{"id":10762,"date":"2010-11-18T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10762"},"modified":"2010-11-18T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:49:00","slug":"college-football-picks-ucla-bruins-at-washington-huskies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-picks-ucla-bruins-at-washington-huskies-10762\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Picks: UCLA Bruins at Washington Huskies"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCLA Bruins at Washington Huskies
\nThursday, 11\/18\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Washington -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Washington -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 53
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 53.5
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Washington -130 \/ UCLA +11<\/strong>0<\/p>\n

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Washington Huskies QB Jake Locker joins 16 other seniors to play their final game at Husky Stadium tonight against the UCLA Bruins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UCLA enters Thursday night\u2019s contest versus the Washington Huskies with a 4-5 overall mark and holding onto visions of becoming a bowl team.\u00a0 The Bruins are hoping to improve the Pac-10\u2019s current standing of having just three teams bowl-eligible heading into this weekend.\u00a0 \u201cThe kids are excited about playing and finishing,\u201d said head coach Rick Neuheisel.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s that portion of the season where the guys who are fortunate enough to still be going are excited.\u201d\u00a0 The team is coming off an uplifting 17-14 home win over the Oregon State Beavers that many believe will catapult the team into a bowl game next month.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got a little life back into the program,\u201d Neuheisel commented.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see guys ready to go.\u201d\u00a0 UCLA has won three consecutive games against Washington, including a 27-7 victory in Washington in 2008.\u00a0 The team is 6-9 ATS on the road the last three years and the NCAA football lines page has them as a slight road underdog.<\/p>\n

The Bruins own a 38-29-2 series edge against the Huskies and picked up an exciting 24-23 win a season ago at the Rose Bowl.\u00a0 Neuheisel has posted a perfect 3-0 mark versus Washington, including a 2-0 mark while on the sidelines at UCLA.\u00a0 Offensively, the passing attack is still nowhere to be found, averaging just 120.8 yards per game, ahed of only the nation\u2019s quartet of triple-option teams of Air Force, Georgia Tech, Navy and Army.\u00a0 Luckily the defense has been there virtually the entire season, holding the Beavers to just 267 yards, an effort that many see as its best since an upset road win at Texas in late September.<\/p>\n

Washington is also in a position to become bowl-eligible if it wins out with a 3-6 record with three games to play.\u00a0 \u201cWe are very aware of the fact how important these last three games are to our season, but the fact of the matter is you can\u2019t win all three football games until you win the first one,\u201d said head coach Steve Sarkisian.\u00a0 \u201cUCLA, a team that is in a very similar situation, is fighting the fight and should make for a great Thursday game.\u201d\u00a0 The Huskies will welcome back senior quarterback Jake Locker, who missed a 53-16 loss at Oregon on November 6 with a broken rib and sat out practices during the bye week.\u00a0 The team is 7-17 ATS versus conference opponents the last three years.<\/p>\n

The Huskies will be playing their final home game of the season and 17 seniors will dawn the jersey in front of the Husky Stadium crowd for the last time.\u00a0 This will be Washington\u2019s first home game not on a Saturday since a Sunday game against Fresno State in 2004 on Labor Day weekend.\u00a0 The team is expected to wear black pants and jerseys for the first time in school history for a nationally-televised audience.\u00a0 This game is likely to come down to the interior defense of the Huskies versus a Bruins rushing attack that is averaging nearly 200 yards per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Bruins are 9-2 ATS in their last 11 games as an underdog of 0.5 to 3.0 points, while the Huskies are 18-39-2 ATS in their last 59 home games.<\/p>\n

The college football handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready to deliver a great weekend on the gridiron.\u00a0 There\u2019s no better time than now to be part of the action!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UCLA Bruins at Washington Huskies Thursday, 11\/18\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Washington -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Washington -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 53 Current Total:\u00a0 53.5 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Washington -130 \/ UCLA +110 UCLA enters Thursday night\u2019s contest versus the Washington Huskies with a 4-5 overall mark and holding onto visions of becoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3915,2041,740,2482,567,11,563],"class_list":["post-10762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-husky-stadium","tag-jake-locker","tag-pac-10","tag-rick-neuheisel","tag-steve-sarkisian","tag-ucla-bruins","tag-washington-huskies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762","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=10762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10763,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762\/revisions\/10763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}