{"id":30564,"date":"2013-10-07T19:15:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T00:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30564"},"modified":"2013-10-07T19:15:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T00:15:46","slug":"college-football-week-7-picks-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets-vs-byu-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-7-picks-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets-vs-byu-cougars-30564\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 7 Picks: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets vs. BYU Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets vs. BYU Cougars
\nSaturday, 10\/12\/13, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 BYU -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 BYU -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 47.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are 5-6 ATS as underdogs since 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Georgia Tech is on the tail end of back-to-back road games, as it looks to bounce back from a 45-30 defeat to the Miami Hurricanes as six-point underdogs in Week 6, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 The Yellow Jackets will be logging nearly 5,000 miles over this swing, which is important to consider when making your college football betting picks Saturday night.\u00a0 Offensively, the team ranks eighth nationally in third-down conversion percentage, but will go against a defensive unit that sits behind only 20 teams in that category.\u00a0 Georgia Tech is 3-8 SU and 5-6 ATS as underdogs over the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 7-4 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Yellow Jackets rank third in college football in time of possession, which isn\u2019t surprising due to the program rushing for more yards than any other since 2008.\u00a0 Georgia Tech running back David Sims leads the team and is ninth in the ACC in averaging 65.0 rushing yards per game.\u00a0 The squad is averaging 17.9 yards per pass completion\u2014a figure that ranks second in the FBS behind the Baylor Bears.<\/p>\n

BYU has won two consecutive games, including a dominating 31-14 victory over the Utah State Aggies as six-point road underdogs last Friday, while going UNDER the betting total for a third consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Cougars are 13th in the country in gaining 277.8 yards per game on the ground.\u00a0 Wide receiver Cody Hoffman is also a major weapon on the perimeter, as he needs just three touchdowns and six receptions to become the school\u2019s all-time record holder in those categories.\u00a0 BYU is 3-4 SU and 1-6 ATS as favorites of 3.5 to 10 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Cougars have two players ranked in the top 20 nationally for rushing yards per game, with Taysom Hill and Jamaal Williams averaging 115.8 and 114.2 respectively.\u00a0 Hill has completed just 43.3 percent of his passes, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football betting lines.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Yellow Jackets due to their 4-1 ATS mark following a SU loss.<\/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

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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets vs. BYU Cougars Saturday, 10\/12\/13, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 BYU -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 BYU -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 47.5 Current Total:\u00a0 47.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Georgia Tech is on the tail end of back-to-back road games, as it looks to bounce back from a 45-30 defeat to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[387,434,7673,7674,1282,7607,7608],"class_list":["post-30564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-byu-cougars","tag-cody-hoffman","tag-david-sims","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","tag-jamaal-williams","tag-taysom-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30564","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=30564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30565,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30564\/revisions\/30565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}