Big Ten College Football Win Totals: Where are the Best Bets?

Pete Fiutak

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Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel

The 2024 college football season is still a few months away, but that's a positive if you care about win totals, potential values, and taking your chances now.

Think of it this way. If you're an under player and something happens to the star quarterback in fall camp, you're not getting a better win total line than you'll find right now. 

So out of the 18 teams - welcome to the fun, Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington - which win totals from BetMGM seem a bit off?

It's about schedules, schedules, and SCHEDULES. That, and how good the teams are.

For each Big Ten team here's the preseason Win Total, along with what it should actually be set at, an early July call, and then whether or not to go over or under for each team.

Ohio State Win Total

Current Win Total: 10.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 10.5
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 12-0
Over or Under? OVER

Oregon Win Total

Current Win Total: 10.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 10
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 10-2
Over or Under? UNDER

Penn State Win Total

Current Win Total: 9.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 9.5
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 10-2
Over or Under? OVER

Michigan Win Total

Current Win Total: 9.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 9
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 9-3
Over or Under? UNDER

USC Win Total

Current Win Total: 7.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 8.5
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 8-4
Over or Under? OVER

Iowa Win Total

Current Win Total: 7.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 8.5
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 8-4
Over or Under? OVER

Washington Win Total

Current Win Total: 7.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 8
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 8-4
Over or Under (July version)? OVER

Nebraska Win Total

Current Win Total: 7.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 7
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 7-5
Over or Under? UNDER

Wisconsin Win Total

Current Win Total: 6.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 6.5
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 7-5
Over or Under? OVER

Maryland Win Total

Current Win Total: 7.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 7.5
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 7-5
Over or Under? UNDER

Indiana Win Total 5.5

Current Win Total: 5.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 5.5
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 5-7
Over or Under? UNDER

UCLA Win Total

Current Win Total: 5.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 6
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 6-6
Over or Under? OVER

Michigan State Win Total

Current Win Total: 5.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 6.5
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 7-5
Over or Under? OVER

Illinois Win Total

Current Win Total: 5.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 6.5
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 6-6
Over or Under? OVER

Northwestern Win Total

Current Win Total: 5.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 6
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 5-7
Over or Under? UNDER

Minnesota Win Total

Current Win Total: 4.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 6.5
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 6-6
Over or Under? OVER

Purdue Win Total

Current Win Total: 4.5
What the Win Total Should Be: 5
Make a (July) Call ... Final Record: 4-8
Over or Under? UNDER

Pete Fiutak

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Publisher of CollegeFootballNews.com starting in 1998, Pete Fiutak was a college football part of the very start of Rivals, Scout, the FOXSports.com relaunch, Stadium/Campus Insiders, and the USA TODAY College Wire sites. 

He was the first ever on-air guest on CBS Sports Network, was a talking head for five years at Stadium, and did in-stadium TV work at the first five College Football Playoff National Championships. But all anyone really seems to care about is that he did all the player ratings for various college football and basketball video games for four years in the 2000s.