
Every Thursday, Pickin' on the Big Ten breaks down action across the conference.
ABOVE: Rich Rodriguez manually adjusts his offense's expectations.
You always think you have it figured out, then you find out you were more than a little bit wrong. I thought Mark Dantonio had rewritten the usual rules of Sparty Logic (figure out what MSU should do against a particular team, then predict them to do the complete opposite, and bask in the glow of being right). I totally forgot that Sparty Logic was going to rub up against Tedford Logic (chew up the physical defenses, get totally flustered by finesse), creating a swirling white-hot vortex of derrrr centered right on my forehead.
And that other Michigan team? I don't even want to talk about them. Apparently they can lose two home openers in a row.
All this is a long-winded way of saying I went 8-2 in the first week, which seems pretty good, except the first week's games are usually easier to pick than low-hanging fruit. I can't promise to do better this week. I can and do promise to try. It helps that there's only two real games this week.



I've posted on this before, when Mel Kiper
One day after David Barrent, the top prospect in all of Iowa, 


