{"id":34481,"date":"2014-07-10T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=34481"},"modified":"2014-07-10T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:22:42","slug":"college-football-week-1-picks-ucla-bruins-vs-virginia-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-1-picks-ucla-bruins-vs-virginia-cavaliers-34481\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 1 Picks: UCLA Bruins vs. Virginia Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCLA Bruins vs. Virginia Cavaliers
\nSaturday, 8\/30\/14, 12:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 UCLA -24
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 UCLA -24
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of 5Dimes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The UCLA Bruins are 3-2 ATS as road favorites under Jim Mora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UCLA is a legitimate contender to land one of four spots in the upcoming playoff format, which is important to consider when making your Week 1 college football picks, but the team will need to focus in on the task at hand in its season opener.\u00a0 The Bruins are just 4-5 SU in regular season road games versus non-conference opponents since 2006, and Pac-12 Conference teams have been known to struggle in early kickoff situations in the East Coast.\u00a0 UCLA is 3-2 as road favorites under third-year head coach Jim Mora.<\/p>\n

The Bruins will be led by Heisman Trophy candidate Brett Hundley, who has racked up 7,914 total yards of offense during his time on campus, while running back Jordon James should provide balance for the unit\u2014coming off a 534-yard campaign.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, UCLA may elect to let linebacker Myles Jack loose, as he was the Pac-12 Defensive and Offensive Freshman of the Year in 2013.\u00a0 The program is on the rise with 17 returning starters from a team that went 10-3 SU a year ago.<\/p>\n

Virginia head coach Mike London is certainly on the hot seat in Charlottesville entering his fifth year on the job, but he could be sitting on a breakthrough season, considering the school welcomes back 17 returning starters.\u00a0 The Cavaliers were unable to get anything going during a 2-10 season a year ago\u2014mainly due to the roster having only nine seniors.\u00a0 Running back Kevin Parks is the main player to handicap when looking over the college football odds page, as he\u2019s coming off a 1,031-yard season.\u00a0 Virginia has covered the number in five of its last seven August affairs.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers will need to find some consistency at the quarterback position to cover this number, with many anticipating Greyson Lambert has the ability to move into the No. 1 role\u2014passing up last year\u2019s starter David Watford.\u00a0 Virginia does return three starters on the offensive line, but it must replace its top two players from that unit, with just 49 career starts on the roster.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cavaliers due to the Bruins being more focused on the road ahead, especially with their home opener the following week and a non-conference showdown with the Texas Longhorns at Jerry\u2019s World in Week 3.<\/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":"

UCLA Bruins vs. Virginia Cavaliers Saturday, 8\/30\/14, 12:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 UCLA -24 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 UCLA -24 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of 5Dimes UCLA is a legitimate contender to land one of four spots in the upcoming playoff format, which is important to consider when making your Week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7014,7644,8355,5263,11,2977],"class_list":["post-34481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-brett-hundley","tag-kevin-parks","tag-myles-jack","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-ucla-bruins","tag-virginia-cavaliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34481","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=34481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34482,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34481\/revisions\/34482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}