{"id":35260,"date":"2014-09-08T17:46:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T22:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35260"},"modified":"2014-09-08T17:46:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T22:46:19","slug":"college-football-week-3-picks-ucf-knights-vs-missouri-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-3-picks-ucf-knights-vs-missouri-tigers-35260\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 3 Picks: UCF Knights vs. Missouri Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCF Knights vs. Missouri Tigers
\nSaturday, 9\/13\/14, 12:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -9.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Missouri Tigers have won both previous meetings with the UCF Knights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UCF returns to the field after a week off, as it suffered a 26-24 season-opening loss to the Penn State Nittany Lions as 1.5-point neutral-site favorites on Sept. 30 in Dublin, Ireland.\u00a0 The Knights have won six consecutive true road games, which is important to consider when making your Week 3 college football picks, while they\u2019ve also captured their last two affairs against ranked opponents.\u00a0 UCF is 1-1 SU and 2-0 ATS as underdogs or 3.5 to 10 points since 2012, with no clear edge in terms of the betting total (1-1 Over\/Under).<\/p>\n

The Knights are focused on gaining revenge from a 21-16 defeat to the Tigers as 1.5-point home favorites on Sept. 29, 2012, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds.\u00a0 UCF has replaced NFL draftee Blake Bortles with Justin Holman under center, as he comes off a 9-for-14 performance for 204 yards against the Nittany Lions.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, the school allowed just 57 yards in the opener\u2014the fewest rushing yards by a team from the ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 or SEC when facing such an opponent in its history.<\/p>\n

Missouri is aiming to start 3-0 for the seventh time out of the last nine seasons and for the eighth time under head coach Gary Pinkel.\u00a0 The Tigers are coming off an impressive 49-24 road victory over the Toledo Rockets, with sophomore signal-caller Maty Mauk tying a single-game school record with five touchdown passes and a career-best 325 yards.\u00a0 He has completed 54.8 percent of his passes in 15 games played (six starts) since arriving on campus in 2012.\u00a0 Missouri is 0-4 ATS in its last four games versus American Athletic Conference members.<\/p>\n

The Tigers extended their NCAA-best active streak of consecutive games with a takeaway to 46, as they created two turnovers versus the Rockets.\u00a0 Mauk has plenty of weapons around him, with junior tailback Russell Hansbrough being one of the biggest, as he ranks fourth in the Southeastern Conference in averaging 105 rushing yards per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Tigers due to their 6-2-1 ATS mark in their last nine home games.<\/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

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UCF Knights vs. Missouri Tigers Saturday, 9\/13\/14, 12:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Missouri -9.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Missouri -9.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker UCF returns to the field after a week off, as it suffered a 26-24 season-opening loss to the Penn State Nittany Lions as 1.5-point neutral-site […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7543,3566,8467,7708,433,3875,3261],"class_list":["post-35260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-american-athletic-conference","tag-gary-pinkel","tag-justin-holman","tag-maty-mauk","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-southeastern-conference","tag-ucf-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35260","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=35260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35261,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35260\/revisions\/35261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}