Big Ten and big game college football expert picks, odds for conference Week 5

It’s time for us to put our predictions against the odds and straight up on the line again for Big Ten and bigger college football games.

OK. It’s time for Week 5 in the Big Ten. This time it looks like Ohio State’s game is on, and it’s a bigger than expected matchup with a top ten Indiana Hoosier program that’s already had one whale of a season.

As we do each week during Big Ten season, we’re bringing you our expert picks and predictions on all the league games against the spread, and straight-up. Also, as an added bonus you didn’t know you even craved, we’ll throw in six of the top games across the slate of all the college football games for the week. We’re the judge and jury on that one. It’s called our Pick Six and becoming increasingly hard to find meaningful games when a handful are canceled every week.

As a reminder, if there’s an asterisk next to the pick, that means the team will win, but not cover. We get our odds from BetMGM. In the event of a tie, George Washington settles it via the old coin-flip.

INSTRUCTIONS: Make your pick against the spread. For example …
– If you think Ohio State will win -3.5 over Michigan: OSU
– If you think Ohio State will win outright: OSU
– If you think Ohio State will win, but NOT cover: OSU*

Here we go for Week 5 in the heartland with the standings being updated each week after all the games.

RESULTS SO FAR

@PhilHarrisonBW: 35-13 SU, 22-26 ATS
@MarkRussell1975: 32-16 SU, 23-25 ATS
@DanRuppert: 35-13 SU, 27-21 ATS
CONSENSUS PICK: 35-13 SU, 26-22 ATS

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