{"id":18913,"date":"2011-10-27T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18913"},"modified":"2011-10-27T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:28:09","slug":"college-football-picks-against-the-spread-week-9-stanford-cardinal-vs-usc-trojans-pac-12-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-picks-against-the-spread-week-9-stanford-cardinal-vs-usc-trojans-pac-12-preview-18913\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Picks Against the Spread Week 9: Stanford Cardinal vs. USC Trojans, Pac-12 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stanford Cardinal at USC Trojans
\nSaturday, 10\/29\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Stanford -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Stanford -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 58
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 59.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Stanford<\/a>
The Stanford Cardinal are the only team in college football to cover the spread in each game this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stanford will aim to extend the nation\u2019s longest winning streak Saturday in taking on USC inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.\u00a0 The Cardinal are the only program nationally that have covered all of their games this season, including a 65-21 win as 18-point home favorites last week.\u00a0 Most of the game was controlled on the ground, leading to a school-record 446 rushing yards, which isn\u2019t surprising due to the team ranking 17th nationally on the ground.\u00a0 \u201cAs a quarterback, it\u2019s real fun to get the snap, hand it off and see those big guys work,\u201d\u00a0 commented Cardinal quarterback Andrew Luck.\u00a0 Stanford is 23-9 ATS over the last two-plus seasons and the \u2018over\u2019 is 17-15 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Cardinal have defeated their last 10 opponents by 25 or more points, compiling an average margin of victory of 35.2 points during that stretch.\u00a0 Luck gains most of the accolades despite the team\u2019s rushing success, as he enters as the Heisman Trophy frontrunner.\u00a0 He has completed 88-of-117 passes for 1,102 yards and 12 touchdowns over the last four games.\u00a0 The team usually jumps on opponents in outscoring the last 20 by a 453-145 margin in the first half.<\/p>\n

USC returns home off a successful two-game road trip that included a 31-17 win over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish as 9.5-point underdogs.\u00a0 The Trojans controlled the entire game and out-gained the Irish by a sizable 185-yard margin.\u00a0 \u201cI hope that we grew up, going on the road in back-to-back weeks,\u201d commented Trojans second-year head coach Lane Kiffin.\u00a0 The team should be coming in with plenty of confidence and move back inside the AP Top 25 rankings.\u00a0 USC is 3-1 ATS as an underdog of 3.5 to 10 points over the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Trojans are led by the talented pass-catch duo of quarterback Matt Barkley and wide receiver Robert Woods, as they look to duplicate their efforts from a year ago in this rivalry.\u00a0 Barkley threw for 390 passing yards and Woods finished with 12 catches for 224 yards and a career best-tying three scores.\u00a0 Surprisingly enough, USC is just 5-8 against Stanford teams that come into this matchup as a ranked opponent.\u00a0 The school is still a dominating 297-111-19 all-time when playing in October.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Trojans due to their 9-4 ATS mark as an underdog, while the favorite in this series is 0-4 ATS in the last four meetings.<\/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":"

Stanford Cardinal at USC Trojans Saturday, 10\/29\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Stanford -9.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Stanford -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 58 Current Total:\u00a0 59.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Stanford will aim to extend the nation\u2019s longest winning streak Saturday in taking on USC inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.\u00a0 The Cardinal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[2046,3382,1089,3384,2528,472],"class_list":["post-18913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-andrew-luck","tag-los-angeles-memorial-coliseum","tag-matt-barkley","tag-robert-woods","tag-stanford-cardinal","tag-usc-trojans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913","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=18913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18914,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913\/revisions\/18914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}