{"id":2122,"date":"2008-09-26T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/minnesota-ohio-state-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T02:13:00","slug":"minnesota-ohio-state-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/minnesota-ohio-state-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota-Ohio State Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Minnesota Golden Gophers and the Ohio State Buckeyes will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Ohio Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Buckeyes listed as 19\u00bd-point favorites versus the Golden Gophers, while the game’s total is sitting at 47. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
DeLeon Eskridge notched two touchdowns and Eric Decker caught one TD pass as Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> improved to 4-0 as they rocked Florida Atlantic 37-3 in Week 4. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Gophers easily covered the 6.5-point spread, while the combined score of 40 played well UNDER the posted total of 61.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The first half was probably a little closer than expected but in the end Terrelle Pryor’s four touchdown passes led Ohio<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> to a 28-10 victory over Troy<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in Week 4. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Buckeyes failed to cover the 21-point spread, while the combined score played UNDER the posted total of 47.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 4 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 4-0 SU, 2-1 <\/font>ATS<\/st1:PlaceName>
Ohio<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 3-1 SU, 0-3 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota most recently:
When playing in September are 4-6
When playing on turf are 4-6
After outgaining opponent are 6-4
When playing within the conference are 2-8<\/p>\n

Ohio State most recently:
When playing in September are 9-1
When playing on turf are 8-2
After being outgained are 9-1
When playing within the conference are 9-1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Minnesota is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Minnesota is 4-10 SU in its last 14 games
Minnesota is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Ohio State
Minnesota is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Ohio State
Ohio State is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Minnesota
Ohio State is 22-2 SU in its last 24 games at home
Ohio State is 21-4 SU in its last 25 games
Ohio State is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Minnesota<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, October 4
Ohio<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> State at Wisconsin<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, October 4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Minnesota Golden Gophers and the Ohio State Buckeyes will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Ohio Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Buckeyes listed as 19\u00bd-point favorites versus the Golden Gophers, while the game’s total is sitting at 47. DeLeon Eskridge notched two touchdowns and Eric Decker … Continue reading Minnesota-Ohio State Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}