{"id":30077,"date":"2013-09-11T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30077"},"modified":"2013-09-11T18:40:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T23:40:52","slug":"college-football-week-3-picks-marshall-thundering-herd-vs-ohio-bobcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-3-picks-marshall-thundering-herd-vs-ohio-bobcats-30077\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 3 Picks: Marshall Thundering Herd vs. Ohio Bobcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marshall Thundering Herd vs. Ohio Bobcats
\nSaturday, 9\/14\/13, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Marshall -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Marshall -8.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 66
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 69
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Marshall Thundering Herd are 0-3 ATS as road favorites of 7.5 to 10 points since 1992<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marshall has scored 107 points in winning its first two games, as it continues to be led by quarterback Rakeem Cato offensively, who has completed 65.9 percent of his passes in his collegiate career.\u00a0 The Thundering Herd\u2019 offense led the nation in total plays per game from scrimmage a year ago, but it ranks ninth in the country in that particular category in 2013.\u00a0 Marshall is 0-3 ATS as road favorites of 7.5 to 10 points since 1992, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college football expert picks Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The Thundering Herd are definitely contenders to win the Mid-American Conference, with Cato being one of the best signal-callers in college football, as he\u2019s averaging 241.5 passing yards per game thus far.\u00a0 Marshall has absolutely dominated its opponents on the ground\u2014outgaining them by a 599-229 margin in that particular category.<\/p>\n

Ohio bounced back from its season-opening loss to the Louisville Cardinals, as it picked up a 27-21 victory over North Texas as 3.5-point home favorites, while going UNDER the betting total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Bobcats are now ready to host the Thundering Herd inside Peden Stadium for their annual Battle of the Bell matchup.\u00a0 The program has compiled a dominating 20-5 record at home dating back to the start of the 2009 season, which is important to consider when looking over the college football betting lines.\u00a0 Ohio is 0-2 SU and 2-0 ATS as home underdogs of 7.5 to 10 points in its last two opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Bobcats are led offensively by quarterback Tyler Tettleton, who has won 20 of 29 games as a starter.\u00a0 He needs just 347 yards passing to reach 7,000 yards for his career, while being just two touchdown passes of 50 in that particular category.\u00a0 Ohio is 31-19-6 all-time in this series, including a 9-3 mark since the winning team was awared the Bell Trophy.\u00a0 Head coach Frank Solich has a\u00a0 career record in the mont of September, while the program\u2019s 56 wins since 2006 are the second most victories by any MAC school during that period.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bobcats due to their 17-7 ATS record against teams with a winning record.<\/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":"

Marshall Thundering Herd vs. Ohio Bobcats Saturday, 9\/14\/13, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Marshall -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Marshall -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 66 Current Total:\u00a0 69 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Marshall has scored 107 points in winning its first two games, as it continues to be led by quarterback Rakeem Cato offensively, who has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3689,2863,2559,3688,7581,7119,6133],"class_list":["post-30077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-mac","tag-marshall-thundering-herd","tag-mid-american-conference","tag-ohio-bobcats","tag-peden-stadium","tag-rakeem-cato","tag-tyler-tettleton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077","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=30077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30078,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077\/revisions\/30078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}