{"id":11711,"date":"2010-12-20T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T20:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11711"},"modified":"2010-12-20T15:18:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T20:18:36","slug":"11711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/11711-11711\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisville Cardinals vs Southern Miss Golden Eagles NCAA Football Picks and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisville Cardinals vs Southern Miss Golden Eagles
\nTuesday, 12\/21\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 57.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 57<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Southern Miss Golden Eagles are playing in their ninth-straight bowl game and are 3-point underdogs in facing Louisville<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Louisville needed a victory in its final regular season game to become bowl-eligible and it picked up a 40-13 win over Rutgers to accomplish the task.\u00a0 \u201cI kept telling our guys you\u2019re a good football team.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a matter of believing it,\u201d head coach Charlie Strong stated.\u00a0 \u201cOur guys just developed some confidence.\u201d\u00a0 The former defensive coordinator has wasted little time in turning around a program that went 12-1 as recently as the 2006 season.\u00a0 The Cardinals will be playing their 15th bowl game in school history and have posted a 6-7-1 all-time mark in the postseason.\u00a0 The Beef \u2018O\u2019 Brady\u2019s Bowl in St. Petersburg, Florida will be the team\u2019s third straight bowl appearance in the state of Florida, defeating Wake Forest in the 2007 Orange Bowl and dropping a contest to Virginia Tech in the 2006 Gator Bowl.\u00a0 Louisville is 7-6 ATS as a favorite the past three years and is currently favored on the college football lines page.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals have compiled a 87-77 mark against Conference USA opponents, including a 56-0 win over Memphis at Papa John\u2019s Cardinal Stadium.\u00a0 Louisville is 9-18-1 all-time in this series, but has won four straight meetings, including a 25-23 comeback win on October 10, 2009 at Papa John\u2019s Cardinal Stadium.\u00a0 The team is averaging 29.5 points per game during its four-game win streak against Southern Mississippi.\u00a0 The turnaround was spurred by the play of the defensive unit, improving from 65th to 12th nationally in surrendering 304.7 yards per game.\u00a0 The quarterback position is still up in the air, but Strong has plans of starting senior Justin Burke, but Adam Froman and Will Stein might also play.<\/p>\n

Southern Miss is in familiar territory and will be playing in its ninth consecutive bowl game and 21st overall.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles have posted a 9-11 mark in bowl games and will be playing in the state of Florida for a bowl game for the first time since the 1981 season.\u00a0 In order to capture a victory against its Big East opponent in this contest, the team must improve a defense that allowed 29.4 points and allowed opponents to surpass 40 in five games.\u00a0 \u201cI thought there were some games that we played very well defensively and there were some games that we did not,\u201d said coach Larry Fedora.\u00a0 Southern Miss will be playing indoors for the second time this season, defeating Tulan 46-30 at the Louisiana Superdome in November.\u00a0 The team is 6-6 ATS on the year.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles are a difficult offense to prepare for due to being one of 13 programs nationally that are averaging 200 yards per game in both rushing and passing.\u00a0 Junior quarterback Austin Davis bounced back from a foot injury that limited him in 2009, throwing for 2,898 yards and 18 touchdowns, while rushing for 436 and 10 more scores.\u00a0 He has posted a 18-12 mark as a starter.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Cardinals are 12-1 ATS versus Conference USA, while the Golden EAgles are 3-1-1 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

The college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready for a huge bowl campaign and can\u2019t wait for you to join them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Louisville Cardinals vs Southern Miss Golden Eagles Tuesday, 12\/21\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 57.5 Current Total:\u00a0 57 Louisville needed a victory in its final regular season game to become bowl-eligible and it picked up a 40-13 win over Rutgers to accomplish the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":6979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3361,4208,1237,1085,4207,556,3976],"class_list":["post-11711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-adam-froman","tag-austin-davis","tag-charlie-strong","tag-justin-burke","tag-larry-fedora","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-southern-miss-golden-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711","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=11711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11713,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711\/revisions\/11713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}