{"id":34458,"date":"2014-07-07T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=34458"},"modified":"2014-07-06T21:33:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T02:33:32","slug":"college-football-week-1-picks-ohio-state-buckeyes-vs-navy-midshipmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-1-picks-ohio-state-buckeyes-vs-navy-midshipmen-34458\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 1 Picks: Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Navy Midshipmen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Navy Midshipmen<\/strong>
\n Saturday, 8\/30\/14, 12:00 EST<\/strong>
\n Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -20<\/strong>
\n Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -20<\/strong>
\n Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A<\/strong>
\n Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A<\/strong>
\n Odds Courtesy of 5Dimes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ohio State Buckeyes are 4-0 SU versus the Navy Midshipmen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ohio State hasn\u2019t lost a regular season game in its two years under head coach Urban Meyer, which will lead directly to improving to 5-0 SU all-time in this series\u2014something that can\u2019t be ignored when making your Week 1 college football picks.\u00a0 The Buckeyes welcome back 12 starters overall, with the biggest name being quarterback Braxton Miller, who accounted for 3,162 yards of total offense in 2013.\u00a0 Offensively, the team has relieve heavily on the run game under Meyer\u2014averaging 278.0 rushing yards per game since his arrival in Columbus.\u00a0 Ohio State is 0-4 ATS in its last four games on field turf.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes will possess one of the best defenses in the country under coordinator Luke Fickell, who welcomes back every lineman from a group that combined for 53 tackles for loss, including 31 quarterback sacks.\u00a0 Ohio State will need that group to live up to its lofty expectations early on, considering just three starters return at the linebacker, corner and safety positions combined.\u00a0 Any hopes of landing in the newly-adopted college football playoff system will depend on the health of Miller throughout.<\/p>\n

Navy has won two of its last five games versus ranked opponents, but it\u2019s hard to imagine an upset in this spot despite welcoming back 15 starters to Annapolis, MD.\u00a0 The Midshipmen will definitely test the Buckeyes with their option attack, especially with junior quarterback Keenan Reynolds back in the fold\u2014posting a 15-6 record as a starter.\u00a0 His 31 rushing touchdowns last year were the most by a single-caller in NCAA history for a single season.\u00a0 Navy has covered the number in its last four overall games, which is important to consider when looking over the college football betting lines.<\/p>\n

The Midshipmen have won 21 games versus BCS opponents since 2003\u2014the most of any non-BCS school over that span.\u00a0 Navy definitely places a premium on protecting the football under seventh-year head coach Ken Niumatalolo, which led directly to a plus-12 turnover margin last season.\u00a0 It\u2019s certainly possible that the program will force Ohio State into making an early mistake, as most of these players were part of last year\u2019s squad that outscored opponents by a 65-32 margin in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Midshipmen due to their 8-3 ATS mark versus non-service academy members last season.<\/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":"

Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Navy Midshipmen Saturday, 8\/30\/14, 12:00 EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -20 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -20 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of 5Dimes Ohio State hasn\u2019t lost a regular season game in its two years under head coach Urban Meyer, which will lead directly to improving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[5475,7737,7808,2835,463,557],"class_list":["post-34458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-braxton-miller","tag-keenan-reynolds","tag-ken-niumatalolo","tag-navy-midshipmen","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-urban-meyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34458","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=34458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34460,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34458\/revisions\/34460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}