4. Minnesota at Indiana
LINE Minnesota -7
ATS PICK 43.5
It’s the strange thing about Minnesota under PJ Fleck. When the team lays an egg, it usually – but not always – happens at home.
The Bowling Green thing was weird, and the Illinois loss was unacceptable. However, as a road program it’s been getting the job done.
It totally wiped up Colorado with a perfect 30-0 performance after struggling at home against Miami University the week before, It followed up the loss to Bowling Green with a terrific win over Purdue in West Lafayette.
It lost last week to Iowa, but it didn’t play all that poorly in the 27-22 loss.
And then there’s Indiana.
It has yet to win a game in the Big Ten, it just got rolled by Rutgers 38-3, and now it gets a Minnesota team that’s trying to stay in the hunt for the Big Ten West title.
The Hoosiers scored seven points or fewer in five of the ten games, and the 35 points scored against Maryland were just three fewer than all six other Big Ten games combined.
It’s not going to be pretty. Minnesota is going to blast away with its ground game, and it’s going to keep doing it on the way to over 200 yards.