Free Football Picks: Northwestern at Purdue

October 2, 2009

Bob Wingerter has gone 5-1 on his last six with college football picks and he is looking to continue with his domination of the football spreads this weekend. If you aren’t ready to step up to a premium subscription, at least take a look at what he has for his free football pick on Saturday. It’s on the Northwestern/Purdue game which shows the Boilermakers as 7.5 point favorites. What do first-season head coaches point for? The Notre Dame game, among other things, which Purdue covered last Saturday night. Among other things they point for is their first homecoming game. This one comes with Northwestern having a lot of new faces and injury absences from their defense, most notably in the front seven, at a time when Purdue has made strides in its run game, a departure from the old regime, which was basketball on grass that didn’t last. Last season’s meeting spun out of control for Purdue. They trailed it by more than 30 points at one time. The starting QB Curtis Painter was yanked because he stanked, then the back-up Joey Elliot separated his shoulder and could not continue in Painter’s place, so the disgraced Painter had to go back in and mop up his own mess. Elliot is now the man for the Boilermakers, who are deep at the running back spot and will not have to worry about the opposing passing of C.J. Bacher anymore, who beat them with 4 TD tosses last season. Mike Kafka, this season’s Northwestern QB, has been throwing for big numbers but it’s a lot of yards and not enough points. Given the weather forecast he might be throwing a wet ball in this game, and that ought to get interesting. TAKE PURDUE MINUS HERE.

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