{"id":2210,"date":"2008-10-03T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/indiana-minnesota-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T03:17:00","slug":"indiana-minnesota-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/indiana-minnesota-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana-Minnesota Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Indiana Hoosiers and the Minnesota Golden Gophers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at The Metrodome. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Golden Gophers listed as 7-point favorites versus the Hoosiers, while the game’s total is sitting at 60. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Marcus Thigpen scored on TD runs of 6 and 78 yards and caught a 79-yard TD pass as Indiana lost 42-29 to Michigan State last time out. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Hoosiers did not cover the 8-point spread, while the combined score played OVER the day’s posted total of 52. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Adam Weber completed 23-of-36 pass attempts for 188 yards and one touchdown as the Minnesota lost 34-21 to Ohio State in Week 5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
In the loss the Gophers covered the 20.5-point spread, while the combined score played OVER the posted total of 49.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Indiana has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Indiana: 2-2 SU, 1-2 ATS
Minnesota: 4-1 SU, 3-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Indiana most recently:
When playing in October are 4-6
When playing on turf are 5-5
After being outgained are 4-6
When playing within the conference are 3-7<\/p>\n

Minnesota most recently:
When playing in October are 1-9
When playing on turf are 4-6
After being outgained are 2-8
When playing within the conference are 1-9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Indiana’s last 6 games on the road
Indiana is 3-6 ATS in its last 9 games when playing Minnesota
Indiana is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Indiana is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
Minnesota is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Minnesota is 6-3 ATS in its last 9 games when playing Indiana
Minnesota is 4-11 SU in its last 15 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Indiana home to Iowa, Saturday, October 11
Minnesota at Illinois, Saturday, October 11<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Indiana Hoosiers and the Minnesota Golden Gophers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at The Metrodome. Oddsmakers currently have the Golden Gophers listed as 7-point favorites versus the Hoosiers, while the game’s total is sitting at 60. Marcus Thigpen scored on TD runs of 6 and … Continue reading Indiana-Minnesota 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-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}