BIG TEN Betting Preview 2025: Predictions, Sleepers, Win Totals & QBs Ranked

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Mackenzie Brooks, Chip Patterson, Emory Hunt, Tom Casale, and Zack Cimini go through ALL their favorite Big Ten preseason bets and predictions. Who will get to the Big Ten Championship? Who will surprise people? Which coach wins Coach of the Year? Plus, all their favorite win total bets and QB analysis! 🎙ABOUT THE SHOW Get your daily bets here FIRST! The No. 1 sports betting show and podcast—powered by SportsLine + CBS Sports—delivers the day's best bets in a fast-paced, fun environment, first thing in the morning. Starting at 10 a.m. ET every weekday, The Early Edge goes live on YouTube, breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, college football, NBA, MLB, NHL, college basketball, soccer, and more! The Early Edge is here to talk sports betting for everyone—from first-time bettors to sharps, and everyone in between. From point spreads to totals, player props to parlays, and so much more, we're here to win. Together. 🎧 LISTEN • Stream and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3URc49a • Download and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Apple: https://apple.co/4hLfVhP • Other CBS Sports podcasts: https://cbssports.com/podcast 🎥 WATCH • Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SportsLine • Watch CBS Sports HQ: https://cbssports.com/live • Watch CBS Sports Network on your TV or the CBS Sports App with your cable provider 📱FOLLOW • Twitter: https://twitter.com/SportsLine • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportsline • TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@sportsline 📖 READ • More betting news: https://www.sportsline.com/ 🛍️MERCH • Shop our merch: https://www.paramountshop.com/collections/the-early-edge 💵BETTING Head to https://www.sportsline.com to find best bets, picks and props. Any league. Any game. Any time. Both from the sharpest sports bettors in the business as well as the SportsLine Advanced Model, where we simulate each game 10,000 times and provide projected scores, graded bets, plus player prop projections. If you like it, use promo code EARLY to get your first 30 days FREE! #SportsBetting #bigtenfootball #collegefootballbets To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Early Edge on CBS Sports Network. I'm your host today, McKenzie Brooks, and we are talking the big 10.
0:11.4	Whole thing, whole conference, vibes are up in the Big 10. We're going to hit win totals. We're going to talk coaches. We're going to talk quarterbacks. We're going to talk Big 10 championship.
0:38.9	What's going to go on in Indianapolis? All of those things. And I have just the college football crew to get it done with me this full hour. I'm going to bring in the stars of the show. We got Tom Casale. We got Zach Simony. We got Emery Hunt. Gentlemen, prepare. Strop in for an hour of Big Ten glory. We're going to start with some win totals here. Now I want to start with our big three. And then there's like the
0:43.0	big three and then there's like the stepbrother of Michigan will get to him as well. But let's
0:47.1	start with Ohio State here. 10 and a half is the wind total here plus money ish plus 110 to go over
0:52.7	minus 135 for them to hit the under the season.
0:56.1	Emery, I start with you.
0:57.8	How are we feeling about the reigning national champions?
1:01.1	Feeling pretty good, man.
1:02.0	And I like them to go over this win total.
1:04.5	Ohio State doesn't rebuild.
1:06.0	They reload, especially along both sides of the line of scrimmage, which is where football is won and or lost.
1:11.5	But I think because they have set such a standard of how they do things in the trenches and how they've done things in the backfield, I have no issues with Ohio State.
1:20.2	The only question I have about the Buckeyes this year is how quickly can they get their young quarterback acclimated to playing plus level football.
1:27.3	And I do believe he'll have to get started right away against Texas.
1:30.3	But outside of that, they'll be able to slowly work him into the offense and get him to play his best ball as the season rolls on.
1:37.3	So that's why I do like them to go over.
1:39.2	I look at the schedule.
1:40.1	They do have a very good schedule enough to where you can see them getting 11 wins this season.
1:45.5	Tom, are you feeling the same optimism here on the Buckeyes?
1:49.6	Well, this is a really good number for Ohio State, but what Emory said about Texas is why I lean under.
1:56.8	I really like Texas to win that game. I took them plus three, but you look at these two teams.
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