{"id":17401,"date":"2011-09-02T11:14:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T16:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17401"},"modified":"2011-09-02T11:14:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T16:14:33","slug":"college-football-handicapping-louisiana-monroe-warhawks-at-florida-state-seminoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-handicapping-louisiana-monroe-warhawks-at-florida-state-seminoles-17401\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Handicapping: Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks at Florida State Seminoles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks at No. 6 Florida State Seminoles
\nSaturday, 9\/3\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN U
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida State -28
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida State -29
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 50
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 55
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Florida State Seminoles begin their second year under head coach Jimbo Fisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Louisiana-Monroe has been down this road before in kicking off a season against a ranked opponent, as its showdown against Florida State marks the fourth-straight season in doing so.\u00a0 The Warhawks have not won a season opener since beating Alcorn State 24-6 to kickoff the 2006 season.\u00a0 The program has still enjoyed success over the years, averaging a third-place finish in the Sun Belt Conference over the past seven seasons.\u00a0 In fact, the program has the second-best winning percentage in the state of Louisiana over the past five seasons.\u00a0 Louisiana-Monroe is 11-12 ATS over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n

The Warhawks have always possessed in opportunistic defense that has caused at least one turnover in 21-of-24 games under defensive coordinator Troy Reffett.\u00a0 Overall, Louisiana-Monroe has forced 42 turnovers over that period.\u00a0 Freshman quarterback Kolton Browning is on the brink of stardom, after averaging 244.8 total yards of offense a year ago, which was the third-highest average by a freshman nationally.\u00a0 The team still has little chance of picking up a victory Saturday afternoon due to its 0-20 all-time mark against ranked opponents, including an 0-6 mark when opening the season.<\/p>\n

Florida State is the defending ACC Atlantic Division champions after finishing 2010 with a 10-4 record and a 26-17 win over South Carolina in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.\u00a0 The Seminoles are likely to use this contest as a tune-up for a matchup against Oklahoma that looms large down the road.\u00a0 \u201cThese guys are all going to play about the same amount of time,\u201d commented Seminoles head coach Jimbo Fisher about the team\u2019s depth chart.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s what happens when you get good players, you have depth.\u201d\u00a0 The program has tallied an 8-1 all-time mark against current members of the Sun Belt Conference.\u00a0 Florida State is 3-8 ATS in home games.<\/p>\n

The Seminoles will be led by quarterback EJ Manuel this season, taking over for the departed Christian Ponder, who was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round last year.\u00a0 Manuel has posted a 4-2 record as a starter while on campus and completed 67.3 percent of his passes.\u00a0 He will have plenty of experienced targets to choose from, as three of the top four wide receivers from a year ago return.\u00a0 Running back Chris Thompson is a dangerous option in the backfield and averaged 6.3 yards per carry in 2010.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Seminoles due to their 4-1 ATS mark in non-conference games, while the Warhawks are 17-37 ATS in the same situation.<\/p>\n

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Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks at No. 6 Florida State Seminoles Saturday, 9\/3\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN U Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida State -28 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida State -29 Opening Total:\u00a0 50 Current Total:\u00a0 55 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Louisiana-Monroe has been down this road before in kicking off a season against a ranked opponent, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[387,5388,5387,3324,5389,5386,2560],"class_list":["post-17401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-ej-manuel","tag-florida-state-seminole","tag-jimbo-fisher","tag-kolton-browning","tag-louisiana-monroe-warhawks","tag-sun-belt-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401","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=17401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17402,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401\/revisions\/17402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}