Updated Miami vs. Rutgers odds: Pinstripe Bowl point spread
Prepare for some Thursday afternoon football as Miami (FL) and Rutgers will perform a matinee battle at Major League Baseball’s holiest grounds: Yankee Stadium.
Ahead of the 2023 Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl, an official point spread was released by FanDuel. Currently, they have Rutgers as the 1.5-point favorite to knock off the Hurricanes. Rutgers is also the small favorite on the money line at -118, while the ‘Canes are a hair behind at nearly dead even, -102. The over/under has been set at 41.5 total points.
How to watch Pinstripe Bowl
Time: Dec. 28, 2:15 p.m ET
Channel: ESPN, FuboTV
Location: Yankee Stadium, New York City, NY
For Miami, this is their second trip to the Pinstripe Bowl in the last several seasons. Heck, they’ll have played more games in Yankee Stadium since 2018 than they have in a handful of ACC opposing stadiums due to the nature of conference scheduling across divisions.
But they last faced Wisconsin in a game that every Hurricane fan hopefully forgot about, since the Badgers bulldozed The U en route to a dominant 35-3 victory where Miami passed for just 48 total yards and gave up 333 of them to Wisconsin on the ground alone, an effort led by a guy named Jonathan Taylor, who picked up 205 yards that day and thousands upon thousands more in the NFL.
Before that matchup, the last time Miami played a football game in the Bronx was 1962, when the Beatles released their first single and the Pinstripe Bowl was the Gotham Bowl, which Miami also lost vs. Nebraska in a 36-34 shootout.
Moving onto Rutgers, there is some history to announce: the Scarlet Knights have now tied Syracuse for the most all-time Pinstripe Bowl appearances with their third in 2023 — but their first as a member of the Big Ten.
Rutgers participated in the second-ever Pinstripe Bowl back in 2011, toppling Iowa by two scores to mark their first victory in the event, and the only one to date. Then, in 2013, the Knights were invited right back to NYC and this time faced Notre Dame in a similar game to the Iowa win, except with RU on the losing end.
It’s a football game in a baseball stadium between two programs with vastly different histories of success and vastly different identities overall. But that’s what bowl season is all about!