{"id":10720,"date":"2010-11-17T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T16:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10720"},"modified":"2010-11-17T11:31:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T16:31:43","slug":"mac-football-predictions-bowling-green-falcons-vs-toledo-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/mac-football-predictions-bowling-green-falcons-vs-toledo-rockets-10720\/","title":{"rendered":"MAC Football Predictions: Bowling Green Falcons vs Toledo Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bowling Green Falcons at Toledo Rockets
\nWednesday, 11\/17\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Toledo -10.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Toledo -10.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 55.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 54
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Toledo -400 \/ Bowling Green +330<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"College<\/a>Bowling Green\u2019s bowl game is tonight against the Toledo Rockets with a 2-8 overall record and 1-5 mark in Mid-American Conference play.\u00a0 \u201cTo me, it isn\u2019t motivation to ruin it for someone else,\u201d said head coach Dave Clawson.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re focused on our program.\u00a0 We try to always have the focus of our program year-round.\u201d\u00a0 The two schools are fewer than 30 miles apart along Interstate 75 in Northwest Ohio and will meet for the 74th time in the series.\u00a0 The Falcons are in the second year of Clawson\u2019s reign on the sidelines, going 9-14 overall and 7-7 in conference play during that time.\u00a0 Bowling Green is a perfect 4-0 ATS as an underdog of 10.5 to 21 points this season and 16-5 ATS in their last 21 chances in this situation.\u00a0 The college football lines page has them in that range currently.<\/p>\n

The Falcons have had all kinds of trouble on defense by allowing 32.9 points and 420.5 yards per game, ranking 11th and 10th in the conference.\u00a0 Bowling Green has been able to force turnovers, ranking first in the MAC with 28 takeaways, including 12 interceptions.\u00a0 The team will need all things to break its way in hopes of winning its fourth consecutive game in this series.\u00a0 \u201cAs a Bowling Green Falcon, we are used to winning,\u201d said junior safety Jovan Leacock.\u00a0 \u201cWe don\u2019t accept losing at all, but what can you do?\u00a0 You have to look forward to next week and plan as hard as possible for next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toledo can only hope to bounce back from a 65-30 loss at the hands of the Northern Illinois Huskies in its last game, as the team brings a 6-4 record and 5-1 mark in conference play into Wednesday\u2019s rivalry game.\u00a0 \u201cTo give up 65 points in a game like this, there\u2019s no way you can be successful,\u201d said head coach Tim Beckman.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t think we played very good at all on defense.\u00a0 We just didn\u2019t make the plays and make tackles.\u201d\u00a0 It remains to be seen which direction this team will take in the final two weeks due to its chance of reaching the MAC championship game being seemingly out of reach.\u00a0 Toledo is 2-2 ATS as a favorite of 10.5 to 21 points the last three years and 11-11 ATS versus conference opponents over that span.<\/p>\n

The Rockets will not be playing the Falcons in the regular-season finale for the first time since 1999.\u00a0 For the second straight season, Toledo will face its arch-rival without its starting quarterback.\u00a0 Senior Aaron Opelt missed last year\u2019s game due to injury, being replaced by Austin Dantin, who completed 23-of-38 passes for 326 yards in a 38-24 defeat.\u00a0 This squad also has the ability of forcing turnovers, ranking third in the nation in interceptions (16), while being tied for ninth in the country in turnover margin (+1.0).<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Falcons are 10-2 ATS in November, while the Rockets are 8-3 ATS following a SU loss.<\/p>\n

Get into the action with the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports all week long!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bowling Green Falcons at Toledo Rockets Wednesday, 11\/17\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Toledo -10.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Toledo -10.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 55.5 Current Total:\u00a0 54 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Toledo -400 \/ Bowling Green +330 Bowling Green\u2019s bowl game is tonight against the Toledo Rockets with a 2-8 overall record and 1-5 mark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3773,3776,3689,2559,3892,2756],"class_list":["post-10720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-bowling-green-falcons","tag-dave-clawson","tag-mac","tag-mid-american-conference","tag-tim-beckman","tag-toledo-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720","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=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10721,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions\/10721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}