{"id":19042,"date":"2011-11-01T09:53:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T14:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19042"},"modified":"2011-11-01T09:53:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T14:53:57","slug":"college-football-thursday-night-tulsa-golden-hurricane-vs-ucf-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-thursday-night-tulsa-golden-hurricane-vs-ucf-knights-19042\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Thursday Night: Tulsa Golden Hurricane vs. UCF Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tulsa Golden Hurricane at UCF Knights
\nThursday, 11\/3\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 UCF Pick
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 UCF -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 48.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 48.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The UCF Knights have allowed the fewest points nationally at home this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tulsa goes out on the road to take on the defending Conference USA champions from the East Division, looking for its second consecutive win in the series, tallying 49-19 victory as 22.5-point home favorites on Oct. 16, 2008.\u00a0 The Golden Hurricane are coming off a dominating 38-7 win over the SMU Mustangs, winning the total yardage battle by a triple-digit margin for the third consecutive game.\u00a0 \u201cObviously I\u2019m very proud,\u201d commented Tulsa first-year coach Bill Blankenship.\u00a0 \u201cThat was a great win for our program.\u201d\u00a0 Tulsa is 4-0 ATS when the line is between a field goal on both sides over the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Golden Hurricane are an impressive 36-15 in Conference-USA during the regular season and 16-6 when taking on Eastern foes.\u00a0 In four league games, Tulsa has scored over 30 points in each of those games with an average winning margin in those contests of 23.5 points.\u00a0 Senior quarterback G.J. Kinne is the leader of the team, going over the 9,000-yard plateau this year in total yards, ranking third in school history with 8,277 passing yards.\u00a0 On the defensive end, since giving up 246 rushing yards for a 5.3-yard average in the season opener against Oklahoma, the unit has allowed just 109 yards per game and a 2.79 per carry average.<\/p>\n

UCF snapped its two-game losing streak by picking up a 41-0 win over the Memphis Tigers as 29.5-point home favorites, while the \u2018under\u2019 is now 5-2 in that span.\u00a0 Quarterback Jeff Godfrey responded after his starting spot was being threatened, throwing for 200 yards through the air and gaining 97 yards on the ground.\u00a0 \u201cCoach told me to stop trying to force things and do things that I did last year,\u201d commented Godfrey.\u00a0 He will likely need to generate points, as the winning team in the last four series meetings has scored at least 44 points and also generated more rushing yards.\u00a0 UCF is 16-7 ATS as a favorite the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Knights are 2-2 all-time on Thursday nights and will rely heavily on their home-field advantage inside Bright House Networks Stadium.\u00a0 UCF leads the country with just nine points allowed at home this year.\u00a0 The program also relies heavily on winning the time-of-possession battle, ranking second in the country behind the Texas Longhorns in that category.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Golden Hurricane due to being 8-1 ATS on the road, while the Knights are 1-5 ATS in their last six games overall.<\/p>\n

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Tulsa Golden Hurricane at UCF Knights Thursday, 11\/3\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 UCF Pick Current Betting Line:\u00a0 UCF -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 48.5 Current Total:\u00a0 48.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Tulsa goes out on the road to take on the defending Conference USA champions from the East Division, looking for its second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":16530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[5611,2558,3638,3262,2825,3261],"class_list":["post-19042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-bright-house-networks-stadium","tag-conference-usa","tag-g-j-kinne","tag-jeff-godfrey","tag-tulsa-golden-hurricane","tag-ucf-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042","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=19042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19043,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042\/revisions\/19043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}