{"id":25558,"date":"2012-10-19T16:10:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T21:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=25558"},"modified":"2012-10-19T16:10:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T21:10:57","slug":"college-football-week-8-picks-south-florida-bulls-vs-louisville-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-8-picks-south-florida-bulls-vs-louisville-cardinals-25558\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 8 Picks: South Florida Bulls vs. Louisville Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Florida Bulls at No. 16 Louisville Cardinals
\nSaturday, 10\/20\/12, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 52.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 54
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Louisville Cardinals will play their first home game in 35 days Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

South Florida returns to action following a bye week as it takes on Louisville inside Papa John\u2019s Stadium, as the team looks to snap a four-game losing streak.\u00a0 The Bulls are also out to avenge last year\u2019s 34-24 loss to the Cardinals as 5.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 The team has struggled on the defensive end this year, allowing a Big East Conference-worst 27.5 points per game, while surrendering an average of 438.6 total yards.\u00a0 South Florida is 4-2 ATS as a road underdog the last two-plus years, with the UNDER going 4-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bulls will need quarterback B.J. Daniels to play a superb game in order to pull off the upset, as he has thrown for 1,504 yards and 10 touchdowns.\u00a0 The dual-threat signal-caller has also managed to rush for 277 yards and four scores.\u00a0 The program owns a 5-4 all-time lead in this series, but has dropped three of four meetings on the road.<\/p>\n

Louisville improved its record to 6-0 with a 45-35 victory over the Pittsburgh Panthers as 2.5-point favorites, as it served as the final game of a three-game road trip.\u00a0 The Cardinals won those three contests by an average of 7.0 points, as they now look to improve upon their 3-0 mark at home.\u00a0 It\u2019s been 35 days since the team played in front of its home fans.\u00a0 Louisville is 4-3 ATS as a home favorite of seven or fewer points the last two-plus years, while the UNDER is 6-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals have scored more than 30 points in all three home games this year, while averaging 467.7 yards per game in that situation.\u00a0 Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater has thrown for 855 yards and five scores, while completing 81.8 percent of his throws inside this venue.\u00a0 Louisville will be trying to go 2-0 in Big East play for just the second time in school history.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cardinals due to their 8-1 ATS mark in conference games, while the Bulls are 1-5 ATS in October.<\/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":"

South Florida Bulls at No. 16 Louisville Cardinals Saturday, 10\/20\/12, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 52.5 Current Total:\u00a0 54 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker South Florida returns to action following a bye week as it takes on Louisville inside Papa John\u2019s Stadium, as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":23951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3356,2497,556,7095,1155,6238],"class_list":["post-25558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-b-j-daniels","tag-big-east-conference","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-papa-johns-stadium","tag-south-florida-bulls","tag-teddy-bridgewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25558","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=25558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25559,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25558\/revisions\/25559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}