{"id":17477,"date":"2011-09-07T18:40:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T23:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17477"},"modified":"2011-09-07T18:40:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T23:40:21","slug":"college-football-betting-preview-florida-international-golden-panthers-at-louisville-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-betting-preview-florida-international-golden-panthers-at-louisville-cardinals-17477\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Betting Preview: Florida International Golden Panthers at Louisville Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida International Golden Panthers at Louisville Cardinals
\nPapa John’s Cardinal Stadium, Louisville, Kentucky
\nFriday, September 9, 2011, 7:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN
\nOpening Line: Louisville -4 1\/2
\nCurrent Line: Louisville -4
\nOpening Total: 49
\nCurrent Total: 48 1\/2
\nOpening Money Line: Louisville -175 \/ Florida International +155
\nCurrent Money Line: Louisville -175 \/ Florida International +155<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Louisville is a 4 point favorite at home against Florida International in colelge fotoball action Friday night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Coach Charlie Strong and the Louisville Cardinals host Mario Cristobal and the Florida International Golden Panthers. Both teams are 1-0 on the young season after beating inferior opponents last week. Florida International beat Sun Belt conference rival North Texas at home 41-16 last Thursday night. The covered the spread easily and the game went over the total. Louisville struggled in their 21-9 victory over Murray St, a game notable because it was the first official game of the 2011 season. The game kicked off at 6:00 pm last Thursday. Louisville didn’t cover the spread and the game went under the total. Louisville and Florida International have never played in football before.<\/p>\n

FIU jumped out to a 28 point lead in the first quarter against North Texas and cruised to a 41-16 victory. The Panthers outgained the Mean Green 401-301. FIU had 208 rushing yards in the game. Quarterback Wesley Carroll was 16 for 22 for 193 yards, with a touchdown and no interceptions. He also had 2 carries for 2 yards.\u00a0 Panther receiver T.Y. Hilton had 283 all purpose yards including 7 catches for 132 yards, including a 60 yard touchdown catch, along with 2 carries for 49 yards. He also had 2 kick returns for 92 yards. Running back Darriet Perry had 15 carries for 94 yards and 2 touchdowns. Kedrick Rhodes had 16 carries, 77 yards and 2 touchdowns as well. Kicker Jack Griffin made 2 field goals of 23 and 45 yards as well as all 5 of his extra points. Punter Jack Brisk had 5 punts with a 49.2 yard average with one touchback and one inside the 20.<\/p>\n

Florida International held North Texas to 301 total yards including 204 passing yards. The North Texas offense didn’t score a point as the defense recovered 2 fumbles in the end zone and recorded a safety accounting for all 16 Mean Green points. The Panthers defense had 3 sacks and recovered one fumble. Linebacker Winston Fraser had 11 tackles in the game. Linebacker Greg Hickman had 2 sacks in the game.<\/p>\n

Louisville also jumped out to an early 21-0 lead and held on for a 21-9 victory. The Cardinals outgained the Racers 385-291, including 226 passing yards for Louisville. The game was very sloppy on both sides with Louisville turning it over 4 times, including 3 fumbles and an interception, and Murray St threw three interceptions. Louisville also had 10 penalties for 65 yards. Quarterback Will Stein was 17 for 32 for 226 yards, and 2 touchdowns without an interception. He also had 6 carries for -2 yards. Freshman receiver DeVante Parker had 3 catches for 55 yards, including a 39 yard touchdown catch in the first quarter.\u00a0 No other Cardinal receiver had more than 4 catches or 39 yards receiving. Senior RB Victor Anderson had 9 carries, 61 yards, and a touchdown. Anderson had 3 catches for 23 yards as well.\u00a0 Kicker Chris Philpott had 2 carries for 48 yards but 40 of those came on one play.\u00a0 Philpott didn’t attempt a field goal but made 3 extra points.Punter Josh Bleser had 5 punts with a 35 yards average but did have 3 inside the 20.<\/p>\n

Murray St was held to only 291 yards against Louisville after averaging over 500 yards a game last year.Race Quarterback Casey Brockman threw for only 148 yards and 3 interceptions with no touchdowns. Running back Mike Harris had 26 carries, 116 yards, and a late touchdown. Louisville linebackers Preston Brown and Dexter Heyman both had 12 tackles. Heyman also had one of the 3 interceptions.<\/p>\n

FIU is 1-9 against the spread in their last 10 as an underdog of 3.5 to 10 points. The Panthers are 4-1-1 ATS in their last 6 games overall and 4-1 ATS in their last 5 against Big East teams. Louisville is 4-1 ATS the spread in their last 5 after failing to cover the spread in the previous game. The Cardinals are 2-8 ATS in their last 10 home games and 2-8 in their last 10 Friday games as well. The over is 7-0 in FIU’s last 7 games as an underdog of 3.5 to 10 points, and 13-3 in their last 16 road games against teams with winning records.<\/p>\n

Louisville needs to play much better against a dangerous FIU team than they did against Murray St, especially on offense. They need to cut down on the penalties and turnovers or they could be on upset alert against a team picked to win the Sun Belt Conference.<\/p>\n

Check out our college football odds for the best line on every game. Our college football\u00a0 handicappers are crushing the bookmakers so far this season.<\/p>\n

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Florida International Golden Panthers at Louisville Cardinals Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium, Louisville, Kentucky Friday, September 9, 2011, 7:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN Opening Line: Louisville -4 1\/2 Current Line: Louisville -4 Opening Total: 49 Current Total: 48 1\/2 Opening Money Line: Louisville -175 \/ Florida International +155 Current Money Line: Louisville -175 \/ Florida International […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40249,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[559,9531,1923,2289,2274,1492,4058,556,29,3284],"class_list":["post-17477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-east","tag-college-football","tag-college-football-betting","tag-college-football-handicapping","tag-college-football-odds","tag-espn","tag-florida-international-golden-panthers","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-ncaa-football","tag-sun-belt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477","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\/40249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17486,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477\/revisions\/17486"}],"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=17477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}