{"id":35254,"date":"2014-09-08T16:06:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T21:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35254"},"modified":"2014-09-08T16:06:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T21:06:25","slug":"college-football-week-3-picks-kentucky-wildcats-vs-florida-gators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-3-picks-kentucky-wildcats-vs-florida-gators-35254\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 3 Picks: Kentucky Wildcats vs. Florida Gators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kentucky Wildcats vs. Florida Gators
\nSaturday, 9\/13\/14, 7:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -17.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -17.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Florida Gators have dominated the Kentucky Wildcats historically<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kentucky is re-energized in its second season under head coach Mark Stoops, as he has brought in the two highest recruiting classes in program history, which has led to a perfect 2-0 record to start the 2014 campaign.\u00a0 The Wildcats and Gators are two of 12 teams nationally who have not had a turnover so far this season, which is important to consider when making your Week 3 college football picks.\u00a0 The team has had 24 drives on the year\u2014scoring nine touchdowns and scoring on 12 total drives.\u00a0 Kentucky is 0-10 SU and 1-9 ATS as underdogs of 10.5 to 21 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have totaled 466 rushing yards through two games, with 85 percent of that production coming from players who didn\u2019t see action in 2013.\u00a0 A total of 15 primary offensive and defensive starters from last year return for Kentucky this season, while 36 players that have started at least one game entering the 2014 campaign.\u00a0 Stoops had spent a lot of time preaching explosive plays in the locker room, which has resulted in seven offensive plays of 40-plus yards through two contests.<\/p>\n

Florida has won 27 consecutive games against Kentucky dating back to 1986, which represents the longest active winning streak over a major opponent in an annual series in major college football.\u00a0 The Gators picked up a 65-0 victory over Eastern Michigan as 40.5-point home favorites last Saturday, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds page, as they won the statistical battle by 530 yards.\u00a0 Under first-year coordinator Kurt Roper, the offense figures to increase the tempo, which is demonstrated in the group running 86 plays in the opener.\u00a0 Florida is 4-2 SU and 2-4 ATS as favorites of 10.5 to 21 points since 2012.<\/p>\n

The Gators gained 259 yards on the ground in their opener, which is a dramatic increase from the 145.8 rushing yards per game they averaged in 2013.\u00a0 Under head coach Will Muschamp, Florida has rushed for 200 or more yards 13 times.\u00a0 Redshirt junior quarterback Jeff Driskel owns a 13-3 record as a starter, as he comes off a 248-yard performance.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Gators due to the favorite covering the last seven installments of this series.<\/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":"

Kentucky Wildcats vs. Florida Gators Saturday, 9\/13\/14, 7:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -17.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -17.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kentucky is re-energized in its second season under head coach Mark Stoops, as he has brought in the two highest recruiting classes in program history, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[499,8466,876,7579,5476],"class_list":["post-35254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-florida-gators","tag-jeff-driskell","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-mark-stoops","tag-will-muschamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35254","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=35254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35255,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35254\/revisions\/35255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}