{"id":34495,"date":"2014-07-15T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=34495"},"modified":"2014-07-14T09:53:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T14:53:50","slug":"college-football-week-1-predictions-southern-miss-golden-eagles-vs-mississippi-state-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-1-predictions-southern-miss-golden-eagles-vs-mississippi-state-bulldogs-34495\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 1 Predictions: Southern Miss Golden Eagles vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southern Miss Golden Eagles vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs
\nSaturday, 8\/30\/14, 7:30 p.m. ET
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Mississippi St -25.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Mississippi St -25.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of 5Dimes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Mississippi State Bulldogs are 8-4 SU in their last 12 home openers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Southern Miss nearly dropped all 12 of its games last season, but it managed to pick up a road victory over UAB as 14.5-point underdogs in the finale, which could allow second-year head coach Todd Monken to build off that result in Hattiesburg.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles have won 10 of their last 14 games in this series, but the last meeting came back in 1990, which is important to consider when making your Week 1 college football predictions.\u00a0 Southern Miss has gone OVER the betting total in 13 of its last 16 road games.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles are impossible to back on the money line in this matchup, considering they\u2019ve dropped their last nine road openers by an average of 20 points, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football betting lines.\u00a0 Southern Miss does welcome back 16 overall starters, with sophomore quarterback Nick Mullens looking to build off a mediocre first year on campus, as he completed just 49.3 percent of his passes for 1,776 yards and 13 touchdowns with 14 interceptions.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, the team welcomes back its top four tacklers, with DeBarriaus Miller leading the charge at multiple positions.<\/p>\n

Mississippi State will have eight starters and 27 letterwinners return from a offense that shattered school records for total yards and first downs.\u00a0 The Bulldogs will be led by junior signal-caller Dak Prescott, who threw for 1,940 yards and 10 touchdowns, while also managing to gain a team-best 829 yards on the ground.\u00a0 All of this should lead to sixth-year head coach Dan Mullen improving upon his 36-28 overall record since arriving in Starkville.\u00a0 Mississippi State is 0-6 ATS in its last six games in the month of August.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs have won eight of their last 12 home openers, but they\u2019ve compiled a 2-4 mark versus FBS opponents in that situation.\u00a0 Mississippi State has a great opportunity to start the season with a 3-0 record in non-conference play before taking on the LSU Tigers in Death Valley to open up its daunting SEC schedule.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bulldogs due to their 7-3 ATS mark as home favorites dating back to the 2012 season.<\/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":"

Southern Miss Golden Eagles vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs Saturday, 8\/30\/14, 7:30 p.m. ET Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Mississippi St -25.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Mississippi St -25.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of 5Dimes Southern Miss nearly dropped all 12 of its games last season, but it managed to pick up a road victory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":24017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7659,586,2898,8362,739,3976],"class_list":["post-34495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-dak-prescott","tag-dan-mullen","tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs","tag-nick-mullens","tag-sec","tag-southern-miss-golden-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34495","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=34495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34496,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34495\/revisions\/34496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}