The Minnesota Golden Gophers and the Michigan Wolverines will meet on Saturday at Michigan Stadium,and this game will be televised on B10.

Wow, for the third time in five years, the Gophers lost to a Division 1-AA squad from the Dakotas. However, that pales in comparison to the news coming out of Minnesota that HC Jerry Kill is back in the hospital and this time for an extended stay as he deals with those scary seizure issues.

The demoralized Gophers must now hit the Big House without their head coach and that’s not good news for a team that has won only two of 27 games in this series since 1980 while covering only nine of those contests in the process.

Like Illinois above, the Wolves are also concluding a seasonopening five-game home stand but, unlike the Illini, they enter off a SU AND ATS win – and teams in this role are 4-0 ATS when favored by 21 or less betting points.

We also wouldn’t classify Kill’s speech after the loss to North Dakota State as inspirational. “Coach out-coached me, their team outplayed us and they deserved to win the game,” Kill said after the loss, adding “I feel bad for our students.

I feel bad for the state of Minnesota. I feel bad for our fans, and I feel bad for our kids.” We feel bad for anyone backing this team right now. Lay it if you play it.

Free betting pick: Michigan over Minnesota by 24

Sportsbook Odds: Wolverines as 20-point favorites versus the Golden Gophers, and the game's total is sitting at 54.