{"id":17480,"date":"2011-09-07T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T22:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17480"},"modified":"2011-09-07T17:22:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T22:22:23","slug":"nevada-wolf-pack-at-oregon-ducks-ncaa-football-picks-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nevada-wolf-pack-at-oregon-ducks-ncaa-football-picks-predictions-17480\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Wolf Pack at Oregon Ducks NCAA Football Picks & Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nevada Wolf Pack at No. 13 Oregon Ducks
\nSaturday, 9\/10\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FX
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oregon -22.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oregon -26.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 59.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 63
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oregon Ducks aim to bounce back from a 40-27 neutral-site loss to the LSU Tigers last week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nevada had the first week of the 2011 college football season off and is now set to play four consecutive road games starting with this contest in Eugene, Oregon.\u00a0 The Wolfpack being life without star quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers, as he guided the program to an incredible 13-1 season last year.\u00a0 Longtime head coach Chris Ault will now rely on 23-year-old Tyler Lantrip to handle things under center.\u00a0 He will be one of 30 signal-callers across the nation to make his first career start in a season opener this year.\u00a0 Nevada is 4-7 ATS in non-conference action the last two years.<\/p>\n

The Wolf Pack enter this contest on a seven-game wining streak, as the program has not lost since a 27-21 defeat at Hawaii on Oct. 16, 2010.\u00a0 Nevada does welcome back four All-WAC players to its roster.\u00a0 Ault has led the program to a 16-10 all-time record in season-opening games in his Hall of Fame career.\u00a0 Coming off such a great campaign, the WAC media still has respect for the team despite all of its losses, picking the Wolf Pack to finish third in the conference.<\/p>\n

Oregon was handed a 40-27 loss in the season opener against the LSU Tigers inside Cowboys Stadium and head coach Chip Kelly knows he was beaten by a better team.\u00a0 \u201cThey played solid football,\u201d Kelly stated after the game.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s a good defensive front.\u00a0 They did a really nice job.\u201d\u00a0 The Ducks averaged 286.2 rushing yards per game in 2010, but was limited to just 95 yards on the ground last Saturday.\u00a0 Running back LaMichael James moved into first in the school\u2019s career rushing list, but was held to just 54 yards.\u00a0 Oregon is 14-13 ATS in the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Ducks are likely to bounce back due to their 16-game winning streak at Autzen Stadium and scoring at least 38 points in six consecutive home openers.\u00a0 Oregon is also 17-3 in its past 20 meetings against WAC opponents, with the only losses coming against Hawaii and Boise State (twice).\u00a0 Since 2000, the program has registered a 29-6 record in regular season games against non-conference opponents.\u00a0 Kelly has been on campus four years, two as an offensive coordinator, with the Ducks posting a 23-3 record at home and averaging 45.2 points in those contests.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely side with the Ducks due to their 9-4 ATS mark at home, while the Wolf Pack are 5-9 ATS as underdogs of 21.5 to 31 points.<\/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":"

Nevada Wolf Pack at No. 13 Oregon Ducks Saturday, 9\/10\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FX Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oregon -22.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oregon -26.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 59.5 Current Total:\u00a0 63 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Nevada had the first week of the 2011 college football season off and is now set to play four consecutive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3242,1122,3713,432,457,5281,2796],"class_list":["post-17480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-autzen-stadium","tag-chip-kelly","tag-lamichael-james","tag-nevada-wolf-pack","tag-oregon-ducks","tag-pac-12","tag-wac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480","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=17480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17481,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480\/revisions\/17481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}