{"id":35388,"date":"2014-09-17T14:06:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T19:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35388"},"modified":"2014-09-17T14:06:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T19:06:45","slug":"college-football-week-4-picks-iowa-hawkeyes-vs-pittsburgh-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-4-picks-iowa-hawkeyes-vs-pittsburgh-panthers-35388\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 4 Picks: Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Pittsburgh Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Pittsburgh Panthers
\nSaturday, 9\/20\/14, 12:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 48
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Pittsburgh Panthers are 5-3 ATS as favorites of 3.5 to 10 points since 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iowa had its two-game win streak to start the season snapped last Saturday, as it dropped a 20-17 decision to the Iowa State Cyclones as 13.5-point home favorites, while going UNDER the betting total for a second consecutivecontest.\u00a0 The Hawkeyes own a 3-2 advantage in this series, which is important to consider when making your Week 4 college football picks, as they earned a 31-27 victory as three-point home favorites in the last meeting on Sept. 17.\u00a0 Iowa is 3-7 SU and 6-4 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 6-4 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Hawkeyes rank first in the Big Ten Conference and seventh nationally in rushing defense, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds, as they allow just 65.7 rushing yards per game.\u00a0 Iowa has allowed one red zone touchdown on its opponents\u2019 seven red zone trips.\u00a0 Running back Mark Weisman is one of the more important players to handicap in this matchup, as he\u2019s on the verge of becoming just the sixth player in school history to surpass 2,000 career rushing yards and 20 career rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is eyeing its first 4-0 start for the first time since the 2000 campaign, as it ranks 15th nationally in averaging 44.7 points per game, but Iowa is yielding just 18.7 points per contest.\u00a0 The Panthers will certainly look to establish running back James Conner, who leads the country with eight rushing touchdowns and sits behind just one player in gaining 544 yards on the ground.\u00a0 Pittsburgh is 6-2 SU and 5-3 ATS as favorites of 3.5 to 10 points the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 5-2-1 in those eight opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Panthers are fielding one of their youngest rosters in memory, as they began camp with 81 underclassmen\u2014the highest total of any FBS team in the country.\u00a0 Pittsburgh has the ability to move the football through the air as well, especially with Tyler Boyd\u2019s talent after catching 85 passes for 1,174 yards and seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 5-1 in the Hawkeyes\u2019 last six games versus teams with a winning record.<\/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":"

Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Pittsburgh Panthers Saturday, 9\/20\/14, 12:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 48 Current Total:\u00a0 47 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Iowa had its two-game win streak to start the season snapped last Saturday, as it dropped a 20-17 decision to the Iowa State Cyclones as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3442,1281,8481,7982,615,7645],"class_list":["post-35388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-iowa-hawkeyes","tag-james-conner","tag-mark-weisman","tag-pittsburgh-panthers","tag-tyler-boyd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35388","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=35388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35389,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35388\/revisions\/35389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}