{"id":18143,"date":"2011-09-30T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T02:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18143"},"modified":"2011-09-30T21:17:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T02:17:04","slug":"college-football-picks-against-the-spread-notre-dame-fighting-irish-at-purdue-boilermakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-picks-against-the-spread-notre-dame-fighting-irish-at-purdue-boilermakers-18143\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Picks Against the Spread: Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Purdue Boilermakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Purdue Boilermakers
\nSaturday, 10\/1\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -13
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -12
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 47
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 48
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are 4-14 ATS as a favorite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notre Dame has evened its record at 2-2 after picking up a 15-12 win over the Pittsburgh Panthers as seven-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Fighting Irish have been led by quarterback Tommy Rees, who has thrown at least one touchdown pass in the last nine games.\u00a0 He overcame a rough start against the Panthers, hitting 12 of his last 14 passes, including all eight in the game winning 85-yard drive.\u00a0 The Fighting Irish have been plagued by turnovers all year, adding two more last week, tied for last in the country with Tulsa.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 4-14 ATS as a favorite and 2-5 ATS in October over the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish lead this series by a 54-26-2 count, including wins in 20 of the last 25 meetings.\u00a0 Notre Dame has captured eight of the last 12 games in the series inside Ross-Ade Stadium.\u00a0 The program has tallied a 373-91-8 all-time record during the month of October, winning seven of the last nine such games on the road.\u00a0 Second-year head coach Brian Kelly seems to have the team headed in the right direction, especially considering he has the sixth-most wins of any active coach in the country since the 2006 season.<\/p>\n

Purdue will host Notre Dame under the lights for just the third time in the series and is coming off its first shutout of an opponent since 2004.\u00a0 The Boilermakers have a very balanced offense, averaging 258.7 passing yards and 212.3 rushing yards per game. \u00a0The team has been playing with a quarterback tandem, as Caleb TerBush and Robert Marve teamed up to complete 21 of 25 passes in their last game.\u00a0 Purdue is 4-2 ATS as an underdog of 10.5 to 21 points and 6-8 ATS at home.<\/p>\n

The Boilermakers are just 16-17 in 33 all-time night games inside Ross-Ade Stadium and will look to continue to punish opponents on the ground.\u00a0 Purdue gained 393 rushing yards last week in a win over Southeast Missouri.\u00a0 The team has done a relatively good job of avoiding injury this year, even though it lost projected starting quarterback Rob Henry during the offseason.\u00a0 Purdue was ravaged by injuries a year ago, losing 76 combined games from notable players.\u00a0 Offensively, the team hasn\u2019t had many drives that were short in distance, as 11 of the 13 end-zone ending drives have been 50 or more yards.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Boilermakers due to their 3-1-1 ATS mark as a home underdog, while the Irish are 1-5 ATS as a road favorite.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Purdue Boilermakers Saturday, 10\/1\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -13 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -12 Opening Total:\u00a0 47 Current Total:\u00a0 48 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Notre Dame has evened its record at 2-2 after picking up a 15-12 win over the Pittsburgh Panthers as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":16557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[1192,1311,1295,5495,5089],"class_list":["post-18143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-brian-kelly","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-ross-ade-stadium","tag-tommy-rees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18145,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18143\/revisions\/18145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}