{"id":19066,"date":"2011-11-02T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T16:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19066"},"modified":"2011-11-02T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T16:50:53","slug":"notre-dame-football-fighting-irish-take-on-the-wake-forest-demon-deacons-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/notre-dame-football-fighting-irish-take-on-the-wake-forest-demon-deacons-betting-preview-19066\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame Football: Fighting Irish Take on the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Wake Forest Demon Deacons
\nSaturday, 11\/5\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -13.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -13.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 55.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 55.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Notre Dame is a terrible 6-16-2 ATS as a favorite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notre Dame comes in off a 56-14 blowout win over the Navy Midshipmen as 23.5-point home favorites and now travels on the road to face Wake Forest for the first time in the 123-year history of the football program.\u00a0 \u201cA week for us where we want to build on playing very well last Saturday,\u201d commented Irish second-year coach Brian Kelly about the team\u2019s performance versus Navy.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re excited about carrying that over for this week.\u201d\u00a0 The Fighting Irish own a 117-20-3 record when facing an opponent for the first time.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 2-4 ATS as a road favorite and the \u2018under\u2019 is 3-2 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish are very balanced offensively in ranking 46th and 32nd in the nation respectively in rushing and passing.\u00a0 Notre Dame is led by the running back duo of Jonas Gray and Cierre Wood, who make up the only backfield tandem with at least eight rushing touchdowns each.\u00a0 Sophomore quarterback Tommy Rees is coming off a solid game, connecting on 16-of-22 passes for 237 yards and a touchdown with an interception.<\/p>\n

Wake Forest returns home off a two-week road trip and committed five turnovers in a 49-24 defeat to the North Carolina Tar Heels as seven-point road underdogs.\u00a0 The Demon Deacons have been out-gained in four consecutive games.\u00a0 \u201cWe just have to get back to our bread and butter,\u201d commented Demon Deacons wide receiver Terence Davis.\u00a0 \u201cWe have a lot of talent out there.\u201d\u00a0 He comes into this week\u2019s game with 9265 receiving yards.\u00a0 The offense will likely start with the ball first, receiving the opening kickoff in all eight games this year.\u00a0 Wake Forest is 13-18 ATS over the last two-plus seasons, while the \u2018over\u2019 is 16-14 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Demon Deacons still have to be thrilled with their 5-3 record, as the mark already exceeds their win total from a year ago (3-9).\u00a0 Sophomore quarterback Tanner Price gives the program plenty of optimism moving forward, completing 152 of 249 passes for 1,967 yards and 14 touchdowns with six interceptions to this point.\u00a0 He has thrown a score in seven of eight games and already eclipses his 1,349-yard mark from a year ago.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Demon Deacons due to their 13-6 ATS mark as a home underdog, while the Fighting Irish are 6-16-2 ATS as a favorite.<\/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":"

Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Wake Forest Demon Deacons Saturday, 11\/5\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -13.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -13.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 55.5 Current Total:\u00a0 55.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Notre Dame comes in off a 56-14 blowout win over the Navy Midshipmen as 23.5-point home favorites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":7117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[5090,5618,1311,5617,5089,3028],"class_list":["post-19066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-cierre-wood","tag-jonas-gray","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-tanner-price","tag-tommy-rees","tag-wake-forest-demon-deacons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19066","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=19066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19067,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19066\/revisions\/19067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}