The Big Ten made a great first impression Thursday night, with a blowout win by Minnesota and a stunning upset over Washington State by Rutgers. That Rutgers win is huge from a morale standpoint of the conference, which has struggled in recent years against other Power Five teams.
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Although Rutgers is a new team, they have been predicted to finish near the bottom of the Big Ten this year, so a win over a middle of the road Pac 12 team is a great start.
The rest of the weekend has quite a few intriguing games. There’s a great Big Ten-SEC Matchup looming in Wisconsin-LSU, another Pac 12-Big Ten showdown between California and Northwestern, Ohio State has to deal with life without Braxton Miller in a road opener against Navy, and we have a great game in Ireland set for Saturday morning between Penn State and UCF. Here are the predictions for all the Big Ten games for the weekend.