Big Ten Pick'em 2008: Week 2

Here's my entry for this week's Big Ten Bloggers pick'em. I did alright last week, but my upset picks for Michigan State and Michigan fell through. This week, I'm going along with the crowd in a bunch of "easy" games. Hopefully I can get back into the mix. Following my pics are the current standings from the pick'em participants. Enjoy.

(FYI: Each team name links to its respective official football site. I also used the USA Today Coaches Poll for the team rankings. Any time you see a ranking before a team name at ZN, it's the Coaches Poll rank.)

Northwestern @ Duke- The ZN pick: N'Western

Indiana vs. Murray St. - The ZN pick: Indy

No. 3 Ohio St. vs. Ohio U. - The ZN pick: Ohio St

No. 19 Penn St vs. Oregon St. -  The ZN pick: Penn St

No. 11 Wisconsin vs. Marshall - The ZN pick: Wisky

Iowa vs. FIU - The ZN pick: Iowa

Michigan vs. Miami(OH) - The ZN pick: Mich 

Minnesota @ Bowling Green- The ZN pick: BG

Mich St vs. Eastern Michigan - The ZN pick: Mich St

Purdue vs. Northern Colorado - The ZN pick: PU

No. 24 Illinois vs. Eastern Illinois - The ZN pick: Illinois

BTB Pick'em Standings After Week 1: (compiled by Gopher Nation)
1 Off the Tracks ™ 10
2 The Only Game That Matters 9
3 BHGP (HS) 9
4 Hawkeye Sports News 9
5 Maize'n Brew 9
6 Michigan SportsCenter 9
7 Gopher Nation 9
8 Lake the Posts 9
9 Eleven Warriors 9
10 The Nittany Line 9
11 Happy Hour Valley 9
12 Black Shoes Diary 9
13 Boiled Sports 9
14 Maize & Blue Nation 8
15 Varsity Blue 8
16 Enlightened Spartan 8
17 Ground Zero East Lansing 8
18 Buckeye Battle Cry 8
19 Nittany White Out 8
20 Zombie Nation 8
21 Hoosier Report 8
22 Paint the Town Orange 8
23 The Buckeye Blog 7
24 Badger Tracker 6
25 Meet Us At Kinnick 0
26 Sparty MSU 0

I'll have the PSU/Oregon St. preview up sometime tomorrow. Hopefully the "5204" thing will be done with by then.