup surrounding the program, but this time they hope to finish what they start when March finally rolls around.
The North Carolina Wolfpack are coming off an incredible 2012 NCAA tournament run, and they’re bringing all that momentum with them into the 2012-13 season. The team from Raleigh, N.C. is ranked sixth in both the preseason AP and USA Today polls, and they look to be the favorite in the ACC to begin the year.
The UCLA Bruins are coming off a disappointing 2011-12 college basketball season, but a top-quality recruiting class has helped propel them into the top 25 to begin the season.
The Ohio State Buckeyes will be without standout star Jarred Sullinger for the 2012-13 season, but that hasn’t prevented them from coming into the year with a lot of promise and potential. The team has been ranked the fourth-best team in the country by both the AP and USA Today Polls.
The Indiana Hoosiers basketball team has taken another giant leap toward greatness this year, as they’ve been named the No. 1 team in the country in the preseason AP and USA Today Polls. The team hasn’t been ranked first overall since 1979, but fifth-year head coach Tom Crean has been remarkable for the recovery of a program struggling to match up to its renowned tradition.
One of the best water-cooler debates every fall: which college football conference is the strongest?
As much as the NFL is making us sweat, we can rest easy knowing that college football will indeed take place in 2011. It’s time to start getting up to snuff on the new season. The first step: figuring out all the conference changes. Which teams played musical chairs?
March Madness is such an exciting time of year. Everybody is out looking for this year’s Cinderella team and filling in their office pool brackets. Sports Handicapper Craig Trapp is going to give his conference break down on odds to win the NCAA Championship this year. Craig goes out filling his bracket a little different than most.
Not a banner year for the BIG TEN Conference and with less than two weeks left several teams have work left to do. Can’t remember a year when the Big Ten had so few Nationally ranked teams. Also most years this conference has a minimum of seven locks to get in to March Madness but this year there are only three teams that are an absolute lock.
Penn State Nittany Lions vs. Illinois Fighting Illini 7:00 ET B10 Network
Another huge Big 10 sports betting battle takes place this evening when Head Coach Ed DeChellis and his Penn State Nittany Lions (18-8, 11-7-1 ATS) invade Champagne, IL to do battle with Head Coach Bruce Weber’s 16th ranked Fighting Illini (21-5, 13-8-1 ATS).
