{"id":35510,"date":"2014-09-25T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35510"},"modified":"2014-09-25T13:52:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T18:52:46","slug":"college-football-week-5-picks-louisiana-tech-bulldogs-vs-auburn-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-5-picks-louisiana-tech-bulldogs-vs-auburn-tigers-35510\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 5 Picks: Louisiana Tech Bulldogs vs. Auburn Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisiana Tech Bulldogs vs. Auburn Tigers
\nSaturday, 9\/27\/14, 4:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Auburn -33
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Auburn -32.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 61
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 61
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Auburn Tigers have never lost to the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Louisiana Tech had its two-game winning streak snapped last time out, while the OVER is 3-1 in its four contests this season.\u00a0 The Bulldogs and Tigers are both tied for first in the nation with a perfect 1.000 percentage mark scoring in the red zone, which is important to consider when making your Week 5 college football picks.\u00a0 Skip Holtz\u2019 team is certainly facing a tough schedule in the early going, with its four FBS opponents this month posting a 41-12 record a season ago.\u00a0 Louisiana Tech is 3-10 SU and 6-7 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 8-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs have one of the best playmakers in the country in running back Kenneth Dixon, who has totaled 36 touchdowns in his career, while he\u2019s averaging 6.0 yards per carry.\u00a0 Louisiana Tech won\u2019t be intimidated in this matchup, considering it has posted a 3-5 SU record against Power 5 Conference teams over the last three seasons, with three of the five setbacks determined by one possession.<\/p>\n

Auburn is 3-0 SU and 2-1 ATS to open up the 2014 campaign, as it looks to captured its 25th consecutive game against a non-conference opponent at Jordan-Hare Stadium\u2014something that can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football betting lines.\u00a0 The Tigers have allowed just 258 rushing yards in their first three games, which happens to be the lowest such number that they\u2019ve given up in that situation since 2008.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the squad owns a plus-three turnover margin and has outscored opponents by a 23-0 margin in that category.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have really excelled offensively on third down, as they pace the nation with a 63 percent conversion rate in that all-important statistical category.\u00a0 Auburn owns an 11-0-1 SU record in this series, while it has put together a 32-7-1 all-time mark against current members of Conference USA.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Tigers due to their 10-1 ATS mark in their last 11 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Louisiana Tech Bulldogs vs. Auburn Tigers Saturday, 9\/27\/14, 4:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Auburn -33 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Auburn -32.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 61 Current Total:\u00a0 61 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Louisiana Tech had its two-game winning streak snapped last time out, while the OVER is 3-1 in its four contests this season.\u00a0 The Bulldogs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[470,3127,8351,3291,1299],"class_list":["post-35510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-auburn-tigers","tag-jordan-hare-stadium","tag-kenneth-dixon","tag-louisiana-tech-bulldogs","tag-skip-holtz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35510","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=35510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35511,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35510\/revisions\/35511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}