Indiana Aims to Continue Perfect Season Against Michigan State

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00:00Welcome back. Curtis Rourke. Great news for Indiana. An

00:07Indiana team that is eight and oh for the second time in

00:09program history. The first time since 1967 looking to

00:13improve to a perfect nine and oh on Saturday in East Lansing

00:18against Michigan State. Spread is now seven and a half with

00:22some uncertainty around Rourke's status earlier this

00:25week, Joe. It was under that touchdown number. Now,

00:28Michigan State's been a decent underdog this year. Three, two,

00:31and one against the spread. Indiana's been a covering

00:34machine of their eight wins. All eight by at least two

00:38touchdowns. They have covered in seven of eight. The only

00:41non-cover. Week number one for IU against FIU won the game by

00:47twenty-four. Missed out on the cover by the hook as a twenty-

00:51four and a half point favorite. Can Indiana keep it rolling

00:54tomorrow in East Lansing against the Spartans? Yeah, so

01:00what? Indiana beat Washington last week by fourteen and

01:03didn't have their starting quarterback but you just said

01:06it, right? Curtis Rourke back behind center this week and

01:11call me crazy. Uh even Michigan State and Jonathan Smith who I

01:15love uh and I do think that program will be in over the

01:20next couple of seasons, a team in which is probably not going

01:24to find themselves getting points at home very often uh

01:27but in this particular case, Indiana being eight and all

01:30against the number. Their head coach uh Cignetti over 70% ATS

01:35and his coaching career at this level. Uh there is if it ain't

01:39broke then we don't fix it here on the early line and you know

01:43what? Indiana ain't broke and neither is them covering games.

01:47So, as far as I'm concerned, all in on Indiana in uh by

01:51double digits here against Michigan State. Joe, this is a

01:55game that the odds makers still do not have the belief in the

01:58Hoosiers as being the wagon that we have seen this year.

02:01The cover percentage, the cover margin is fifteen point seven

02:06points per game. That means they are are passing expectation

02:10by nearly three scores. A lot of people have poked holes in

02:13IU's resume and its strength of schedule. No doubt about it.

02:16It's a hundred and seventh in the country. It's the worst in

02:18the big ten at this point but it does get more difficult.

02:22This is a time for Indiana to prove it and if we know one

02:25thing about coach Sig, he's going to have the boys ready.

02:28Joe, completely agree with you about Michigan State. Jonathan

02:30Smith has this program trending in a positive direction. A

02:35couple of coaching lapses and some young miscues from their

02:38young quarterback in Aiden Childs cost them the Paul

02:41Bunyan trophy last week in Ann Arbor but they're moving in the

02:45right direction. Believe you me.

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