{"id":31007,"date":"2013-10-31T13:45:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T18:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31007"},"modified":"2013-10-31T13:45:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T18:45:17","slug":"college-football-week-10-predictions-rice-owls-vs-north-texas-mean-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-10-predictions-rice-owls-vs-north-texas-mean-green-31007\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 10 Predictions: Rice Owls vs. North Texas Mean Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rice Owls vs. North Texas Mean Green
\nThursday, 10\/31\/13, 7:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Texas -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 North Texas -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 52
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 53
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Rice Owls are 10-7 ATS on the road since 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rice takes a five-game overall winning streak and an eight-game streak in Conference USA play to Denton, TX, as it prepares for a matchup against North Texas on Halloween night.\u00a0 The Owls are coming off a 45-7 win over the UTEP Miners as 19.5-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total of 59.5\u2014winning the statistical battle by a triple-digit margin for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 This will be the third time in the David Bailiff era that the program has played a midseason game during the week\u2014resulting in a split in the two previous games.\u00a0 Rice is 6-11 SU and 10-7 ATS on the road the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Owls have converted on all but one possession in the red zone during the 2013 campaign, which ranks third nationally, and can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds page.\u00a0 Despite facing two of the top 10 offenses in the country, Rice has allowed 87 fewer points through the first eight games than it did in 2012.\u00a0 It\u2019s also important to point out that the squad has held 16 of its last 18 opponents scoreless on their opening possessions.<\/p>\n

North Texas has won three games in a row, including a 55-14 blowout victory over the Southern Miss Golden Eagles as 12-point road favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in four affairs.\u00a0 The Mean Green have scored 21 points or more in their first eight games of the season for the first time in the school\u2019s 98-year history, which is important to consider when making your college football predictions in Week 10.\u00a0 Offensively, quarterback Derek Thompson has thrown for 300-plus yards seven times in his career, with wide receiver Brelan Chancellor being his main target.\u00a0 North Texas is 2-6 SUATS off a win against a conference rival since 2011.<\/p>\n

The Mean Green lead the conference and are third in the nation in red zone defense, as they\u2019ve allowed opponents to score just 59 percent of the time.\u00a0 North Texas is 13-3 when scoring more than 20 points and 1-15 when putting up 21 or less in 32 games under head coach Dan McCarney.\u00a0 Chancellor is the active career leader in multiple categories nationwide, including kickoff returns yards a game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 6-1 in the Mean Green\u2019s last seven home games.<\/p>\n

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Rice Owls vs. North Texas Mean Green Thursday, 10\/31\/13, 7:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Texas -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 North Texas -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 52 Current Total:\u00a0 53 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Rice takes a five-game overall winning streak and an eight-game streak in Conference USA play to Denton, TX, as it prepares […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":23864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7733,2558,7732,6929,4623,5394],"class_list":["post-31007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-brelan-chancellor","tag-conference-usa","tag-david-bailiff","tag-derek-thompson","tag-north-texas-mean-green","tag-rice-owls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31007","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=31007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31008,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31007\/revisions\/31008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}