{"id":2197,"date":"2008-10-03T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/illinois-michigan-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T02:09:00","slug":"illinois-michigan-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/illinois-michigan-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois-Michigan Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Illinois Fighting Illini and the Michigan Wolverines will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Michigan Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Wolverines listed as 3-point favorites versus the Fighting Illini, while the game’s total is sitting at 50. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Illinois lost 38-24 to Penn State in Week 5, as 15-point underdogs. The combined 62 points made it OVER the posted total of 54.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Arrelious Benn caught four passes for 110 yards and two touchdowns in a losing effort. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Michigan rallied from a 19-point halftime deficit to upset Wisconsin 27-25 in Week 5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Wolverines covered the 5-point spread, while the combined score played OVER the day’s posted total of 42. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Illinois: 2-2 SU, 1-2 ATS
Michigan: 2-2 SU, 1-3 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Illinois most recently:
When playing in October are 2-8
When playing on turf are 8-2
After being outgained are 5-5
When playing within the conference are 6-4<\/p>\n

Michigan most recently:
When playing in October are 10-0
When playing on turf are 7-3
After being outgained are 6-4
When playing within the conference are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Illinois is 11-5 SU in its last 16 games
Illinois is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Michigan
Illinois is 5-20 SU in its last 25 games on the road
Illinois is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing Michigan
Michigan is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Illinois
Michigan is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Illinois
Michigan is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games at home
Michigan is 11-4 SU in its last 15 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Illinois home to Minnesota, Saturday, October 11
Michigan home to Toledo, Saturday, October 11<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Illinois Fighting Illini and the Michigan Wolverines will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Michigan Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Wolverines listed as 3-point favorites versus the Fighting Illini, while the game’s total is sitting at 50. Illinois lost 38-24 to Penn State in Week 5, as 15-point … Continue reading Illinois-Michigan 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-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","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=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}