{"id":34483,"date":"2014-07-14T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=34483"},"modified":"2014-07-10T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:57:49","slug":"college-football-week-1-predictions-california-golden-bears-vs-northwestern-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-1-predictions-california-golden-bears-vs-northwestern-wildcats-34483\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 1 Predictions: California Golden Bears vs. Northwestern Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

California Golden Bears vs. Northwestern Wildcats
\nSaturday, 8\/30\/14, N\/A
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Northwestern -14
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Northwestern -14
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of 5Dimes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Northwestern Wildcats have won their last seven home openers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

California has won six of its last 10 road openers, but it has dropped both all-time meetings against Northwestern, with this being the first played in Evanston in the series.\u00a0 The Golden Bears got off to rocky start to the Sonny Dykes era in posting a 1-11 SU record a season ago, but 15 starters return to the fold in Berkeley, which is important to consider when making your college football predictions in Week 1.\u00a0 Sophomore quarterback Jared Goff is back after breaking the school\u2019s single-season records for passing yards and total offense.\u00a0 California is 1-6 ATS in its last seven non-conference games.<\/p>\n

The Golden Bears can only get better on the defensive end, considering 11 players who were starters or projected starters to begin the 2013 campaign missed action.\u00a0 All eyes will be on senior safety Michael Lowe, who tallied a team-high 67 tackles a year ago and also broke up five passes in coverage.\u00a0 California is going to be a tough team to handicap in the early going, as it was minus-15 in turnover differential and had the worst offensive and defensive yard-per-play averages amongst BCS schools.<\/p>\n

Northwestern was unable to right the ship after suffering a 10-point home loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes last year, as it entered that affair with a perfect 4-0 record, but ended the season with a 5-7 mark.\u00a0 The Wildcats are hoping that running back Venric Mark can return to 100 percent health, as he gained just 97 yards on the ground in 2013\u2014a year removed from making the All-Big Ten Conference second team.\u00a0 Northwestern is 7-6 ATS as home favorites the last three seasons.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have won seven straight home openers by an average of 23 points, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football lines page.\u00a0 Northwestern should be balanced offensively with senior quarterback Trevor Siemian gaining much-needed experience last year\u2014finishing with 2,149 yards and 11 touchdowns with nine interceptions.\u00a0 Defensively, the team has plenty of playmakers to stop opposing teams through the air, with three players returning with three or more interceptions on their resume from 2013.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Wildcats due to their 4-0 ATS mark in their last four August affairs.<\/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":"

California Golden Bears vs. Northwestern Wildcats Saturday, 8\/30\/14, N\/A Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Northwestern -14 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Northwestern -14 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of 5Dimes California has won six of its last 10 road openers, but it has dropped both all-time meetings against Northwestern, with this being the first played in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3442,2958,7747,3119,6981],"class_list":["post-34483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-california-golden-bears","tag-jared-goff","tag-northwestern-wildcats","tag-venric-mark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34483","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=34483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34484,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34483\/revisions\/34484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}