{"id":12144,"date":"2011-01-04T02:34:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T07:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12144"},"modified":"2011-01-04T02:34:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T07:34:21","slug":"sugar-bowl-picks-arkansas-razorbacks-vs-ohio-state-buckeyes-handicapping-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sugar-bowl-picks-arkansas-razorbacks-vs-ohio-state-buckeyes-handicapping-predictions-12144\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Bowl Picks: Arkansas Razorbacks vs Ohio State Buckeyes Handicapping Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arkansas Razorbacks vs Ohio State Buckeyes
\nTuesday, 1\/4\/11, 8:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 58
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 57<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ohio State Buckeyes are small favorites versus the Arkansas Razorbacks in the 2011 Sugar Bowl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arkansas will make its first BCS appearance when it takes on sixth-ranked Ohio State in the 2011 Allstate Sugar Bowl at the Louisiana Superdome.\u00a0 Head coach Bobby Petrino will coach a January bowl for the fourth time in his career, coming in with a January bowl record of 2-1.\u00a0 While at Louisville, Petrino led the Cardinals to a 24-13 victory over No. 12 Wake Forest in the 2007 Orange Bowl, while dropping a 35-24 contest to Virginia Tech in the 2006 Gator Bowl.\u00a0 The Razorbacks are 1-4 in the Sugar Bowl and have made all five appearances in the pre-BCS era.\u00a0 Overall, the program will be making its 38th trip to a postseason bowl game and is 12-22-3 in the previous 37 appearances.\u00a0 Arkansas tallied a 9-2 ATS mark this season and is currently an underdog on the college football lines page.<\/p>\n

The Razorbacks won 10 games in the regular season for just the eighth time in school history and won six SEC games for the fourth time.\u00a0 Arkansas\u2019 strength of schedule ranked No. 6 nationally and played nine teams that qualified for a bowl game this year.\u00a0 The squad has won six straight games and is averaging 42.5 points per game while allowing only 22.2 per contest over that span.\u00a0 The Razorbacks have gained an average of 498.5 yards per game during the six-game stretch.\u00a0 A key statistic in this contest will be success in the red zone, as the team was 42-of-46 during the regular season, which leads the SEC and is tied for fifth nationally.<\/p>\n

Ohio State is playing in its sixth consecutive BCS bowl and its ninth overall, which happens to be the most of any team in the nation.\u00a0 The Buckeyes have posted a 2-3 mark in the previous five years during the bowl season and look forward to playing another school from the SEC.\u00a0 Since head coach Jim Tressel was hired in 2001, the program has gone 0-3 versus the conference.\u00a0 The team will be making its 42nd overall bowl appearance, tallying a 19-22 record and is 5-3 in eight BCS game appearances.\u00a0 For the Buckeyes, 24 seniors will be playing their final game in Tuesday night\u2019s contest, coming in with a 43-8 overall record.\u00a0 Ohio State is 25-11 ATS over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes have been dealing with the distraction of five players being caught violating NCAA rules, suspending all of them for the first five games of next season.\u00a0 Tressel stepped up and took full responsibility for the kids actions of receiving improper benefits.\u00a0 \u201cWe as coaches fell the buck stops here,\u201d he commented.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re the ones who need to make things even more crystal clear.\u201d\u00a0 Quarterback Terrelle Pryor was one of the individuals implicated, entering tonight\u2019s game with 639 rushing and 2,551 passing yards.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in the Razorbacks being 6-0 ATS, while the Buckeyes are 8-0 ATS in non-conference games.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on the best picks anywhere and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports go to work for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arkansas Razorbacks vs Ohio State Buckeyes Tuesday, 1\/4\/11, 8:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 58 Current Total:\u00a0 57 Arkansas will make its first BCS appearance when it takes on sixth-ranked Ohio State in the 2011 Allstate Sugar Bowl at the Louisiana Superdome.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[2448,3313,209,4305,739,1273,455],"class_list":["post-12144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-bobby-petrino","tag-jim-tressel","tag-louisiana-superdome","tag-sec","tag-sugar-bowl","tag-terrelle-pryor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144","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=12144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12145,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions\/12145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}