{"id":17334,"date":"2011-08-31T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17334"},"modified":"2011-08-31T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T16:04:08","slug":"college-football-handicapping-wake-forest-demon-deacons-at-syracuse-orange-thursday-night-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-handicapping-wake-forest-demon-deacons-at-syracuse-orange-thursday-night-predictions-17334\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Handicapping: Wake Forest Demon Deacons at Syracuse Orange Thursday Night Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wake Forest Demon Deacons at Syracuse Orange
\nThursday, 9\/1\/11, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Syracuse -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Syracuse -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 49.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 50
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wake Forest QB Tanner Price will direct the offense in 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wake Forest is ready to put its disappointing 3-9 overall record and 1-7 mark during ACC behind them last year and start anew under 11th year head coach Jim Grobe.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve got a feeling we\u2019re not a cocky group right now,\u201d commented Grobe during the offseason.\u00a0 \u201cOur kids are embarrasses of what happened last year.\u201d\u00a0 The Demon Deacons started the year off in style by scoring by scoring over 50 points in their opening two games against Presbyterian (53-13) and Duke (54-48) before dropping nine games in a row.\u00a0 The program snapped the losing streak with a 34-13 road win over Vanderbilt as five-point underdogs to end the year.\u00a0 Wake Forest is 3-8 ATS on the road the last two years.<\/p>\n

The Demon Deacons will be looking to accomplish something it\u2019s never done in the program\u2019s history Thursday night, which is win a game indoors.\u00a0 Wake Forest is 0-3 all-time in dome games and last played such a contest when traveling to Tulane in 1995.\u00a0 This is just the second meeting between the two schools, as Grobe\u2019s squad rallied behind former quarterback Riley Skinner in a 20-10 victory in 2006.\u00a0 Offensively, the team possesses a major weapon in junior wide receiver Chris Givens, who was named to the watch list of the Fred Biletnikoff Award.\u00a0 He has 80 career receptions for 1,143 yards and 12 touchdowns. \u00a0It will be imperative that quarterback Tanner Price gets him the football.<\/p>\n

Syracuse capped a successful 2010 campaign by winning a 36-34 contest in the Pinstripe Bowl over the Kansas State Wildcats as one-point favorites.\u00a0 It was a definitive turnaround season in finishing the year with an 8-5 record, which followed a disappointing 3-9 season.\u00a0 Junior quarterback Ryan Nassib is back under center and has many Big East insiders expecting him to possibly be the league\u2019s best signal caller in 2011.\u00a0 Syracuse is 5-3 ATS as a favorite and 6-1 ATS in September over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n

The Orange open up the season with a very favorable schedule with two home games before traveling across the country to face off against the USC Trojans on Sept. 17.\u00a0 That contest will be followed by two more games inside the Carrier Dome, including the conference opener against Rutgers.\u00a0 Head coach Doug Marrone plans to put Nassib in the shotgun formation more often in 2011, something that he did as an offensve coordinator for the New Orleans Saints when coaching Drew Brees.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, six starters return to a 4-3 defensive scheme that ranked as one of the best in the nation, but inexperience may show early on.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in backing the Orange due to their 14-10 ATS mark over the last two years, while the Demon Deacons are 2-5 ATS in September.<\/p>\n

The college football handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready to roll and have long-term packages available.\u00a0 Don\u2019t miss out on this money-making opportunity and get in the game today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wake Forest Demon Deacons at Syracuse Orange Thursday, 9\/1\/11, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Syracuse -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Syracuse -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 49.5 Current Total:\u00a0 50 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Wake Forest is ready to put its disappointing 3-9 overall record and 1-7 mark during ACC behind them last year and start anew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":16536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[387,559,5366,5365,5364,5234,580,3028],"class_list":["post-17334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-big-east","tag-carrier-dome","tag-chris-givens","tag-jim-grobe","tag-ryan-nassib","tag-syracuse-orange","tag-wake-forest-demon-deacons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17334","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=17334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17335,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17334\/revisions\/17335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}