{"id":10206,"date":"2010-11-06T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10206"},"modified":"2010-11-06T02:42:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T07:42:11","slug":"free-college-football-picks-for-saturday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/free-college-football-picks-for-saturday-2-10206\/","title":{"rendered":"Free College Football Picks For Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We are fading Matt Barkley and the USC Trojans today for our Free college football picks for Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Arizona Sun Devils head to sunny southern California to take on the USC Trojans in Pac 10 play this Saturday. Both teams are 2-3 in conference play, and while Arizona State is still playing for a bowl birth, the Trojans\u2019 NCAA sanctions prevent them from partaking in the postseason.<\/p>\n

The Trojans opened as 7 point favorites, but the\u00a0college football lines\u00a0has trickled down to 5 \u00bd at most sites. The public is all over USC, playing the home team at better than 95%. That means the sharps are laying down some serious money on the Sun Devils in this match up. This type of reverse action is a good indication that the wiseguys have found a profitable read on the game. Although USC has a wealth of talent, consider fading this public favorite and following the sharps to the Sun Devils with the points.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s difficult to speculate on the collective mindset of a football team, it\u2019s hard to imagine USC being prepared for this game. For one, as mentioned above, the Trojans aren\u2019t able to play in a bowl game. So even though they come into the game with 5 wins, their season ends when they play their cross-town rivals \u2013 the UCLA Bruins \u2013 in early December. While no one likes losing, the Trojans don\u2019t have the motivation to win like other teams. Namely, Arizona State.<\/p>\n

The one game that really mattered to USC went down last week against Oregon. If the Trojans had toppled the mighty Ducks, they could make a claim to being the best team in the Pac 10, regardless of their bowl status. They had their bye week to prepare for Oregon and gave Oregon a good game. But in the end, the defense was too weak and the offense couldn\u2019t score in the fourth quarter. USC was visibly dejected, perhaps because they put all of their eggs in the Oregon basket.<\/p>\n

Now, with no chance to play in a bowl and after losing their one shot at making a national statement, USC hosts an underrated Sun Devil team. All season, Lane Kiffin has had a difficult time getting his players to commit to the 2010 campaign. The game after losing to Oregon is going to be the most difficult time to get his team to focus.<\/p>\n

Arizona State shouldn\u2019t have any trouble locking into this game. They\u2019re sitting at .500 after throttling Washington State, easily covering the spread by 3 touchdowns. The team has a decent chance of going to a bowl, but the problem is that they still have to play Stanford at home and their instate rival, Arizona, in Tucson. If you chalk up those two games as losses, that means the Sun Devils need to win against UCLA at home and at USC in this game. In other words, if Arizona State hopes to make a bowl, this amounts to being a must win game.<\/p>\n

ASU has played reasonably well on the road. They should\u2019ve beaten Wisconsin in Madison, but some bad bounces and a blocked PAT led to a 1 point loss. They lost to Oregon State by a field goal before James Rodgers was hurt and beat Washington by 10. At Cal, they got taken behind the woodshed, but the Bears are a great home team. They\u2019ve played well in 3 of their 4 road games and could easily be 6-2. And don\u2019t forget \u2013 the Sun Devils have played Oregon better than any other team. They put up 597 yards against the Ducks, and the only reason they lost was 7 turnovers. This is a solid football team that might be the most underrated team in the Pac 10.<\/p>\n

All things considered, it\u2019s easy to understand why the sharps are backing ASU \u2013 they\u2019re the team to play here. The squares are killing the Trojans, but take a long, hard look at the Sun Devils in this game. They\u2019re the team with something to play for.<\/p>\n

Maddux Sports has another Saturday card full of winning college football picks, and the games are guaranteed winners including a rare 20 unit pick. The professionals at Maddux have been on a tear all season long. Let them build your bankroll and make you some extra spending cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Arizona Sun Devils head to sunny southern California to take on the USC Trojans in Pac 10 play this Saturday. Both teams are 2-3 in conference play, and while Arizona State is still playing for a bowl birth, the Trojans\u2019 NCAA sanctions prevent them from partaking in the postseason. The Trojans opened as 7 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":4008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[439,1923,2274,2620,2386,2814,472],"class_list":["post-10206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-arizona-state-sun-devils","tag-college-football-betting","tag-college-football-odds","tag-fade-public-favorite","tag-free-college-football-picks","tag-ncaa-football-lines","tag-usc-trojans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10333,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions\/10333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}