Props to Minnesota and Indiana last week for barely beating mid-major teams and thwarting our perfect week. But anyway, here’s our predictions for this week’s Illini Media Company sponsored Big Ten Pick’em Contest. If you need refreshing on what this contest is about, here it is: In Friday’s edition of the Daily Illini, you’ll find an ad in the Sports section with the following weeks Big Ten games. You’ll have until the next Thursday to hand in those picks for the weekends Big Ten games to the Illini Media Building located between Fifth and Sixth Streets on Green Street. Then on Friday, David Just and Steve Contorno, the Daily Illini Sports Editors, will make thier picks as well and post them on the DI Sports Wrap-up blog. If your picks beat ours, then you’ll be put in a drawing to win free tickets to the next home game. Got it? Ok here we go.

Remember, the following picks are for this weekend’s games, but you needed to get the entry form from last Friday’s DI and submit it by yesterday to be included in this week’s contests. If you want to be in next week’s contest, go find a Daily Illini on Campus somewhere and search for the entry form with the games listed for the weekend of September 22.

Here’s the Sports Desk’s picks, Big Ten teams in caps, the winners in bold.

Season record: 9-2

ILLINOIS at Syracuse
Akron at INDIANA
IOWA at Iowa State
Notre Dame at MICHIGAN
Pittsburgh at MICHIGAN STATE
MINNESOTA at Florida Atlantic
Duke at NORTHWESTERN
OHIO STATE at Washington
Buffalo at PENN STATE
Central Michigan at PURDUE
The Citadel at WISCONSIN

Good luck!

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