{"id":29928,"date":"2013-09-04T18:23:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T23:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=29928"},"modified":"2013-09-04T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T23:23:47","slug":"college-football-week-2-predictions-cincinnati-bearcats-vs-illinois-fighting-illini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-2-predictions-cincinnati-bearcats-vs-illinois-fighting-illini-29928\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 2 Predictions: Cincinnati Bearcats vs. Illinois Fighting Illini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Bearcats vs. Illinois Fighting Illini
\nSaturday, 9\/7\/13, 12:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cincinnati -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Cincinnati -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 54
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 54.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Illinois Fighting Illini are 0-10 SU as underdogs the last two-plus seasons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cincinnati is coming off a 42-7 blowout victory over the Purdue Boilermakers as 10-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total of 49.5.\u00a0 The Bearcats won the statistical battle by 199 yards in that affair, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college football predictions Saturday.\u00a0 The program has won 58 games since 2007\u2014the most among current American Athletic Conference members over that span.\u00a0 Quarterbacks Brendon Kay and Munchie Legaux have been battling for the starting spot since spring, with first-year head coach Tommy Tubberville being undecided on a permanent starter at the position.\u00a0 Cincinnati is 4-2 ATS as road favorites the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 5-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bearcats last defeated two Big Ten Conference teams in the same year in 1946, as they look to win 10 or more games for the sixth time in the past seven seasons.\u00a0 Cincinnati is 9-1 in its last 10 games versus teams from the Power 5 Conferences, which is important to consider when looking over the NCAA football betting lines.\u00a0 Tubberville sent out nine players that earned their first career starts with the program.<\/p>\n

Illinois picked up a 42-34 victory over Southern Illinois as 17-point home favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the betting total of 40.5.\u00a0 The Fighting Illini gained 464 total yards under new offensive coordinator Bill Cubit\u2014racking up six players from scrimmage that went for 30-plus yards.\u00a0 Senior quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase earned Week 1 Big Ten Player of the Week honors after throwing for a career-high 416 yards.\u00a0 Illinois is 3-7 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons\u2014losing all 10 of those affairs.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Illini had 20 players make their debuts for the program last week, with six being true-freshmen.\u00a0 Senior wide receiver Ryan Lankford is one of Scheelhaase\u2019s main targers, as he notched a career-high 115 receiving yards last time out.\u00a0 \u201cThis team needs to learn how to win and we\u2019re going to take advantage of winning and try to build momentum,\u201d commented Illinois head coach Tim Beckman.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bearcats due to the Fighting Illini being 0-7 ATS in their last seven games versus winning teams.<\/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":"

Cincinnati Bearcats vs. Illinois Fighting Illini Saturday, 9\/7\/13, 12:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cincinnati -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Cincinnati -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 54 Current Total:\u00a0 54.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Cincinnati is coming off a 42-7 blowout victory over the Purdue Boilermakers as 10-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3442,1152,697,7039,5168,7550],"class_list":["post-29928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-cincinnati-bearcats","tag-illinois-fighting-illini","tag-munchie-legaux","tag-nathan-scheelhaase","tag-tommy-tubberville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29928","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=29928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29931,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29928\/revisions\/29931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}