{"id":18746,"date":"2011-10-20T19:16:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T00:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18746"},"modified":"2011-10-20T19:16:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T00:16:21","slug":"college-football-predictions-week-8-cincinnati-bearcats-vs-south-florida-bulls-big-east-handicapping-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-predictions-week-8-cincinnati-bearcats-vs-south-florida-bulls-big-east-handicapping-preview-18746\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Predictions Week 8: Cincinnati Bearcats vs. South Florida Bulls, Big East Handicapping Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Bearcats at South Florida Bulls
\nSaturday, 10\/22\/11, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 South Florida -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 South Florida -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 55.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 55.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The South Florida Bulls look to get back on track Saturday against the Cincinnati Bearcats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cincinnati has won four straight games and will be playing the first of four road games over the next five contests.\u00a0 The Bearcats are needing one win to gain bowl eligibility after not playing in the postseason a year ago.\u00a0 Saturday marks the ninth matchup between the Bulls and Bearcats.\u00a0 Prior to last year\u2019s 38-30 loss at Nippert Stadium, Cincinnati had won four consecutive meetings.\u00a0 In two games against the Bulls, quarterback Zach Collaros is 34-of-60 for 535 yards and three touchdowns.\u00a0 Cincinnati is 1-3 ATS as a road underdog of three points or less and the \u2018under\u2019 is 3-1 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Bearcats are plus-12 overall in turnover margin and have 10 interceptions, which ranks 11th nationally.\u00a0 Cincinnati has outscored its opponents 141-51 in the first half this season despite being held to only 13 first-half points in the last two games.\u00a0 Offensively, the team leads the Big East in scoring, averaging 41.7 points per game.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, the Bearcats rank second in allowing just 16.5 points a contest.\u00a0 The stop unit has not allowed an offensive touchdown in nine quarters with the last three opponents averaging 14 rushing yards per game.<\/p>\n

South Florida enters on a two-game losing streak, but both defeats came away from Raymond James Stadium.\u00a0 The Bulls dropped a 16-10 contest to the Connecticut Huskies as 7.5-point road favorites last time out, but managed to out-gain the Huskies by 86 yards.\u00a0 Oddsmakers have caught up to the program, dropping its last three games against the spread, after posting a perfect 3-0 ATS mark to start the season.\u00a0 South Florida is 3-0 ATS after two or more consecutive straight-up losses the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bulls have the second-best offense in the Big East in terms of total yards, averaging 476.2 yards per game, but most of the success came against much-lesser opponents.\u00a0 South Florida has been held to a 382-yard average against its first two conference opponents.\u00a0 In fact, the program has scored only 27 points combined versus Big East competition, which ranks last in the league.\u00a0 A key in this contest will be wide receiver Derrick Hopkins trying to open up the running game by being successful down field, as he leads the team with 32 catches and 420 yards.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bulls due to their 23-11 ATS mark after scoring less than 20 points, while the Bearcats are 0-6 ATS as a road underdog.<\/p>\n

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Cincinnati Bearcats at South Florida Bulls Saturday, 10\/22\/11, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 South Florida -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 South Florida -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 55.5 Current Total:\u00a0 55.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Cincinnati has won four straight games and will be playing the first of four road games over the next five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[2497,1152,3680,1155,1159],"class_list":["post-18746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-cincinnati-bearcats","tag-raymond-james-stadium","tag-south-florida-bulls","tag-zach-collaros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18746","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=18746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18747,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18746\/revisions\/18747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}