{"id":26099,"date":"2012-11-13T15:49:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T20:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26099"},"modified":"2012-11-13T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T20:49:49","slug":"college-football-week-12-picks-northwestern-wildcats-vs-michigan-state-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-12-picks-northwestern-wildcats-vs-michigan-state-spartans-26099\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 12 Picks: Northwestern Wildcats vs. Michigan State Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northwestern Wildcats at Michigan State Spartans
\nSaturday, 11\/17\/12, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 44
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 44
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan State Spartans are 1-7 ATS as a favorite this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Northwestern is looking to bounce back from a disappointing 38-31 overtime loss to the Michigan Wolverines as 8.5-point road underdogs, while going OVER the total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 \u201cIt is just disappointment,\u201d commented Wildcats wide receiver Tony Jones after the game.\u00a0 The Wildcats are capable of bouncing back, considering they\u2019ve gone 10-6 in November over the last four seasons, while looking to lock up a .500 or better road record for the fifth consecutive campaign.\u00a0 Northwestern is 2-0 ATS as an underdog of 3.5 to 10 points this season.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats are led offensively by running back Venric Mark, who has ran for 1,176 yards on the season, which is good for 10th-best on the school\u2019s all-time single-season rushing list.\u00a0 Northwestern will be focused on trying to win its first game over Michigan State since 2007, as it suffered a 31-17 loss in last year\u2019s meeting as 5.5-point home underdogs.<\/p>\n

Michigan State will say goodbye to a senior class has captured 33 wins, which is tied for the second most in the 116-year history of the program.\u00a0 The Spartans have won four of their five Senior Day games under the direction of head coach Mark Dantonio.\u00a0 In four Big Ten Conference setbacks, the team has lost by a grand total of 10 points, which includes a 28-24 loss to the Nebraska Cornhuskers as one-point home favorites two weeks ago.\u00a0 Michigan State is 1-7 ATS as a favorite this season, with the UNDER going 5-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Spartans last six games have been decided by four points or fewer, which is the longest such streak by a team since at least the 1996 campaign.\u00a0 Michigan State has compiled a solid 12-5 record in games decided by 10 points or less over the last three seasons.\u00a0 Offensively, the team relies heavily on running back Le\u2019Veon Bell, who ranks second in the nation in carries and ninth in rushing yards.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the OVER in this affair, as the Spartans have gone above the total in five of their last six games following a bye week.<\/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":"

Northwestern Wildcats at Michigan State Spartans Saturday, 11\/17\/12, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 44 Current Total:\u00a0 44 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Northwestern is looking to bounce back from a disappointing 38-31 overtime loss to the Michigan Wolverines as 8.5-point road underdogs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":23995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3442,3444,3238,500,3119,6981],"class_list":["post-26099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-leveon-bell","tag-mark-dantonio","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-northwestern-wildcats","tag-venric-mark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26099","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=26099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26101,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26099\/revisions\/26101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}