Big Ten football picks, predictions: Indiana and USC among teams to make College Football Playoff

The last two national champions have emerged from the Big Ten, with defending champion Ohio State and 2024-25 victors Michigan. Here, we break down the best college football futures bets for the Big Ten for the upcoming 2025-26 college football season. For all of my daily best bets, go to the Inside the Lines blog. You can also get all of the Week 1 college football odds.

Big Ten best futures bets 

Best win totals

Washington O 7.5 (+110, DraftKings)

Washington got a tough draw with Ohio State, Oregon, Michigan, and Illinois, but the Oregon and Ohio State games are at home. If they can manage to just win one of those games, they would still have a solid chance of the over based on the rest of their schedule. We don’t know exactly how to weigh Washington given last year being a rebuild after losing QB Michael Penix and their coach, Kalen DeBoer. However, we do love what Demond Williams showed at the end of last season. We’ll take the plus money here. You can bet on Washington to finish with Over 7.5 wins at FanDuel, where new users can get $150 in bonus bets if their first bet wins:

Northwestern O 3.5 (-180, Hard Rock) 

We took a similar bet on Vandy last year at Over 2.5 wins, and it paid off for us. While Northwestern doesn’t have a Diego Pavia, the Wildcats do have Preston Stone, who did win 10 games for SMU two seasons ago. Northwestern should have three wins between Western Illinois, Purdue, and UL-Monroe, so it’s just a matter of scraping up one more. Between Minnesota and UCLA, we think Northwestern can muster up one more game.

Indiana O 8.5 (+115, DraftKings)

Indiana has Oregon and Penn State on the road, but we would be foolish not to take the Over on a Curt Cignetti-coached football team. Indiana has likely two losses in those games, but there are no…

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Author : Jacob Fetner

Publish date : 2025-08-12 20:04:00

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