Michigan football opens as 3-score favorite over Indiana
Michigan football heads to Bloomington in Week 6 for a Big Ten East showdown with the Indiana Hoosiers. With Week 5 in the rearview mirror across the country, Vegas oddsmakers are starting to trick out the odds and betting lines for next weekend’s games.
Michigan has opened as an 18.5 favorite against the Indiana Hoosiers, according to opening lines released from FanDuel Sportsbook. The over/under for total points scored was not available at the time of this posting.
Michigan is 3-2 against the spread so far this season. They covered in wins against Colorado State (-30.5, 51-7 W), UConn (-47.5, 59-0 W) and at Iowa (-10.5, 27-14 W), while the opposition covered in wins over Hawai’i (-53.5, 56-10 W) and Maryland (-17, 34-27 W). Indiana is 1-4 against the spread so far this season.
The Hoosiers bring a 3-2 resume into Saturday’s contest in Bloomington. They started the season 3-0 with wins over Illinois, Idaho and Western Kentucky, but have fallen in consecutive weeks to Cincinnati and Nebraska.
Michigan had a 24-game win streak against Indiana that was snapped in 2020, but got back on the winning side of the series with a 29-7 win in Ann Arbor last season. The Wolverines lead the all-time series with a 60-10 record.
Saturday’s Michigan game in Bloomington is set for a 12 p.m. ET kick on Fox for the third weekend in a row. Gus Johnson, Joel Klatt and Jenny Taft will once again handle broadcasting duties.
Michigan imposes will in victory at Iowa
Michigan football moved to 5-0 after a 27-14 win over Iowa at Kinnick Stadium on Saturday afternoon, its first in that venue since 2005. The Hawkeyes have a way of dragging you down to their level, especially in their home building. Michigan played the Uno reverse card on them Saturday and set the tone themselves.
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The effort was led by a tremendous showing from the offensive line, which was emblematic of a blue-collar, lunch pail game from Michigan. The Wolverines have always embraced it, but it was on full display Saturday in Iowa City.
“It’s a great win to keep moving on and improve when you win,” head coach Jim Harbaugh said. “We can get better at all those things. Really good after a win, especially as a Big Ten win, especially against a team that really prides itself on a blue-collar mentality. Hard-working team, physical team, hustling team.
“I’ve always been enamored with it. Always try to have our teams be about that, that blue-collar mentality. Even looked it up one time. The whole blue-collar started in Iowa. I can’t remember the town. Somewhere on the west side of the state. Maybe Des Moines, I think. Smaller town. Guys were wearing blue jumpsuits, working in a mine. Call them blue-collar workers, people that do manual labor, people that do work.
“We respect that, we try to be about that, and when you’re playing a team that’s about that, it’s exciting and challenging to challenge yourselves against that kind of mentality. And I think our guys fared really well.”
