{"id":10194,"date":"2010-11-03T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10194"},"modified":"2010-11-03T11:59:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T16:59:19","slug":"ncaa-football-picks-rutgers-scarlet-knights-at-south-florida-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-football-picks-rutgers-scarlet-knights-at-south-florida-bulls-10194\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Football Picks: Rutgers Scarlet Knights at South Florida Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rutgers Scarlet Knights at South Florida Bulls
\nWednesday, 11\/3\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 South Florida -10
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 South Florida -10.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 41.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 42
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 South Florida -430 \/ Rutgers +360<\/strong><\/p>\n

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South Florida enters Wednesday night's contest as a double-digit favorite against Rutgers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rutgers continues Big East Conference play with a trip to Tampa, Florida and Raymond James Stadium on Wednesday night.\u00a0 The Scarlet Knights have had a much needed 10-day break between a 41-21 road loss to the Pitt Panthers and the news that one of its players was paralyzed from an on-field tackle.\u00a0 The school has helped set up the \u201cEric LeGrand Believe Fund\u201d to support him and his family during the recovery process.\u00a0 \u00a0 The team has won four straight games versus the Bulls and lead the all-time series 4-1.\u00a0 Last season, the Scarlet Knights shutout USF 31-0 in an ESPN Thursday night primetime contest.\u00a0 The rushing attack has averaged 169.6 yards per game in the series\u2019 history.\u00a0 Rutgers has also won four consecutive games in the state of Florida and fifteen players on the current roster hail from the Sunshine State.\u00a0 The team is 7-3 ATS as an underdog the past three years and the college football lines page has them getting double-digits.<\/p>\n

The Rutgers offense offense has struggled all season long and the line hasn\u2019t been able to protect the quarterback, surrendering an NCAA-worst 4.7 sacks per game.\u00a0 Quarterback Chas Dodd is the fourth-ranked true freshman quarterback in the nation in passing efficiency and is 58-of-110 passing for 817 yards and five touchdowns in six games.\u00a0 Dodd\u2019s first two starts were better than any quarterback during the Greg Schiano era at Rutgers, going 36-for-59 for 573 yards and four touchdowns against Connecticut and Army.\u00a0 Defensively, the unit remains tough on third downs, ranking eighth nationally by limiting the opposition to a 30.1 percent conversion rate.<\/p>\n

South Florida is 4-3 overall and 1-2 in Big East Conference play, while looking to secure the 100th victory in program history.\u00a0 The Bulls have a chance to push its conference record to 2-2 and stand along in third place.\u00a0 It also gives them an opportunity of finishing over .500 in the league for the first time in three years.\u00a0 \u201cThey understand what they\u2019ve got to get done and the way this football team has kind of owned us, especially the last two years,\u201d said head coach Skip Holtz.\u00a0 In his first year at the helm, Holtz is hoping to draw off his 51-32 conference record in his 11 years as a head coach and two championships in Conference USA.\u00a0 The tam is 2-4 ATS this season and 12-17 ATS over the last three years.<\/p>\n

The Bulls defense has been keeping the team in games all season, allowing just 18.6 points per game, which is tied for 24th-best in college football.\u00a0 South Florida has held four of its seven opponents to 14 points or less.\u00a0 A key for tonight\u2019s game is pressuring the opponents\u2019 awful offensive line, with the unit\u2019s 3.0 sacks per game tied for ninth nationally and tied for first in the Big East.\u00a0 Quarterback B.J. Daniels tallied his fifth career game with a rushing and passing touchdown in the team\u2019s 38-30 road win over Cincinnati.\u00a0 A key tonight is getting a rushing game going that managed just 92 yards against the Bearcats.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in finding the Scarlet Knights with a 4-1 ATS mark following a bye week, while the Bulls are 5-2 ATS as a home favorite of 10.5 points or more.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss a single game from the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports and get winning picks all month long!\u00a0 We have been hot this season and have released another winner on tonights ESPN contest, dont bet this game with out our advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rutgers Scarlet Knights at South Florida Bulls Wednesday, 11\/3\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 South Florida -10 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 South Florida -10.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 41.5 Current Total:\u00a0 42 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 South Florida -430 \/ Rutgers +360 Rutgers continues Big East Conference play with a trip to Tampa, Florida and Raymond James […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3356,2497,3681,430,3680,2500,1155],"class_list":["post-10194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-b-j-daniels","tag-big-east-conference","tag-chas-dodd","tag-greg-schiano","tag-raymond-james-stadium","tag-rutgers-scarlet-knights","tag-south-florida-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194","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=10194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10214,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions\/10214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}