{"id":17790,"date":"2011-09-16T19:25:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T00:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17790"},"modified":"2011-09-16T19:25:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T00:25:35","slug":"college-football-picks-against-the-spread-texas-longhorns-at-ucla-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-picks-against-the-spread-texas-longhorns-at-ucla-bruins-17790\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Picks Against the Spread: Texas Longhorns at UCLA Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Longhorns at UCLA Bruins<\/strong>
\n Saturday, 9\/17\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC<\/strong>
\n Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas -3.5<\/strong>
\n Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas -3.5<\/strong>
\n Opening Total:\u00a0 45<\/strong>
\n Current Total:\u00a0 45.5<\/strong>
\n Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Texas<\/a>
The Texas Longhorns are road favorites against the UCLA Bruins despite losing the last three meetings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Texas will aim to gain revenge from dropping a 34-12 contest to UCLA last year as 15 1\/2-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Longhorns were absolutely dominated on the ground, being out-gained by 189 yards in the contest.\u00a0 \u201cWe all remember last year and what they were able to do to us,\u201d commented Longhorns safety Blake Gideon.\u00a0 \u201cTo put it lightly, that was embarrassing.\u201d\u00a0 The proud program finished 5-7 last year, but has started the 2011 campaign with consecutive wins over Rice (34-9) and BYU (17-16).\u00a0 Texas is 8-14 ATS as a favorite over the last two-plus seasons and the \u2018under\u2019 is 14-9 over that span.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns have been incredible in September under head coach Mack Brown, posting a 36-4 mark during his time on campus.\u00a0 Texas is in the midst of a quarterback controversy, as junior Garrett Gilbert is out, being replaced by sophomore Case McCoy and freshman David Ash.\u00a0 Whoever is behind center in the final 15 minutes will look to continue the team\u2019s dominance in the fourth quarter, outscoring opponents by a 21-0 margin.\u00a0 Texas has accumulated 14 first downs to just one for opposing teams.<\/p>\n

UCLA really played uninspiring football for three quarters in a 27-17 win over San Jose State as 20 1\/2-point home favorites, but it was suspected due to being a sandwich game between playing Houston and this contest.\u00a0 These two programs are meeting for the sixth time in the series and the Bruins own a 3-2 advantage, winning the last three contests.\u00a0 The team is hoping to have the quarterback tandem of Richard Brehaut and Kevin Prince available.\u00a0 Prince suffered a concussion in the season\u2019s first week and has been suffering lingering effects.\u00a0 UCLA is 10-16 ATS over the last two-plus seasons and the \u2018under\u2019 is 16-10 over that span.<\/p>\n

The Bruins used a punishing ground attack to take control of last week\u2019s game against the Spartans inside the Rose Bowl, gaining 221 yards on 29 carries.\u00a0 Running back Johnathan Franklin has scored a touchdown in each of his last three games and in five of six overall.\u00a0 He combined with Derrick Coleman for 212 rushing yards against the Longhorns last year.\u00a0 The team also benefited from causing four first-half turnovers in that contest.\u00a0 UCLA has won 21 of its last 25 non-conference matchups in Pasadena and has won seven of its last 13 games when playing host to ranked competition.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bruins due to their 12-3 ATS mark at home versus winning road games, while the Longhorns are 1-4 ATS as a road favorite.<\/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":"

Texas Longhorns at UCLA Bruins Saturday, 9\/17\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 45 Current Total:\u00a0 45.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Texas will aim to gain revenge from dropping a 34-12 contest to UCLA last year as 15 1\/2-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Longhorns were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3318,3317,3234,1272,496,11],"class_list":["post-17790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-johnathan-franklin","tag-kevin-prince","tag-mack-brown","tag-rose-bowl","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-ucla-bruins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17790","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=17790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17792,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17790\/revisions\/17792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}