Vegas likes the Gophs

[alpinegopher]

Gophs open at -3.

Over/under at 48, should take 9 quarters to get to 48.

 

[Schnoodler]

But you know we underperformed against better teams and did OK to good against average and lesser teams. So we might do our share to make the over a viable choice. And our defense isn't shut down by any means, although pretty good. There might be a play on the over.

Here's some data, first number is the defensive ranking for points against, the second the average points scored against, the third how the gophers did.
Syracuse..............82....27.9....23
Air Force...............8.....15.3....20
California...............46....22.9... 21
Northwestern.........49.....23.3...35
Wisconsin..............51.....23.5...28
Purdue..................92......29.1...35
PSU......................4.......11.8....0
OSU.....................5........12.2....7
Michigan State.......61.......25.1....42
Illinois...................84.......28.1....32
Iowa....................10.......15.5.....0

Iowa State ranked 43rd at 22.6
Gophers ranked 57th at 24.6

Now for the under argument.

Minnesota offense ranked 98th with an average of 21.6
Iowa State ranked 102nd with 21.1

But likewise Iowa State did well against average defenses but very poorly against good ones. You might have a true target of about 54 pts in this one. Might be a good over pick.