{"id":10030,"date":"2010-10-28T22:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T03:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10030"},"modified":"2010-10-28T19:32:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T00:32:30","slug":"missouri-tigers-at-nebraska-cornhuskers-ncaa-football-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/missouri-tigers-at-nebraska-cornhuskers-ncaa-football-picks-10030\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Tigers at Nebraska Cornhuskers NCAA Football Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Missouri Tigers at Nebraska Cornhuskers
\nSaturday, 10\/30\/2010, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Nebraska -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Nebraska -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 54.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 56
\nCurrent Moneyline: \u00a0 Nebraska -310 \/ Missouri +260<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nebraska has yet to cover the number at home this season and is still a 7.5-point home favorite against undefeated Missouri this Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Missouri picked up arguably its biggest win in school history last week with a 36-27 upset victory over then-BCS leading Oklahoma.\u00a0 The Tigers coaching staff hopes the players didn\u2019t go overboard in enjoying the victory and lose focus on this week\u2019s contest.\u00a0 \u201cThere will be some more distractions since we won that game.\u00a0 We expected that,\u201d defensive back Carl Gettis said.\u00a0 \u201cIt was a good win, but it\u2019s over with now.\u201d\u00a0 The Tigers knew they needed to create turnovers against a Sooners that ranked second nationally in turnover margin and did just that by forcing three miscues.\u00a0 Missouri recorded its 10th and 11th interceptions of the year last Saturday after having just eight all of last season.\u00a0 Head coach Gary Pinkel normally gets his teams up for road games, posting a 10-3 record since 2007 away from home.\u00a0 The squad is 5-2 ATS this season and the college football lines page has them listed as a 7.5-point underdog.<\/p>\n

The Tigers aren\u2019t newcomers to the BCS-game this time of year and Pinkel can draw on experience of when his program was No. 1 in the standings on November 25, 2007, before dropping a contest to Oklahoma in the Big 12 championship.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s just about getting your mind focused and getting your team focused to play it\u2019s very, very best,\u201d he commented.\u00a0 Missouri\u2019s defense has had the eye on the prize all year and currently ranks first in the Big 12 Conference, fifth nationally in scoring defense, allowing just 13.14 points per game.\u00a0 The 92 points allowed by the Tigers through seven games is the lowest since the 1973 season.<\/p>\n

Nebraska returns to Memorial Stadium for a Big 12 North showdown with the Tigers and the winner knows it will take a major step towards the conference championship game.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re all big, they\u2019re all big.\u00a0 This is the next one.\u00a0 Our guys are worried about what to do today to keep getting better as a football team,\u201d said head coach Bo Pelini.\u00a0 \u201cIf we do, we\u2019ll be ready.\u201d\u00a0 The Cornhuskers hold a 64-35-3 all-time edge between the two schools, including a dominating 33-15-1 advantage in Lincoln.\u00a0 Surprisingly enough, none of the last 11 meetings between these two rivals have been decided by single digits.\u00a0 The squad is 3-4 ATS this season and 0-4 ATS in home contests.<\/p>\n

The Cornhuskers impressed offensively in a 51-41 when over then-No. 17 Oklahoma State and quarterback Taylor Martinez led the team by his arm, not his legs.\u00a0 Martinez threw for 323 yards and also rank for a team-high 112 yards, giving him 870 this season.\u00a0 The win marked the team\u2019s sixth-straight road victory and now will look to cover the spread at home for the first time this year.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve been pretty good on the road.\u00a0 Not that we haven\u2019t been good at home,\u201d receiver Mike McNeill said.\u00a0 \u201cJust little things, for whatever reason have made us play differently here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bettors will find the Tigers 4-10 ATS mark following an ATS win alarming, while the Cornhuskers are 0-6-1 ATS in their last seven games as a home favorite.<\/p>\n

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Missouri Tigers at Nebraska Cornhuskers Saturday, 10\/30\/2010, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Nebraska -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Nebraska -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 54.5 Current Total:\u00a0 56 Current Moneyline: \u00a0 Nebraska -310 \/ Missouri +260 Missouri picked up arguably its biggest win in school history last week with a 36-27 upset victory over then-BCS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3267,475,3566,3319,433,1143,3375],"class_list":["post-10030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-bo-pelini","tag-gary-pinkel","tag-memorial-stadium","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-taylor-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10032,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions\/10032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}