This is getting scary, and not just because entire Ann Arbor neighborhoods will be crawling with Jim Harbaughs on Saturday night, going door to door wearing khakis and pained expressions, collecting candy. In East Lansing, the streets also will be teeming with revelers, 11 at a time in their menacing punt-block costumes.
But that’s not what makes this Halloween particularly frightening. We’re churning to the midway point of the Big Ten race with tons of creepy championship possibilities. There are three unbeatens — Ohio State (naturally), Michigan State (technically) and Iowa (jokingly) — and others eager to dress up as contenders.