B1G predictions: Week 5

Iowa 21, Minnesota 13: Max Shortell will struggle in his first game on the road in place of the injured MarQueis Gray, throwing 2 interceptions and the Gopher offense will stall twice inside the Iowa 10 yard line settling for Jordan Wettstein field goals.  Mark Weisman will rush for 150 yards and 2 touchdowns and Iowa will play their best game of the year.

Nebraska 28, Wisconsin 27: The Badgers will give the Huskers everything they can handle.   Melvin Gordon will continue his emergence for Wisconsin exposing a mediocre Nebraska defense by rushing for 200 yards and a pair of scores.  However Rex Burkhead, Taylor Martinez and the rest of the Cornhuskers offense will be a little too much for the Badger defense too handle.  The crowd at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln will be the difference as they will force Joel Stave and the Badger offense into two false start penalties on the final drive and the Badger offense will stall.

Northwestern 38, Indiana 27: The Wildcats will be able to score whenever they want in this one. The Hoosiers will do a little scoring of their own, but it won't be nearly enough.

Ohio State 21, Michigan State 17: I don't trust Andrew Maxwell to win a big game yet.  The Spartans can't continue to rely on Le'Veon Bell for all of their offense. Urban Meyer can coach and he will come up with a game plan that forces Maxwell to throw. 

Penn State 35, Illinois 17: Bill O'Brien will call for a touchdown pass from the Illinois 5 yard line with 22 seconds to play putting an exclamation point on how he feels about that d-bag Tim Beckman.

Purdue 24, Marshall 21: This game doesn't do much for me you guys.  Purdue as a team just bores the hell out of me.  Hopefully Marshall will make this interesting at least.

Last Week: 7-3 Overall: 35-11 (.760)