{"id":34428,"date":"2014-07-02T16:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T21:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=34428"},"modified":"2014-06-30T14:29:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T19:29:50","slug":"college-football-week-1-picks-washington-huskies-vs-hawaii-rainbow-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-1-picks-washington-huskies-vs-hawaii-rainbow-warriors-34428\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 1 Picks: Washington Huskies vs. Hawaii Rainbow Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Huskies vs. Hawaii Warriors
\nSaturday, 8\/30\/14, 10:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Washington -21.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Washington -21.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of 5Dimes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Hawaii Rainbow Warriors welcome back 17 returning starters that are eager to make amends for a forgettable 2013 season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Washington has dropped 11 of its last 12 road openers, but it\u2019s hard to imagine that the trend will continue with Chris Petersen arriving in the Pacific Northwest\u2014coming in from Boise State after the departure of Steve Sarkisian to USC.\u00a0 The Huskies bring back a talented roster that includes 14 returning starters, but left out of that group is former quarterback Keith Price and running back Bishop Sankey.\u00a0 Sophomore signal-caller Cyler Miles got his feet wet in 2013\u2014completing 37 of 61 passes for 418 yards and four touchdowns in limited action.\u00a0 Washington is 5-1 ATS in its last six non-conference games.<\/p>\n

The Huskies will miss Sankey\u2019s special talents, but the team should be able to move the ball with 124 career starts returning on the offensive line.\u00a0 On the other side of the football, Washington will likely get off to a good start in trying to hold opponents to under 4.0 yards per carry for the first time in nine years, as Hawaii doesn\u2019t possess much of a running game.\u00a0 The secondary is vulnerable if the line isn\u2019t able to create pressure against an offense that likes to spread out opposing defenses.<\/p>\n

Hawaii can only improve off a dreadful 1-11 campaign of a year ago, as third-year head coach Norm Chow welcomes back 17 starters and 48 letterwinners.\u00a0 The Warriors may have had a better record if not for running back Joey Iosefa missing a bulk of the 2013 season, as he averaged 146.5 yards per game over the final four games.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, the unit will utilize a new 3-4 scheme, with UCLA transfer Jeremy Castro potentially being a playmaker.\u00a0 Hawaii is 5-0 ATS in its last five non-conference titls, which is important to consider when looking over the college football betting lines.<\/p>\n

The Warriors need to take better care of the football in hopes of staying within this number, as they finished last year with a minus-10 turnover differential.\u00a0 Hawaill lost five games by seven points or less and three games were decided on the final possession with two overtime affairs\u2014some facts that are hard to ignored when making your college football picks in Week 1.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Rainbow Warriors due to their 6-1 ATS record in their last seven games versus Pac-12 Conference opponents.<\/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":"

Washington Huskies vs. Hawaii Warriors Saturday, 8\/30\/14, 10:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Washington -21.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Washington -21.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of 5Dimes Washington has dropped 11 of its last 12 road openers, but it\u2019s hard to imagine that the trend will continue with Chris Petersen arriving in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":6988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3700,8332,8331,8333,1297,563],"class_list":["post-34428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-chris-petersen","tag-cyler-miles","tag-hawaii-rainbow-warriors","tag-joey-iosefa","tag-norm-chow","tag-washington-huskies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34428","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=34428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34429,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34428\/revisions\/34429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}