COLUMBUS \u2014 Ohio State is fresh off a massive top-five road win over Penn State. Now the Buckeyes will are set to face one of the worst teams in the Big Ten in the return to the Horseshoe.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ll take on Purdue on Saturday afternoon, and they\u2019ll do so as a 38.5-point favorite, according to the folks at Fanduel Sportsbook<\/a>. The total has been set at 52.5.<\/p>\n Saturday after the game against Penn State, the networks announced that Ohio State will face the Boilermakers in the premier time slot for the Big Ten, just one week after the Buckeyes took down previously-undefeated Penn State in Happy Valley on Saturday. Last week, the Buckeyes played Nebraska as part of FOX\u2019s Big Noon Kickoff coverage as well.<\/p>\n Purdue is 1-7 on the season, and the Boilermakers have lost seven straight after winning their season opener. They\u2019re coming off an overtime loss to Northwestern at home.<\/p>\n + Ohio State is 4-4 against the spread this season Aug. 31 \u2013\u00a0Akron<\/a>\u00a0(W 52-6) The post Buckeyes open as very heavy favorite in home game vs. Purdue<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COLUMBUS \u2014 Ohio State is fresh off a massive top-five road win over Penn State….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Ohio State at Penn State betting notes, trends<\/h2>\n
+ Purdue is also 2-6 against the number
+ The Buckeyes are 2-1 in their last three games against Purdue
+ Ohio State beat Purdue 41-7 in West Lafayette last year
+ The total has gone over in four of the eight Ohio State games so far
+ The total has gone over in five of Purdue\u2019s eight games this year
+ Ohio State has not lost to an unranked team at home since it lost to Virginia Tech in 2014<\/p>\n2024 Ohio State Football Schedule<\/h2>\n
Sept. 7 \u2013 Western Michigan (W 56-0)
Sept. 14 \u2013 Idle
Sept. 21 \u2013 Marshall (W 49-14)
Sept. 28 \u2013 at Michigan State (W 38-7)
Oct. 5 \u2013 Iowa (W 35-7)
Oct. 12 \u2013 at Oregon (L 32-31)
Oct. 19 \u2013 Idle
Oct. 26 \u2013 Nebraska (W 21-17)
Nov. 2 \u2013 at Penn State (W 20-13)
Nov. 9 \u2013 Purdue (Noon, FOX)
Nov. 16 \u2013 at Northwestern (Noon OR 3:30 p.m., TV TBD)
Nov. 23 \u2013 Indiana (TBD)
Nov. 30 \u2013 Michigan (Noon, FOX)<\/p>\n