{"id":29795,"date":"2013-08-27T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=29795"},"modified":"2013-08-26T21:54:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T02:54:35","slug":"college-football-week-1-picks-lsu-tigers-vs-tcu-horned-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-1-picks-lsu-tigers-vs-tcu-horned-frogs-29795\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 1 Picks: LSU Tigers vs. TCU Horned Frogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 12 LSU Tigers vs. No. 20 TCU Horned Frogs
\nSaturday, 8\/31\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 LSU -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 LSU -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 50.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 50
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The LSU Tigers have won 41 consecutive non-conference regular season games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LSU is a dominating 31-0 under head coach Les Miles in non-conference regular season games, while the program has won 34 of 51 meetings against ranked opponents.\u00a0 The Tigers are 5-2-1 all-time against the Horned Frogs, but the teams haven\u2019t played in 45 years, which is important to consider when making your college football betting picks.\u00a0 Quarterback Zach Mettenberger is 10-3 as a starter\u2014joining Matt Flynn and Warren Rabb as the only first-year starters at that position to win double-figures games for the program.\u00a0 LSU is 3-1 as favorites of 3.5 to 10 points since 2011, with the OVER going 3-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Tigers own a 28-15 record against teams in the current Big 12 Conference, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NCAA football odds page in Week 1.\u00a0 LSU will put a FBS record on the line again in the season opener, as it has won 41 consecutive non-conference regular season games dating back to the 2002 season.\u00a0 Under head coach Les Miles\u2019 direction, the team has outscored such opponents by a dominating 1,217-317 margin.<\/p>\n

TCU is opening a new season in the Cowboys Classic for the second time in the last four seasons, as it picked up a 30-21 victory over the Oregon State Beavers en route to a 13-0 campaign and Rose Bowl championship in 2010.\u00a0 The Horned Frogs are 14-10 against ranked teams under head coach Gary Patterson, but they haven\u2019t faced a SEC opponent since Sept. 20, 2003.\u00a0 TCU is 3-3 as underdogs of 3.5 to 10 points the last two seasons, with no edge in terms of the betting total (3-3 Over\/Under).<\/p>\n

The Horned Frogs return eight starters from a defense last season that led the Big 12 in six categories and ranked 16th nationally.\u00a0 Nearly 70 percent of players who saw action for the team last season were freshmen or sophomores.\u00a0 TCU quarterback Casey Pachall tops all players nationally in career passing efficiency with a 163.1 rating, as he completed 66 percent of his pass attempts for 948 yards with 10 touchdowns and a single interception in limited action due to a suspension in 2012.\u00a0 Running back Waymon James is the program\u2019s career leader in averaging 6.9 yards per carry.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Tigers due to the Horned Frogs failing to cover the spread in their last six games on a neutral field.<\/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":"

No. 12 LSU Tigers vs. No. 20 TCU Horned Frogs Saturday, 8\/31\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 LSU -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 LSU -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 50.5 Current Total:\u00a0 50 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker LSU is a dominating 31-0 under head coach Les Miles in non-conference regular season games, while the program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[738,5361,552,3309,498,739,460,7531,1408],"class_list":["post-29795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12","tag-casey-pachall","tag-gary-patterson","tag-les-miles","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-sec","tag-tcu-horned-frogs","tag-waymon-james","tag-zach-mettenberger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29795","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=29795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29797,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29795\/revisions\/29797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}