{"id":17470,"date":"2011-09-06T17:50:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T22:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17470"},"modified":"2011-09-06T17:50:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T22:50:16","slug":"college-football-picks-toledo-rockets-at-ohio-state-buckeyes-saturday-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-picks-toledo-rockets-at-ohio-state-buckeyes-saturday-preview-17470\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Picks: Toledo Rockets at Ohio State Buckeyes Saturday Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toledo Rockets at No. 15 Ohio State Buckeyes
\nSaturday, 9\/10\/11, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -17.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -19
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 50.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 50.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ohio State Buckeyes have shutout the Toledo Rockets in both prior meetings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Toledo has dropped both of its previous meetings with the Ohio State Buckeyes and has not scored a single point in those games.\u00a0 The first meeting was back in 1998, as the Rockets were handed a 49-0 defeat by the No. 1 Buckeyes at the time.\u00a0 It\u2019s still important to note that the program has tallied a 6-14 mark versus Big Ten opponents, including a 31-20 win over Purdue in West Lafayette last year.\u00a0 Bettors will also need to be aware that the team is 6-8 all-time versus ranked teams, but just 1-7 when playing such opponents on the road.\u00a0 Toledo is 6-6 ATS on the road.<\/p>\n

The Rockets put their two quarterback system on display in their resounding 58-22 win over New Hampshire as 10.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 Toledo also let running back Adonis Thomas loose in the opener, rushing for 115 yards on nine carries.\u00a0 He finished last year as the MAC\u2019s No. 2 rusher with 1,098 yards, while leading all conference members with a 6.3 yards per carry average.\u00a0 Saturday presents an uphill battle, but the program is headed in the right direction under current head coach Tim Beckman, who is 14-12 entering the second game of his third year on campus.<\/p>\n

Ohio State tallied a 42-0 shutout win as 31.5-point home favorites last week and finished with 427 more total yards than the Akron Zips.\u00a0 The Buckeyes defense was truly dominant in allowing just 90 yards of total offense made 10 tackles for loss.\u00a0 The team will likely come out of this week with a 2-0 record, considering its won 55 consecutive regular-season non-conference home games against unranked opponents.\u00a0 It\u2019s an impressive statistic to go along with a 53-5 mark at Ohio Stadium since the start of the 2002 season.\u00a0 Ohio State is 4-0 ATS versus MAC foes.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes were led last week by the strong quarterback play of Joe Bauserman, who completed 12 of 16 passes for 163 yards, while also rushing for a 15-yard score to compliment his three touchdown throws.\u00a0 He played the first half of the opener and then watched backup Braxton Miller step in, as the two combined for 355 yards of total offense.\u00a0 As mentioned earlier, the defense was magnificent last Saturday, which is expected from a school that has been in the Top 20 in points allowed the last nine seasons.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Buckeyes due to their 8-0 ATS mark in September, while the Rockets are 1-5 ATS as an underdog of 10.5 or more points.<\/p>\n

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Toledo Rockets at No. 15 Ohio State Buckeyes Saturday, 9\/10\/11, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Big Ten Network Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -17.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -19 Opening Total:\u00a0 50.5 Current Total:\u00a0 50.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Toledo has dropped both of its previous meetings with the Ohio State Buckeyes and has not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[5409,737,5370,3689,3853,463,2756],"class_list":["post-17470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-adonis-thomas","tag-big-ten","tag-joe-bauserman","tag-mac","tag-ohio-stadium","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-toledo-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470","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=17470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17471,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470\/revisions\/17471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}