{"id":10854,"date":"2010-11-20T11:49:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T16:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10854"},"modified":"2010-11-20T11:49:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T16:49:32","slug":"nebraska-cornhuskers-vs-texas-am-aggies-college-football-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nebraska-cornhuskers-vs-texas-am-aggies-college-football-predictions-10854\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Texas A&M Aggies College Football Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nebraska Cornhuskers at Texas A&M Aggies
\nSaturday, 11\/20\/10, 8:00 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Nebraska -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Nebraska -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 54
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 54.5
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Nebraska -135 \/ Texas A&M +115<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Nebraska Cornhuskers are slight road favorites and should expect an incredibly hostile environment in College Station tonight in primetime<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nebraska heads out on the road for the final time in 2010 and is set to take on the Texas A&M Aggies at College Station.\u00a0 The Cornhuskers have come from behind in the fourth quarter to win their last two trips to Kyle Field, even though this is their first visit since 2006.\u00a0 The program holds a 10-3 edge in the all-time series between the two schools, including a 2-1 mark at tonight\u2019s venue.\u00a0 Nebraska comes off a defensive gem in its last contest, holding the Kansas Jayhawks to 87 total yards in a 20-3 win last Saturday.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve never been involved in anything close to that,\u201d said defensive coordinator Carl Pelini.\u00a0 \u201cThese days in college football, teams are hanging up 700 yards.\u00a0 So to hold a team to 200 or 300 is considered a good defensive game.\u201d\u00a0 The team is 4-1 ATS as a road favorite and the college football lines page has them laying less than a field goal currently.<\/p>\n

The Cornhuskers offense ranks first in the Big 12 and seventh nationally in rushing, averaging 282.3 yards per game.\u00a0 Nebraska has rushed for at least 200 yards in nine of 10 games this season.\u00a0 The running game will face a stiff test against an Aggies\u2019 defense that is leading the Big 12 and ranks 13th nationally in stopping the run, giving up just 112.2 yards per game.\u00a0 Defensively, the team\u2019s focus has to be dead-set on stopping the Texas A&M passing attack, which ranks eighth-best in college football at 308.1 yards per game.\u00a0 Nebraska\u2019s secondary allows just 140.2 yards per game through the air.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M has a 7-3 overall record and 4-2 mark in conference play, currently tied for second with Oklahoma in the South division.\u00a0 The Aggies have won four consecutive games and underwent a quarterback change, as Ryan Tannehill has been brilliant under center.\u00a0 The team has averaged 488.3 yards per game over that span, a stretch that has seen Tannehill throw 10 touchdown passes.\u00a0 Texas A&M is now set to host the most anticipated game in years around College Station and head coach Mike Sherman is excited.\u00a0 \u201cGames like this make it special when you are competing for something and the school gets excited,\u201d he stated.\u00a0 \u201cI went over last night on the way home and talked to some of the kids with their tents and the enthusiasm makes you so anxious to play well.\u201d\u00a0 The team is 4-0 ATS in its last four conference games.<\/p>\n

The Aggies will be seeking their second victory over a top 10 foe at Kyle Field this season, already garnering a victory over the Oklahoma Sooners earlier in the year.\u00a0 Texas A&M has also won multiple wins in the month of November for the first time since 1999 and have assured themselves of their first winning season since 2007.\u00a0 Expect an incredible atmosphere in this contest, as the school has set a goal of having 30,000 students be in attendance tonight, while also setting an attendance record with an estimated 89,000 fans.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Cornhuskers are 0-4 ATS in their last four games in November, while the Aggies are 0-4-1 ATS as a home underdog of 0.5 to 3 points.<\/p>\n

The college football handicappers at Maddux Sports have a 20-unit Game of the Year going this Saturday.\u00a0 Don\u2019t miss out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nebraska Cornhuskers at Texas A&M Aggies Saturday, 11\/20\/10, 8:00 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Nebraska -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Nebraska -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 54 Current Total:\u00a0 54.5 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Nebraska -135 \/ Texas A&M +115 Nebraska heads out on the road for the final time in 2010 and is set to take on the Texas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[738,3710,3936,3186,1143,3711,1145],"class_list":["post-10854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12","tag-college-station","tag-kyle-field","tag-mike-sherman","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-ryan-tannehill","tag-texas-am-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854","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=10854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10856,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854\/revisions\/10856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}