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In East Lansing, Caesar's Sportsbook has the Spartans at a 22 and a half point favorite
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with the over under of 54 and a half. And just for those that care, Michigan State was pretty good against the spread last year
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9, 3 and 1 against the spread, obviously 11 and 2 overall record
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They own a 12-game winning streak over Western Michigan. The last time that they lost to Western Michigan was 1919, so it's been a while
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And Western Michigan is 0 and 15 against top 25 teams since the turn of the century
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Defensively, our Spartans led the Big Ten with 38 sacks. And also, when it came to trying to carry and run the ball on the Spartans, not very good
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3.4 yards per carry, only nine rushing touchdowns allowed. And Western Michigan, they lost their quarterback, Caleb Elbe
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And their start receiver, Sky Moore. So you've got, you know, you got to replace a whole bunch of yards from both those guys against a defense that is just waiting to pin their ears back and come get you
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Yeah. And I mean, they're starting a redshirt freshman in this game, which I think right there kind of makes it a non-starter for me
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And Michigan State, I think similar to Michigan, they want to come out and prove something
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know there's obviously a lot of talk about losing Kenneth Walker bring in
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Derek Roussard Jalenberger and bring back Jaden Reed they also got Trey Mosley
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and they got a tight end they excited about from Illinois Daniel Barker is I think his name so I think Michigan State going to come out and want to put the beat down on Western Now Peyton Thorne might want to show out in front of his spother a little bit
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And I think just having the home night game opener, like, you don't want that to be boring
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You know what I mean? Like, they want to come out and give the fans something to be excited about, put a little pizzazz on the wind
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I think they will, and I think it will end up, I think they'll end up covering
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the 22 and a half, it was at 21 and a half, and so it's going up ever so slightly
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But I think they'll end up covering, and I can see, you know, like a 45 to 17 game or something
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Maybe in 45-7 if the defense comes. Yeah, so Western Michigan, true
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Western Michigan, they're only returning two starters from their offensive line from last year
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So you got a whole new line coming in, basically, and a Michigan defense that..
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the state. Apparently, according to, sorry, Michigan's a game. So what I
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according to Tuck is focusing on putting pressure on the quarterback, which will take pressure off of their secondary
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which obviously needed a lot of work. They were the worst in all the football last year
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So between those two, it doesn't look good for Western Michigan. So are you
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with all that information, are you picking the Spartans to cover that 22 and a half points
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free? Yeah. I think that the defensive front seven, I mean, talked about it seems like four shows in a row now I think the defensive front seven is going to be pretty good and
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cautiously optimistic about the secondary you have a mere speed you have Ronald Williams who played well at the end of last year he started off rough and then you have Xavier Henderson coming back so that three of your kind of four back guys at least and the the linebackers couldn cover at all last year And this year that probably still a bit of an issue
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But you bring in guys like Winman and Brulet who should help you, at least in that category
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So I'm a little bit more optimistic about the past defense than I think some are
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but I'm really confident that the front seven will do what they need to do against Western Michigan
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to make this a, like a true, true blowout. All right. So, yes, like you mentioned, Peyton Thorne, hoping to have a big game as he's going not against his dad, Jeff
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who's obviously the offensive coordinator for Western Michigan. So he's not going to be facing off against him, but he wants to ball out in front of his dad, obviously
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So over under, over under 275 yards. I'll go under 275 is a hard number to hitting college
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Okay, over under two and a half touchdowns for Peyton. I'll go all over two touchdowns
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I think Reed might have. Okay. Honestly. Well, so that's you know, that's where you get, you know, the
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passing versus the rushing. So on the rushing side of the ball, over under
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170 yards rushing from Michigan State. I got under 170. Okay, and same question
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for touchdowns, two and a half, over under. I go over. We sharing the wealth, or is
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is one of these running backs, the guy that's going to be putting it in the end zone each time between Broussard and Berger
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I think they'll share the wealth. I wouldn't even be surprised if, like, Elijah Collins got a rushing touchdown in there
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Jaden Reed, Jet Sleep or something like that, bait and Thorne running it in
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So yeah I don think that all the running backs will get one But I think just between the options that they have there will be three rushing touchdowns
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All right. I think Peyton's going to get over 275 yards. I don't know about the touchdowns
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I think the Spartans over, what I say, 175 for rushing. So I'm going to go over for both of those as well
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And I think over for two and a half rushing touchdowns. I think two passing touchdowns for Peyton Thorne in this one
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I'm going to say under the two and a half of the passing touchdowns for him. The Spartans should cover
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They should. But if they win 31 to 10, that's not a cover
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It's a little disappointing. It's a win. It's a comfortable win. It's, you want 45 points at least for the Spartan offense
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Under 17 for the defense allowed. Nothing a half. And they just like, whatever in the second half
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And they're like, let's just run. then I guess whatever, but like you can't, you can't be out here up 17 to 7 going into the fourth quarter and then pouring on two touchdowns or something
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Like that, that would be disappointing. Done of a more. That's what I'm saying. Speaking from experience
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You're right. All right, fine. I'll drink the green Kool-Aid with you and have all the faith in Peyton to really, you know, he had a good year last year and he's going to step it up even more this year
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So I'll pick the Spartans to cover the 22 and a half. as well. Hey, Ryan Griffin here
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