{"id":2502,"date":"2008-10-31T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/wisconsin-michigan-state-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-31T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T02:07:00","slug":"wisconsin-michigan-state-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/wisconsin-michigan-state-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin-Michigan State Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Badgers and the Michigan State Spartans<br \/>will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when<br \/>they battle at Spartan Stadium. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Spartans listed as<br \/>6-point favorites versus the Badgers, while the game&#39;s<br \/>total is sitting at 48. <br \/>Dustin Sherer led Wisconsin back from a 17-point<br \/>deficit to beat Illinois 27-17 in Week 9. <br \/>The Badgers covered the 2.5-point spread, while the<br \/>final score played UNDER the day&#39;s posted total of 54.<\/p>\n<p>Javon Ringer&#39;s second touchdown broke a tie midway<br \/>through the fourth quarter and Brian Hoyer&#39;s third<br \/>touchdown pass padded the lead, lifting Michigan State<br \/>to a 35-21 win over Michigan in Week 9. <br \/>The Spartans covered the 3.5-point spread, while the<br \/>final score played OVER the day&#39;s posted total of<br \/>44.5. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Wisconsin: 4-4 SU, 3-5 ATS <br \/>Michigan State: 7-2 SU, 5-4 ATS <br \/>Wisconsin most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 6-4<br \/>When playing on grass are 5-5<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 7-3<br \/>When playing within the conference are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 2-8<br \/>When playing on grass are 7-3<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 5-5<br \/>When playing within the conference are 6-4<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Wisconsin&#39;s last 5<br \/>games when playing Michigan State<br \/>Wisconsin is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing<br \/>Michigan State<br \/>Wisconsin is 17-8 SU in its last 25 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 8 of Wisconsin&#39;s last 12<br \/>games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Michigan State&#39;s last<br \/>5 games when playing Wisconsin<br \/>Michigan State is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games <br \/>Michigan State is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Michigan State&#39;s last<br \/>5 games <br \/>Next up:<br \/>Wisconsin at Indiana, Saturday, November 8<br \/>Michigan State home to Purdue, Saturday, November 8<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Badgers and the Michigan State Spartanswill both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday whenthey battle at Spartan Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Spartans listed as6-point favorites versus the Badgers, while the game&#39;stotal is sitting at 48. Dustin Sherer led Wisconsin back from a 17-pointdeficit to beat Illinois 27-17 in Week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/wisconsin-michigan-state-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wisconsin-Michigan State Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","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=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}