Over/under for Big Ten bowl teams: 5.5???

Minnesota will go. Purdue has a legit shot to go. Iowa won't go, Indiana won't go.

Over

Minnesota or MSU are guaranteed to get 6 wins because they play each other and I'm going to assume Minnesota beats Illinois. So at least 6. 

I feel like Minesota can beat Illinois and get there. I'll take the over.

Well...in our defense, two of the Big Ten's best teams, in general and this year, are inelligible. It doesn't reflect on the conference that they can't go, at least to a degree.

I'll be the optomist and say Iowa goes on the back of wins against Purdue and an inexplicable win against Nebraska: sending Michigan to the Rose Bowl after we beat ohio.

I mean, sending Michigan to the nominal B1G championship game against a Stave-less Wisconsin... so yes, sending us to the Rose Bowl.

Just a down year for the B1G, even the good teams are having bad years.

Just a down year for the B1G, even the good teams are having bad years.

remember 6 wins is not the requirement now,  to fill out all the bowl games they might take some teams with losing records.  There simply are too many bowls to fill and not enough teams with winning records.

Yeah, it will be at least 6, maybe 7 if Indiana or Iowa can do something big.  But this will all turn around next year when OSU is eligible and PSU wins less (thus not blowing it for other Big Ten squads).  I bet we're back to 8 or 9 next year.

I would love to see Sparty lose to NW and have to beat Minny for the privilege of going to Ford Field.  Then again, NW is another team that sees Michigan as a "rivalry game," and might expend so much energy against the Wolverines this weekend, win or lose, that they don't have a good game left for Sparty the following week.

The postseason bans really hurt as PSU and OSU are two of the league's top teams at the moment, so, there's that.

It's not actually as bad as it seems.  Still bad, but not quite that bad.

Also, Indiana could be pretty good next year, so I bet they'll make a bowl for sure.  They might end up with the 3rd or 4th best recruiting class in the Big Ten, which is nuts.

Go Gadget Gophers.

Big Tennnn

Would be abosultely hilarious if the B1G title game featured a 6-6 Indiana team.  As if the B1G wasn't a joke nationally already.

I'm going with the over

It's strange enough when you see it laid out like this that, right now, there are only 4 Big Ten teams that are outright bowl eligible. Interesting year indeed, especially with two teams under sanctions in the conference. 

That being said, I would take the over. I could see MSU winning out and going 7-5, although they might not be huge favorites in their game against Northwestern (using the Sagarin numbers, likely only a point or two). Minnesota stands a shot at going 1-2 in their remaining games and going to a bowl as well. 

 I would like nothing more than to get matched up with teams the B1G can beat for once. We usually get paired up with teams that are vastly better and assigned with the task of beating them in their own state. Maybe we have less teams in this year, but a winning record in bowls. I would take that all day and twice on tuesday.

Regardless of how many teams get in this year, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Big Ten go 0-fer on the bowl season.  Will be a lot of unfavorable matchups. 

Why are people saying No to IU

Has it been so long, Michigan fans, that y'all have forgotten the Rose Bowl is a bowl game....

I think Sparty makes it easily.  They've got 1.5 wins left on their schedule...  I can easily see them finishing up 7-5; which is still brutal with how many close games they've lost this year.

Minnesota beats Illinios without a problem and will also make it.  They probably lose their other two games hard though.

The interesting question becomes the Indiana / Purdue / Iowa mess...  Of them Purdue has the best shot of winning at least 2 games, but they need 3.  IU has very little chance of beating Wisconsin or PSU, but I would pick them over Purdue at this point (LOL! BIG TENNNNNN).  Iowa...  might beat Purdue?  I think Michigan finally gets past them.  I wouldn't be surpirsed if we fashion an ugly 9-3 victory or something, but I just can't see their offense being the slightest bit functional in the Big House.  And Nebraska should  be able to pin 30+ points on them...  Iowa's offense can't match that total if they were playing against wet paper.

Honestly I see 6 teams making it pretty much "for sure".  A 7th would require one of those obnoxious 'miracle upset' wins or Purdue to go perfect against their roommates in the Big 10 basement.  Neither seems particularly likely, or unlikely.  0_o

We'll probably end with 6, and maybe 7.

5.5?? The .5 team must be MSU.