{"id":30054,"date":"2013-09-10T18:30:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30054"},"modified":"2013-09-10T16:36:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T21:36:32","slug":"college-football-week-3-picks-ucla-bruins-vs-nebraska-cornhuskers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-3-picks-ucla-bruins-vs-nebraska-cornhuskers-30054\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 3 Picks: UCLA Bruins vs. Nebraska Cornhuskers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 16 UCLA Bruins vs. No. 23 Nebraska Cornhuskers
\nSaturday, 9\/14\/13, 12:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Nebraska -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Nebraska -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 68
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 70
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Nebraska Cornhuskers are out for revenge after last year’s 36-30 loss to the UCLA Bruins at the Rose Bowl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UCLA is coming off a bye week after picking up a 58-20 season-opening victory over the Nevada Wolf Pack as 20.5-point home favorites on Aug. 21, while going OVER the betting total of 68.\u00a0 The Bruins won the statistical battle by 294 yards in that affair, with 12 different receivers catching at least one pass.\u00a0 Quarterback Brett Hundley racked up 337 yards of total offense and accounted for four scores\u2014two coming on the ground and two through the air.\u00a0 UCLA is 6-10 SU and 8-8 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 10-6 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bruins picked up a 36-30 victory over the Cornhuskers as 3.5-point home underdogs in last year\u2019s meeting, as they racked up 653 total yards of offense.\u00a0 UCLA has won 16 of its last 21 games when winning the turnover battle and owns a 15-31 mark when losing or ending up tied in that category.\u00a0 During the 2012 campaign, the team won four road games in a season for the first time since 2002, which is important to consider when looking over the college football odds page.<\/p>\n

Nebraska seems ready for its most high-profile game of its non-conference schedule, as\u00a0 it has opened the season with a pair of home victories over Southern Miss and Wyoming.\u00a0 The Cornhuskers have won their last four games at Memorial Stadium against ranked opponents, while they\u2019ve gone 9-6 in that situation since 2000.\u00a0 The team is 89-40-5 all-time against current members of the Pac-12 Conference, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college football picks Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Cornhuskers have gone 17-1 at home in non-conference action under head coach Bo Pelini, as they shoot for their sixth straight year with nine or more wins.\u00a0 Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez has enjoyed a great amount of success in the opening weeks of a season during his career\u2014entering with a 14-1 record in games prior to October.\u00a0 The offense has averaged 43.2 points per game in that situation, while posting a 12-0 mark in front of the home fans.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cornhuskers due to their 6-3 ATS mark as home favorites of 3.5 to 7 points in their last nine opportunities.<\/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. 16 UCLA Bruins vs. No. 23 Nebraska Cornhuskers Saturday, 9\/14\/13, 12:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Nebraska -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Nebraska -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 68 Current Total:\u00a0 70 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker UCLA is coming off a bye week after picking up a 58-20 season-opening victory over the Nevada Wolf Pack as 20.5-point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7014,3319,1143,5263,3375,11],"class_list":["post-30054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-brett-hundley","tag-memorial-stadium","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-taylor-martinez","tag-ucla-bruins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30054","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=30054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30055,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30054\/revisions\/30055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}