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Spanning The Empire: Your Saturday Conference Open Thread

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 The Fightin' Fickell's Pull Into The Port of Chambana Later Today

Good Morning everyone.  Lots of stuff to get to this morning, with a marquee game right out of the box, a farewell tour continuation, and the Yearly Flummoxation.

The marquee game is MIchigan travelling to Michigan State.  We've all had this 'yeah, but' feeling towards Michigan all year, but a win today over a legitimately good team and it's time to stop with that.  Call me nuts, but I think Purdue has an outside shot of pulling the upset against Penn State.  I have no logic to back up this statement, but I think Penn State is going to be in for a tough game.  Wisconsin will maul Indiana, the 'Waiting For Urban' tour continues in Champaign, where I expect Illinois to beat up Ohio State, and then the nightcap:  jNW visits Iowa City.  Iowa should win, but they should always beat Northwestern at home...yet they can't.  A win by Northwestern tonight would just be more funny to me than anything else at this point. 

Your Saturday game grid:

Time (CST)

Visitor

Home

TV

Ted Says

11:00

Michigan

Michigan State

ESPN

MIchigan State

11:00

Purdue

Penn State

BTN

Penn State

11:00

Indiana

Wisconsin

ESPN 2

Death by Ugga Bugga for Indiana

2:30

Ohio State

Illinois

ABC or ESPN

Illinois

6:00

Northwestern

Iowa

BTN

Should be Iowa, probably will be NW



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Jonathan and Hilary have drawn shish kebab tongs over it, and it's getting ugly.

Enjoy the games everyone!