B1G: Ten Bowl games, favored in NONE of them

Submitted by NittanyFan on

The Wynn Las Vegas is one of the first sportsbooks to put odds up for every Bowl game ----- the B1G better win some of these, or you know what the narrative is going to be.  0-for-10 is crazy.

 

Louisiana Tech -4 over Illinois

North Carolina -3 over Rutgers

Boston College -2.5 over Penn State

USC -4.5 over Nebraska

Stanford -13 (!!!) over Maryland

Auburn -5.5 over Wisconsin

Missouri -6 over Minnesota

Baylor -3 over Michigan State

Alabama -10 over Ohio State

Tennessee -3 over Iowa

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MonkeyMan

December 8th, 2014 at 6:10 PM ^

Tru enough- look at that list 10 TEAMS from the Big 10 are on it and we ARE NOT one of them- freakin Illinois got a bowl? Has UM ever been this far off the pack before?

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Tater

December 8th, 2014 at 8:34 PM ^

Imagine that Michigan and PSU are back to being top 10 or 15 teams.  Then reshuffle the deck and the Big Ten would be favored in a majority of those matchups.  I can see that happening within a couple of years.  

This could be seen as a "homer" POV, but on the national stage, what's bad for Michigan and PSU is bad for the Big Ten.  Assuming OSU, Sparty, Wiscy and Nebraska remain top 25 caliber teams and Minnesota sustains their sudden rise, that would give the Big Ten seven top notch teams instead of five.  Iowa is never all that far away, either.  A Big Ten with eight very good programs would have a lot better bowl matchups than a Big Ten with six very good programs.  

Michigan will be "back" next year.  That will help. I don't know if PSU's scholly restrictions will become less relevant next year or 2016, but PSU will be "back," too.

Then, the Big Ten will be favored more often than not.

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Blue Since B.C.

December 8th, 2014 at 3:38 PM ^

I think MSU has a pretty good shot against Baylor.  Maybe another random win like Iowa over Tennessee could happen.  Every other game has the potential to be ugly.  Wisco might give up another 59 to Auburn.  USC will replicate their performance against ND, against Nebraska.

I'd take Maryland with the points though.

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LSAClassOf2000

December 8th, 2014 at 3:48 PM ^

It pains me to say almost, but the more I think about the MSU's use of quarters coverage, the more I have this suspicion that it mutes elements of Baylor's passing game, and it will probably prevent them from putting up BIg XII-ish rushing totals too. That game could definitely be closer than some people might think for that reason alone. 

My image of Iowa-Tennessee is that it looks and smells very much like a Big Ten game when it comes to total offense for some reason. Also, a fair number of punts will be made by Iowa despite being within earshot of FG range, but what else is new, eh?

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UMAmaizinBlue

December 8th, 2014 at 3:39 PM ^

Bama is a 10 point favorite over an OSU team that somehow snuck its way into the CoFoPo? Yea, go ahead and convince me that TCU would be the same or worse underdogs than OSU. There's no logical reason why OSU deserves to be in the final group other than the playoff committee didn't want a controversy over why TCU was picked over Baylor.

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UofM626

December 8th, 2014 at 3:58 PM ^

To the Big 10 get bowl berths and we set at home with the trash! That's depressing looking at that list of teams of 10 games and Big Blue is a distant memory.

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