{"id":35532,"date":"2014-09-26T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T16:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35532"},"modified":"2014-09-26T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T16:42:34","slug":"college-football-week-5-picks-tcu-horned-frogs-vs-smu-mustangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-5-picks-tcu-horned-frogs-vs-smu-mustangs-35532\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 5 Picks: TCU Horned Frogs vs. SMU Mustangs"},"content":{"rendered":"

TCU Horned Frogs vs. SMU Mustangs
\nSaturday, 9\/27\/14, 12:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 TCU -29
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 TCU -31.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 51
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 46.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The TCU Horned Frogs are 0-4 ATS as road favorites since 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TCU is 2-0 SUATS through two games this season, as it was last seen picking up a 30-7 victory over the Minnesota Golden Gophers as 17-point home favorites on Sept. 13, as it has won the statistical battle by 571 combined yards in 2014.\u00a0 The Horned Frogs have won nine of their last 10 regular-season games following an open date, which is important to consider when making your Week 5 college football picks, especially since the program has won 10 of 12 meetings in this series under Gary Patterson.\u00a0 TCU is 3-1 SU and 0-4 ATS as road favorites the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Horned Frogs rank second nationally in allowing just 205.5 yards per game, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds page, especially with their opponents gaining just 2.2 yards per rush and completing just 49 percent of their passes.\u00a0 TCU\u2019s new offense under co-coordinators Sonny Cumbie and Doug Meacham is averaging 491.0 yards per game\u2014a major improvement in comparison to last year\u2019s 344.8 yards per contest.<\/p>\n

SMU is going in the opposite direction of this week\u2019s opponent, as it has gone 0-3 SUATS in its first three affairs and is getting set to play its second game under interim head coach Tom Mason after Junes Jones left the program.\u00a0 The Mustangs will send out walk-on junior Garrett Krstich under center, as he\u2019s appearing for the third time at the collegiate level, but this will be his first start.\u00a0 SMU is 8-6 SU and 8-5-1 ATS at home since 2012.<\/p>\n

The Mustangs are 40-46-7 all-time in this series, but they\u2019ve dropped the last two meetings, including a 48-17 decision as 17-point road underdogs in 2013.\u00a0 SMU was outgained by just 43 yards in that affair, but it was limited to 16 yards on the ground.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the OVER has cashed in three of the last four games between these Lone Star State rivals.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Mustangs due to the underdog covering the number in four of the last five meetings.<\/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":"

TCU Horned Frogs vs. SMU Mustangs Saturday, 9\/27\/14, 12:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 TCU -29 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 TCU -31.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 51 Current Total:\u00a0 46.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker TCU is 2-0 SUATS through two games this season, as it was last seen picking up a 30-7 victory over the Minnesota Golden Gophers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[552,4045,435,460],"class_list":["post-35532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-gary-patterson","tag-june-jones","tag-smu-mustangs","tag-tcu-horned-frogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35532","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=35532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35533,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35532\/revisions\/35533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}