Big Ten Pick'em 2008: Week 5

Conference play begins--except for Purdue, but no one likes them anyway--and I'm damn excited!

(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 at Iowa - The ZN pick: N'Western

Mich St at Indiana - The ZN pick: MSU

No. 8 Wisconsin at Michigan - The ZN pick: Wisky

Minnesota at No. 13 Ohio St. - The ZN pick: OSU

Purdue at Notre Dame - The ZN pick: PU

No. 21 Illinois at No. 12 Penn St - The ZN pick: PSU

Standings after Week 4, compiled by Gopher Nation:

1 Gopher Nation--37
2 Hoosier Report--36
3 Black Shoes Diary--35
4 Michigan SportsCenter--35
5 Off the Tracks ™--35
6 The Only Game That Matters--35
7 Ground Zero East Lansing--34
8 Happy Hour Valley--34
9 Lake the Posts--33
10 BHGP (HS)--33
11 Zombie Nation--33
12 Hawkeye Sports News--33
13 Eleven Warriors--33
14 Paint the Town Orange--33
15 Maize & Blue Nation--33
16 Buckeye Battle Cry--33
17 Maize'n Brew--32
18 Boiled Sports--31
19 Enlightened Spartan--31
20 Varsity Blue--31
21 The Buckeye Blog--30
22 The Nittany Line--27
23 Sparty MSU--22
24 Nittany White Out--14