{"id":25494,"date":"2012-10-15T17:08:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T22:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=25494"},"modified":"2012-10-15T17:08:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T22:08:32","slug":"college-football-week-8-picks-virginia-tech-hokies-vs-clemson-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-8-picks-virginia-tech-hokies-vs-clemson-tigers-25494\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 8 Picks: Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Clemson Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia Tech Hokies at No. 19 Clemson Tigers
\nSaturday, 10\/20\/12, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Clemson -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Clemson -8.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 61
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 61.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Clemson Tigers won both meetings against the Virginia Tech Hokies a year ago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Virginia Tech was able to snap its two-game losing streak by capturing a 41-20 victory over the Duke Blue Devils as 9.5-point home favorites, while going OVER the total for the third consecutive game.\u00a0 The Hokies will be looking for major payback in this affair, as they lost both meetings with Clemson in 2011, which was the first time in school history the lost to the same team twice in one season.\u00a0 Virginia Tech is 0-2-1 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus years, losing all three contests in straight-up fashion.<\/p>\n

The Hokies have won three of their last four trips to Memorial Stadium, while they\u2019ve compiled an impressive 27-6 record in ACC road games since joining the league in 2004.\u00a0 Virginia Tech has gone 64-30-1 under head coach Frank Beamer when playing in the month of October.\u00a0 Running back J.C. Coleman will look to build off his performance last week, gaining 183 yards versus the Blue Devils,as they face a defense that ranks 99th in the country in trying to stop the run.<\/p>\n

Clemson has won and covered its two games since suffering its only defeat against Florida State last month, as it gets ready to come off its bye week.\u00a0 The Tigers ended the Hokies five-game win streak in the series with a 23-3 win last October, which led to the school becoming the first in ACC history to beat three straight AP-ranked opponents in consecutive games.\u00a0 A much-maligned defense this year actually held Saturday\u2019s opponent to 258 total yards in that contest.\u00a0 Clemson is 2-0 ATS as a home favorite of 7.5 to 14 points the last two-plus seasons, with both going OVER the total.<\/p>\n

The Tigers will attempt to tie the school record for consecutive wins at this venue, as they\u2019ve won 10 in a row dating back to a victory over Troy to open up the 2011 season.\u00a0 Clemson has scored at least 31 points in all 10 of those previous games, averaging 41.7 points and surrendering just 24.5 points, which comes out to an average margin of 17.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Tigers due to their 5-1 ATS mark in October, while the Hokies are 0-4 ATS following a straight-up win.<\/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 at No. 19 Clemson Tigers Saturday, 10\/20\/12, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Clemson -9.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Clemson -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 61 Current Total:\u00a0 61.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Virginia Tech was able to snap its two-game losing streak by capturing a 41-20 victory over the Duke Blue Devils […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":23978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[387,634,3682,3319,1926],"class_list":["post-25494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-frank-beamer","tag-memorial-stadium","tag-virginia-tech-hokies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25494","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=25494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25495,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25494\/revisions\/25495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}