Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=16476304'>posted</a> on 10/22/2012:

Nice picks! Hope you win, I was already on 3 of the 4 going to check the ASU game now! Wisconsin filling out to be the team they were expected to be and definitely the class of the Leaders division. Mich St should hang for a quarter or half on D alone but not keep up with the Wisconsin improving balanced O in the second half.

Oklahoma is good enough offensively to open up that ND Def in Norman while ND will look like the mediocre offense they are against good D's, maybe 34-17 there. Was hoping to only be giving 7 here, but 10 will have to do. ND has really benefitted from good stylistic match ups the first 7 games, playing sluggish unbalanced Big Ten type teams, without explosive offenses or speed and physicality on the D....not the case this week. This is definitely ND's first true road test playing Navy in Europe and a very unbalanced sluggish Mich St team in East Lansing. Very good pick! GL!