{"id":35407,"date":"2014-09-19T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35407"},"modified":"2014-09-19T10:54:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:54:35","slug":"college-football-week-4-predictions-texas-am-aggies-vs-smu-mustangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-4-predictions-texas-am-aggies-vs-smu-mustangs-35407\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 4 Predictions: Texas A&M Aggies vs. SMU Mustangs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas A&M Aggies vs. SMU Mustangs
\nSaturday, 9\/20\/14, 3:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas A&M -29
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas A&M -33.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 61
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 59
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Texas A&M Aggies have won their last five games against the SMU Mustangs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Texas A&M is enjoying its highest national ranking since Sept. 8, 2013, as it attempts to win its sixth consecutive meeting against SMU.\u00a0 Third-year Aggie head coach Kevin Sumlin has compiled an 11-2 record away from Kyle Field since taking over the program, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football lines, especially with the school within rank of hitting 200 points in the first game of the season for the first time since 1917.\u00a0 Texas A&M is 5-0 SU and 3-2 ATS as favorites of 31 or more points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Aggies haven\u2019t missed Johnny Manziel under center, as signal-caller Kenny Hill become the first player in school history to reach 1,000 passing yards in the first three games of the season.\u00a0 Texas A&M ranks 11th nationall in yards per play with an average gain of 7.6.\u00a0 In 81 games as a head coach, Sumlin\u2019s team has never failed to score double-digit points in a contest.<\/p>\n

SMU will be playing its first game under interim head coach Tom Mason, as he takes over for the departed June Jones, who resigned earlier this month.\u00a0 The Mustangs are familiar with what Mason brings to the table, as he\u2019s spent the previous six campaigns as the team\u2019s defensive coordinator.\u00a0 Redshirt freshman Kolney Cassel will be making his first start Saturday, but he\u2019s appeared under center in the first two games of the season\u2014totaling 154 yards and one touchdown.\u00a0 SMU is 5-13 SU and 8-9-1 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with no clear edge in terms of the betting total (9-9 Over\/Under).<\/p>\n

The Mustangs are 29-44-7 SU all-time against the Aggies, with their last win coming in Dallas in 1984.\u00a0 SMU has been outgained 927-341 through two games, which has been caused by giving up 506 yards on the ground and rushing for minus-16 when possessing the football.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Aggies due to the favorite covering the number in the last four meetings in 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":"

Texas A&M Aggies vs. SMU Mustangs Saturday, 9\/20\/14, 3:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas A&M -29 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas A&M -33.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 61 Current Total:\u00a0 59 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Texas A&M is enjoying its highest national ranking since Sept. 8, 2013, as it attempts to win its sixth consecutive meeting against […]<\/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":[4045,8438,7638,8482,435,1145],"class_list":["post-35407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-june-jones","tag-kenny-hill","tag-kevin-sumlin","tag-kolney-cassel","tag-smu-mustangs","tag-texas-am-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35407","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=35407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35408,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35407\/revisions\/35408"}],"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=35407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}