{"id":30389,"date":"2013-09-28T00:07:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T05:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30389"},"modified":"2013-09-28T00:07:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T05:07:32","slug":"college-football-week-5-picks-and-predictions-uab-blazers-at-vanderbilt-commodores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-5-picks-and-predictions-uab-blazers-at-vanderbilt-commodores-30389\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 5 Picks and Predictions:  UAB Blazers at Vanderbilt Commodores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jordan-matthews-vanderbilt-2013.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29427\" alt=\"jordan-matthews-vanderbilt-2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jordan-matthews-vanderbilt-2013.png\" width=\"495\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jordan-matthews-vanderbilt-2013.png 495w, https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jordan-matthews-vanderbilt-2013-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><strong>UAB-Vandy<br \/>\nTime: 7:30 ET, Sept 28<br \/>\nSpread: VAN -20<br \/>\nM\/L: VAN -1100; UAB +700<br \/>\nO\/U: 58.5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Odds courtesy of 5dimes<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt is 2-2 on the season and is coming off a 24-7 victory over UMass last week. The Commodores have lost both their SEC matchups but should be able to improve their overall record with a victory against C-USA opponent UAB, who enter the game as 20 point underdogs to the home team Vandy.<\/p>\n<p>Vandy has Austyn Carta-Samuels at QB and the 6&#8217;1&#8243; senior has impressed. He missed most of last season, but threw for 1,702 yards in 2010 and 1,953 in 2009. With 889 through just four games and a 60.7 percent completion ratio, Samuels is also a dual-threat QB with 63 rushing yards on the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Commodores also have a trio of effective back fielders in Wesley Tate (191 yards), Jerron Seymour (179 yards) and Brian Kimbrow (94 yards). Tate has an additional 58 receiving yards, and Carta-Samuels has no shortage of receiving options, with Jordan Matthews (32 receptions, 471 yards) being his primary target.<\/p>\n<p>UAB is 1-2 this season with their win being a 52-28 victory over NW State last week. The Blazers were badly defeated by then-No. 9 LSU on Sept 7, losing 56-17 and they lost in week 1 to Troy, 34-31 in overtime. Austin Brown has been reasonably accurate at 52.1 percent and rates high with a 145 QB rating, and Darrin Reaves has been solid in the backfield (53 rushes for 366 yards).<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers have Jamarcus Nelson at WR too, who has been very productive this season (16 receptions, 301 yards). UAB has a reasonable shot at covering this 20-point spread if the offense is able to get going, though it will be difficult for the Blazers second-rate defense to counter the backs of Vandy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UAB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UNDER 6-0 in last 6 games after accumulating more than 200 yards rushing the previous week; UNDER 6-0 in last 6 following SU win of 20-plus; OVER 4-0 in lat 4 overall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VANDY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OVER 4-0 in last 4 after allowing less than 170 passing yards previous week; 4-0 ATS in last 4 after allowing less than 170 yards passing previous week; 5-0 ATS in the last 5 after allowing less than 20 points in the previous week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/college-football-betting.html\">Check out Maddux Sports&#8217; seasons picks for the 2013 College football season!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAB-Vandy Time: 7:30 ET, Sept 28 Spread: VAN -20 M\/L: VAN -1100; UAB +700 O\/U: 58.5 Odds courtesy of 5dimes Vanderbilt is 2-2 on the season and is coming off a 24-7 victory over UMass last week. The Commodores have lost both their SEC matchups but should be able to improve their overall record with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":29427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[2293,2098,2387,3260,456],"class_list":["post-30389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-college-football-oddsmakers","tag-college-football-picks","tag-ncaa-football-odds","tag-uab-blazers","tag-vanderbilt-commodores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389","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\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30390,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions\/30390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}