{"id":11995,"date":"2010-12-30T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T19:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11995"},"modified":"2010-12-30T09:39:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T14:39:28","slug":"big-12-pac-10-rematch-nebraska-cornhuskers-vs-washington-huskies-holiday-bowl-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-12-pac-10-rematch-nebraska-cornhuskers-vs-washington-huskies-holiday-bowl-predictions-11995\/","title":{"rendered":"Big 12-Pac 10 Rematch: Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Washington Huskies Holiday Bowl Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Washington Huskies
\nThursday, 12\/30\/10, 10:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Nebraska -13.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Nebraska -13.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 52
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 52.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Washington Huskies QB Jake Locker is a double-digit underdog in his final collegiate game in the Holiday Bowl against the Nebraska Cornhuskers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nebraska is set to take on Washington for the second time this season in the Holiday Bowl held in beautiful San Diego, California.\u00a0 The Huskers picked up a dominating 56-21 win over the Huskies in Seattle on September 18 and will be looking to bounce back from a disappointing 23-20 loss to Oklahoma in the Big 12 championship game, a contest that they led by 17 points at one point.\u00a0 \u201cOur team has worked hard since the start of practice in August and are deserving of an enjoyable bowl experience and an opportunity to win an 11th game,\u201d said head coach Bo Pelini.\u00a0 Playing in this particular game may be a bit of a letdown for the team, as it had much higher aspirations early in the 2010 campaign.\u00a0 Nebraska is 2-0 ATS against Pac-10 opponents the past three years and currently a double-digit favorite on the college football lines page.<\/p>\n

The Huskers tallied a 533 yards of total offense in the earlier meeting this season, including an incredible 383 yards on the ground.\u00a0 Taylor Martinez, Roy Helu Jr. and Rex Burkhead combined for the fifth triple-100-yard game in school history and the first since 2001.\u00a0 Martinez has a good chance of rebounding from a difficult finish to the regular season and resemble the quarterback from early in the season in having four weeks off to prepare.\u00a0 Nebraska is making its third appearance in this particular bowl event, splitting the two previous meetings with Arizona, including last year\u2019s 33-0 victory.<\/p>\n

Washington rides a three-game winning streak into postseason play and will be looking to gain revenge from a humiliating home loss earlier in the season.\u00a0 \u201cWe get an opportunity to show the world how much we have changed,\u201d said left tackle Senio Kelemente.\u00a0 The Huskies 35-point loss to the Huskers was one of our losses by 30 or more points for Washington this year, with all of them coming during the team\u2019s 3-6 start.\u00a0 The program will be making its 31st bowl appearance and enter the contest with a 15-14-1 overall record in the postseason.\u00a0 Washington is also 21-21-2 all-time versus current teams playing in the Big 12 Conference.\u00a0 Over the past three years, the squad is 10-17 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

The Huskies will be playing against the Huskers for the ninth time in school history, trailing 3-4-1 in the series.\u00a0 Washington has dropped the last three meetings and been been outscored 111-28 in the last two.\u00a0 One important area to pay attention to when capping this contest is the red zone, as both Washington and its opponents have enjoyed a great deal of success in the area.\u00a0 The Huskies are 30-for-34 with 22 touchdowns, while opponents are 44-for-48 with 34 pay dirt scores.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Huskies are 4-1 ATS in bowl games, while the Huskers are 7-1-1 ATS in their last nine non-conference tilts.<\/p>\n

The college football handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready to fire away at Thursday\u2019s bowl games and can\u2019t wait for you to be part of the action.\u00a0 Get a season pass today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Washington Huskies Thursday, 12\/30\/10, 10:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Nebraska -13.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Nebraska -13.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 52 Current Total:\u00a0 52.5 Nebraska is set to take on Washington for the second time this season in the Holiday Bowl held in beautiful San Diego, California.\u00a0 The Huskers picked up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[738,1262,1143,740,4281,3375,563],"class_list":["post-11995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12","tag-holiday-bowl","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-pac-10","tag-san-diego","tag-taylor-martinez","tag-washington-huskies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995","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=11995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11997,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions\/11997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}