{"id":30075,"date":"2013-09-11T18:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T23:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30075"},"modified":"2013-09-11T18:10:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T23:10:48","slug":"notre-dame-football-fighting-irish-take-on-the-purdue-boilermakers-under-the-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/notre-dame-football-fighting-irish-take-on-the-purdue-boilermakers-under-the-lights-30075\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame Football: Fighting Irish Take on the Purdue Boilermakers Under the Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 21 Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Purdue Boilermakers
\nSaturday, 9\/14\/13, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -23
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -20.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 50.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 49
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are 2-4 ATS as road favorites since 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notre Dame will look to bounce back from a 41-30 setback to the Michigan Wolverines as 4.5-point road underdogs last Saturday, as it lost the statistical battle by 50 yards, while going OVER the betting total of 48.\u00a0 The Fighting Irish had all kinds of trouble on the defensive end, as they allowed 460 total yards\u2014the most allowed by that particular unit in their last 20 regular-season games.\u00a0 \u201cLast year we had to rely on our defense to win football games,\u201d commented Fighting Irish coach Brian Kelly.\u00a0 \u201cI think there are going to be some times when our offense has to win some ballgames.\u201d\u00a0 Notre Dame is 5-1 SU and 2-4 ATS as road favorites since 2011, with the UNDER going 4-1-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish are definitely trying to strike down field in the passing game with quarterback Tommy Rees, as they\u2019ve already registered five completions of at least 32 yards through two games.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 56-26-2 all-time in this series, including a 22-5 advantage over the last 27 meetings.\u00a0 Since 2006, Kelly has compiled the fifth-most wins of any active FBS coach, which means that a bounce-back performance is likely Saturday.<\/p>\n

Purdue is coming off its first win of the Darrell Hazell coaching era, as it picked up a 20-14 victory over Indiana State as 17.5-point home favorites last Saturday, but it was outgained by 11 yards in that affair.\u00a0 The Boilermakers are definitely in a rebuilding mode, as Hazell comes over after spending the previous two seasons at Kent State, which is important to consider when making your college football expert picks.\u00a0 The team will play its 35th night game in program history\u2014compiling a 16-18 record in that situation.\u00a0 Purdue is 3-12 SU and 6-9 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 7-5-3 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Boilermakers are going to have a hard time moving the football against a defense that\u2019s angry from its performance last week, especially since quarterback Rob Henry has thrown two interceptions and no touchdowns through the first two games of the season.\u00a0 Purdue entered the season returning 39 starts on the offensive line and 34 on the defensive line.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 3-0-1 in the last four meetings in this series.<\/p>\n

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No. 21 Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Purdue Boilermakers Saturday, 9\/14\/13, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -23 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -20.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 50.5 Current Total:\u00a0 49 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Notre Dame will look to bounce back from a 41-30 setback to the Michigan Wolverines as 4.5-point road underdogs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[1192,7580,1311,1295,5177,5089],"class_list":["post-30075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-brian-kelly","tag-darrell-hazell","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-rob-henry","tag-tommy-rees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30075","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=30075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30076,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30075\/revisions\/30076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}