{"id":17317,"date":"2011-08-31T23:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17317"},"modified":"2011-08-30T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T20:09:48","slug":"ncaa-football-betting-tcu-horned-frogs-at-baylor-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-football-betting-tcu-horned-frogs-at-baylor-bears-17317\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Football Betting: TCU Horned Frogs at Baylor Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

TCU Horned Frogs at Baylor Bears
\nFriday, 9\/2\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 TCU -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 TCU -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 57
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 56
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Baylor Bears aim to avenge a 45-10 loss to the TCU Horned Frogs last year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TCU will be looking to extend that nation\u2019s second-longest win streak that currently sits at 13, trailing last year\u2019s national champion, Auburn (15) in the category.\u00a0 The Horned Frogs also captured the 2011 Rose Bowl against Wisconsin last year, but the team has heard enough about it.\u00a0 \u201cWe can\u2019t talk about the Rose Bowl anymore or last season,\u201d commented senior linebacker Tank Carder.\u00a0 \u201cThis is a different team.\u201d\u00a0 He is a legitimate All-America candidate and Mountain West Conference Preseason Defensive Player of the Year.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the school will be within its current conference for just a season before heading to Big East play.\u00a0 TCU is 7-3 ATS as a road favorite the last two years.<\/p>\n

The Horned Frogs say goodbye to the Andy Dalton era, current starting quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals, welcoming in Casey Pachall.\u00a0 He will be pressured to demonstrate that he can throw the ball early by opponents, as TCU possesses a dynamic running game with Ed Wesley in the backfield.\u00a0 The program has been truly dominant under head coach Gary Patterson in recent years and 16 of the last 20 victories have come by at least 27 points.<\/p>\n

Baylor ended a 16-year bowl drought by earning a Texas Bowl bid last year and now the program is looking to make some early noise under ninth-year head coach Art Briles.\u00a0 The Bears were trampled in a 45-10 loss last year to the Horned Frogs by giving up 291 yards rushing and 267 passing.\u00a0 Offensively, the team will possess one of the best units in the Big 12 Conference, featuring dangerous dual-threat quarterback Robert Griffin III.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re a big play offense,\u201d Griffin III commented.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re doing a good job of scoring fast, but also coming back out putting together some long drives.\u201d\u00a0 Baylor is 3-7 ATS at home over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bears made a big move to try and solve their defensive problems by hiring defensive coordinator Phil Bennett, a 32-year coaching veteran.\u00a0 He has served in that capacity for eight different schools\u2014facing teams in the Big East, Big 12, SEC, Big Ten and Big Eight.\u00a0 Baylor\u2019s schedule is hospitable for producing a solid record due to playing seven home games, which is tied for the most in Floyd Casey Stadium history.\u00a0 The program is 2-10 all-time when playing on ESPN\u2019s family of stations and 9-17 in televised games overall under Briles.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Horned Frogs due to their 6-2 ATS mark versus the Big 12 Conference, while the Bears are 18-38 ATS in their last 56 games as a home underdog.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a huge year and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Get a long-term package today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TCU Horned Frogs at Baylor Bears Friday, 9\/2\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 TCU -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 TCU -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 57 Current Total:\u00a0 56 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker TCU will be looking to extend that nation\u2019s second-longest win streak that currently sits at 13, trailing last year\u2019s national champion, Auburn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3288,5361,1492,552,3697,5360,460],"class_list":["post-17317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-baylor-bears","tag-casey-pachall","tag-espn","tag-gary-patterson","tag-robert-griffin-iii","tag-tank-carder","tag-tcu-horned-frogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17317","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=17317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17319,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17317\/revisions\/17319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}