{"id":2585,"date":"2008-11-08T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/purdue-michigan-state-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-08T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T14:11:00","slug":"purdue-michigan-state-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/purdue-michigan-state-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Purdue-Michigan State Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Purdue Boilermakers and the Michigan State Spartans will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Spartan Stadium. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Spartans listed as 10-point favorites versus the Boilermakers, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 53. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Desmond Tardy&#8217;s touchdown catch with 33 seconds left pushed Purdue past <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:State><st1:place>Michigan<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 48-42 in Week 10. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Boilermakers covered the 2.5-point spread, while the combined score easily played OVER the day&#8217;s posted total of 47.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Brett Swenson kicked a 44-yard field goal with seven seconds left to give <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Michigan<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> a 25-24 win over <st1:State><st1:place>Wisconsin<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 10. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Spartans failed to cover the 5.5-point spread, while the final score played to a PUSH. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Michigan<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has won 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/>Purdue: 3-6 SU, <st1:date Month=\"3\" Day=\"4\" Year=\"2001\">3-4-1<\/st1:date> <\/font><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>ATS<\/st1:PlaceName> <br \/><st1:PlaceName>Michigan<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 8-2 SU, 5-5 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Purdue most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 6-4<br \/>When playing on grass are 3-7<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 5-5<br \/>When playing within the conference are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 3-7<br \/>When playing on grass are 8-2<br \/>After being outgained are 5-5<br \/>When playing within the conference are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Purdue is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Michigan State<br \/>Purdue is 2-4-1 ATS in its last 7 games <br \/>Purdue is 2-4-1 ATS in its last 7 games on the road<br \/>Purdue is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Michigan State<br \/>Michigan State is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games <br \/>Michigan State is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home<br \/>Michigan State is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Purdue<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Michigan State&#8217;s last 6 games at home<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>Purdue at <st1:State><st1:place>Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, November 15<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Michigan<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> State at <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Penn<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Saturday, November 22<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><b><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\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 Purdue Boilermakers and the Michigan State Spartans will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Spartan Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Spartans listed as 10-point favorites versus the Boilermakers, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 53. Desmond Tardy&#8217;s touchdown catch with 33 seconds left pushed Purdue past Michigan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/purdue-michigan-state-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Purdue-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-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","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=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}