Indiana at Iowa Picks

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Northwestern will make their yearly visit to Iowa City to the play the host Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday afternoon. The Hawkeyes are riding high in the national glare ranked higher than any time in their history while the Cats are 5-4 SU on the year and hoping to make themselves bowl worthy.

This is a revenge game for Iowa they were beaten 22 to 17 as an eight-point favorite last season by this Wildcats team. The Hawkeyes surely need to defeat the Cats and avenge last seasons’ upset defeat but they may get caught anticipating ahead as they have the largest game of the year and possibly in the career of HC Ferentz next week at the “Shoe” against the Buckeyes.

These are college kids and all the national attention the Hawkeyes have been getting for their Top 5 ranking may have them believing they don’t have to fear this Cats team. It’s difficult not to take heed when the sports media tells you how great you are and if this leads to complacency in the Iowa players they may well awake on Sunday with another game to avenge in 2010.

The home has 3 straight losses in this series as the Hawkeyes have lost back-to-back home games to Northwestern as an 8 point favorite last year and a 20 pt favorite back in 2006. The underdog is 9-2 ATS and has four straight upset wins. Iowa is 1-5 ATS as double-digit conference favorites, 0-4 ATS in conference home games when coming off a home content in their last outing and 1-5 ATS in the second of back-to-back conference home games. The Cats are a perfect 6-0 ATS on the road and 3-1 ATS the last four in this series.

Last week against the Hoosiers Iowa was behind 21 to 7 at the break and got a little home cooking from the zebra’s to help extract a 42 to 24 win. The zebra’s called back a Hoosier’s touchdown that was sure enough a questionable call and Indiana also missed a 28 yard field goal which either of those scores could have possibly served a different outcome in last week’s game.

We will support the Cats here as this line is blown up and we think the Iowa players may have started to think about their own press and could very well be looking ahead to their matchup with the other “Eyes” next week. Take the points in Iowa City on Saturday.