{"id":18175,"date":"2011-10-01T10:38:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T15:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18175"},"modified":"2011-10-01T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T15:38:45","slug":"college-football-picks-week-5-nebraska-cornhuskers-at-wisconsin-badgers-big-ten-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-picks-week-5-nebraska-cornhuskers-at-wisconsin-badgers-big-ten-preview-18175\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Picks Week 5: Nebraska Cornhuskers at Wisconsin Badgers Big Ten Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 8 Nebraska Cornhuskers at No. 7 Wisconsin Badgers
\nSaturday, 10\/1\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -10
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 57.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 55
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Wisconsin Badgers are double-digit home favorites against the Nebraska Cornhuskers Saturday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nebraska makes a historic trip this week to Madison to take on the Wisconsin Badgers in the program\u2019s first-ever Big Ten Conference game.\u00a0 \u201cEverybody on this team has something to prove,\u201d commented Cornhuskers quarterback Taylor Martinez.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re ready to shock the world.\u201d\u00a0 This particular contest is the fourth matchup in college football between top 10 teams this year.\u00a0 Nebraska is 4-0 on the season following a 38-14 win over the Wyoming Cowboys as 20.5-point road favorites.\u00a0 It served as the team\u2019s first spread victory of the season.\u00a0 Nebraska is 3-0 ATS as an underdog of 3.5 to 10 points, while the \u2018under\u2019 is 3-0 in those games.<\/p>\n

The Cornhuskers will be meeting up with the Badgers for the first time since 1974, with the team holding a 3-2 edge in the all-time series.\u00a0 Nebraska rushed for a season-high 333 yards last week, improving to 14-0 the past two seasons when rushing for at least 200 yards.\u00a0 The team is 21-2 under current head coach Bo Pelini when going over that total.\u00a0 Playing on the road is definitely a strength for the team, posting an 11-4 mark under Pelini, including wins in nine of its last 10 tries outside of Lincoln.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin will be hosting the first game inside Camp Randall Stadium featuring two top-10 teams for the first time since 1962.\u00a0 The Badgers have won their last 11 regular-season games, which is the longest streak for the school since winning 13-straight during head coach Bret Bielema\u2019s first two seasons.\u00a0 Offensively, the team has won their last seven regular-season games by an average of 44.4 points.\u00a0 Wisconsin is also a dominating 27-3 in its last 30 night games, including a 9-2 record in its last 11 inside tonight\u2019s venue.\u00a0 Over the last two-plus campaigns, Wisconsin is 10-6 ATS versus conference opponents.<\/p>\n

The Badgers lead the Big Ten in both scoring offense and scoring defense.\u00a0 Wisconsin and Stanford are the only two teams in the country that rank among the top 10 in both categories.\u00a0 Running backs Montee Ball and James White continue to be a dynamic duo in coming for 663 yards on 108 carries and 12 touchdowns.\u00a0 Both have seen plenty of daylight in the running game due to quarterback Russell Wilson keeping opponents honest in the passing game.\u00a0 He ranks second in the country in passing efficiency and is fifth in completion percentage.\u00a0 During his time at NC State and now with Wisconsin, he has thrown a touchdown pass in 28 consecutive games.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Cornhuskers due to their 5-0 ATS mark as an underdog, while the Badgers are just 4-4 ATS in October.<\/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":"

No. 8 Nebraska Cornhuskers at No. 7 Wisconsin Badgers Saturday, 10\/1\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -10 Opening Total:\u00a0 57.5 Current Total:\u00a0 55 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Nebraska makes a historic trip this week to Madison to take on the Wisconsin Badgers in the program\u2019s first-ever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":7118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3442,5499,1143,5500,3375,437],"class_list":["post-18175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-camp-randall-stadium","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-russell-wilscon","tag-taylor-martinez","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18175","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=18175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18176,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18175\/revisions\/18176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}