{"id":18772,"date":"2011-10-21T11:55:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T16:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18772"},"modified":"2011-10-21T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T16:55:46","slug":"college-football-picks-week-8-wisconsin-badgers-vs-michigan-state-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-picks-week-8-wisconsin-badgers-vs-michigan-state-spartans-18772\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Picks Week 8: Wisconsin Badgers vs. Michigan State Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 6 Wisconsin Badgers at No. 16 Michigan State Spartans
\nSaturday, 10\/22\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 48.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 49.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Wisconsin Badgers seek revenge from last year's loss in East Lansing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wisconsin is 6-0 for the first time under head coach Bret Bielema and will be looking to capture its 14th regular-season win in a row.\u00a0 The Badgers will also be looking to gain revenge from a 34-24 loss in last year\u2019s trip to East Lansing, a loss that Bielema took to heart.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s my fault,\u201d stated the program\u2019s front man about not having his team prepared.\u00a0 \u201cI probably didn\u2019t stress playing on the road in the Big Ten as much as I should have going into that game.\u201d\u00a0 The team leads the Big Ten Conference in scoring offense and defense.\u00a0 Wisconsin is 4-2 ATS as a favorite of 3.5 to 10 points, while the \u2018over\u2019 has cashed in five of six of those opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Badgers are incredibly balanced in having 1,594 passing yards and 1,545 rushing yards this season.\u00a0 Wisconsin has won each of its last 10 regular-season games by at least 20 points.\u00a0 Quarterback Russell Wilson is a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate, leading the country in passing efficiency, while completing 74.2 percent of his passes.\u00a0 He ranks third among all active signal-callers in total offense, trailing only Houston\u2019s Case Keenum and Boise State\u2019s Kellen Moore.<\/p>\n

Michigan State comes off its fourth consecutive win over Michigan, capturing a 28-14 win as three-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Spartans only loss this season was a 31-13 defeat against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish as six-point road underdogs.\u00a0 Defensively, the unit ranks second nationally, while also allowing just 180 yards per game during its three-game winning streak.\u00a0 Michigan State is riding an 11-game home winning streak, the longest for the program since 1964-66.\u00a0 The team will be playing its first game in the last two-plus seasons as home underdogs of 3.5 to 7 points.<\/p>\n

The Spartans will be playing just their 11th night game in the history of Spartan Stadium, posting a 6-4 mark in those contests.\u00a0 In fact, the home team has won the past six games in the series.\u00a0 ESPN College GameDay will be on campus for the first time since 2005.\u00a0 Michigan State\u2019s strength is a defense that has allowed opponents just seven trips inside the red zone this season, which is the second-fewest nationally, trailing only the Boise State Broncos.\u00a0 The program is 21-31 in its last 52 games against teams ranked in the AP Top 25 poll.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Badgers due to their 15-5-1 ATS mark in their last 21 games, while the Spartans are 1-7 ATS as an underdog of 3.5 to 10 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":"

No. 6 Wisconsin Badgers at No. 16 Michigan State Spartans Saturday, 10\/22\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 48.5 Current Total:\u00a0 49.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Wisconsin is 6-0 for the first time under head coach Bret Bielema and will be looking to capture […]<\/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":[3442,3565,500,3630,3237,437],"class_list":["post-18772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-espn-college-gameday","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-russell-wilson","tag-spartan-stadium","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772","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=18772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18773,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772\/revisions\/18773"}],"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=18772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}