{"id":30407,"date":"2013-09-30T17:24:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T22:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30407"},"modified":"2013-09-30T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T22:26:04","slug":"college-football-week-6-picks-ucla-bruins-vs-utah-utes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-6-picks-ucla-bruins-vs-utah-utes-30407\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 6 Picks: UCLA Bruins vs. Utah Utes"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCLA Bruins vs. Utah Utes
\nThursday, 10\/3\/13, 10:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 UCLA -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 UCLA -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Utah Utes are 6-2 when coming off a regular-season bye under Kyle Whittingham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UCLA is 3-0 SUATS to start the 2013 campaign, as it comes off a bye week after picking up a 59-13 victory over New Mexico State as 44-point home favorites on Sept. 21, while winning the statistical battle by 173-plus years in each of those contests.\u00a0 The Bruins hold a 9-2 all-time advantage in this series, but both losses have come in Salt Lake City, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college football betting picks Thursday night.\u00a0 Offensively, the team paces the nation in third down conversion percentage, while sitting second in racking up 614.3 yards per game of offense.\u00a0 UCLA is 3-1 SU and 2-2 ATS as road favorites the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 3-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bruins are aiming to win their first four games of the season for the first time since 2005, while improving second-year head coach Jim Mora to 6-2 in true road contests.\u00a0 In the second half of games this season, UCLA quarterback Brett Hundley has completed 26 of 33 passes for 369 yards and five touchdowns with one interception.\u00a0 The team has been at its best in the third quarter\u2014outscoring foes by a 62-0 margin in that situation.\u00a0 Defensively, the aim is to limit this week\u2019s opponent to under 100 rushing yards, as the program has won 12 of its last 13 games when accomplishing that task.<\/p>\n

Utah returns to Pac-12 Conference play, as it also enjoyed time off after a 20-13 victory over in-state rival BYU as seven-point road underdogs on Sept. 21, while going UNDER the betting total of 61.5.\u00a0 The Utes are 6-2 when coming off a regular-season bye under Kyle Whittingham, with both losses coming against conference foes.\u00a0 Since joining the Pac-12 in 2011, the program is 0-3 against ranked opponents, which is important to consider when looking over the college football odds page.\u00a0 Utah is 6-7 SU and 8-5 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 7-4-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Utes are led offensively by sophomore quarterback Travis Wilson, who completed 24 of 35 passes for 273 yards and two touchdowns against the Cougars.\u00a0 He is also the school\u2019s second-leading rusher this season, with 32 carries for 251 yards and five touchdowns.\u00a0 Sophomore running Bubba Poole leads the way in that particular category, with 58 carries and averaging 76.0 rushing yards per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Utes due to their 9-3 ATS mark following a bye week.<\/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":"

UCLA Bruins vs. Utah Utes Thursday, 10\/3\/13, 10:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 UCLA -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 UCLA -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker UCLA is 3-0 SUATS to start the 2013 campaign, as it comes off a bye week after picking up a 59-13 victory over New Mexico […]<\/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":[7014,1288,3661,7658,5263,11,405],"class_list":["post-30407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-brett-hundley","tag-jim-mora","tag-kyle-whittingham","tag-kyle-wilson","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-ucla-bruins","tag-utah-utes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30407","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=30407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30409,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30407\/revisions\/30409"}],"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=30407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}