B1G Football Survivor 2026

We've reached the point in the survivor's pool where I don't mind running this competition. The survivors have been decimated. The losers' pool has shrunk to next to nothing. There's just six contestants total to track moving forward and only two of them are survivors. May the best person win!

Last week, Nebraska's late game choking against Washington saw us lose Hoosiers47 and wesd2006 from the survivor's pool. That result and the USC victory over Ohio State eliminated 6 of the 8 losers' pool contestants. It was a good showing this year from HuskersFirst, AlmaOtter, SeeJayBee, Mlurker19, RubberDuck, and my nephew. Better luck next year.

The Rules

I'm not typing all of that out again. Click the week 0/week 1 article and read all the way through.

Survivor's Pool

Once during weeks 8-10, each contestant must make an extra pick. Each of you made your extra pick in week 9.

Cowards

One pick this week. Reminder that you can only pick against a team a maximum of three times.

To save space, teams picks against will only list the # of times if it is more than once. I'm writing this before work on Thursday, so I'll post the current tiebreaker status late tonight in the comments. As a reminder it's a modified strength of schedule (# of wins by teams beaten by your picks where the wins by FCS teams don't count) followed by first to submit their pick. Boilermaker5 has already submitted their picks for the full season so in the event of a tie they have the second tiebreaker locked down unless they change their picks.

	Teams Picked	B1G Teams Picked Against
Boilermaker5	Ill, MD, Minn, MSU, UNL, NW, Oreg, PSU, Purdue, Rut, UCLA, USC	MD (2X), MSU, UNL, Purdue, Wash
cericjo	Ill, MD, Mich, MSU, UNL, NW, PSU, Purdue, Rut, UCLA, Wash, wisc	MD (2x), MSU, PSU, Purdue (2x)

Week 10 picks made previously: Michigan (Boilermaker5). This pick may be changed up until kickoff. Note to the other contestants, Boilermaker5 has preselected picks for the rest of the season.

Losers' Pool

Reminder: you are picking teams to lose. 1 extra pick must be made in weeks 8-10. Every remaining contestant has done this already, so just 1 pick this week.

	Teams Picked	B1G Teams Picked Against
HoustonBoiler	Ill, Iowa, MD, Minn, MSU, UNL, NW, Oreg, Purdue, Rut, Wash, wisc	Iowa, MD, MSU, Minn, UNL (2x)
LTW_O_MI	Iowa, MD, Minn, MSU, UNL, NW, Purdue, Oreg, Rut, UCLA, USC, wisc	Ill, Iowa, MD, Minn, Purdue, UNL, Wash
Hoosiers47	Ill, Iowa, MD, Minn, MSU, UNL, NW, Oreg, PSU, Purdue, Rut, wisc	Mich, MSU, UNL, Purdue, Rut, Wash (2)
wesd2005	Ill, MD, Minn, Mich, MSU, UNL, NW, Oreg, Purdue, Rut, UCLA, wisc	MD, MSU (2x), UNL, PSU, Wash

Week 9 picks made previously: LTW_O_MI has picked Illinois. This pick may be changed up until kickoff.

Week 10 Games

All times ET

Friday, November 6
Nebraska Cornhuskers at Illinois Fighting Illini, 8 pm

Saturday, November 7
UCLA Bruins at Minnesota Golden Gophers, Noon
Maryland Terrapins at Purdue Boilermakers, 12:30 pm
Oregon Ducks at The Ohio State Buckeyes, 3:30 pm
Penn State Nittany Lions at Washington Huskies, 3:30 pm
Rutgers Scarlet Knights at Wisconsin Badgers, 4:15 pm
Iowa Hawkeyes at Northwestern Wildcats, 7:30 pm
Michigan State Spartans at Michigan Wolverines, 7:30 pm

16 Big Ten teams are in competition.

Good luck everyone. As always, please let me know of any mistakes in the comments.