{"id":10852,"date":"2010-11-20T10:13:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T15:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10852"},"modified":"2010-11-20T10:13:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T15:13:15","slug":"pac-10-football-betting-stanford-cardinal-at-california-golden-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pac-10-football-betting-stanford-cardinal-at-california-golden-bears-10852\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-10 Football Betting: Stanford Cardinal at California Golden Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stanford Cardinal at California Golden Bears
\nSaturday, 11\/20\/10, 12:30 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Stanford -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Stanford -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 52
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 50
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Stanford -250 \/ California +210<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Stanford is currently less than a touchdown road favorite and looking to beat Cal at home for the first time in the Jeff Tedford era<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stanford comes in No. 7 in the country and will face the Cal Golden Bears in the 113th Big Game on Saturday.\u00a0 The Cardinal are winners of five straight and off to its best start since 1951, coming off a 17-13 victory over Arizona State last week.\u00a0 It\u2019s probably the easiest game to coach,\u201d said head coach Jim Harbaugh.\u00a0 \u201cNothing more needs to be said about it.\u201d\u00a0 His team has lost seven of eight to California since Jeff Tedford took over and hasn\u2019t won in Berkeley since 2000.\u00a0 Stanford has posted a 4-1 record on the road this season, tallying two shutouts against UCLA (35-0) and Washington (41-0).\u00a0 Excluding the loss at Oregon, the defense has allowed just three offensive touchdowns in its four other road contests.\u00a0 The team is 3-1 ATS as a road favorite of 3.5 to 7 points and the college football lines page shows that the line has fallen into this range.<\/p>\n

The Cardinal scored a season low 17 points against Arizona State, but are still averaging 39.80 points a game, which ranks second in the Pac-10 and ninth nationally.\u00a0 The 398 points score on the season is currently the fourth-highest single-season total in school history.\u00a0 Stanford has been incredibly effective in putting away games in the first half, outscoring opponents by a 233-78 margin.\u00a0 With its offense getting plenty of accolades, the defense has posted some incredible numbers of its own.\u00a0 The unit ranks fourth in the conference in total defense and is third in scoring defense.<\/p>\n

California knows that both teams have a tremendous amount to play for in this contest and the program looks to extend its school-record bowl run to eight consecutive years.\u00a0 The Golden Bears have a great shot at the upset due to compiling a 37-7 record in their last 44 games at Memorial Stadium.\u00a0 In home games this season, Cal has averaged 40.4 points while yielding 9.8.\u00a0 \u201cIf I had a magical answer, we would have taken care of that a long time ago, but we\u2019re at home this week,\u201d said Tedford about his team performing better in Berkeley.\u00a0 The squad is 13-3 ATS at home over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

The Golden Bears have been led by a defense that paces the conference in total defense and ranks 10th nationally in giving up just 301.3 yards per game.\u00a0 That unit will be tested in a big way versus a team that is second in the Pac-10 and 17th in the nation in running the football.\u00a0 Don\u2019t expect this program to be intimidated by playing a high-ranking opponent, as it has posted a 13-16 record when playing 29 nationally ranked teams in the Tedford era.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Cardinal are 3-0-1 ATS as a road favorite of 3.5 to 10 points, while the Golden Bears are 7-3 ATS as a home underdog of 3.5 to 10 points.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a huge Saturday and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports go to work for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stanford Cardinal at California Golden Bears Saturday, 11\/20\/10, 12:30 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Stanford -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Stanford -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 52 Current Total:\u00a0 50 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Stanford -250 \/ California +210 Stanford comes in No. 7 in the country and will face the Cal Golden Bears in the 113th Big Game on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3935,2958,3383,3243,3319,740,2528],"class_list":["post-10852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-game","tag-california-golden-bears","tag-jeff-tedford","tag-jim-harbaugh","tag-memorial-stadium","tag-pac-10","tag-stanford-cardinal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852","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=10852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10853,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions\/10853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}