{"id":30173,"date":"2013-09-17T19:32:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T00:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30173"},"modified":"2013-09-17T19:32:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T00:32:12","slug":"deseret-first-duel-rivalry-preview-utah-utes-vs-byu-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/deseret-first-duel-rivalry-preview-utah-utes-vs-byu-cougars-30173\/","title":{"rendered":"Deseret First Duel Rivalry Preview: Utah Utes vs. BYU Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utah Utes vs. BYU Cougars
\nSaturday, 9\/21\/13, 10:15 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 BYU -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 BYU -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 61.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 61.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The underdog is 13-3 ATS in the last 16 meetings in this series<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Utah has won eight of the last 11 meetings with BYU, including a 24-21 victory as 3.5-point home underdogs last year, while going OVER the betting total of 44.5.\u00a0 The Utes are 5-3 against the Cougars under head coach Kyle Whittingham, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college football predictions in Week 4.\u00a0 Saturday\u2019s game is the school\u2019s first road game of the season after three consecutive home games.\u00a0 Utah is 4-4 SU and 5-3 ATS as underdogs of 3.5 to 10 points over the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 5-2-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Utes are 13-6 all-time in games televised on ESPN2, which is important to consider when looking over the NCAA football betting lines.\u00a0 Utah was led offensively by the play of quarterback Travis Wilson, who passed for 279 yards and two touchdowns, while rushing for a career-high142 yards and three touchdowns in a 51-48 overtime loss to Oregon State last week.\u00a0 The program is 83-132-6 all-time against Pac-12 Conference schools.<\/p>\n

BYU comes off a bye week after splitting its first two games, as it picked up a 40-21 victory over the Texas Longhorns as seven-point home underdogs Sept. 7\u2014winning the statistical battle by 234 yards.\u00a0 The Cougars were led by signal-caller Taysom Hill offensively, as he ran for a career-high 259 yards, while Jamaal Williams contributed 182 yards on the ground.\u00a0 It served as the team\u2019s first win over a ranked opponent since 2009.\u00a0 BYU is 3-3 SU and 1-5 ATS as favorites of 3.5 to 10 points since 2011, with the OVER going 3-2-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Cougars also possess one of the better wide receivers in the country, with Cody Hoffman leading all players with 28 receiving touchdowns.\u00a0 He enters this week needing 17 receptions, 474 yards and three touchdowns to take over the top spot among the all-time leaders within the program.\u00a0 The new offensive staff for the team includes Robert Anae returning as offensive coordinator for a second go-around after a two-year stint with the Arizona Wildcats.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Utes due to the underdog being 13-3 ATS in the last 16 meetings in this series.<\/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":"

Utah Utes vs. BYU Cougars Saturday, 9\/21\/13, 10:15 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 BYU -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 BYU -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 61.5 Current Total:\u00a0 61.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Utah has won eight of the last 11 meetings with BYU, including a 24-21 victory as 3.5-point home underdogs last year, while going OVER the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[434,7607,3661,5263,7608,7606,405],"class_list":["post-30173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-byu-cougars","tag-jamaal-williams","tag-kyle-whittingham","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-taysom-hill","tag-travis-wilson","tag-utah-utes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30173","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=30173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30174,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30173\/revisions\/30174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}