{"id":35109,"date":"2014-08-27T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T21:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35109"},"modified":"2014-08-27T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T21:10:25","slug":"college-football-week-1-predictions-bowling-green-falcons-vs-western-kentucky-hilltoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-1-predictions-bowling-green-falcons-vs-western-kentucky-hilltoppers-35109\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 1 Predictions: Bowling Green Falcons vs. Western Kentucky Hilltoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bowling Green Falcons vs. Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
\nFriday, 8\/29\/14, 7:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Bowling Green -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Bowling Green -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 54.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 61.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Bowling Green Falcons are 6-0 ATS as road favorites since 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bowling Green is coming off a 10-4 season in 2013, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds page, as it included its first Mid-American Conference Championship since 1992.\u00a0 The Falcons and Hilltoppers have met one time prior to Friday night\u2019s contests, with Bowling Green picking up a 41-21 victory in 2007.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that this is the only program in the country to increase its win total by at least two games in each of the past four seasons.<\/p>\n

The Falcons will be led by first year head coach Dino Babers, who comes to Northwest Ohio after two successful seasons at Eastern Illinois, as he\u2019ll likely benefit from the return of 16 total starters.\u00a0 Bowling Green returns five All-MAC performs, with everyone focused on running back Travis Greene, who rushed for a school-record 1,594 yards last year\u2014averaging 5.7 yards per carry and hitting pay dirt 11 times.<\/p>\n

Western Kentucky begins its 95th season of football and first under head coach Jeff Brohm, who became the school\u2019s 19th front man on Jan. 10, 2014, which is important to consider when making your college football predictions.\u00a0 The Hilltoppers enter their first season as members of Conference USA after a five-year run in the Sun Belt Conference, while they also look to extend their streak of winning seven or more games to four consecutive seasons.\u00a0 Over the past 20 seasons, the team is 16-4 SU in hope openers.<\/p>\n

The Hilltoppers have put together a dismal 12-24-3 SU all-time record against MAC opponents, but they haven\u2019t played such a contest since becoming a full FBS member.\u00a0 After going 0-12 against non-conference foes in its first three years as an FBS team, Western Kentucky has turned it around by capturing seven of 10 such affairs over the past two seasons.\u00a0 Brohm has one of the youngest rosters in the country, with 65 freshmen and sophomores making up his 105 fall camp chart.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Falcons due to their 6-0 ATS mark as road favorites since 2012.<\/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":"

Bowling Green Falcons vs. Western Kentucky Hilltoppers Friday, 8\/29\/14, 7:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Bowling Green -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Bowling Green -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 54.5 Current Total:\u00a0 61.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Bowling Green is coming off a 10-4 season in 2013, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3773,8341,8342,3689,2560,7916,4240],"class_list":["post-35109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-bowling-green-falcons","tag-dino-babers","tag-jeff-brohm","tag-mac","tag-sun-belt-conference","tag-travis-greene","tag-western-kentucky-hilltoppers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35109","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=35109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35110,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35109\/revisions\/35110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}