This week's college football picks: The other big game

"When you go on the road, it's an opportunity for you to define yourself, what you are when no one else is around." -- Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema, on Saturday's showdown with Fresno State.

All week, the sporting public has been very interested in that "Collision in the Coliseum" Ohio State-Southern California matchup on Saturday, but the more compelling game may be taking place more than 200 miles north in Fresno, where the 10th-ranked Badgers visit 21st-ranked Fresno State.

Getting a Big Ten to come to the Bulldog Stadium is a big deal for Fresno State, which could use a win Saturday as a springboard to a BCS bowl game. You have to give Fresno State all kinds of credit for its we'll-play-anybody-anywhere philosophy, and it appears the Badgers are adopting that same sort of mantra walking into this potential pitfall. Still, it's hard to pick against the Badgers.

Check out this week's picks ...

No. 1 USC over No. 5 Ohio State
No. 2 Wisconsin-Whitewater over Wisconsin-Eau Claire
No. 10 Wisconsin over No. 21 Fresno State
No. 18 Brigham Young over UCLA
Michigan over Notre Dame

Upset pick of the week: Purdue over No. 16 Oregon

And our totally random college football pick of the week: North Dakota over Wisconsin-La Crosse in the annual Potato Bowl, which includes a French Fry Feed on Friday night.

Last week's record: 5-2

Overall record: 12-3