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Newsstand: Betting odds revealed for Big Ten title game

Anthony Broomeby: Anthony Broome11/27/23anthonytbroome
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The Michigan Wolverines will go for their third-straight Big Ten Championship on Saturday with a showdown with the Iowa Hawkeyes looming. The game is a rematch of the 2021 Big Ten title game, where U-M dismantled Iowa by a score of 42-3.

According to FanDuel Sportsbook, Michigan comes into Saturday’s contest as a 22.5-point favorite with the over/under for total points scored set at 35.5. Oddsmakers are clearly expecting a hapless Iowa offense to stay down while Michigan handles its business in a relatively low-scoring game.

Saturday’s game is also a rematch of last year’s meeting in Iowa city, a 27-14 Michigan victory. Iowa knows it has its work cut out for the contest, but they know what’s on the line.

“Yeah, we’ve been here before,” coach Kirk Ferentz said Sunday. “We’ve actually won a couple of games like this in the last 25 years. We’ve got to play our best football. And, you know, anything is possible in sports. I think we’ve all seen that.

“If you look at our best players historically, and we’ve had some really good players come through here, not many of them showed up in a limousine at our place. Most of them drove in a used car or clunker, and they’ve all got a lot of good stories.”

Saturday’s game in Indianapolis kicks off a little after 8 p.m. ET on FOX.

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Michigan quote of the day

“My focus has been with the team the entire time. It’s been a tremendous season. We’re right in the exact position that we hoped for and that we worked so hard to be in and now it’s onward. We’ve accomplished many of our goals, but not all of them yet. Some still are out there. Beating Michigan State, beating Penn State, beating Ohio State, winning the Big Ten East. Now the next is winning the conference championship. And that’s where our focus is. I would say it’s good to be back, but I never left.”

– Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh on returning from Big Ten-imposed three-game suspension

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