Something completely different: Iowa/Rutgers o/u is 28
Something to break things up a bit. It is a bit nutty now for good reasons so let's look at something else for a bit and marvel at it.
The over/under for the Iowa/Rutgers game has dropped to 28 which is the first college football game since 2000 to be under 30. This clearly a game for the sickos. You may want to hide the women and children from viewing this abomination lest their faces melt Raiders of the Lost Ark style .
I will put the o/u at 4 for Schiano being butthurt and ticked off at the presser about having to answer questions for his nonsense with his buckeye friends.
https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/38856054/rutgers-iowa-betting-sitting-historic-low-28
November 9th, 2023 at 1:20 PM ^
Iowatch is gonna be fun this week
November 9th, 2023 at 1:40 PM ^
That's the kind of masochism we want from the Iowatch author.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:54 PM ^
When this season is over, I’m going to watch all the Wolverine Devotee highlights in a row to remind myself what good football looks like.
I’m going to need some SERIOUS deprogramming.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:59 PM ^
What is WD doing these days? Why isn't he around these parts?
Serious questions, apologies in advance if I should know this.
November 9th, 2023 at 2:27 PM ^
Just make sure to skip the BGSU game.
November 9th, 2023 at 2:41 PM ^
You are one sick puppy.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:22 PM ^
Ya do realize that o/u only requires Rutgers to score 18 points? While it's not certain they'll get that many, it's not totally out of the question.
Now, what IS totally out of the question is Iowa's offense getting more than 10 points.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:27 PM ^
18 points would be the second most that anyone has scored against Iowa.
Penn State scored 31. Nobody else has exceeded 16 (MSU).
Rutgers scored 7 against us. Iowa’s defense has been marginally better than ours pretty much the entire season.
18 ain’t happening. Under all the way
November 9th, 2023 at 1:38 PM ^
It feels like every week Iowa has been setting a new record for lowest recorded O/U, and every week the under still hits. It would be one thing if Rutgers was semi-competent at both rushing and passing, but I don't see a one -dimensional offense doing much damage to Iowa
This also reminds me, last year Brian and Seth were perplexed that Iowa sat back with two high safeties all game against Michigan and let us just steamroll down the field. Looking back in hindsight, it makes more sense that Iowa's great defensive staff was probably one of the first to recognize the true threat posed by JJ and was willing to gamble that taking Corum runs to the face all day was the lesser of two evils
November 9th, 2023 at 1:41 PM ^
It seems like the O/U would be lower if you can exclude defensive and st points.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:48 PM ^
I preferred my comment, as a joke, but you're probably right.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:23 PM ^
Bet the under. Iowa 10 Rutgers 6.
November 9th, 2023 at 2:32 PM ^
R00Ɪ
(Iowa's at home)
November 9th, 2023 at 2:44 PM ^
Good catch. Too bad, was thinking we could pronounce it like Eeyore. Rooey doesn’t roll off the tongue very well.
November 9th, 2023 at 2:44 PM ^
Watching scores scroll by on Saturday, I noticed half time of the Iowa Northwestern game was a IOON game.
November 9th, 2023 at 2:46 PM ^
Saw that too.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:23 PM ^
I'm no gambler but it has taken way too long for these Iowa game o/u's to come down. This one is still too high and I've got to believe that the under betters make bank on Iowa games.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:59 PM ^
Idk, there's a reason that no O/U has been <30 in 20+ years. It's just so (relatively) easy to get there, you risk the book getting killed by people taking the over. A D/ST touchdown or two (I could easily see pick-sixes with those QBs) and suddenly the over is looking pretty good. Not to mention the possibility of OT (Iowa nearly went to OT last week against NW). Remember our 2013 game against NW (the fire drill FG as time expired)? That game went to OT tied 9-9, and ended 27-19.
November 9th, 2023 at 3:31 PM ^
But.. the books are gonna "get killed" on people taking the under. The article says 80% of wagers are on the under at o/u 30. So when it comes under, the books are gonna shell out. They have to keep dropping the o/u to avoid piling on their losses.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:28 PM ^
Rutgers managed 16 against OSU. If they can get a couple scores early, I can see the Iowa defense letting up and this hitting the over.....but that's a big ask for Rutgers to do twice in a week, though, and Wimsatt is a turnover machine against an Iowa defense that excells in takeaways. I'd say safe money is still the under.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:38 PM ^
True, but this game is at Kinnick (that OSU game was in Jersey) and with the combination of Iowa's propensity for turning you over and Wimsatt's absolute inability to not turn the ball over, I foresee Rutgers really struggling to move the football.
November 9th, 2023 at 2:00 PM ^
Yeah, but the propensity for Iowa's D/ST to score pushes back the other way. The moral of the story is there's no way I'd touch that either way...
November 9th, 2023 at 2:06 PM ^
Great point, there's a very real chance that Wimsatt throws multiple pick sixes. I still don't see the over happening but this is why I don't gamble!
November 9th, 2023 at 1:28 PM ^
So this is what happens when a stoppable force meets an immovable object…
November 9th, 2023 at 1:34 PM ^
The question is simple: Can Cooper DeJean score four TD's on special teams and defense? And get a two point conversion.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:38 PM ^
Given Cooper's ability to score TDs on punts, I am convinced that an all arm punt offense is the way to go.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:36 PM ^
What a thing of beauty. There is no way the under hits, right!?
I will follow this game rooting for the under. Love to see a 5-3 score.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:42 PM ^
Iowa's last three games have combined to score 21, 22, and 17 points. RU has won games this year but it has not been pretty and their offense is still mostly a complete dumpster fire led by a QB who has zero passing ability. Iowa will shut down the run and force Wimsatt to complete passes in order to move the ball. That ain't gonna happen.
I'd say the under is an absolute certainty.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:42 PM ^
This game is in Iowa City - so, I don't know if that means Iowa starts the game with three (3) points.
If it does - the O/U still seems awfully high.
They'll play in the afternoon - the second half will be literally (and perhaps proverbially also) "in the dark".
I hope those viewing from the Children's Hospital enjoy what they see... and, get back to 100% as soon as possible.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:43 PM ^
as i told a work pal regarding the sparty - minnesota game:
i have an ever-diminishing number of hours left on this earth. i'm definitely not wasting the ones i do have left watching THAT shit.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:43 PM ^
Is there a prop bet for whether there are more points or punts?
November 9th, 2023 at 2:09 PM ^
This!
That is better than more Hitlers than points, just sayin'
November 9th, 2023 at 1:44 PM ^
I'm going way out of my way to not click anything with espn in the url.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:52 PM ^
I'm taking the under on that. I'm guessing 7-3 Iowa. The seven points will be two safeties and a punt return for a field goal. I know that a punt return for a field goal is impossible, but it anyone can do it, it's Iowa.
November 9th, 2023 at 3:35 PM ^
WELL... if the punt return is made at the 2:00 minute mark of the 4th quarter and the score 4-3 at the time, the returner will intentionally take a knee at the RU 1 so the 11 players for Iowa who come out to snap the ball (i.e. not the defense, but since they don't play offense, I can't and won't call them an offense) will take about 1:59 to move the ball nowhere and kick a field goal as time expires to win 7.3.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:55 PM ^
Any Iowa game really:
November 9th, 2023 at 1:55 PM ^
It's funny - I started writing about how Rutgers just scored 16 against OSU and how Iowa can probably score at least 14 but they've only done that in half their conference games so...yeah, might go for the under.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:56 PM ^
Last week the o/u for Iowa/NW was under 30, i thought
November 9th, 2023 at 1:56 PM ^
Rootin’ for Iowa
November 9th, 2023 at 1:59 PM ^
Rutgers all run and no pass game combined with Iowa being…Iowa, is going to make that Iowa/Northwestern game look high scoring.
Im picking Iowa to win 3-0.
November 9th, 2023 at 1:59 PM ^
That B1G difference!
Won't lie though, I'll definitely flip over to that one a few times out of morbid curiosity.
November 9th, 2023 at 2:07 PM ^
"Hey, Fox, yeah, Tony Pettiti here. So anyway, we are thinking of hammering UM because of the Greatest Cheating Scandal Ever. But don't worry, we will replace their games against PSU and OSU with Rutgers-Iowa, where the o/u is 28. Oh, OK. I see your point. Well no, actually, my head is not currently up my ass, and that is a rude question, Fox!"
November 9th, 2023 at 2:09 PM ^
I got the under at 30.5. Felt like free money so it will probably go over.
November 9th, 2023 at 2:14 PM ^
13-9 game here..... the only td will be scored by Iowa's defense.
November 9th, 2023 at 2:17 PM ^
I am rooting for the racist and nepotistic Ferentz over the quisling Schiano, just out of recency bias.
November 9th, 2023 at 2:19 PM ^
I’m still taking the under
November 9th, 2023 at 2:19 PM ^
Rutgers at Iowa going over 28 points?
November 9th, 2023 at 2:25 PM ^
I'm sure this barnburner will drive serious BTN ratings.
November 9th, 2023 at 2:28 PM ^
They must have Iowa for two pick six and TD punt return.