{"id":30418,"date":"2013-10-01T15:53:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T20:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30418"},"modified":"2013-10-01T15:53:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T20:53:39","slug":"college-football-week-6-predictions-ohio-state-buckeyes-vs-northwestern-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-6-predictions-ohio-state-buckeyes-vs-northwestern-wildcats-30418\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 6 Predictions: Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Northwestern Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Northwestern Wildcats
\nSaturday, 10\/5\/13, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 58
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 59
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ohio State Buckeyes have won 28 of their L29 games against the Northwestern Wildcats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ohio State enters the game with the nation\u2019s longest winning streak at 17 games, as it hits the road after picking up a 31-24 victory over the Wisconsin Badgers as seven-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total of 56.\u00a0 The Buckeyes have won 28 of the last 29 meetings in this series, which is important to consider when making your college football predictions in Week 6.\u00a0 Offensively, the team leads the Big Ten and ranks sixth in the NCAA in scoring by averaging 48.2 points per game, while outscoring foes by a 216-21 margin in the first quarter.\u00a0 Ohio State is 6-2 SU and 5-3 ATS in October the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 5-3 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes make a lot of headlines due to their offense led by the likes of quarterback Braxton Miller, but the defense deserves to share in the team\u2019s success under head coach Urban Meyer.\u00a0 Ohio State\u2019s stop unit is led by All-Big Ten junior linebacker Ryan Shazier\u2014allowing opponents to gain just 84.5 yards per game on the ground.\u00a0 The program is also a dominating 20-10 in games that ESPN\u2019s College GameDay is on site, including a 7-5 mark on the road.<\/p>\n

Northwestern opens conference play in a major spotlight, as it prepares to play one of the top teams in the country on Homecoming weekend at Ryan Field.\u00a0 The Wildcats are aiming for their fourth 5-0 start under head coach Pat Fitzgerald, while their offense has scored at least 30 points in six straight games dating back to last season.\u00a0 Importantly enough, the team has forced 11 turnovers, which has led directly to 59 points.\u00a0 Northwestern is 2-8 SU and 5-5 ATS as underdogs of 3.5 to 10 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats are a dangerous underdog in this spot when looking over the NCAA football betting lines, as they retained all nine of their assistant coaches for a second straight offseason.\u00a0 Northwestern is also one of five FBS programs whose offensive and defensive coordinators are in at least their sixth season at the school.\u00a0 The team currently ranks 11th nationally in completion percentage at 71.9 and sits 23rd in passing efficiency at 158.15.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 5-0 in the Wildcats\u2019 last five games 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":"

Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Northwestern Wildcats Saturday, 10\/5\/13, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 58 Current Total:\u00a0 59 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Ohio State enters the game with the nation\u2019s longest winning streak at 17 games, as it hits the road after picking up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3442,5475,3565,3119,463,3821,557],"class_list":["post-30418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-braxton-miller","tag-espn-college-gameday","tag-northwestern-wildcats","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-pat-fitzgerald","tag-urban-meyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418","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=30418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30419,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418\/revisions\/30419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}