{"id":25704,"date":"2012-10-27T09:22:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T14:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=25704"},"modified":"2012-10-27T09:22:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T14:22:49","slug":"college-football-week-9-predictions-syracuse-orange-vs-south-florida-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-9-predictions-syracuse-orange-vs-south-florida-bulls-25704\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 9 Predictions: Syracuse Orange vs. South Florida Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Syracuse Orange at South Florida Bulls
\nSaturday, 10\/27\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 South Florida -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 South Florida -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 51.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 52
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Syracuse Orange QB Ryan Nassib will be facing the only defense in college football without an interception on Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Syracuse will play four of its final five games on the road, as the team has alternated wins and losses over its last six games.\u00a0 The Orange picked up a dominating 40-10 win over the Connecticut Huskies as 4.5-point home favorites in their last effort.\u00a0 \u201cGet ready to come back to work,\u201d commented Orange head coach Doug Marrone after the victory.\u00a0 \u201cYou guys are fighting.\u201d\u00a0 The program is ranked in the top 35 nationally ion offense and defense, which is pretty impressive for a Big East Conference team.\u00a0 Syracuse is 0-5 ATS on the road when the total is 49.5 to 56.<\/p>\n

The Orange were handed a 37-17 loss as three-point home underdogs in last year\u2019s series meeting, while the game when OVER the posted total of 52.\u00a0 Syracuse leads the Big East in passing offense, averaging 309.1 yards per game, while sitting second in total offense by gaining 454.3 yards per contest.\u00a0 Quarterback Ryan Nassib is the leader of that attack, as he ranks 11th among active players with 673 career completions.<\/p>\n

South Florida has won six of seven all-time meetings in this series, as it looks to snap a five-game losing streak, which includes a disheartening 27-25 setback to the Louisville Cardinals as six-point road underdogs.\u00a0 The Bulls are last in the conference in total defense, with most of the trouble coming in trying to stop opponents from running the football.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m seeing improvements in the front seven,\u201d stated Bulls head coach Skip Holtz.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re working together and getting better.\u201d\u00a0 South Florida is 0-4 ATS as a favorite this year.<\/p>\n

The Bulls have posted a 73-27 record in home games since the program started in 1997, but will have a hard time stopping the passing game in this affair.\u00a0 South Florida is the only team in the country without an interception this year.\u00a0 The program is also the second-most penalized team in the conference\u2014drawing 50 flags for 453 yards.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Orange due to the road team covering four of the last five meetings, while the Bulls are 2-10 ATS in their last 12 conference tilts.<\/p>\n

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Syracuse Orange at South Florida Bulls Saturday, 10\/27\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 South Florida -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 South Florida -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 51.5 Current Total:\u00a0 52 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Syracuse will play four of its final five games on the road, as the team has alternated wins and losses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":23944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[2497,5234,1299,1155,580],"class_list":["post-25704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-east-conference","tag-ryan-nassib","tag-skip-holtz","tag-south-florida-bulls","tag-syracuse-orange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25704","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=25704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25705,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25704\/revisions\/25705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}