First, here are the Big Ten tie-ins:
Rose, Capital One, Outback, Insight, Alamo, Champs Sports, and Motor City (LCPP?)
On their first predictions the experts have placed Michigan in either the Champs Sports Bowl (Mark Sclabach's pick) vs. UNC or the PapaJohns.com Bowl vs. Cincinnati (apparently Bruce Feldman doesn't think a 10th SEC team will meet their bowl quota).
Turning their predictions into BigTen order of finish would go as follows:
| place | Schlabach | Feldman |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | OSU | Penn St |
| 2 | Penn St | OSU |
| 3 | Iowa | Illinois |
| 4 | Illinois | MSU |
| 5 | Wisconsin | Wisconsin |
| 6 | MSU | Iowa |
| 7 | Michigan | Northwestern |
| 8 | Minnesota | Michigan/Minnesota* |
* Taking non-BigTen spots due to non-qualifiers
Those do not seem out of the realm of possibility. It is worth noting that in Feldman's prediction the Big Ten only gets one team in a BCS Bowl.
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