Free Football Picks: Indiana at Iowa

November 5, 2009

Robbie Gainous of Cajun Sports has long been recognized as an outstanding college football handicapping service. Don’t leave this Saturday up to luck, pick up a subscription of his college football selections and let him help you cash in with more money this Saturday.

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

This is a revenge game for Iowa they were upset 22 to 17 as an eight-point favorite last year by this Wildcats team. The Hawkeyes surely want to defeat the Cats and revenge last seasons’ upset loss but they may get caught anticipating ahead as they have the biggest game of the season and maybe in the career of HC Ferentz next week at the “Shoe” versus 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 listen when the sports media tells you how great you are and if this leads to self-satisfaction in the Iowa players they may well wake up on Sunday with another game to revenge in 2010.

The home has 3 straight losses in this series as Iowa has lost back-to-back home games to the Wildcats as an 8 point favorite last year and a 20 pt favorite back in 2006. The underdog is 9-2 at the pay window and has four straight upset triumphs. Iowa is 1-5 ATS as double-digit conference chalk, 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 consecutive 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 versus Indiana the Hawkeyes were behind 21 to 7 at the half and got a little home cooking from the refs to help secure a 42 to 24 win. The refs 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 maybe served a different outcome in last week’s game.

We will back the Cats here as this spread is blown up and we trust the Iowa players may have begun to believe 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.

If you liked this article, you may also be interested in:

Posted by Steve Janus · Filed Under Football Handicapping 

Comments

Got something to say?