{"id":29976,"date":"2013-09-06T14:10:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T19:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=29976"},"modified":"2013-09-06T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T19:11:49","slug":"college-football-week-2-predictions-south-florida-bulls-vs-michigan-state-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-2-predictions-south-florida-bulls-vs-michigan-state-spartans-29976\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 2 Predictions: South Florida Bulls vs. Michigan State Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Florida Bulls vs. Michigan State Spartans
\nSaturday, 9\/7\/13, 12:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -24.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -23
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 44.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 43.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan State Spartans are 1-8 ATS in their L9 home games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

South Florida will look to bounce back from a 53-21 setback to McNeese State as 20.5-point home favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the betting total of 48.5.\u00a0 The Bulls have dropped their last five road games, while they\u2019ve gone 28-39 in that situation since joining the FBS in 2000, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college football betting picks this weekend.\u00a0 Offensively, senior running back Marcus Shaw is the player to watch, as he comes off a career game of rushing for 145 yards and catching five passes for 47 yards.\u00a0 South Florida is 4-5 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 8-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bulls have a group of 19 seniors that will lead the school onto the field\u2014combining to play 354 games and amassing 121 starts.\u00a0 South Florida\u2019s first-year head coach Willie Taggart is one of the nation\u2019s youngest, but he did spent the last three seasons turning around Western Kentucky\u2019s football program.\u00a0 The Hilltoppers produced two consecutive winning seasons with him on the sidelines, including a 7-1 Sun Belt Conference finish in 2011.<\/p>\n

Michigan State has compiled a 13-8-2 record against current members of the American Athletic Conference, as it looks to improve to 2-0 on the season after picking up a 26-13 victory over Western Michigan as 27.5-point home favorites last Friday.\u00a0 The Spartans have gone 45-17 against non-conference opponents since 1999, including a 22-9 mark under the watch of head coach Mark Dantonio.\u00a0 Defensively, the team has held 36 of 80 opponents to under 100 rushing yards during his time in East Lansing, which is important to consider when looking over the college football odds page.\u00a0 Michigan State is 0-3 ATS at home when the betting total is between 42.5 and 45 the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Spartans were pleased by the play of junior Jeremy Langford in his first career start at running back, as he set career highs with 20 carries and 94 rushing yards.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that this program has won more Big Ten Conference games than any other football team over the previous five seasons.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bulls due to the Spartans being 1-8 ATS in their last nine home games.<\/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":"

South Florida Bulls vs. Michigan State Spartans Saturday, 9\/7\/13, 12:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -24.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -23 Opening Total:\u00a0 44.5 Current Total:\u00a0 43.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker South Florida will look to bounce back from a 53-21 setback to McNeese State as 20.5-point home favorites last Saturday, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7543,3442,7562,7560,500,1155,7561],"class_list":["post-29976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-american-athletic-conference","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-jeremy-langford","tag-marcus-shaw","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-south-florida-bulls","tag-willie-taggart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29976","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=29976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29979,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29976\/revisions\/29979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}