{"id":17614,"date":"2011-09-10T06:33:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T11:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17614"},"modified":"2011-09-10T06:33:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T11:33:04","slug":"pac-12-conference-opener-utah-utes-at-usc-trojans-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pac-12-conference-opener-utah-utes-at-usc-trojans-betting-preview-17614\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-12 Conference Opener: Utah Utes at USC Trojans Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utah Utes at USC Trojans
\nSaturday, 9\/10\/11, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Versus
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 USC -10.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 USC -9
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 53
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 52
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The USC Trojans survived a 19-17 scare at home against the Minnesota Gophers last week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Utah is set to play USC in the Pac-12 Conference\u2019s first game since adding two new teams during the offseason.\u00a0 The Utes are worthy opponents in this contest due to posting a 80-22 overall record since the start of the 2003 season.\u00a0 Offensive coordinator Norm Chow has some ties to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, as he helped the Trojans become a college football power again during the early 2000s.\u00a0 Everyone during practice this week was aware that the squad would need to play much better than last week\u2019s 27-10 win over Montana State to be able to pull off the upset Saturday night.\u00a0 Utah is 43-23 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

The Utes are 9-2 all-time in games televised by VERSUS and the school has 32 native Californians on the roster.\u00a0 Utah enters with a 76-120-6 all-time mark against schools that make up the current Pac-12, including a 3-6 record against USC.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t all bad for the offense during the opening week, as the rushing game ended up with 191 yards and the unit finished 4-of-4 in the red zone, scoring three touchdowns and a field goal.\u00a0 Quarterback Jordan Wynn didn\u2019t provide a very good performance in throwing for 101 yards, which was his lowest output in a game since entering a 2009 contest in the second half.<\/p>\n

USC comes in off a lackluster 19-17 win over the Minnesota Gophers as 21-point home favorites and head coach Lane Kiffin was miffed at his team\u2019s offensive performance in the second half.\u00a0 \u201cWhat I meant was there were two guys that had great games,\u201d Kiffin stated about comments of only two good players on our offense that was misconstrued in the media.\u00a0 Quarterback Matt Barkley connected with wide receiver Robert Woods early and often, as the speedy wide receiver finished last week with a school-record 17 receptions for 177 yards and three touchdowns.\u00a0 USC is 3-10 ATS at home the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Trojans have tallied a 66-18-5 record in league openers in school history, including a 38-7-3 mark when playing at home.\u00a0 USC is also a dominating 411-128-27 all-time at the Coliseum.\u00a0 Still, opponents are as intimidated playing against the team inside the venue as they once were, winning five of the last 10 games against the Trojans in Los Angeles.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see if running back Marc Tyler gets some repetitions in the contest, as he was reinstated last week, coming off a 913-yard season a year ago.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Trojans due to their 11-5 ATS mark when scoring 20 points or fewer, while the Utes are 1-6 ATS in their last seven 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":"

Utah Utes at USC Trojans Saturday, 9\/10\/11, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 Versus Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 USC -10.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 USC -9 Opening Total:\u00a0 53 Current Total:\u00a0 52 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Utah is set to play USC in the Pac-12 Conference\u2019s first game since adding two new teams during the offseason.\u00a0 The Utes are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3662,1089,5263,3384,472,405],"class_list":["post-17614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-jordan-wynn","tag-matt-barkley","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-robert-woods","tag-usc-trojans","tag-utah-utes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614","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=17614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17615,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions\/17615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}