{"id":35479,"date":"2014-09-23T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T16:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35479"},"modified":"2014-09-23T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T16:49:03","slug":"college-football-week-5-picks-northwestern-wildcats-vs-penn-state-nittany-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-5-picks-northwestern-wildcats-vs-penn-state-nittany-lions-35479\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 5 Picks: Northwestern Wildcats vs. Penn State Nittany Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northwestern Wildcats vs. Penn State Nittany Lions
\nSaturday, 9\/27\/14, 12:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Penn State -10
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Penn State -11
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Penn State Nittany Lions are 5-0 ATS in their last five games against the Northwestern Wildcats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Northwestern snapped its two-game losing streak in picking up a 24-7 win over Western Illinois as 25.5-point home favorites last Saturday, while losing the statistical battle and going UNDER the total for the third time in as many opportunities this season.\u00a0 The Wildcats have yet to defeat the Nittany Lions under head coach Pat Fitzgerald, which is important to consider when making your Week 5 college football picks, but he has won both head-to-head matchups with James Franklin.\u00a0 Northwestern is 3-8 SU and 6-5 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 7-4 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have one of the best defensive playmakers in the Big Ten Conference with\u00a0 end Ifeadi Odenigbo, who forced three fumbles last week and tallied two sacks.\u00a0 Northwestern is also getting solid production from true freshman tailbacks Justin Jackson and Solomon Vault, who are averaging a combined 4.53 yards per attempt on the ground.<\/p>\n

Penn State is 4-0 SU and 3-1 ATS in its first four games under former Vanderbilt Commodores head coach James Franklin, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds page.\u00a0 The Nittany Lions lead the nation in allowing opponents to average just 11.0 points per game, while they limited UMass to just three years rushing on 28 carries in last week\u2019s 48-27 victory as 27-point home favorites.\u00a0 Penn State is 8-3 SUATS in September since 2012, with the UNDER going 7-4 in those 11 opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Nittany Lions are 68-21-5 SU all-time in Homecoming games, with wins in eight of their last nine contests in front of the alumni crowd.\u00a0 Penn State\u2019s offense has the ability to put up points quickly with sophomore quarterback Christian Hackenberg under center, as he\u2019s completed 91 of 150 passes for 1,261 yards and four touchdowns with five interceptions.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Nittany Lions due to their 5-0 ATS mark in the last five 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":"

Northwestern Wildcats vs. Penn State Nittany Lions Saturday, 9\/27\/14, 12:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Penn State -10 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Penn State -11 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Northwestern snapped its two-game losing streak in picking up a 24-7 win over Western Illinois as 25.5-point home favorites last Saturday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7662,5406,3119,3821,497],"class_list":["post-35479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-christian-hackenberg","tag-james-franklin","tag-northwestern-wildcats","tag-pat-fitzgerald","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35479","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=35479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35480,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35479\/revisions\/35480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}