LINE Purdue -10.5
ATS PICK Purdue
As is Purdue was going to care about this game.
It’s for the Old Oaken Bucket, it stinks around Bloomington and West Lafayette to lose this game – even for two basketball-mad schools – and of course both teams are going to take their respective games up a few notches.
Purdue won 44-7 last year with nothing on the line other than bragging rights. The previous four meetings were all within a touchdown, and that’s always the concern.
It’s like the showbiz line of never dealing with kids or animals – too unpredictable. Never deal with teams at home in the final game of the season.
Indiana isn’t going anywhere, however, the dynamic changed in a huge way for the other side. For Purdue, win and get to the Big Ten Championship thanks to Iowa face-planting at home against Nebraska.
Either I believe in this thing or not. I picked Purdue to win by 11 before the Iowa loss, and now I’m really all in believing the team will take the intensity up a few more notches.
That, and I’m not quite buying that IU’s dynamic young QB Dexter Williams is about to start throwing well enough to pull this off. It’ll take a lot of sweating late, but Purdue should get there with a double-digit win.
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