{"id":17457,"date":"2011-09-06T22:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T03:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17457"},"modified":"2011-09-05T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T23:03:07","slug":"missouri-tigers-at-arizona-state-sun-devils-college-football-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/missouri-tigers-at-arizona-state-sun-devils-college-football-betting-preview-17457\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Tigers at Arizona State Sun Devils College Football Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Missouri Tigers at Arizona State Sun Devils
\nFriday, 9\/9\/11, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arizona State -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Arizona State -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 52
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 53
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Arizona State Sun Devils are home favorites against the Missouri Tigers Friday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Missouri is coming off a lackluster 17-6 home win over the Miami (OH) RedHawks as 19.5-point favorites last week.\u00a0 \u201cOffensively, we\u2019re just very sporadic,\u201d said Tigers head coach Gary Pinkel.\u00a0 \u201cFor the number of experienced players we have out there, that\u2019s a little disappointing.\u201d\u00a0 The Tigers defense definitely led the way by allowing just 270 yards of total offense.\u00a0 It was surprising due to the unit leading the Big 12 in scoring defense a season ago, allowing a shade over 16 points per game.\u00a0 Missouri is 5-3 ATS on the road in its last eight tries.<\/p>\n

The Tigers will be putting on their streak of 22-straight non-conference regular-season wins on the line, last losing such a contest back in 2005 against New Mexico.\u00a0 Missouri quarterback James Franklin played decent in his first career start, taking over for NFL-draftee Blaine Gabbert, accounting for 201 yards of total offense.\u00a0 He ended the day completing 17-of-26 passes for 129 yards and a touchdown to go with a single interception.<\/p>\n

Arizona State failed to cover as 37.5-point favorites in a 48-14 home win over UC Davis and will now hold a \u201cBlack Out\u201d at Sun Devil Stadium Friday night.\u00a0 The Sun Devils were led by quarterback Brock Osweiler, who completed 19-of-26 passes for 262 yards and will not get ready for a stiffer challenge.\u00a0 \u201cWhat happens sometimes is that you don\u2019t look as good as you think you should,\u201d commented Sun Devils head coach Dennis Erickson.\u00a0 \u201cWe are going to have to look at tape real quick and start getting ready for Missouri.\u201d\u00a0 Arizona State and Missouri have faced each other five times, but not since the 2010 campaign.\u00a0 The Sun Devils trail the all-time series 3-2.<\/p>\n

The Sun Devils defense is one of the best units in the country and tallied eight tackles for a loss or no gain last week.\u00a0 Arizona State finished with 143 such plays during the 2010 season.\u00a0 Many around campus are extremely excited at the team\u2019s potential moving forward, especially considering 27 seniors litter the roster.\u00a0 Offensively, running back Cameron Marshall continues to get things done in the rushing game and receiving, finishing last week with 86 yards receiving and two rushing touchdowns on the ground.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Sun Devils due to their 9-3 ATS mark at home, while the Tigers are 11-15 ATS over the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missouri Tigers at Arizona State Sun Devils Friday, 9\/9\/11, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arizona State -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Arizona State -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 52 Current Total:\u00a0 53 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Missouri is coming off a lackluster 17-6 home win over the Miami (OH) RedHawks as 19.5-point favorites last week.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":16564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[439,4031,2255,3566,5406,433,5405],"class_list":["post-17457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-arizona-state-sun-devils","tag-brock-osweiler","tag-dennis-erickson","tag-gary-pinkel","tag-james-franklin","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-sun-devil-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17457","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=17457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17463,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17457\/revisions\/17463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}