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Podcast: Big Bets On Campus Episode: Big Ten Betting Preview Part 2 | 2026 Segment: Oregon podcast segment **Top Team-Specific Takeaways** - You look who they're playing off a bye Oregon come into town, so the spread is gonna be big, should be close to three touchdowns eighteen nineteen. Transcript excerpt: Only four big ten home games. The only thing I will say so I guess it's both the past, but I both I lean under it's just juice too much to the under because it's been hit. And the only thing I'll point out is what I said at the beginning of the podcast of the first one, bielm is great with extra time ninety three against spread bulls and extra and extra weeks. You look who they're playing off a bye Oregon come into town, so the spread is gonna be big, should be close to three touchdowns eighteen nineteen. That's a spot where you and I are going to have a trash section of Bilama. 00:07:40 Speaker 3: We just might. Yeah, I mean the the it's like some of it. They also lose everything every one of their special teams. I like a couple of things maybe working in their favor this year. If even when out got a new defensive coordinator brings in Bobby Hawk, they're going to run a completely different scheme. Yeah, and they're gonna three three five. They're gonna try to glitz create turnovers, which I think is smart. You want to have a unique scheme with this. I don't know if they necessarily have the defensive lineman types to run this type of defense, but they're they're gonna have to get turnover luck force turnovers to win these coin flip games. And then I am very worried about their defensive line and like their front they're basically their whole front six. But like who in their schedule is gonna run on them? That's the other thing, like besides the teams that they're like, you know, they're gonna lose to Ohio State, Oregon, but like the rest of the schedules you av do guess IU, Purdue, Michigan State, Maryland, Nebraska. 00:08:40 Speaker 1: Maryland, Yeah, Northwestern. 00:08:43 Speaker 3: So like there's not It's not like they're playing a ton of teams that are going to get a run over. So I want to bet the under, but I mean last year, look, there is the team in the top three in returning production. Just this year they're outside the top seventy five, just the rebuilding year for Illinois. Now, maybe Howser is very good and this offensive line somehow comes together and the secondary carries the defense, and they get a bunch of turnovers and they win the coin flips and then they win eight games. Again, that could happen, but it's passed for me. 00:09:11 Speaker 1: All right, let's move on, never yield. 00:09:15 Speaker 3: All right, let's move on to Nebraska win total over six and a half. I'm at six eight, I'm in on the over. I also really like Evans and the nickelback from FIU. I think he has a step up in class, but I think he can play. But I look at the schedule and. 00:12:29 Speaker 1: I've got the whole schedule mapped out, and I just I think this is where you're going to be able to sell me to place this bet right now, right because there's losses come into Indiana, Oregon, O House date, just just mark them off. And then there's three coin flip games and they have to win one of these. They have to win one of these to get over this win total. The first one is hosting Washington. They have a great pass d so it makes me a little nervous. Then there's Illinois. The Huskers have advantages in every single unit against Illinois and then against Iowa. Can they take advantage of the hawkeyes extremely soft, watered down blue collar version defensive line this year? The answer is they're supposed to win two of those three, not just one of those three. So to me, those are the three games. 00:13:15 Speaker 3: I agree, Yeah, I mean I just numbers wise, I show value, and I think because getting rid of AOLA offensive line is gonna be better they are. They're like a huge positive aggression candidate, Like they were ten to thirty on fourth downs they had just they so do to stay healthy on the offensive line. And I know they play each of the top three, they're gonna lose those games, but they also get four of the bottom five. My numbers show value on this. I think their special teams are headed in the right direction also, and are they They're so due. I'm calling it this year. Ready, Nebraska will pull off a major upset. They've lost the two you win thirty four against teams ranked in the Coachwall Clout polls in the playoff are they haven't beat a ranked team since twenty sixteen. And I think you beat Oregon. I think they either get Indiana or Ohio State at home. 00:14:18 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and I'll and you know it's because Indiana's on back to back travel it's our first real game. But Ohio State is right before Michigan. I okay, what if I kind of know like they're over six and a half plus. 00:14:33 Speaker 3: I'll shop around, but I think you can get I'm I'm gonna play. I'm waiting for this to do this pod. But I think probably find like a plus one twenty out there. 00:14:41 Speaker 1: I'm seeing plus one fifteen a DK. So you're shop around for better, but we're I'm hitting this now, So all. 00:14:48 Speaker 3: Right, we're on the back. 00:14:50 Speaker 1: You're killing all right. 00:14:52 Speaker 3: Let's move on to Wisconsin. Wisconsinant the bowlish case for Wisconsin over six and a half slightly just the everybody basically right around six and a half. The Bolish case for the Badgers is the schedule. That's where you have to start with this team, because they won the scheduling lottery and is a team that never wins this. I mean you're going back. Things are different now, but they have. 00:15:22 Speaker 1: Not won the scheduling lottery in years. 00:15:24 Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, they had the hardest schedule the Big ten last year. Now they have the easiest. They know Indiana, no Ohio State, no Oregon. So none of the top three, they only get three of the top my top ten projected teams that get six to the bottom nine, lots of winnable games. They're gonna go two and one in non con so they're gonna start to one. They beat Western Illinois, beat Eastern Michigan, lose the notre name in Lambeau, and then they go to Penn State. So let's call it two and two, and then there's gonna be lots of win w