{"id":29789,"date":"2013-08-26T19:35:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T00:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=29789"},"modified":"2013-08-26T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T00:37:07","slug":"college-football-week-1-picks-toledo-rockets-vs-florida-gators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-1-picks-toledo-rockets-vs-florida-gators-29789\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 1 Picks: Toledo Rockets vs. Florida Gators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toledo Rockets vs. No. 10 Florida Gators
\nSaturday, 8\/31\/13, 12:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -23
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -24
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 57.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 57.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Florida Gators are 79-27 SU all time in season openers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Toledo is counting on a veteran offense and young but talented defense to match up with a Florida squad that is brimming with talent.\u00a0 The Rockets return four All-MAC players on offense, including senior running back David Fluellen, who gained 1,498 yards during the 2012 campaign.\u00a0 Senior quarterback Terrance Owens is a player to watch, as he gets the offense going with his arm and feet\u2014throwing for 2,707 yards and running for 395 more a season ago.\u00a0 Toledo is 7-3 as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, which is important to consider when making your college football expert picks Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Rockets are 7-12 all time against Top 25 teams, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds page.\u00a0 Toledo is definitely a program on the rise, as it has played in bowl games in each of the past three seasons.\u00a0 The program was picked to finish second in the Mid-American Conference\u2019s West division by the league\u2019s media contingent.\u00a0 All six of the school\u2019s first-team conference selections will dress up for another year on campus in 2013.<\/p>\n

Florida finished 2012 with an 11-2 record and tied for the SEC Eastern Division crown with a 7-1 mark in conference, as it returns 41 letterwinners and 10 starters, with the group being led by second-year starting quarterback Jeff Driskel.\u00a0 The Gators have compiled a 79-27 all-time record in season openers, including a 64-6 mark when playing in Gainesville.\u00a0 The program has outscored opponents by a combined 303-52 margin in its last seven season openers.<\/p>\n

The Gators were one of the best teams in the nation during the second half a season ago, as they outscored opponents by a dominating 205-87 margin, including 128-32 in the fourth quarter.\u00a0 Florida\u2019s .878 winning percentage at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium since 1990 is tops in the nation\u2014sitting just above the Nebraska Cornhuskers in that particular category.\u00a0 Over that period of time, the Gators have had an average outcome of producing a 24.3-point win.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Rockets in this spot, as they\u2019ve gone 2-6 ATS in their last eight games against MAC opponents.<\/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

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Toledo Rockets vs. No. 10 Florida Gators Saturday, 8\/31\/13, 12:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -23 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -24 Opening Total:\u00a0 57.5 Current Total:\u00a0 57.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Toledo is counting on a veteran offense and young but talented defense to match up with a Florida squad that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7530,7529,499,7112,3689,739,3741,2756],"class_list":["post-29789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-ben-hill-griffin-stadium","tag-david-fluellen","tag-florida-gators","tag-jeff-driskel","tag-mac","tag-sec","tag-terrance-owens","tag-toledo-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29789","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=29789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29791,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29789\/revisions\/29791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}