{"id":11268,"date":"2010-12-04T09:26:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T14:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11268"},"modified":"2010-12-07T22:21:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T03:21:49","slug":"acc-championship-game-florida-state-seminoles-vs-virginia-tech-hokies-free-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/acc-championship-game-florida-state-seminoles-vs-virginia-tech-hokies-free-picks-11268\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Championship Game: Florida State Seminoles vs Virginia Tech Hokies Free Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida State Seminoles vs Virginia Tech Hokies
\nSaturday, 12\/4\/10, 7:45 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 51
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 52<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Virginia Tech QB Tyrod Taylor leads the Hokies against the Florida State Seminoles in the ACC Championship Game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florida State and Virginia Tech will square off Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina for the 2010 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship.\u00a0 The Seminoles are vying for their record-tying 13th ACC title in 19 seasons of league membership.\u00a0 The program carries\u00a0 a three-game winning streak into the contest on the heels of its first nine-win regular season finish since 2003.\u00a0 \u201cYou know, Florida State\u2019s just got that name,\u201d said Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer.\u00a0 He should know, as FSU leads the all-time series with the Hokies, 22-11-1.\u00a0 The Seminoles have won 13 of the last 14 meetings between the schools and boast an 8-1 record against the Hokies with Beamer on the sideline.\u00a0 The team is 10-14 ATS versus conference opponents over the last three years and currently a field-goal favorite on the college football lines page.<\/p>\n

The Seminoles know that they can\u2019t solely rely on a name to pick up a victory in tonight\u2019s game and will be led by quarterback Christian Ponder.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re always competing at the ACC championship level and they\u2019ve been pretty much in every ACC championship game, and so I think they\u2019re ahead of us right now,\u201d he stated.\u00a0 Ponder has 6,866 career passing yards, ranking him fourth in school history, while he has recorded a 21-12 record as a starter.\u00a0 Defensively, the team gets after the quarterback in a big way, ranking second nationally with 43 sacks.\u00a0 The Seminoles are averaging 3.58 sacks per game and trail only Boise State (3.73).<\/p>\n

Virginia Tech will be making its fourth appearance in the ACC Championship Game, by far the most of any conference team.\u00a0 The Hokies lost to Florida State in the inaugural game in 2005 in Jacksonville, beat Boston College in 2007 in Jacksonville and beat Boston College in 2008 in Tampa.\u00a0 It\u2019s interesting to note that the program is 0-3 all-time in games played in Charlotte, but two of those games took place in the 19th century.\u00a0 The team has won 10 or more games in 10 of its last 12 seasons and became the first ACC team to win all eight of its regular season conference games since today\u2019s opponent in 2000.\u00a0 Virginia Tech is 7-1 ATS against conference opponents this year.<\/p>\n

The Hokies are led by quarterback Tyrod Taylor, who is one of just two active FBS quarterbacks in the career 2,000 rushing\/6,000 passing yard club, Taylor has rushed for 2,150 yards and passed for 6,532.\u00a0 He has started 40 games and won 33 of them, which is the most wins for a signal caller in school history.\u00a0 Defensively, Virginia Tech has been able to force 12 turnovers in the last two games, including seven interceptions, giving them the top spot in the nation with a +1.36 turnover ratio.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Seminoles are 1-4 ATS in their last five conference games, while the Hokies are 14-3 ATS as a favorite.<\/p>\n

The college football handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready for a huge day of winning to close out the regular season.\u00a0 Join them today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida State Seminoles vs Virginia Tech Hokies Saturday, 12\/4\/10, 7:45 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 51 Current Total:\u00a0 52 Florida State and Virginia Tech will square off Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina for the 2010 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship.\u00a0 The Seminoles are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[387,3233,3326,1112,2834,1926],"class_list":["post-11268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-atlantic-coast-conference","tag-christian-ponder","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-tyrod-taylor","tag-virginia-tech-hokies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268","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=11268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11327,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268\/revisions\/11327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}