{"id":35275,"date":"2014-09-09T14:58:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35275"},"modified":"2014-09-09T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T19:58:07","slug":"college-football-week-3-predictions-rice-owls-vs-texas-am-aggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-3-predictions-rice-owls-vs-texas-am-aggies-35275\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 3 Predictions: Rice Owls vs. Texas A&M Aggies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rice Owls vs. Texas A&M Aggies
\nSaturday, 9\/13\/14, 9:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas A&M -31
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas A&M -31
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Texas A&M Aggies are seeking their first 3-0 start under head coach Kevin Sumlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rice is opening up a season with consecutive road games versus top 25 teams for the first time in its history, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds page, as it attempts to bounce back from a 48-17 defeat to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish as 20.5-point underdogs on Aug. 30.\u00a0 The Owls are 2-17 in this particular series when the Aggies are ranked.\u00a0 Rice is 0-5 SU and 1-4 ATS in its last four contests against Southeastern Conference opponents.<\/p>\n

The Owls will send out quarterback Driphus Jackson for his third career start, as he connected on 13 of 24 passes for 163 yards and a touchdown and interception in the season opener.\u00a0 Rice has dropped 22 straight games versus ranked opponents, and it hasn\u2019t beaten such a foe on the road since 1991.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that this program has won 15 of its last 20 overall games, with its five losses in that stretch coming against 2013 bowl teams.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M will be seeking its first 3-0 start under head coach Kevin Sumlin, which is important to consider when making your Week 3 college football predictions, especially since the school has won 16 consecutive games in this in-state rivalry.\u00a0 Sophomore quarterback Kenny Hill needs 206 passing yards against the Owls to become the first Aggie to reach 1,000 yards in three games.\u00a0 Texas A&M is 9-0 SU and 8-1 ATS in its last nine games versus Conference USA opponents.<\/p>\n

The Aggies have held both South Carolina and Lamar to under 100 rushing yards\u2014marking the first time since the final three games of the 2011 campaign that Texas A&M has held consecutive opponents under that number.\u00a0 Hill isn\u2019t the only capable player that Sumlin can turn to under center, as heralded recruit Kyle Allen got some action last week\u2014throwing for 122 yards and two touchdowns with an interception.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Aggies due to the Owls being 0-4 ATS in their last four road 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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Rice Owls vs. Texas A&M Aggies Saturday, 9\/13\/14, 9:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas A&M -31 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas A&M -31 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Rice is opening up a season with consecutive road games versus top 25 teams for the first time in its history, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[2558,8438,7638,5394,3875,1145],"class_list":["post-35275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-conference-usa","tag-kenny-hill","tag-kevin-sumlin","tag-rice-owls","tag-southeastern-conference","tag-texas-am-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35275","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=35275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35276,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35275\/revisions\/35276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}