{"id":34479,"date":"2014-07-10T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=34479"},"modified":"2014-07-10T12:01:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:01:50","slug":"rutgers-scarlet-knights-vs-washington-state-cougars-college-football-week-1-odds-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/rutgers-scarlet-knights-vs-washington-state-cougars-college-football-week-1-odds-and-predictions-34479\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers Scarlet Knights vs. Washington State Cougars: College Football Week 1 Odds and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rutgers Scarlet Knights vs. Washington State Cougars
\nThursday, 8\/28\/14, 10:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Washington State -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Washington State -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of 5Dimes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Washington State Cougars are going to score a lot of points in 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rutgers is set to join the Big Ten Conference this season, while it has compiled a 5-4 SU record in its last nine road openers, with the four losses coming by just a total of eight points.\u00a0 The Scarlet Knights have dropped their last three games on the West Coast since 1999\u2014important to consider when making your college football predictions in Week 1.\u00a0 The team will welcome back 16 total starters, with 98 percent of its rushing and 70 percent of its passing yards returning.\u00a0 Rutgers is 2-5 ATS in its last seven overall games.<\/p>\n

The Scarlet Knights return five players who earned All-America or All-Conference honors a season ago, while signal-caller Gary Nova also returns for his senior campaign \u2014throwing for 2,159 yards and 18 touchdowns with 14 interceptions in 2013.\u00a0 Rutgers five returning starters on the offensive line have combined to play in 123 games, which should allow the team to move the football in a balanced way, especially with three returning players that ran for 300-plus yards last season.\u00a0 On the other side of the football, linebacker Steve Longa will look to build off his team-high 123 tackles after gaining a year of experience.<\/p>\n

Washington State is ready to take the next step in the Pac-12 Conference under third-year head coach Mike Leach, especially with redshirt-senior quarterback Connor Holliday leading a group of eight returning starters offensively.\u00a0 He set single-season school records for completions, attempts, passing yards and touchdown passes a year ago in Pullman.\u00a0 Holliday has a wide-variety of weapons, with his top eight targets returning to the huddle.\u00a0 Washington State is 1-4 ATS in its last five August affairs.<\/p>\n

The Cougars have a chance of winning the conference if they manage to match last year\u2019s total of forcing 30 turnovers, with defensive linemen Xavier Cooper leading the charge in racking up 13.5 tackles-for-loss.\u00a0 Washington State is 0-6 SU when playing at Century Link Field since 2008\u2014the home of the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cougars due to their 10-4 ATS mark in their last 14 games.<\/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":"

Rutgers Scarlet Knights vs. Washington State Cougars Thursday, 8\/28\/14, 10:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Washington State -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Washington State -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of 5Dimes Rutgers is set to join the Big Ten Conference this season, while it has compiled a 5-4 SU record in its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":23953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3442,8354,7735,5263,2500,3120],"class_list":["post-34479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-connor-holliday","tag-gary-nova","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-rutgers-scarlet-knights","tag-washington-state-cougars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34479","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=34479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34480,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34479\/revisions\/34480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}