{"id":25200,"date":"2012-09-26T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=25200"},"modified":"2012-09-25T22:27:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T03:27:33","slug":"virginia-tech-hokies-vs-cincinnati-bearcats-week-5-college-football-betting-odds-and-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/virginia-tech-hokies-vs-cincinnati-bearcats-week-5-college-football-betting-odds-and-preview-25200\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Cincinnati Bearcats: Week 5 College Football Betting Odds and Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Cincinnati Bearcats
\nSaturday, 9\/29\/12, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 44.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 45
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Cincinnati Bearcats have already had two bye weeks during the 2012 college football season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Virginia Tech has won five of the nine meetings in this series, including a 20-7 win as 2.5-point neutral-site underdogs in the 2009 Orange Bowl.\u00a0 The Hokies bounced back from their first loss of the season, capturing a 37-0 blowout win over the Bowling Green Falcons.\u00a0 Quarterback Logan Thomas had a season-high 65 rushing yards on a team-high 15 carries.\u00a0 \u201cI just run to win,\u201d commented Thomas after the game.\u00a0 \u201cI want to get a spark going for our team.\u201d\u00a0 He has taken a beating in the pocket, getting sacked eight times this season after the offensive line allowed 22 all of last year.\u00a0 Virginia Tech is 0-4 ATS after a win by 35 or more points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Hokies are 10-20 under head coach Frank Beamer when playing inside current NFL stadiums, including an 0-2 mark at FedExField.\u00a0 Virginia Tech ranks ninth nationally in pass defense, allowing just 143.5 yards per game, while the offense has scored 10 touchdowns on 14 trips inside the red zone.\u00a0 Sophomore Kyshoen Jarrett has proven to be a major weapon on special teams, leading all of college football in averaging 35.4 yards per punt return.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is coming off its second bye week in the first four weeks of the season, as head coach Butch Jones used the time to focus on ball security, with the team committing six turnovers in a lethargic 23-7 win over Delaware State on Sept. 15.\u00a0 The Bearcats are going through some expected growing pains with Munchie Legaux under center, but he\u2019s also extremely talented.\u00a0 Dating back to last season, the program has won its last five games.\u00a0 Cincinnati is 0-2 ATS as an underdog of 3.5 to 10 points since 2010, while failing to cover seven of 10 when getting points in that span overall.<\/p>\n

The Bearcats have been able to get after the quarterback this year, tallying eight sacks in their first two games.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a big surprise in the locker room, considering the defense ranked second nationally in that category last year.\u00a0 Legaux can\u2019t afford to commit four turnovers of his own like he did last time out in this contest.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, with the UNDER going 5-2 in the Hokies last seven games following a bye week, while the Bearcats have fallen short of the number in four consecutive games in that situation.<\/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":"

Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Cincinnati Bearcats Saturday, 9\/29\/12, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 44.5 Current Total:\u00a0 45 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Virginia Tech has won five of the nine meetings in this series, including a 20-7 win as 2.5-point neutral-site underdogs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":23946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[1152,5620,3682,7015,7039,1926],"class_list":["post-25200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-cincinnati-bearcats","tag-fedexfield","tag-frank-beamer","tag-logan-thomas","tag-munchie-legaux","tag-virginia-tech-hokies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25200","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=25200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25201,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25200\/revisions\/25201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}