{"id":19258,"date":"2011-11-10T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T18:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19258"},"modified":"2011-11-10T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T18:10:45","slug":"big-ten-football-preview-michigan-state-spartans-vs-iowa-hawkeyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-ten-football-preview-michigan-state-spartans-vs-iowa-hawkeyes-19258\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten Football Preview: Michigan State Spartans vs. Iowa Hawkeyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 17 Michigan State Spartans at Iowa Hawkeyes
\nSaturday, 11\/12\/11, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 46.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 46.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan State Spartans have lost seven straight road games against the Iowa Hawkeyes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan State will be looking to win in Iowa City for the first time since Oct. 7, 1989, losing seven straight games inside Kinnick Stadium.\u00a0 The Spartans are coming off a 31-24 win over the Minnesota Gophers as 28-point home favorites, but have actually been out-gained in their past three games, including a 24-3 loss to the Nebraska Cornhuskers on Oct. 29.\u00a0 The program comes into this game with thoughts of revenge, dropping a 37-6 contest in last year\u2019s meeting, which also served as its first loss.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve never felt anything like that in a football game,\u201d commented Spartans fullback Todd Anderson.\u00a0 Michigan State is 3-1 ATS as a road favorite the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Spartans rank second in the Big Ten and are tied ninth nationally with 13 interceptions.\u00a0 Michigan State leads the conference in passing and total defense, while recording a league-best 21 sacks.\u00a0 Defensive end William Gholston is certainly the star of the show, recording 29 tackles in the last two games.\u00a0 Under head coach Mark Dantonio, the Spartans are 10-3 in November, while the squad is outscoring opponents by a significant 143-75 margin in the first half.<\/p>\n

Iowa picked up an impressive 24-16 win over the Michigan Wolverines as 3.5-point home underdogs last week, which also snapped a two-game losing streak against the spread.\u00a0 The Hawkeyes are likely to continue riding running back Marcus Coker, who is the Big Ten\u2019s leading rusher, gaining 1,101 yards on the ground in nine games.\u00a0 \u201cHe just wasn\u2019t running decisively,\u201d stated Hawkeyes head coach Kirk Ferentz about Coker\u2019s early problems this year.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s about as simple as that.\u201d\u00a0 Iowa is 7-2 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons, while the \u2018under\u2019 is 7-3 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Hawkeyes have been a great home team in winning 55 of their last 66 games inside Kinnick Stadium.\u00a0 Saturday will be the team\u2019s last home game, which will provide an emotional backdrop for the senior class.\u00a0 Iowa is playing its second straight ranked opponent, holding a 22-18-2 advantage in this series, with the home team winning 11 of the last 12 meetings.\u00a0 Coker\u2019s ability to go over the century mark in rushing will be the key to this game, as Michigan State is allowing just 103.6 rushing yards per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Spartans due to their 8-3 ATS mark versus teams with a winning record, while the Hawkeyes are 2-6-1 ATS in conference play.<\/p>\n

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No. 17 Michigan State Spartans at Iowa Hawkeyes Saturday, 11\/12\/11, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 46.5 Current Total:\u00a0 46.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan State will be looking to win in Iowa City for the first time since Oct. 7, 1989, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3442,1281,3653,5616,500,5701],"class_list":["post-19258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-iowa-hawkeyes","tag-kinnick-stadium","tag-marcus-coker","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-william-gholston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258","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=19258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19262,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258\/revisions\/19262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}