{"id":35536,"date":"2014-09-26T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35536"},"modified":"2014-09-26T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:42:09","slug":"college-football-week-5-picks-duke-blue-devils-vs-miami-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-5-picks-duke-blue-devils-vs-miami-hurricanes-35536\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 5 Picks: Duke Blue Devils vs. Miami Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duke Blue Devils vs. Miami Hurricanes
\nSaturday, 9\/27\/14, 7:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 55.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 61
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Miami Hurricanes have a balanced offensive attack with quarterback Brad Kaaya and running back Duke Johnson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Duke\u2019s 4-0 start to the season is the best since the 1994 squad opened the campaign with seven consecutive wins, which is important to consider when making your Week 5 college football picks, as the program has won 12 straight regular season games.\u00a0 The Blue Devils are one of just seven teams nationally to average 230-plus passing yards and 260-plus rushing yards\u2014joining Arizona State, Indiana, Marshall, Mississippi State, Nebraska and Western Michigan.\u00a0 Duke is 1-5 SU and 2-4 ATS as underdogs of 3.5 to 10 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils have won all 14 of their regular season games with Anthony Boone starting under center, while they\u2019ve managed to outscore opponents by a 83-16 margin in the second half this year.\u00a0 Duke has an explosive playmaker in running back Shaun Wilson, who has gained 404 yards on just 28 carries this season.\u00a0 Boone also has a major target in wide receiver Jamison Crowder, who has 220 career catches in 43 contests.<\/p>\n

Miami returns home after suffering a disappointing 41-31 defeat to the Nebraska Cornhuskers as 7.5-point road underdogs last Saturday, but it lost the statistical battle by just 21 yards in that matchup.\u00a0 The Hurricanes have a star in the making in Brad Kaaya, who is one of just 16 quarterbacks in the country with over 1,000 passing yards and 10 touchdowns.\u00a0 Running back Duke Johnson provides balance to the offense, as he ranks sixth in program history with 2,237 career rushing yards.\u00a0 Miami is 4-1 SU and 3-2 ATS as favorites of 3.5 to 10 points since 2012.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes have won 10 of their last 11 home games played at Sun Life Stadium, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NCAA football odds page.\u00a0 Miami will certainly want to create turnovers defensively, as it has won 19 of 22 games under Al Golden when recording at least two takeaways in a contest.\u00a0 The program forced 27 turnovers in 2013 after causing just 15 in the prior campaign.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Hurricanes due to their 10-7 SUATS mark versus ACC opponents since 2012.<\/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":"

Duke Blue Devils vs. Miami Hurricanes Saturday, 9\/27\/14, 7:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 55.5 Current Total:\u00a0 61 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Duke\u2019s 4-0 start to the season is the best since the 1994 squad opened the campaign with seven consecutive wins, which is important to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[8514,607,7549,1083,8513],"class_list":["post-35536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-brad-kaaya","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-duke-johnson","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-shaun-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35536","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=35536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35537,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35536\/revisions\/35537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}