{"id":35096,"date":"2014-08-26T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35096"},"modified":"2014-08-26T10:53:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T15:53:29","slug":"college-football-week-1-predictions-wake-forest-demon-deacons-vs-louisiana-monroe-warhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-1-predictions-wake-forest-demon-deacons-vs-louisiana-monroe-warhawks-35096\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 1 Predictions: Wake Forest Demon Deacons vs. Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wake Forest Demon Deacons vs. Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks
\nThursday, 8\/28\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wake Forest -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Wake Forest -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 47
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 45.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Wake Forest Demon Deacons will open up the Dave Clawson era Thursday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wake Forest will begin the Dave Clawson era at Malone Stadium Thursday night, as he spent the previous five years at Bowling Green, which is important to consider when making your Week 1 college football predictions.\u00a0 John Wolford is slated to take the first snap of the season at quarterback for the Demon Deacons\u2014making him the first true freshman signal-caller to start his first game on campus.\u00a0 Clawson has indicated that a total of nine first-year players could make their collegiate debuts in this affair.<\/p>\n

The Demon Deacons will try to gain revenge from a 21-19 loss to the WarHawks as 2.5-point home favorites last season, as they were out-gained by a 424-325 margin, while the game went UNDER the betting total of 50.\u00a0 Wake Forest\u2019s previous 31 head coaches have combined for a 17-14 record in their first game at the helm, while the program has produced a 53-56-3 all-time record in season openers.<\/p>\n

Louisiana-Monroe is looking to even its record to 2-2 all-time when taking on Atlantic Coast Conference opponents, while it has won its first home game in five of the last six campaigns.\u00a0 The Warhawks have won 14 games over the last two seasons\u2014their most in any two-year span during the FBS-era, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds page.\u00a0 A lot of the team\u2019s success can be attributed to its ability to force opponents into mistakes, as it has recorded a turnover in 26 consecutive games.<\/p>\n

In the preseason Sun Belt Conference poll, the Warhawks were tabbed fifth by garnering 78 total points.\u00a0 Among FBS programs that reside outside of the state of Texas, ULM\u2019s 33 players from the Lone Star State ranks third nationally in that category.\u00a0 \u00a0 Quarterback Pete Thomas will line up under center against the Demon Deacons for a second consecutive season, as he completed 27 of 43 passes for 257 yards and one touchdown as a member of the NC State Wolfpack.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Warhawks due to their 3-1 ATS mark with a betting line of +3 to -3 the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

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Wake Forest Demon Deacons vs. Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks Thursday, 8\/28\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wake Forest -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Wake Forest -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 47 Current Total:\u00a0 45.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Wake Forest will begin the Dave Clawson era at Malone Stadium Thursday night, as he spent the previous five years at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3233,8442,5386,8319,2560,3028],"class_list":["post-35096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-atlantic-coast-conference","tag-john-wolford","tag-louisiana-monroe-warhawks","tag-pete-thomas","tag-sun-belt-conference","tag-wake-forest-demon-deacons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096","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=35096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35097,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096\/revisions\/35097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}