{"id":11702,"date":"2010-12-20T12:09:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11702"},"modified":"2010-12-20T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T17:09:20","slug":"las-vegas-bowl-preview-boise-state-broncos-vs-utah-utes-college-football-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/las-vegas-bowl-preview-boise-state-broncos-vs-utah-utes-college-football-picks-11702\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Bowl Preview: Boise State Broncos vs Utah Utes College Football Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boise State Broncos vs Utah Utes
\nWednesday, 12\/22\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Boise State -17
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Boise State -17
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 61
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 60.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Boise State Broncos are 17-point favorites in playing the Utah Utes in the MAACO Las Vegas Bowl on Wednesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boise State is set to make its ninth-straight bowl appearance and square off against Utah in the MAACO Las Vegas Bowl.\u00a0 The Broncos obviously had their sights set much higher this season after completing a perfect season a year ago, but their 34-31 loss at Nevada ended all hopes of reaching the BCS Championship game.\u00a0 \u201cWe said all along, at the end of the season, we will see where we are and go from there,\u201d said coach Chris Petersen.\u00a0 The program holds a 4-2 all-time advantage in the series, winning three-straight and with two of those games coming on the road.\u00a0 Boise is 25-10 ATS over the past three seasons and currently a solid double-digit favorite on the college football lines page.<\/p>\n

The Broncos are 6-4 in bowl games, but have registered a 2-4 record in the last six due to one, three, four and six point losses.\u00a0 Boise State will also be playing its third straight postseason game against a team from the Mountain West Conference, splitting the last two years with the TCU Horned Frogs.\u00a0 Defensively, the team has allowed just 27 red zone opportunities in 2010, with the opponents scoring just 15 times.\u00a0 The 56 percent success rate for opponents is the nation\u2019s second-best mark.\u00a0 In fact, Boise was the only team in the country to finish the regular season ranked in the top five in both total offense and total defense.\u00a0 The Broncos also ranked second-nationally in scoring offense (46.67) and fourth in scoring defense (13.58).<\/p>\n

Utah has compiled an impressive 12-3 record in bowl games and currently boasts the nation\u2019s longest active bowl win streak at night games.\u00a0 The streak is actually the second-longest in the history of college football, just two games back of Florida State\u2019s 11 consecutive bowl victories.\u00a0 The Utes captured two-straight games against San Diego State and BYU heading into this marquee battle on Wednesday night.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got good momentum going into the bowl game,\u201d coach Kyle Whittingham stated.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve won two tough games back-to-back. We got back on track by handling adversity.\u201d\u00a0 Utah compiled a 7-4 ATS mark this season.<\/p>\n

The Utes will be missing starting quarterback Jordan Wynn for this contest, as he\u2019s needing surgery on his throwing shoulder and will be out for the next six months.\u00a0 \u201cIt was bothering him and we had an MRI just to take a look at it,\u201d said Whittingham.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s not good news, but life goes on and we move forward.\u201d\u00a0 Senior backup Terrance Cain is more than capable in leading the team to victory, posting a 9-1 record as the Utes starter when given the opportunity.\u00a0 This is a proud program that has won at least 10 games for a third year in a row and will likely give a huge effort in keeping the school\u2019s bowl streak alive.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Utes are 7-1 ATS in bowl games, while the Broncos are 4-1 ATS versus the Mountain West Conference.<\/p>\n

The college football handicappers at Maddux Sports are enjoying an incredible season and can\u2019t wait for you to join them during the bowl games!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boise State Broncos vs Utah Utes Wednesday, 12\/22\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Boise State -17 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Boise State -17 Opening Total:\u00a0 61 Current Total:\u00a0 60.5 Boise State is set to make its ninth-straight bowl appearance and square off against Utah in the MAACO Las Vegas Bowl.\u00a0 The Broncos obviously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[1104,3619,3661,1253,508,405],"class_list":["post-11702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-boise-state-broncos","tag-chris-peterson","tag-kyle-whittingham","tag-las-vegas-bowl","tag-mountain-west-conference","tag-utah-utes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702","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=11702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11704,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions\/11704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}