{"id":30218,"date":"2013-09-20T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T16:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30218"},"modified":"2013-09-20T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T16:48:15","slug":"college-football-week-4-picks-louisiana-monroe-warhawks-vs-baylor-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-4-picks-louisiana-monroe-warhawks-vs-baylor-bears-30218\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 4 Picks: Louisiana Monroe Warhawks vs. Baylor Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisiana Monroe Warhawks vs. Baylor Bears
\nSaturday, 9\/21\/13, 4:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baylor -30
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Baylor -30
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 72.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 74.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Baylor Bears are averaging 736.5 yards per game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Louisiana Monroe and Baylor went back and forth in a game that featured 89 total points and 1,109 yards of total offense last year, which is important to consider when looking over the college football odds page.\u00a0 The Warhawks suffered a 47-42 setback as 8.5-point home underdogs in that affair, while going OVER the betting total of 70.\u00a0 The team set a new school record in running 104 plays in a 21-19 win over Wake Forest last week\u2014holding the ball for 38:59.\u00a0 Louisiana Monroe is 8-5 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 8-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Warhawks are led offensively by quarterback Kolton Browning, who passed for 315 yards and recorded three passing touchdowns for a second consecutive week against the Demon Deacons.\u00a0 He was named the Sun Belt Conference\u2019s Offensive Player of the Week\u2014completing 43 of 68 passes\u2014giving him 827 career completions heading into Week 4. \u00a0 The program led all teams nationally in returning 440 career starts on its roster, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college football picks Saturday.<\/p>\n

Baylor owns a six-game winning streak as it prepares to play its final non-conference game of the 2013 campaign.\u00a0 The Bears have also won their last 10 games when matching up with teams outside of the Big 12 Conference, while going 15-3 in that situation over the last five seasons.\u00a0 Offensively, the unit paces the nation in averaging 736.5 yards per game, while going above the 400-yard mark in its last 29 games.\u00a0 Baylor is 7-1 SU and 6-2 ATS in September since 2011, with the OVER going 6-1-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bears aren\u2019t all about offense, as the defense has forced two or more turnovers in eight of the team\u2019s last nine games\u2014posting a 17-2 record when accomplishing that feat over the last two-plus seasons.\u00a0 Baylor quarterback Bryce Petty leads the country with a pass efficiency rating of 249.5, with Antwan Goodley and Tevin Reese being the main targets on the perimeter.\u00a0 Running back Lache Seastrunk is also a quality player\u2014rushing for 100-plus yards in a school-record six consecutive contests.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Warhawks due to their 8-2 ATS mark in their last 10 road 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Louisiana Monroe Warhawks vs. Baylor Bears Saturday, 9\/21\/13, 4:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baylor -30 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Baylor -30 Opening Total:\u00a0 72.5 Current Total:\u00a0 74.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Louisiana Monroe and Baylor went back and forth in a game that featured 89 total points and 1,109 yards of total offense last year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3288,3267,7613,5389,7558,5386],"class_list":["post-30218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-baylor-bears","tag-big-12-conference","tag-bryce-petty","tag-kolton-browning","tag-lache-seastrunk","tag-louisiana-monroe-warhawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30218","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=30218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30221,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30218\/revisions\/30221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}