{"id":34468,"date":"2014-07-09T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=34468"},"modified":"2014-07-07T12:12:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:12:21","slug":"college-football-week-1-picks-louisiana-tech-bulldogs-vs-oklahoma-sooners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-1-picks-louisiana-tech-bulldogs-vs-oklahoma-sooners-34468\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 1 Picks: Louisiana Tech Bulldogs vs. Oklahoma Sooners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisiana Tech Bulldogs vs. Oklahoma Sooners
\nSaturday, 8\/30\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -39.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -39.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of 5Dimes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma Sooners will be one of the main contenders to reach the championship game this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Louisiana Tech will open up a season away from Ruston for the sixth consecutive season, as it looks to improve upon its miserable 2-14 SU mark in road openers\u2014a statistic hard to ignored when looking over the college football betting lines in Week 1.\u00a0 The Bulldogs will welcome back 13 total starters, with the main player to watch being running back Kenneth Dixon, who ran for 981 yards on 151 carries last year.\u00a0 Louisiana Tech is 1-8 ATS in its last nine non-conference affairs.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs will have a new look on defense with the hiring of former Texas Longhorns coordinator Manny Diaz\u2014a unit that will rely heavily on a secondary that returns three of four starters.\u00a0 Dixon\u2019s health is certainly worrisome on the other side of the football, as he\u2019s been known to miss time with knee injuries, especially since the offensive line will replace four graduating starters.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma is going to be one of the more popular college football picks in the opening week, considering it has compiled a dominating 87-5 SU record at Memorial Stadium during the Bob Stoops era in Norman.\u00a0 The Sooners are expected to return 14 starters, while quarterback Trevor Knight assumes the full-time role at that position after a spectacular performance in the 2014 Sugar Bowl against the Alabama Crimson Tide.\u00a0 He became the 14th freshman signal-caller to start a game at the prestigious program, and the fourth to start a season opener.\u00a0 Oklahoma is 4-0 ATS in its last four non-conference affairs.<\/p>\n

The Sooners defensive front can take over this football game if coordinator Mike Stoops is able to motivate the unit, while the linebacking core could end up being one of the best nationally.\u00a0 Oklahoma is capable of scoring without the football\u2014racking up 48 defensive touchdowns under Stoops, including five such instances a season ago.\u00a0 Senior placekicker Michael Hunnicutt will likely knock threw a ton of PATs in this affair, but he\u2019s a weapon to handicap the rest of the season after connecting on 24 of 27 field goals in 2013.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Sooners due to the Bulldogs being 1-6 ATS in their last seven games versus Big 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":"

Louisiana Tech Bulldogs vs. Oklahoma Sooners Saturday, 8\/30\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -39.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -39.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of 5Dimes Louisiana Tech will open up a season away from Ruston for the sixth consecutive season, as it looks to improve upon its miserable 2-14 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[2961,8351,3291,3319,408,7840],"class_list":["post-34468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-bob-stoops","tag-kenneth-dixon","tag-louisiana-tech-bulldogs","tag-memorial-stadium","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-trevor-knight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34468","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=34468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34469,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34468\/revisions\/34469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}