Wisconsin and its 'Falcon Crest'-watching coach were fresh off back-to-back blowouts. Today they went up against Illinois and their Amazing One-Man Offense. Blowout number three? No. Juice Williams throws three picks, Wisconsin overcomes the mental mistakes which have destroyed them in the past two weeks, and the Badgers get the win, 27-17. Is Wisconsin surging back, or is this the beginning of Zookification in Champaign?Bizarro Purdue was on display today as well. They're one team at Ross-Ade and another team anywhere else. Purdue has been the only team to slow down Penn State this season, and they held Minnesota's high-tension offense to 17 points. The Boilermakers couldn't convert on several opportunities, however, and lost by 11. Is reality catching up with Minnesota, or has Purdue been more unlucky than bad?
Indiana, after weeks of looking like a Division II squad mistakenly given someone else's uniforms, held on to a wafer-thin lead to beat Northwestern, which dropped 48 points on Bizarro Purdue last weekend. Forget it, there's no speculative question possible. This is just weird.
If this keeps up, Michigan is going to have 600 yards of offense in a 30-point blowout of Michigan State, and the Penn State-Ohio State game will be a 7-3 slugfest/snorefest. No matter how the Game of the Century of the Week turns out, though, it's already been a great day of football in the Big Ten.
