{"id":30191,"date":"2013-09-19T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T22:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30191"},"modified":"2013-09-19T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T20:05:10","slug":"college-football-week-4-picks-arkansas-razorbacks-vs-rutgers-scarlet-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-4-picks-arkansas-razorbacks-vs-rutgers-scarlet-knights-30191\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 4 Picks: Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Rutgers Scarlet Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Rutgers Scarlet Knights
\nSaturday, 9\/21\/13, 3:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Rutgers PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Rutgers -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 45.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 44
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Arkansas Razorbacks haven’t played a football game in the northeast part of the country since 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arkansas is 3-0 for the third time in the last four seasons, as it heads out on the road for the first time during the 2013 campaign\u2014coming off a 24-3 victory over Southern Miss as 24.5-point home favorites last Saturday.\u00a0 The Razorbacks are playing a football game in the northeast part of the country for the first time since 1940, as first-year head coach Brett Bielema tries to improve upon his 36-6 record when facing an opponent for the first time.\u00a0 The program is the only one ranked first or second in the SEC in rushing defense, pass defense, total defense and scoring defense.\u00a0 Arkansas is 3-5 SU and 1-7 ATS on the road the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college football picks in Week 4.<\/p>\n

The Razorbacks have outscored their opponents 21-0 in the fourth quarter this season, outgaining those opponents 308-78 in the process.\u00a0 Arkansas is the only team in college football to have multiple 100-yard rushers in each game this season and the first SEC team since 2007 to accomplish such a feat in three straight games.\u00a0 Alex Collins is the first freshman in SEC history to begin his career with three straight 100-yard rushing games.\u00a0 The offensive line has allowed just six tackles for loss through the first three games.<\/p>\n

Rutgers aims for its first 4-0 start since 2006, but it has gone 5-11-2 SU all-time against SEC opponents.\u00a0 The Scarlet Knights will need a big game out of sophomore running back Jawan Jamison, who ranks seventh nationally and first in the American Athletic Conference with 373 rushing yards.\u00a0 He broke a school record in carrying the ball 41 times in a 23-13 victory over South Florida on Sept. 13.\u00a0 Rutgers is 8-1 SU and 5-4 ATS in September the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Scarlet Knights have gone 19-4 when rushing for 150 yards or more and not allowing a sack in the same game since 2000.\u00a0 Rutgers has fielded one of the top defenses in the nation the last two seasons\u2014something that has carried over into the first three games in 2013.\u00a0 The program ranks 12th nationally in total defense and fifth in scoring defense.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Scarlet Knights due to their 10-4-1 ATS mark versus winning teams.<\/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":"

Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Rutgers Scarlet Knights Saturday, 9\/21\/13, 3:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Rutgers PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Rutgers -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 45.5 Current Total:\u00a0 44 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Arkansas is 3-0 for the third time in the last four seasons, as it heads out on the road for the first time during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7610,7543,2448,3554,7096,2500,739],"class_list":["post-30191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-alex-collins","tag-american-athletic-conference","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-brett-bielema","tag-jawan-jamison","tag-rutgers-scarlet-knights","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30191","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=30191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30192,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30191\/revisions\/30192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}