The Indiana Hoosiers and Ohio State Buckeyes do battle Saturday in a week 11 Big Ten college football matchup from Ohio Stadium.
The Indiana Hoosiers will be out to bounce back from a 6-game losing skid, falling to 3-6 on the year after a 45-14 loss to Penn State in their last game. Connor Bazelak has thrown for 2,099 yards, 12 touchdowns and 9 interceptions on 54.9% passing while Shaun Shivers has rushed for 399 yards with 4 touchdowns and Josh Henderson has 286 rushing yards with 3 scores. Cam Camper has a team-high 46 catches for 569 receiving yards while Emery Simmons has 32 grabs for 335 yards and another pair of Hoosiers have 200+ receiving yards and five more have 100+ receiving yards. On defense, Aaron Casey has a team-high 69 total tackles while Cam Jones has 54 total tackles. Dasan McCullough has a team-high 4 sacks and Noah Pierre has 3 sacks as well on the year.
The Ohio State Buckeyes will try to remain unbeaten after a 21-7 win over Northwestern in their last game. C.J. Stroud has thrown for 2,453 yards, 29 touchdowns and 4 interceptions on 67.9% passing while Miyan Williams has a team-high 636 rushing yards and 12 TDs and TreVeyon Henderson also has 552 rushing yards and 6 scores as well this season. Marvin Harrison Jr. leads the Buckeyes with 53 catches for 834 receiving yards while Emeka Egbuka has 49 catches for 794 receiving yards and 7 touchdowns. Julian Fleming also has 361 receiving yards with 6 TDs while Cade Stover has 321 receiving yards. On defense, Tommy Eichenberg has a team-high 85 total tackles with 53 solo tackles while Ohio State’s defense as a whole has 22 sacks and 10 interceptions this season.
Indiana is 0-5 ATS in their last 5 games following an ATS loss and 0-5 ATS in their last 5 road games while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 games against a team with a winning record. Ohio State is 3-0-1 ATS in their last 4 home games and 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games in November while the over is 6-1 in their last 7 games overall.
I get the case to be made for either side here, but I’m going to side with the over in this one. Laying almost six touchdowns with Ohio State, I could see the Buckeyes winning by 42, but I could also see Indiana doing enough to sneak in the backdoor to keep within the massive number. Either way, I see Ohio State getting into the high-40s once again, but I also think we could get two scores from Indiana which would be more than enough to push us over the number. Give me the over here.