{"id":18928,"date":"2011-10-28T10:38:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T15:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18928"},"modified":"2011-10-28T10:38:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T15:38:04","slug":"college-football-picks-against-the-spread-washington-state-cougars-vs-oregon-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-picks-against-the-spread-washington-state-cougars-vs-oregon-ducks-18928\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Picks Against the Spread: Washington State Cougars vs. Oregon Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington State Cougars at No. 7 Oregon Ducks
\nSaturday, 10\/29\/11, 3:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oregon -34.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oregon -35
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 69
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 69
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oregon Ducks' offense hasn't skipped a beat without RB LaMichael James<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Washington State has really fallen off since coming away with a 31-27 road win over the Colorado Buffaloes, dropping three consecutive games, including a 44-21 loss to the Oregon State Beavers last week.\u00a0 The Cougars have been dealing with an injury at the quarterback position, as Jeff Tuel broke his collarbone earlier in the year, only to return in the last two games, but re-tweaked the injury last week.\u00a0 \u201cWe need the kid to get healthy for him to be highly productive,\u201d commented Cougars head coach Paul Wulff.\u00a0 Washington State is 4-3 ATS on the year and the \u2018under\u2019 is 16-13 in the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Cougars have lost the last four meetings in this series and six of seven.\u00a0 Washington State was handed a 43-23 defeat in last year\u2019s meeting as 36.5-point home underdogs, losing the statistical battle by 206 yards.\u00a0 Despite the recent losing streak, the program has been much better statistically, averaging over 100 more yards a game offensively than last year, while holding opponents to 87 yards less per game on the defensive end.<\/p>\n

Oregon has rattled off six consecutive wins since dropping a 40-27 contest to the LSU Tigers as three-point neutral-site favorites.\u00a0 The Ducks have also tallied a 4-1-1 ATS mark in those contests.\u00a0 Injuries have not phased this team in the past couple weeks, as star running back LaMichael James has missed the last two weeks.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t affected the offense much due to backup Kenjon Barner gaining a combined 286 yards in in that span.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve always said that Kenjon could start at a lot of schools in this country,\u201d stated Ducks head coach Chip Kelly.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re fortunate to have both him and LaMichael.\u201d\u00a0 Oregon is 13-8 ATS versus conference opponents and the \u2018over\u2019 is 15-7 in such contests.<\/p>\n

The Ducks will bring in a 20-game home winning streak, which is the second-longest in college football behind the Boise State Broncos (35).\u00a0 Oregon has alwo won 16 straight conference games.\u00a0 Starting quarterback Darron Thomas (knee) is probable to return for this game, missing last week\u2019s 45-2 win over Colorado.\u00a0 The offense ranks sixth nationally in averaging 537.3 yards per game, while averaging 48.1 points a contest, which checks in at No. 4 in that particular category.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Cougars due to their 9-3 ATS mark in October, while the Ducks are just 3-3 ATS as a favorite of 31 or more 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":"

Washington State Cougars at No. 7 Oregon Ducks Saturday, 10\/29\/11, 3:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oregon -34.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oregon -35 Opening Total:\u00a0 69 Current Total:\u00a0 69 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Washington State has really fallen off since coming away with a 31-27 road win over the Colorado Buffaloes, dropping three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[5582,5583,3713,457,3120],"class_list":["post-18928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-jeff-tuel","tag-kenjon-barner","tag-lamichael-james","tag-oregon-ducks","tag-washington-state-cougars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928","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=18928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18929,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928\/revisions\/18929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}