{"id":17467,"date":"2011-09-08T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17467"},"modified":"2011-09-06T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T22:00:04","slug":"oregon-state-beavers-at-wisconsin-badgers-saturday-ncaa-football-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/oregon-state-beavers-at-wisconsin-badgers-saturday-ncaa-football-picks-17467\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon State Beavers at Wisconsin Badgers Saturday NCAA Football Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oregon State Beavers at No. 8 Wisconsin Badgers
\nSaturday, 9\/10\/11, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -17
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -22
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 56.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 57
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Arizona<\/a>
The Wisconsin Badgers are heavily favored against the Oregon State Beavers in Week 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oregon State opened the 2011 season in humiliating fashion by dropping a 29-28 home contest to the Sacramento State Hornets as 27.5-point favorites.\u00a0 The Beavers last dropped a contest against a lower division school back in 1996.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve just got to stick together and say we\u2019re going to move on and get better off,\u201d said Beavers backup quarterback Sean Mannion.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t all bad for the school, as it out-gained its opponent by 129 yards, including 195 on the ground.\u00a0 Oregon State is 10-3 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Beavers may already have a quarterback controversy brewing now that Mannion performed well in relieving starter Ryan Katz.\u00a0 He threw for 143 yards in completing 8 of 12 passes compared to Katz\u2019s dismal 11 of 22 performance for 87 yards and a interception.\u00a0 Program insiders are stating that head coach Mike Riley may wait to make a change after this week\u2019s road game in Madison.\u00a0 Oregon State\u2019s running game seems to be in good hands with freshman Malcolm Agnew carrying the load, rushing for 223 yards in the opener.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin opened up with the nation watching last Thursday on ESPN and came away with a 51-17 win as 34-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Badgers took the foot off the accelerator early, but still managed to gain 499 yards of total offense.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve been going against our offense for so long, we kind of expected that,\u201d said Badgers safey Aaron Henry about the school\u2019s offense.\u00a0 The numbers are staggering in the first 30 minutes in Wisconsin\u2019s last three home games, scoring at least 37 points in each contest during that time.\u00a0 Wisconsin is 7-7 ATS at home and 7-6 ATS versus Pac-12 competition.<\/p>\n

The Badgers have won 29-straight regular-season non-conference games, a mark that trails only the LSU Tigers (34).\u00a0 Wisconsin also has proven victorious at Camp Randall Stadium in 10-straight games, which is tied for the eighth-longest such streak in the country.\u00a0 The backfield duo of Montee Ball and James White were simply too much for the Rebels\u2019 defense to handle, as Ball scored four touchdowns, while White finished with 181 all-purpose yards.\u00a0 Senior quarterback Russell Wilson wasn\u2019t bad either in his debut since transferring from NC State, throwing for 255 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Beavers due to their 9-3 ATS mark versus winning teams, while the Badgers are 1-3-1 ATS in non-conference games.<\/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":"

Oregon State Beavers at No. 8 Wisconsin Badgers Saturday, 9\/10\/11, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -17 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -22 Opening Total:\u00a0 56.5 Current Total:\u00a0 57 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oregon State opened the 2011 season in humiliating fashion by dropping a 29-28 home contest to the Sacramento State Hornets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":7118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[5407,471,3630,3323,5408,437],"class_list":["post-17467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-montee-ball","tag-oregon-state-beavers","tag-russell-wilson","tag-ryan-katz","tag-sean-mannion","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467","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=17467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17469,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions\/17469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}