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Purdue vs Indiana game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Week 13 game on Saturday, November 26

Purdue vs Indiana prediction, game preview, how to watch. Week 13, Saturday, November 26


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Purdue vs Indiana How To Watch

Date: Saturday, November 26
Game Time: 3:30 ET
Venue: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, IN
How To Watch: BTN
Record: Purdue (7-4), Indiana (4-7)
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Why Purdue Will Win

The Indiana passing game isn’t working.

Dexter Williams is a dangerous all-around playmaker, and he proved he could lead the team to a win with a stunning 39-31 thriller at Michigan State last week, but he completed just 8-of-26 passes for 138 yards over the last two games.

Purdue has enough of a run defense to hold up.

It’s not a brick wall, but now it knows what it’s looking for when Williams takes off – the linebacking corps should keep him relatively contained.

IU beat the Spartans with 257 rushing yards and four scores – no one hasn’t come all that close to 200 rushing yards on the Boilermaker D.

That, and the Indiana defense is still the Indiana defense – it gave up close to 1,700 yards of total offense over the last three weeks.

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Why Indiana Will Win

The running game really was good against Michigan State.

No, Williams didn’t do anything down the field, but the offense roared back in the second half, the defense came up big in overtime, and again, the ground attack – Williams ran for 86 yards and Shaun Shivers ran for 115.

No, the offense still doesn’t control the clock – it only had the ball for 23:27 last week – and no, the team still isn’t that great on third downs, but if it could bend without doing a lot of breaking against Michigan State, it can do that against Purdue.

The Boilermakers aren’t going to come up with too many big things in the backfield, there aren’t a ton of passes down the field in the pass-friendly offense, and …

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What’s Going To Happen

Purdue will clamp down enough to get the Old Oaken Bucket for the fourth time in the last five tries.

It was a crazy collapse by Michigan State against IU. Before that, the Hoosiers had a hard time getting past 17 points, and it’s going to have a hard time coming up with explosive offensive plays to do more than that.

However, Indiana hasn’t turned it over in two weeks. It will run just enough to be okay, but Purdue will have the ball for 35 minutes and won’t crash like the Spartans did.

Throw in that this matters for the Big Ten West title – thanks to the Iowa loss to Nebraska, Purdue is in if it wins – and the extra motivation won’t hurt.

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Purdue vs Indiana Prediction, Line

Purdue 34, Indiana 23
Line:Purdue -10.5, o/u: 54.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 3
Purdue vs Indiana Must See Rating (out of 5): 3

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Purdue vs. Indiana prediction, game preview, how to watch: Saturday, November 27


Purdue vs. Indiana How To Watch

Date: Saturday, November 27
Game Time: 3:30 ET
Venue: Ross-Ade Stadium, West Lafayette, IN
How To Watch: FS1
Record: Purdue (7-4), Indiana (2-9)
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Why Purdue Will Win

Indiana is having a few problems.

A shadow of the 2020 version, the Hoosiers have yet to win a Big Ten game and has just one win over an FCS team. WKU and Bailey Zappe were able to throw for 365 yards in that, though.

The big problem is an offense that simply won’t be able to keep up. Purdue overcame the blowout loss to Ohio State by stuffing Northwestern, and now it gets an IU team that hasn’t scored more than 15 points against anyone but Maryland over the last seven games.

Purdue’s passing game has gone off, with Aidan O’Connell throwing for 536 yards against against Michigan State and 323 against Northwestern last week at Wrigley Field.

Again, IU won’t be able to keep up.

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Why Indiana Will Win

Okay, with nothing working and the team losing blowout after blowout, what can IU do to make this a fight?

It starts with keeping O’Connell from connecting on enough deep passes to matter. He’s accurate on a whole lot of midrange plays – Purdue is only averaging 10.75 yards per completion – but the downfield shots have been the backbreakers.

Indiana can stop the run a wee bit, and Purdue doesn’t run.

Indiana is also okay at keeping defenses out of the backfield, and even with George Karlaftis up front, Purdue hasn’t been generating enough sacks this year.

At all costs, the offense has to slow the game down, dominate the time of possession, and be there late like it was against Michigan State and Maryland.

It’s still a rivalry game – just get to the fourth quarter.

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What’s Going To Happen

Indiana will get to the fourth quarter. It’ll just be down by a whole lot.

Purdue’s offense is playing too well, Indiana doesn’t have enough pop in any facet of its attack, and despite a good first half that should be close, this will start to slip away after a few drives in the third.

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Purdue vs Indiana Prediction, Lines

Purdue 34, Indiana 13
Line: Purdue -16, o/u: 50.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 3

Must See Rating: 3

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