There are only two teams on bye this week in Big Ten play. We are Rutgers free for a week and Iowa also has the week off. You also have the de facto Big Ten West title game with Nebraska-Wisconsin. If the Badgers win the Cornhuskers aren’t done, but it would be a third conference loss for Wisconsin if it comes. As usual, we begin with the noon games.
Minnesota (5-2, 2-2) at Illinois (2-5, 1-3) Noon, BTN
Neither team has its starting quarterback and Illinois is going with the progeny of Jeff George (the original Purdue Benedict Arnold).