{"id":35957,"date":"2014-10-24T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T22:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35957"},"modified":"2014-10-24T12:43:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:43:27","slug":"michigan-wolverines-vs-michigan-state-spartans-big-ten-football-betting-odds-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/michigan-wolverines-vs-michigan-state-spartans-big-ten-football-betting-odds-and-predictions-35957\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Wolverines vs. Michigan State Spartans: Big Ten Football Betting Odds and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan Wolverines vs. Michigan State Spartans
\nSaturday, 10\/25\/14, 3:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -17
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -17
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 51.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 48.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The ground battle has decided the winner between Michigan and Michigan State in recent years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan will try to win back-to-back games for the first time this season, as it picked up a 18-13 victory over the Penn State Nittany Lions as 2.5-point home favorites on Oct. 11, while going UNDER the betting total for the first time in three contests.\u00a0 The Wolverines have won three of four games following a regular-season bye week under head coach Brady Hoke, which is important to consider when making your Week 9 college football predictions, especially since the rank first in the Big Ten Conference in red-zone offense.\u00a0 Michigan is 1-11 SU and 5-7 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 8-4 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Wolverines sit behind just three teams in the Big Ten and nine nationally in allowing just 301.0 yards per game, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds page, as they\u2019ve also managed to allow the fewest rushing touchdowns in the conference.\u00a0 Michigan will need to continue dominating the line of scrimmage, as its opponents are averaging just 2.73 yards per rush, which is important in a series with the winner capturing the rushing battle in 41 of the last 44 meetings.<\/p>\n

Michigan State has rattled off five consecutive wins since suffering its only loss of the season to the Oregon Ducks on Sept. 6, as it looks to build off a 56-17 victory over the Indiana Hoosiers as 15.5-point road favorites last Saturday.\u00a0 The Spartans are 33-68-5 SU all-time in this in-state rivalry, but they\u2019ve proven victorious in five of the last six meetings.\u00a0 The team held Michigan to a school-record low minus-48 yards rushing on 29 attempts in last year\u2019s matchup.\u00a0 Michigan State is 13-5 SU and 6-12 ATS at Spartan Stadium the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Spartans have held the Wolverines without a touchdown for eight consecutive quarters\u2014allowing just five field goals over that span.\u00a0 Over the last six games in the series, Michigan State has outscored Michigan by a 162-90 combined margin, with head coach Mark Dantonio\u2019s five wins coming by an average of 14.8 points.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Wolverines due to thee Spartans being 12-14 ATS as favorites since the start of the 2012 campaign.<\/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":"

Michigan Wolverines vs. Michigan State Spartans Saturday, 10\/25\/14, 3:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -17 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -17 Opening Total:\u00a0 51.5 Current Total:\u00a0 48.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan will try to win back-to-back games for the first time this season, as it picked up a 18-13 victory over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3442,4217,3238,500,468,3237],"class_list":["post-35957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-brady-hoke","tag-mark-dantonio","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-spartan-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35957","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=35957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35960,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35957\/revisions\/35960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}