{"id":34463,"date":"2014-07-08T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=34463"},"modified":"2014-07-07T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:08:24","slug":"college-football-week-1-predictions-arkansas-razorbacks-vs-auburn-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-1-predictions-arkansas-razorbacks-vs-auburn-tigers-34463\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 1 Predictions: Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Auburn Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Auburn Tigers
\nSaturday, 8\/30\/14, 4:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Auburn -21.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Auburn -21.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of 5Dimes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Auburn Tigers have won eight consecutive home openers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arkansas has won three of its last four trips to Auburn, but suffered a 35-17 setback as 9.5-point home underdogs in last year\u2019s meeting\u2014only getting out-gained by 20 yards.\u00a0 The Razorbacks were down by just three points in the fourth quarter in that affair, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your Week 1 college football predictions.\u00a0 It\u2019s still important to point out that the program is 2-8 SU in its last 10 road openers, including three-straight losses in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Razorbacks will be able to run the football due to the return of Alex Collins and Jonathan Williams, as the duo combined fir 1,926 rushing yards in 2013.\u00a0 Collins was named Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year and also landed on the All-American list for first year players.\u00a0 Second-year head coach Bret Bielema found things difficult in his first go around in the nation\u2019s top conference, but 14 returning starters should make this squad competitive in the season opener.<\/p>\n

Auburn has proven victorious in its last eight home openers, but it could suffer a bit of a hangover with 14 starters returning off a loss against the Florida State Seminoles in the 2014 BCS championship game.\u00a0 The Tigers will be able to run the football due to the dual-threat capability of quarterback Nick Marshall, who racked up over 3,000 yards of total offense during his junior campaign.\u00a0 Auburn has also covered the number in its last eight conference affairs.<\/p>\n

The Tigers were fortunate to pull off a couple improbable victories a season ago, which makes it dangerous to lay this type of number in the early going on the college football odds page.\u00a0 Auburn will need improved play from the defense in order to match last year\u2019s 12-2 SU record under second-year head coach Gus Malzahn.\u00a0 The stop unit will be led by a major playmaker in Cassanova McKinzy, who racked up 75 tackles and two sacks while also intercepting a pass.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Razorbacks due to their 5-2 ATS mark in their last seven trips to Jordan-Hare Stadium.<\/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":"

Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Auburn Tigers Saturday, 8\/30\/14, 4:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Auburn -21.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Auburn -21.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of 5Dimes Arkansas has won three of its last four trips to Auburn, but suffered a 35-17 setback as 9.5-point home underdogs in last year\u2019s meeting\u2014only getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7610,2448,470,3240,7604,3127,739],"class_list":["post-34463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-alex-collins","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-auburn-tigers","tag-bret-bielema","tag-gus-malzahn","tag-jordan-hare-stadium","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34463","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=34463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34465,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34463\/revisions\/34465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}