{"id":10232,"date":"2010-11-06T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10232"},"modified":"2010-11-06T02:49:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T07:49:41","slug":"football-picks-from-the-wiseguys-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/football-picks-from-the-wiseguys-3-10232\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Picks From the Wiseguys"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With No Jacory Harris on the field Wiseguys are fading the Hurricanes as one of their football picks on Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Maryland Terrapins are right in the thick of the ACC Atlantic race. Along with NC State and Florida State, the Terrapins have only 1 loss in conference play and currently sit at 6-2 for the season. They have a difficult road test this Saturday afternoon when they take on the Hurricanes in Miami.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes opened as 12 \u00bd point home favorites, but that has been steamed down to 7 \u00bd or 8 points, depending upon the book. The squares are currently playing Miami at just above 55%, which might be an indication of some buyback on the Hurricanes. There might be some sharp buyback on the way, but the wiseguys are a big reason for the line dropping 5 points off the opener. They\u2019re liking the Terrapins as one of their football picks<\/a>\u00a0this week, so consider backing Maryland in this cross-division ACC battle.<\/p>\n

The main reason for siding with Maryland is the absence of Miami\u2019s quarterback, Jacory Harris. Harris was knocked out of last week\u2019s devastating loss to Virginia. Diagnosed with a concussion, Harris will be held out of this weekend\u2019s game. Freshman Stephen Morris relieved Harris last week, and actually did an ok job. He had 2 touchdowns throwing and 1 rushing, along with 2 picks. Not too bad considering the situation.<\/p>\n

But Maryland is a much better team than Virginia, especially defensively. The Terrapin defense hasn\u2019t given up 100 yards rushing in their last 4 games. With Harris on the sidelines, look for Miami to try to establish their rushing game. But Maryland\u2019s front 7 is pretty darn good. The linebackers are especially tough and comprise one of the best units in the ACC.<\/p>\n

On the flip side, Miami\u2019s rush defense has been gashed all season long. In their home game against Florida State, the Hurricanes gave up 298 yards on the ground! Even lowly Virginia put up 185 rushing yards against Miami. And the Hurricanes will be lining up against an offense that loves to pound the football. Da\u2019Rel Scott and Davin Meggett are an effective one-two punch.<\/p>\n

The Terrapins have done a nice job taking care of the football. In their last 5 games, Maryland has just 3 turnovers and they all came against Clemson. In the other 4 games, Maryland didn\u2019t give away a single possession. Miami is a different story. Against Virginia alone, the Hurricanes had 5 costly turnovers. In their last 5 games, Miami has a total of 12 turnovers. To the Hurricanes\u2019 credit, though, they\u2019ve had a staggering 19 takeaways in their past 5 games. But Maryland is a ball control team, and it\u2019s hard to imagine Miami collecting more than 2 turnovers from the Terrapins. Conversely, with a freshman quarterback making his first start against a 6-2 team, look for the Miami offense to continue to turn the ball over.<\/p>\n

The Terps have come a long way from their 2-10 campaign last season. Ralph Friedgen has his boys playing some good football. They get Florida State and NC State at home to close the regular season, and therefore have a legitimate shot at winning the Atlantic division. They\u2019ll give Miami all they want in this football game. While they may come up short, anything more than 7 points is still a decent play. Consider following the wiseguys and backing the Terps with the points.<\/p>\n

The wiseguys at Maddux Sports have the best plays for the weekend. They\u2019re in the middle of another big college football run. Make sure you sign up for their premium, guaranteed winners so you know you\u2019ll be making a positive return on your sports investment.\u00a0 Visit the college football sports picks page and pick up the Saturday package which includes a rare 20 unit pick release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Maryland Terrapins are right in the thick of the ACC Atlantic race. Along with NC State and Florida State, the Terrapins have only 1 loss in conference play and currently sit at 6-2 for the season. They have a difficult road test this Saturday afternoon when they take on the Hurricanes in Miami. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":4104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[2274,2839,1358,1083,2808,29,2617,2524],"class_list":["post-10232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-college-football-odds","tag-football-picks","tag-maryland-terrapins","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-ncaa-betting","tag-ncaa-football","tag-reverse-action","tag-wiseguys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232","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=10232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10237,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions\/10237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}