Purdue may be worse than Florida A&M. There are
123 schools ranked in the FBS categories. Purdue is 104th or
worse in 6 key categories: Rushing Offense (119), Total Offense (120),
Scoring Offense (119), Scoring Defense (104), 3rd Down Conversion –
offense (112), and 3rd Down Conversion – defense
(111). They are also 90th in Passing Offense and
92nd in Rushing Defense. They have scored 10 points or less on
offense in 4 of their 7 games, and have given up 40+ points on defense in 4 of
7. The Boilermakers are a bad team.
The line is Ohio State by 32 with an over/under of
56.5. With Ohio State being 5th in Scoring Offense at
47.3 ppg, and Purdue at 13.1 ppg, do the spread and O/U seem low to you?
I think so, but then again there is a history with
Purdue. Ross-Ade Stadium is where Buckeye Big Ten dreams usually go
to die as we have lost 4 of the last 6 games played there, and we needed “HolyBuckeye” to win one of the two. Purdue also plays us tough in
Columbus as they took us to OT last year as well as in 2003. No
matter where or the record, we don’t seem to match up well with Purdue.
There is also a psychological aspect in play – we got
through tough games v. Wisconsin and Northwestern, Iowa was a slugfest, and
Penn State was a high energy prime time game. Now we get a noon start
against a team that stinks. Letdown?
I think not. I don’t think this team knows how
to lay off. We got too many guys itching to play and play
well. Coach Meyer knows we need convincing victories. Purdue is
very, very young. If they were a senior-laden team, I would take
the points. But since they are not give the points and take the over.
Schaef says: Ohio State 52, Purdue 13.
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