{"id":35782,"date":"2014-10-15T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T19:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35782"},"modified":"2014-10-15T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T19:32:43","slug":"college-football-week-8-predictions-purdue-boilermakers-vs-minnesota-golden-gophers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-8-predictions-purdue-boilermakers-vs-minnesota-golden-gophers-35782\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 8 Predictions: Purdue Boilermakers vs. Minnesota Golden Gophers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purdue Boilermakers vs. Minnesota Golden Gophers
\nSaturday, 10\/18\/14, 12:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Minnesota -13
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Minnesota -12.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 48.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 48.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Minnesota Golden Gophers have won their last three games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Purdue has alternated wins and loses over its last five games, as it looks to bounce back from a 45-31 defeat to the Michigan State Spartans as 21-point home underdogs last Saturday, while going OVER the betting total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Boilermakers are 32-34-3 SU all-time against the Golden Gophers, which is important to consider when making your Week 8 college football predictions, but they\u2019ve won 11 of the last 15 in the Big Ten Conference rivalry.\u00a0 Purdue is 0-8 SU and 4-4 ATS as underdogs of 10.5 to 21 points the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 4-3-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Boilermakers won their only previous game at an opposing team\u2019s stadium this season, as they picked up a 38-27 victory over Illinois as 10-point underdogs on Oct. 4.\u00a0 Purdue will try to score 31 or more points for the third game in a row for the first time since 2009, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football betting lines.\u00a0 Offensively, the team has rushed for 1,149 yards through its first seven games this year, which is much higher than its 805 figure from 2012.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has put together a 3-0 SUATS streak, as it looks to build off a 24-17 victory over the Northwestern Wildcats as 3.5-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total in three of four affairs.\u00a0 The Golden Gophers were 9-16 after the first two seasons under head coach Jerry Kill, but they\u2019ve managed to capture 13 of their last 19 games during his time on campus.\u00a0 Minnesota is 5-0 SU and 4-1 ATS as favorites of 10.5 to 21 points the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 3-1-1 in those five opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Golden Gophers have won seven of Mitch Leidner\u2019s nine starts under center, while he\u2019s managed to rush for 12 touchdowns in 15 career games.\u00a0 Minnesota relies heavily on running the football offensively, as it has rushed the ball 273 times and passed just 103 times in 2014.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Golden Gophers due to the home team covering the number in the last four meetings in this series.<\/p>\n

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Purdue Boilermakers vs. Minnesota Golden Gophers Saturday, 10\/18\/14, 12:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Minnesota -13 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Minnesota -12.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 48.5 Current Total:\u00a0 48.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Purdue has alternated wins and loses over its last five games, as it looks to bounce back from a 45-31 defeat to the Michigan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3442,3743,464,8484,1295],"class_list":["post-35782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-jerry-kill","tag-minnesota-golden-gophers","tag-mitch-leidner","tag-purdue-boilermakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35782","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=35782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35783,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35782\/revisions\/35783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}