Big Ten Bloggers Pick'em & Thursday Night Football Open Thread: Week 12

by Galen on Nov 17, 2011 7:30 PM EST in Open Threads

Crank that Hokie boy!! (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

The end of the season is quickly approaching and there are precious few weeks left to make a move in the Big Ten Bloggers Pick'em. Your prognosticators didn't have such a great week (except me, HA!) but BSD did go 4-2. This week presents a few challenges so anything's possible. As always though, we have an open thread for the Thursday night game. Lots of sports tonight Pittsburgh and Philly take the ice tonight, the NFL is on and we have North Carolina and #8 Virginia Tech tonight at 8:00 PM on ESPN. Stats and pics after the jump...

Last Week's Results

Last Week	Wins	Losses
BSD	4	2
Jeff	4	2
Galen	5	1
Kyle	3	3
Tim	4	2
Mike	3	3
Peter	4	2

Everyone missed Ohio State's flub against Purdue and some of us were not too high on Penn State given all of the... unpleasantness of last week. I picked Nebraska and was so sure Penn State was going to come into the game unfocused that I bet against them. Thanks to the 3-point spread, I lost. Lesson learned. Move along...

Standings

Total	Wins	Losses	Win %	Total Games
BSD	62	22	74	84
Galen	55	16	77	71
Jeff	64	20	76	84
Tim	53	18	75	71
Kyle	62	22	74	84
Mike	61	23	73	84
Peter	60	24	71	84
Ben	53	25	68	78

I am the champions... my friends!!! Hay, I have to gloat while I'm ahead.

This week's games

Day	Date	Opponent	Location	TV	Time
Sat	11/19/2011	Indiana @ Michigan State	East Lansing, Mich.	BTN	12:00 PM ET
Sat	11/19/2011	Iowa @ Purdue	West Lafayette, Ind.	BTN	12:00 PM ET
Sat	11/19/2011	Minnesota @ Northwestern	Evanston, Ill.	BTN	12:00 PM ET
Sat	11/19/2011	Nebraska @ Michigan	Ann Arbor, Mich.	ESPN	12:00 PM ET
Sat	11/19/2011	Wisconsin @ Illinois	Champaign, Ill.	ESPN2	12:00 PM ET
Sat	11/19/2011	Penn State @ Ohio State	Columbus, Ohio	ABC (ESPN)	3:30 PM ET

Sparty is on a collision coarse with the inaugural B1G championship and Illinois is about to get bludgeoned to death. Nebraska - Michigan is a toss up and is Minnesota still playing for anything? I lost money on Penn State last week, I won't make the same mistake this week. They impressed me with the ability to stay focused even in horrible conditions.

The Picks

Peter	Jeff	Mike	Kyle	Ben	Tim	Galen	BSD
Michigan State	Michigan State	Michigan State	Michigan State	Michigan State	Michigan State	Michigan State	Michigan State
Iowa	Purdue	IOWA	Iowa	Purdue	Iowa	Iowa	Iowa
Northwestern	Northwestern	Northwestern	Minnesota	Northwestern	Northwestern	Northwestern	Northwestern
Michigan	Michigan	Michigan	Nebraska	Michigan	Michigan	Nebraska	Michigan
Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin
Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Penn State	Ohio State	Penn State	Penn State	Ohio State

The team is split on the OSU-PSU game and amazingly bully on Michigan. Everyone likes Wisconsin and Northwestern (except Kyle) so not much will change in the standings.

Check back in for the open thread tonight at 8:00.

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