{"id":473,"date":"2018-12-28T19:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/?p=473"},"modified":"2018-12-28T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:22:00","slug":"2018-music-city-bowl-auburn-v-purdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/2018-music-city-bowl-auburn-v-purdue\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Music City Bowl Auburn v Purdue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2018 Music City Bowl SEC v Big 10<\/h2>\n

The 2018 Music City Bowl looks like being a good old quarterback\u00a0shootout with Auburn’s Jarrett Stidham keen to prove he is the player everyone thought he was up against David Blough who has been one of the most improved QBs this season, boasting a 151.8 rating. However\u00a0Purdue’s schedule certainly helped here.<\/p>\n

Auburn were\u00a0a pre-season dark horse\u00a0for the National Championship in some people’s\u00a0books (we had them at 12<\/a> in our\u00a0preseason rank) and\u00a0although\u00a0they\u00a0will be\u00a0a\u00a0bit disappointed with their\u00a07-5 finish, it is hard to find too much fault in their defeats. A 1 point loss at home to LSU thanks to a last-second field goal and losses at Miss State, Georgia & Alabama\u00a0can be forgiven, leaving only that\u00a0headscratcher against Tennessee, where they gave up 3 turnovers.<\/p>\n

Wins wise that early one over Rose Bowl bound\u00a0Washington still stands out and beating Texas A&M who ended\u00a0up ranked 20 in the CFP rankings was not too shabby either. Their other wins were ok too and\u00a0in our opinion, if they had played Purdue’s schedule they would be around 10 wins.<\/p>\n

Purdue have been up and down this season – losing their opening three games, then going on a four-win streak which included wins against Boston College and Ohio State! They then lost 3 out of five limping into bowl eligibility with a final game win against Indiana. Had they been playing a Group of Five team we might have given them a chance but up against an SEC team, we can’t see how they can win.\u00a0David Blough\u00a0will probably spend quite a bit of the night running for his life and although the spread is only 3 points we think it should be closer to 10.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, we will see plenty of points but we don’t\u00a0see this one being close.<\/p>\n

Our prediction is for Auburn to win 45-21<\/p>\n

For those who like to keep track of these things, we are 9-10 so far in our predictions – not too good :(.<\/p>\n

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