When it comes to the Ohio State Buckeyes versus the Michigan Wolverines NCAA football betting, it’s all about The Game, and how you play it. All about control, and if you can take it. All about your debt, and if you can pay it. It’s all about pain, and who’s gonna make it. And speaking of pain, albeit of a more emotional nature, “It’s going to be very sentimental,” Michigan fullback Khalid Hill said. “Last year, I cried because I didn’t know I was coming back. It’s going to be the last time I’m with my guys. Everybody is on a different path.”
- Date: November 25
- Time: 12:05 PM
- Venue: Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI
- Sportsbook online college football wagering odds:
Ohio State -12 (-110) 50 (-110) -460
Michigan +12 (-110) 50 (-110) +365
I am the game, you don’t wanna play me, I am control, no way you can change me
The Game has been, with the exception of 2011, nothing but Ohio State. The Buckeyes have won the last five meetings, as well as 11 of the last 12 (or 12 of the last 13 if we count 2010’s vacated game). In addition to that, OSU has covered in seven of the last 10 editions of the rivalry. So determined has head coach ‘Pope’ Urban Meyer to get the best of Michigan, that rather than settling for what would have been the seventh tie in the history of the rivalry last season, he didn’t hold back and went for what became a 30-27 double overtime win at home. quarterback J.T. Barrett rushed for 125 yards and a touchdown on that occasion, and NCAA football betting fans can expect the Buckeyes to rely on the ground attack this time as well, as they have done of late; Ohio State has run for 660 yards and eight TDs in the last two games, and Mike Weber is averaging 13.5 yards per carry with four scores in that same period.
Don’t be sO’Korny
The Wolvies hurt more than just their pride in Saturday’s 10-24 loss to Wisconsin; QB Brandon Peters, who started Michigan’s last three games, got KTFO and was placed in concussion protocol, where he remains. “[Peters is] progressively getting better, he’s still in the protocol,” passing game coordinator Pep Hamilton said. “It’s on an hour-to-hour, day-to-day basis. We’ll know where he stands [then]. He seems to be a lot better than what he was after Saturday.” meanwhile, fourth-year junior Wilton Speight is practicing in an exclusively non-contact capacity, which leaves fifth-year senior John O’Korn and redshirt sophomore Alex Malzone as his presumptive backup, which is not a reassuring thought going up against OSU.
I hope Brandon Peters plays so there’s no excuses
— Across The Field (@tOSUFootball) November 21, 2017
Michigan is 7-1 SU in its last eight games following a loss, 0-3-1 ATS when playing a team with a winning record, 1-4 ATS in their last five at home, and 12-5-1 ATS in their last 18 after an ATS loss, while Ohio State is 45-21-1 ATS in their last 67 road games, 2-6 ATS playing a team with a winning record, and 1-4 against the NCAA football betting spread in their last five in November.