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Last Years Pick: Kansas -9, Win

Insight Bowl Opening Odds: Minnesota -3 Total 48 - For live up to date Odds Checkout Diamond Sportsbook and use bonus code DSI100 and get $100 Free Play Cash on your opening deposit of $100!

This game looks like a yawner on paper as both teams come into this game with a record of 6-6 and neither team has impressed this year on the field. Thanks to a crazy amount of bowl games there will always be room for two .500 teams trying to get that one last win and a bowl victory. 

Minnesota has been here before and in fact they played here last year but for Iowa St they are relishing playing in this game after finishing just 2-10 last year. Day after day Iowa State quarterback Austen Arnaud will run the same plays against the same opponents. But in December it’s a good kind of tedious. This is the first time Arnaud, and most of the Cyclone roster, have been able to practice this late in the year preparing for a bowl game. “Think about where we were last year, 2-10, sitting at home,” Arnaud said. “What we are doing is embracing the fact that we are practicing and have an opportunity to play on New Year’s Eve and get ourselves a win.”  

But before ISU (6-6) takes on Minnesota (6-6) in the Insight Bowl on Dec. 31, the Cyclones will have gone through several weeks of practice that coaches and players compare to a winter version of spring football.  

“Right now is all about developing both fifth-year seniors playing their last game and true freshmen going through their first season and bowl preparation,” Rhoads said. 
“Right now, it’s as the whole season has been, about improvement.”  

When you look at these numbers across the board they seem even except for a glaring problem with Minnesota on the road. In road games they have had problems on offense as they average just 13 points a game. This is a road game and that could mean trouble! The Golden Gophers are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 Bowl games as a favorite and 3-7 ATS in their last 10 non-conference games. The Cyclones are 10-2 ATS in their last 12 vs. Big Ten and 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games following a straight up loss. Take the small number in this contest.  

Insight Bowl Pick: Iowa St. +3

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