{"id":30574,"date":"2013-10-08T16:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T21:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30574"},"modified":"2013-10-08T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T20:20:00","slug":"northwestern-wildcats-vs-wisconsin-badgers-college-football-week-7-betting-odds-and-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/northwestern-wildcats-vs-wisconsin-badgers-college-football-week-7-betting-odds-and-picks-30574\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwestern Wildcats vs. Wisconsin Badgers: College Football Week 7 Betting Odds and Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northwestern Wildcats vs. Wisconsin Badgers
\nSaturday, 10\/12\/13, 3:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -10.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 57
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 57
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Wisconsin Badgers have enjoyed great success following a bye week historically<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Northwestern heads into enemy territory for the first time since the opening week of the season, as it looks to bounce back from a 40-30 defeat to the Ohio State Buckeyes as 6.5-point home underdogs last Saturday.\u00a0 The Wildcats are 18-10 in true away games since the beginning of 2008, including a 12-8 mark in that situation in Big Ten Conference play during that stretch.\u00a0 The team is averaging 39.0 points per game, while allowing 27.0, which is important to consider when making your college football betting picks in Week 7.\u00a0 Northwestern is 2-9 SU and 5-6 ATS as underdogs of 3.5 to 10 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have scored at least 30 points in seven straight games going back to last season, which is the longest such streak in school history and tied for the second-longest active streak in the nation.\u00a0 Northwestern\u2019s passing completion percentage of 72.3 ranks No. 1 in the Big Ten and fourth nationally.\u00a0 Running back Venric Mark is a dynamic playmaker\u2014entering this week with 4,263 career all-purpose yards.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin looks to bounce back from a one-score loss at Ohio State, as it enters this affair ranked sixth nationally in total defense and 10th in scoring defense, while sitting 15th in averaging 518.0 yards per game.\u00a0 The Badgers are one of seven programs nationally to average 300 rushing yards per game this season, with sophomore running back Melvin Gordon is the league\u2019s individual rushing leader at 139.6 yards per game.\u00a0 Wisconsin is 15-2 SU and 11-6 ATS at home the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 10-5-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Badgers have won their last five regular-season games following a bye week, outscoring their opponents by a combined 243-44 margin in those contests. Wisconsin is also 7-2 following a loss since the 2010 campaign.\u00a0 The program\u2019s balanced offense has averaged 7.73 yards per play so far in 2013\u2014the sixth-best mark of any FBS team.\u00a0 Explosive plays have been a key to the team\u2019s success this season\u2014tallying 10 of 50-plus yards\u2014sitting just behind the Baylor Bears in that category.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Badgers due to the home team being 6-0 ATS in the last six meetings in this series.<\/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":"

Northwestern Wildcats vs. Wisconsin Badgers Saturday, 10\/12\/13, 3:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -9.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -10.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 57 Current Total:\u00a0 57 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Northwestern heads into enemy territory for the first time since the opening week of the season, as it looks to bounce back from a 40-30 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3442,7677,3119,6981,437],"class_list":["post-30574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-melvin-gordon","tag-northwestern-wildcats","tag-venric-mark","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30574","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=30574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30575,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30574\/revisions\/30575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}