{"id":30689,"date":"2013-10-15T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T18:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30689"},"modified":"2013-10-15T13:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T18:29:55","slug":"college-football-week-8-picks-ucf-knights-vs-louisville-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-8-picks-ucf-knights-vs-louisville-cardinals-30689\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 8 Picks: UCF Knights vs. Louisville Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCF Knights vs. Louisville Cardinals
\nFriday, 10\/18\/13, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -13
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -12.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 53.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 52.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Louisville Cardinals are 4-4 ATS as favorites of 10.5 to 21 points since 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UCF is 3-0 on the road this season, which marks the first time it has won its first three games away from home in school history.\u00a0 The Knights picked up a 24-17 victory over the Memphis Tigers as 9.5-point road favorites on Oct. 5, while going UNDER the betting total for the fourth time in five contests.\u00a0 On Fridays, the program is 9-5 SU all-time, including a 38-0 road victory over Florida International in Week 2.\u00a0 UCF is 1-7 SU and 4-4 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, which is important to consider when looking over the college football betting lines.<\/p>\n

The Knights enter with a plus-seven turnover margin, which ranks tied for sixth among FBS schools nationally.\u00a0 UCF has the fewest seniors on its roster in the country\u2014something that can\u2019t be ignored when making your college football betting picks Friday night.\u00a0 Defensively, the unit is averaging 7.0 tackles for loss per game, which is its highest average since a 7.2 mark in 2009.\u00a0 On the other side of the football, the offense has been incredibly balanced, averaging 144 rushing and 270 passing yards per game.<\/p>\n

Louisville is set to play its third game in 14 days, as it ran its record to 6-0 overall and 2-0 in the American Athletic Conference with a 24-10 victory over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights as 19.5-point home favorites last week.\u00a0 The Cardinals have allowed 44 points in six games this year and continue to lead the nation in scoring defense by giving up just 7.3 points per game.\u00a0 The team tallied eight sacks last week\u2014its most since 2010.\u00a0 Louisville is 7-1 SU and 4-4 ATS as favorites of 10.5 to 21 points over the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 6-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals are led offensively by quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, who has thrown for 1,862 yards in six games this year, while tossing 18 touchdowns compared to just two interceptions.\u00a0 Louisville is averaging 41.0 points per game after scoring a season-low 24 points versus Rutgers, but it\u2019s important to point out that Bridgewater has connected with numerous receivers this season.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will find that the Cardinals are 4-1 ATS in their last five games after gaining 450 or more yards per game.<\/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":"

UCF Knights vs. Louisville Cardinals Friday, 10\/18\/13, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Louisville -13 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Louisville -12.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 53.5 Current Total:\u00a0 52.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker UCF is 3-0 on the road this season, which marks the first time it has won its first three games away from home in school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7543,556,6238,3261],"class_list":["post-30689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-american-athletic-conference","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-teddy-bridgewater","tag-ucf-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30689","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=30689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30690,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30689\/revisions\/30690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}