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Show Michigan Is Favorite Over Bucks NEW YORK. Nov. 18 () It's Michigan by 6M points and Minnesota Min-nesota by 13H In th big games Saturday that settle a couple of important football Issues In th midland. Th odds-makers thus have prescribed pre-scribed an economy-sized headache for th men who muat pick the Western conference representative - tn trie Rose bowL Michigan la host to Ohio Slste at Ann Arbor, while Minnesota plays Wisconsin at Minneapolis. Third Straight Should the Wolverine and Gopher prevail a predicted, the Big Ten championship would be decided In Michigan's favor for the : ' third straight year but th bowl; picture would be complete confusion. confu-sion. Ohio State, which now share the league toad with Michigan, would b tied with Minnesota with a 4-2 mark and Illinois could vn horn In with a claim by trimming Northwestern. North-western. Th Buckeyes could simplify mstters by upsetting Michigan and taking th whol works the Big Ten title and the bowl, too. Mlchi- 5 an Is Ineligible to return to P assent ass-ent because it was a vial tor there two year ago. Another contingency A Wisconsin Wiscon-sin victory and an Ohio Stat defeat de-feat would put th Badger In there. AU chaos. Th decision will be mad by a vote of conference faculty representatives rep-resentatives if th Issue Is not cleanly settled Saturday. Th announcement an-nouncement will be mad Monday, Commissioner Kenneth L, (Tug) Wilson said. The slide rule specialists who dope these things out In advance forecast no such complications at the other end of the Rose bowl axis th Pacific Coast. revered Over Indiana Out there the unbeaten, untied California Bears nil a 8H-polnt favorite over Stanford, although the fray s at the Indians stomping stomp-ing grounds In Palo Alto. California, Michigan, Ohio Stat nd Minnesota are paid-up members mem-bers of th sport's top ten. picked In th weekly Associated Press poll. They are third, fifth, seventh and eighth, respectively. Virginia, rated ninth. I th only on of this select society expected to take it on the chin this week. Th Cavalier are UH-poInt underdog un-derdog In their gam with Tulan. ' Top-rated Notre Dame is favored for another romp a 33-polnt pick over Iowa. Second-ranked Oklahoma Okla-homa Is 30 over Santa Clara. Army, No. 4, Is Idle, pointing to Navy a week later. - - |