{"id":30045,"date":"2013-09-09T15:37:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30045"},"modified":"2013-09-09T15:37:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:37:25","slug":"ncaa-football-week-3-predictions-tcu-horned-frogs-vs-texas-tech-red-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-football-week-3-predictions-tcu-horned-frogs-vs-texas-tech-red-raiders-30045\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Football Week 3 Predictions: TCU Horned Frogs vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 24 TCU Horned Frogs vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders
\nThursday, 9\/12\/13, 7:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 TCU -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 TCU -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 62
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 62
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The TCU Horned Frogs are 24-5 on the road and neutral-site games since 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TCU is 1-1 SU and 0-2 ATS through two games of the 2013 campaign, as it comes off a 38-17 victory over Southeast Louisiana as 40-point home favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the betting total of 54.5.\u00a0 The Horned Frogs are 24-5 on the road and neutral-site games since 2009, which happens to be the third-best mark in the country, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NCAA football betting lines.\u00a0 The program was picked third in the preseason Big 12 Conference poll\u2014just 18 points behind favorite Oklahoma State.\u00a0 TCU is 6-13 ATS as favorites the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 11-7 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Horned Frogs are 5-17-3 against the Red Raiders when playing in Lubbock, as they look to gain revenge for a 56-53 overtime loss as 2.5-point home favorites in last year\u2019s meeting.\u00a0 TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin did manage to throw for a career-high 332 yards in that affair\u2014completing 26-of-44 passing attempts.\u00a0 Offensively, the team will be focused on trying to hit or go over the 167-yard rushing mark, as it has gone 64-3 in its last 67 games when accomplishing that feat.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech has won and covered the spread in its first two games, including a 61-13 blowout victory over Stephen F. Austin as 34.5-point home favorites, while going OVER the betting total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Red Raiders are 12-5 all-time in Big 12 home openers, but are looking to snap a three-game losing skid in that situation, which is important to consider when making your NCAA football predictions Thursday night.\u00a0 Texas Tech is 5-7 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 9-3 in those 12 affairs.<\/p>\n

The Red Raiders are 15-16 all-time on Thursday night, including a 7-8 mark at home.\u00a0 Texas Tech came up with its first turnover of the season last time out, which was actually the squad\u2019s first fumble recover since playing at Iowa State a season ago.\u00a0 First-year head coach Kliff Kingsbury rolled out six true freshman in the season opener\u2014adding four more to make their debut last week.\u00a0 Quarterback Baker Mayfield is one of two freshman signal-callers in the Top 3 nationally in passing.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Horned Frogs due to the Red Raiders being 0-5 ATS in their last five conference 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

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No. 24 TCU Horned Frogs vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders Thursday, 9\/12\/13, 7:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 TCU -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 TCU -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 62 Current Total:\u00a0 62 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker TCU is 1-1 SU and 0-2 ATS through two games of the 2013 campaign, as it comes off a 38-17 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7574,3267,460,440,7141],"class_list":["post-30045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-baker-mayfield","tag-big-12-conference","tag-tcu-horned-frogs","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-trevone-boykin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045","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=30045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30046,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045\/revisions\/30046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}