{"id":30704,"date":"2013-10-16T14:45:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30704"},"modified":"2013-10-16T14:45:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T19:45:42","slug":"iowa-hawkeyes-vs-ohio-state-buckeyes-college-football-week-8-betting-odds-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/iowa-hawkeyes-vs-ohio-state-buckeyes-college-football-week-8-betting-odds-and-predictions-30704\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Ohio State Buckeyes: College Football Week 8 Betting Odds and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Ohio State Buckeyes
\nSaturday, 10\/19\/13, 3:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -17
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -17
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 55
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 55.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ohio State Buckeyes are 11-6 ATS versus Big Ten foes since 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iowa dropped a 26-14 home decision to Michigan State Oct. 5 in its last outing after opening Big Ten Conference play with a 23-7 win at Minnesota.\u00a0 The Hawkeyes are 14-46-3 against the Buckeyes, including an 8-29-1 mark in games played in Columbus.\u00a0 Defensively, the team has held its first six opponents under their rushing average, which is important to consider when making your college football predictions Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 Iowa is 0-3 SU and 1-2 ATS as underdogs of 10.5 to 21 points, with the UNDER going 2-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Hawkeyes are allowing just 88.5 rushing yards per game, which happens to be the eighth-best total in the nation and third among Big Ten members.\u00a0 Iowa is the only school in the nation to have not allowed a rushing touchdown this season.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the program has held its last five opponents scoreless in the first quarter, while its Week 8 opponent has scored 126 of its 281 total points in the opening 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

Ohio State enters the game with the nation\u2019s longest winning streak of 18 games, while it has won 11 of the last 12 games in this series\u2014including the last three.\u00a0 The Buckeyes are one of eight FBS schools who have not allowed a 100-yard rusher in 2013, while they trail only five teams in giving up 86.2 yards per game on the ground.\u00a0 Second-year head coach Urban Meyer has compiled a 34-2 SU overall record with more than a week to prepare for an opponent.\u00a0 Ohio State is 7-2 SU and 6-3 ATS in October the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes are averaging a Big Ten-best 46.8 points per game, which has been made possible by averaging 492.8 total yards per game.\u00a0 Seniors Jordan Hall and Carlos Hyde are Ohio State\u2019s most experienced rushers\u2014gaining 427 and 294 rushing yards respectively through six contests.\u00a0 The team will be looking to improve upon its 66-19-5 record in Homecoming games, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds page.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Buckeyes due to their 11-6 ATS mark against conference opponents since 2011.<\/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":"

Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Ohio State Buckeyes Saturday, 10\/19\/13, 3:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -17 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -17 Opening Total:\u00a0 55 Current Total:\u00a0 55.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Iowa dropped a 26-14 home decision to Michigan State Oct. 5 in its last outing after opening Big Ten Conference play with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3442,7690,1281,7691,463,557],"class_list":["post-30704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-carlos-hyde","tag-iowa-hawkeyes","tag-jordan-hall","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-urban-meyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30704","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=30704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30705,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30704\/revisions\/30705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}