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Tipico Sportsbook Releases Win Totals for Each Big Ten Team in 2022

Tipico Sportsbook recently released their win totals for each Big Ten team for the upcoming 2022 college football season:

Don’t worry, Big Ten football fans; we will officially have college football back in our lives in just over a month.

As one of the nation’s premier conferences in college football, the Big Ten has sent a team to the College Football Playoff in six of the eight years since its conception.

Only Ohio State, Michigan, and Michigan State have made the College Football Playoff thus far – with the Buckeyes being the last B1G program to win the National Championship.

With fall camps just around the corner, oddsmakers are working tirelessly to project how teams across the country will perform in terms of wins and losses.

Tipico Sportsbook recently released their projected win totals for each Big Ten program, other than Rutgers, ahead of the 2022 college football season.  

Below is a compiled list of projected win totals for every Big Ten Football program according to the experts at TipicoSportsbook:

LOOK: Former Badger F Sam Dekker reacts to Wisconsin landing three-star PF Markus Ilver

The Wisconsin Badgers landed a class of 2021 commitment yesterday from three-star power forward Markus Ilver. Former Badger Sam Dekker

The Wisconsin Badgers landed a semi-surprise class of 2021 commitment yesterday from three-star power forward Markus Ilver, the No. 42-ranked power forward in the class and the No. 6 player from the state of Ohio.

Ilver, an Estonia native, plays his high school basketball at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio and now joins PG Chucky Hepburn and forwards Matthew Mors and Chris Hodges in Wisconsin basketball’s class of 2021.

Related: Everything Wisconsin HC Greg Gard said after yesterday’s blowout loss at Michigan

After his commitment moved the class to No. 32 in the nation and No. 4 in the Big Ten, former Wisconsin star forward Sam Dekker took to Twitter to congratulate Ilver and explain what kind of player Wisconsin is getting.

Site editor Asher Low ran through a brief scouting report of the Badgers’ new member of the class of 2021 yesterday.

“Standing at 6-foot-8, he is known for his ability to stretch the floor with his shooting, but has the ability to attack the closeout with high-level athleticism. His lightning fast release will immediately translate at the next level.”

Here is a look at Ilver’s shooting from this past year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjOG84eOgTk&feature=emb_title

Illinois HC Bret Bielema hires another former Wisconsin player as his new DB coach

Former Wisconsin Badger head coach Bret Bielema is working to fill his new coaching staff at Illinois after taking their head coaching…

Former Wisconsin Badger head coach Bret Bielema is working to fill his new coaching staff at Illinois after taking their head coaching job on December 19.

One of his first moves was making former Badger Terrance Jamison his new defensive line coach. Today he continued the trend of hiring his former players onto his staff, naming Aaron Henry the school’s new defensive backs coach.

Henry played for the Badgers from 2007-2011, starting 27 combined games in 2010 and 2011 during which he recorded 6 interceptions, 17 passes defended, 1 forced fumble, 3 fumble recoveries, 125 total tackles and 3.5 tackles-for-loss.

The former Badger will now reunite with his former coach at Illinois as Bielema and his staff work to get the Illini football program headed in the right direction.

 

Players we’ll miss most from the Big 10 and Pac-12: Ohio State QB Justin Fields

Ranking the 10 football players we will miss watching the most from the Big 10 and Pac-12: No. 1 Ohio State QB Justin Fields.

The Big Ten announced its decision Tuesday to postpone fall sports. Minutes after, the Pac-12 made the decision to postpone its season as well.

With two of the Power Five conferences not playing, the entire college football season is now up in the air. The SEC, ACC and Big 12 still have plans to have their conference-only seasons, but there are a number of players, coaches and teams that college football fans will miss watching dearly.

The No. 1 player we will miss watching most this year from the Big Ten and Pac-12 is Ohio State junior quarterback Justin Fields.

Fields is a Kennesaw, Georgia native and was likely entering the final year of his college career before heading to the NFL draft.  He played in 12 of 14 games as a true freshman for Georgia in 2018.  Backing up Jake Fromm, Fields completed 27 of 39 passes for 328 yards and four touchdowns, also rushing for four touchdowns.

The former Georgia quarterback had an incredible sophomore season at Ohio State, throwing for 3,273 yards, 41 touchdowns and just 3 interceptions. He was a Heisman Trophy finalist and made it to the College Football Playoff, losing by six to the Clemson Tigers in the semifinals.

Besides Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, Fields is the face of college football.  He has been a big advocate of letting the players play, starting a petition on Sunday to reinstate the 2020 Big Ten football season.

Fields is a fierce competitor and will be greatly missed on the field this fall.

Players we’ll miss most from the Big 10 and Pac-12: Penn State LB Micah Parsons

Ranking the 10 football players we will miss watching the most from the Big 10 and Pac-12: No. 3 Penn State LB Micah Parsons.

The Big Ten announced its decision Tuesday to postpone fall sports. Minutes after, the Pac-12 made the decision to postpone its season as well.

With two of the Power Five conferences not playing, the entire college football season is now up in the air. The SEC, ACC and Big 12 still have plans to have their conference-only seasons, but there are a number of players, coaches and teams that college football fans will miss watching dearly.

The No. 3 player we will miss watching most this year from the Big Ten and Pac-12 is Penn State junior linebacker Micah Parsons.

Parsons is the ultimate Swiss Army knife on the defensive side of the ball.  He can disrupt the run game (14 TFL in 2019), cover receivers (five passes defended) as well as rush the passer (five sacks).  This all comes on top of Parsons great tackling ability, tallying a total of 191 tackles in just two seasons at Penn State.

Parsons, the Harrisburg, PA native, stands at 6-foot-3, 244 pounds.  As a sophomore last season Parsons earned consensus All-American honors and the Big Ten’s Linebacker of the Year award. He was also a Butkus Award finalist.

Prior to the postponement of the Big Ten and Pac-12, the projected top-10 2020 NFL Draft selection decided to opt out of the 2020 college football season due to COVID-19 concerns.  In this decision, Parsons also announced he would take this next year to prepare for the 2021 NFL Draft.