{"id":10989,"date":"2010-11-25T14:45:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T19:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10989"},"modified":"2010-11-25T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T19:45:50","slug":"college-football-handicapping-picks-arizona-wildcats-at-oregon-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-handicapping-picks-arizona-wildcats-at-oregon-ducks-10989\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Handicapping Picks: Arizona Wildcats at Oregon Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arizona Wildcats at Oregon Ducks
\nFriday, 11\/26\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oregon -17.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oregon -18.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 61.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 62.5
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Oregon -1000 \/ Arizona +700<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Oregon<\/a>
The Oregon Ducks are two wins away from an appearance in the BCS national championship game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arizona is set to play a No. 1 Oregon team for the first time and get a crack at the top-ranked team for the first time in five years.\u00a0 \u201cI think our players understand how good you have to play as a team and how disciplined and how quick they can strike,\u201d said head coach Mike Stoops.\u00a0 \u201cWe had pretty good control of that game a year ago and they came back and scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter and executed very well.\u201d\u00a0 The Wildcats enjoyed a bye week last week after dropping a 24-21 home contest to the Southern California Trojans.\u00a0 The program has played the No. 1 team in the country eight times previously, capturing victories in 1981 against USC and 1992 versus Washington.\u00a0 Arizona is 1-5 ATS versus conference opponents this year and the college football lines page has them listed as a large underdog.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats defense continues to rank as one of the top defenses in the Pac-10 and one of the top units nationally.\u00a0 Defensive coordinator Greg Brown did joke around earlier this week about slowing down the top offense in college football.\u00a0 \u201cThirteen guys,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got a special petition into the NCAA to see if if they\u2019ll go for it.\u201d\u00a0 Arizona does enter the final two weeks of the season as one of only three teams in the conference that is bowl eligible.\u00a0 The offense has moved the ball well between the 20s all season, but the team ranks 111th nationally in red zone offense.<\/p>\n

Oregon knows that tonight\u2019s opponent is hungry for revenging a 44-41 loss in double-overtime last year in Tucson, which eliminated the Wildcats from any chance at the Rose Bowl.\u00a0 \u201cEvery year since I\u2019ve been here our battles with Arizona have been real knockdown drag-outs and that\u2019s what this is gonna be,\u201d head coach Chip Kelly stated.\u00a0 The Ducks lead the all-time series 21-14 and is 11-4 against the Wildcats in Eugene.\u00a0 Oregon has won two straight and 13 of the past 16 meetings in the series dating back to 1994. The program\u2019s .600 winning percentage against Arizona is its highest versus any Pac-10 opponent.\u00a0 The squad is 12-6 ATS at home the past three years.<\/p>\n

The Ducks will have 22 seniors take the field at Autzen Stadium for the final time, with this class capturing the most victories of any class in school history.\u00a0 Oregon\u2019s seniors are 27-7 in Pac-10 play, including a 15-2 mark at home.\u00a0 Many pundits have focused solely on the Ducks high-flying offensive attack that has scored 507 points, but the defense ranks first in the conference in scoring defense at 17.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Wildcats are 4-1 ATS in the last five meetings, while the Wildcats are 9-2 ATS following a bye week.<\/p>\n

The college football handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready to roll in a busy week of gridiron action.\u00a0 Start playing along with them today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arizona Wildcats at Oregon Ducks Friday, 11\/26\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oregon -17.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oregon -18.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 61.5 Current Total:\u00a0 62.5 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Oregon -1000 \/ Arizona +700 Arizona is set to play a No. 1 Oregon team for the first time and get a crack at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[578,3242,1122,3586,457,740],"class_list":["post-10989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-arizona-wildcats","tag-autzen-stadium","tag-chip-kelly","tag-mike-stoops","tag-oregon-ducks","tag-pac-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989","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=10989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10990,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989\/revisions\/10990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}