{"id":3182,"date":"2008-12-31T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/insight-bowl-minnesota-vs-kansas-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T18:40:00","slug":"insight-bowl-minnesota-vs-kansas-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/insight-bowl-minnesota-vs-kansas-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Insight Bowl: Minnesota vs. Kansas Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Minnesota Golden Gophers were 7-1 and sitting pretty in the Big Ten at the end of October. Then, they four in a row and fell to 7-5 and a date with the Kansas Jayhawks December 31 at Sun Devil Stadium.
The 7-5 teams will battle for the Insight Bowl. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Jayhawks listed as 8\u00bd-point favorites versus the Golden Gophers, while the game’s total is sitting at 60. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> was shut out 55-0 by Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 13 as a 7-point underdog at home. That game’s 55 points made it OVER the posted total of 44.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> fell to 7-5 overall with the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Todd Reesing’s TD pass to Kerry Meier with 33 seconds remaining gave Kansas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> a 40-37 upset win over Missouri<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 14. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Jayhawks covered the 16.5-point spread, while the combined score played OVER the posted total of 70. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 7-5 SU, 7-4 ATS
Kansas: 7-5 SU, 6-5 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota most recently:
When playing in December are 3-4
When playing on grass are 2-8
After being outgained are 3-7
When playing outside the conference are 6-4<\/p>\n

Kansas most recently:
When playing in December are 2-1
When playing on grass are 6-4
After being outgained are 6-4
When playing outside the conference are 9-1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Minnesota’s last 7 games
Minnesota is 6-3 ATS in its last 9 games
Minnesota is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Kansas’s last 6 games
Kansas is 19-6 SU in its last 25 games
Kansas is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Minnesota Golden Gophers were 7-1 and sitting pretty in the Big Ten at the end of October. Then, they four in a row and fell to 7-5 and a date with the Kansas Jayhawks December 31 at Sun Devil Stadium.The 7-5 teams will battle for the Insight Bowl. Oddsmakers currently have the Jayhawks listed … Continue reading Insight Bowl: Minnesota vs. Kansas 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-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","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=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}