{"id":35603,"date":"2014-10-02T12:54:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T17:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35603"},"modified":"2014-10-02T12:54:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T17:54:28","slug":"pac-12-college-football-picks-arizona-wildcats-at-2-oregon-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pac-12-college-football-picks-arizona-wildcats-at-2-oregon-ducks-35603\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac 12 College Football Picks: Arizona Wildcats at #2 Oregon Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arizona Wildcats at #2 Oregon Ducks
\nAutzen Stadium – Eugene, Oregon<\/strong>
\nThursday, October 2, 2014, 10:30 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN<\/strong>
\nOpening Line: Oregon -25 1\/2<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line: Oregon -24<\/strong>
\nOpening Total: 70<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 79 1\/2<\/strong>
\nOpening Money Line: Oregon -2158 \/ Arizona +1492<\/strong>
\nCurrent Money Line: Oregon -1700 \/ Arizona +1075<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oregon is a a 24 point favorite against Arizona Thursday night in a battle of 4-0 teams.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both the Arizona Wildcats and Oregon Ducks are 4-0 this season as they meet Thursday in Eugene, Oregon. Both teams are 1-0 in Pac 12 play with narrow wins over teams they were heavy favorites to beat. Both teams were off last week.<\/p>\n

Oregon leads the series 24-15 against Arizona including 13-4 in Eugene. The Ducks have won 16 of the last 20 games in the series. Arizona won 42-16 against Oregon last year in Tucson to snap a five game losing streak against the Ducks. The Wildcats haven’t won in Eugene since 2006.<\/p>\n

Arizona is coached by Rich Rodriguez. The Wildcats have home wins over UNLV 58-13, Nevada 35-28 and two weeks ago against California 49-45. Arizona trailed by 18 points in the fourth quarter against Cal and came back to win on a last second Hail Mary touchdown pass. The Wildcats also have a road win at Texas-San Antonio 26-23. Arizona is 1-3 ATS and the total is 2-2 this season. Arizona was an 8 point favorite against California and the total was 70.<\/p>\n

Oregon is coached by Mark Helfrich. The Ducks have home wins over South Dakota 62-13, Michigan State 46-27 and Wyoming 48-14. Two weeks ago, Oregon opened Pac 12 play with a 38-31 win at Washington State. The Ducks were 23 point favorites against Washington State and the total was 79. Oregon is 1-3 ATS and the total is 2-2 this season.<\/p>\n

Arizona is outscoring teams 42-27 this season. The Wildcats are #17 nationally in scoring. Arizona is #5 in total offense \u00a0averaging 594 yards per game including the 8th best passing attack at 366 yards per game . The rushing game is #29 out of 128 teams at 228 yards per game. On defense, the Wildcats are allowing 431 yards per game including 295 passing and 135 rushing yards per game. Arizona is #116 nationally in pass defense. The Wildcats are +1 in turnovers with 4 takeaways. Arizona is 34\/76 on third and fourth down conversions, and opponents are 23\/62. Arizona averages 62 penalty yards per game and opponents are averaging 73. The Wildcats have forced 9 sacks and allowed 7. Arizona is 16\/18 scoring in the red zone with 9 touchdowns, and opponents are 11\/12 with 8 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Arizona freshman quarterback Anu Solomon has been very good through four games. He has completed 63.4% of his passes for 1,454 yards with 13 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and he also has 39 carries for 167 yards. Running back Nick Wilson has 77 carries for 482 yards with 4 touchdowns, plus 7 catches. Terris Jones-Grigsby has 18 carries for 152 yards and 2 touchdowns, plus 3 catches. He is questionable with an ankle injury. Receiver Cayleb Jones has 29 catches for 475 yards and 6 touchdowns. Austin Hill has 15 catches for 163 yards and 3 touchdowns. Samajie Grant, Nate Phillips, Trey Griffey and Davonte’ Neal will also get a lot of targets. Grant is questionable with a concussion and Neal is questionable with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n

Oregon is outscoring teams 49-21 this season. Oregon is #4 nationally in scoring and #43 in points allowed. The Ducks average 555 yards per game including 330 rushing and 225 passing yards. Oregon is #10 in total offense and #16 in passing. Even the rushing attack is #33 in the country. Oregon is allowing 444 yards per game on defense, including 315 passing and 128 rushing yards. Oregon is #122 in pass defense and #98 in total defense out of 128 teams. The Ducks are +7 in turnovers for the season with 8 takeaways. Oregon is 30\/52 on third and fourth down conversions and opponents are 32\/75. The Ducks have forced 12 sacks and allowed 10. Oregon is 18\/21 scoring in the red zone with 16 touchdowns, and opponents are 13\/17 with 10 touchdowns. The Ducks are averaging 69 penalty yards per game, and opponents are averaging 43. Oregon has a punt return for touchdown.<\/p>\n

Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota is putting up Heisman like numbers this season. Mariota has completed 74% of his passes for 1,135 yards with 13 touchdowns and no interceptions, and has rushed for 214 yards on 33 carries with 3 touchdowns. Running back Royce Freeman has 48 carries for 261 yards and 5 touchdowns, along with 3 catches. Byron Marshall has 21 carries for 201 yards and a touchdown, and 18 catches for 235 yards and 2 touchdowns. Thomas Tyner has 40 carries fro 175 yards and a touchdown, along with 7 catches. Receiver Devon Allen has 14 catches for 299 yards and 5 touchdowns. Keanon Lowe has 13 catches for 221 yards and 3 touchdowns. Tight end Pharaoh Brown has 9 catches for 116 yards and 2 touchdowns. Receiver Bralon Addison is out for the season with a knee injury. Two offensive linemen are also out indefinitely.<\/p>\n

Arizona is 5-1 ATS in October, 18-41 after allowing more than 280 passing yards, 3-7 after failing to cover and overall, 2-5 in road games, 3-8 after allowing more than 450 total yards, 2-6 on fieldturf, 1-4 after scoring more than 40 points, in Thursday games and against teams with winning records, 1-5 in Pac 12 games, and 0-6 after a straight up win.<\/p>\n

Oregon is 5-0 ATS after allowing less than 100 rushing yards, 4-1 in Thursday games, 12-4 after a bye week, 5-2 after allowing 280 passing yards or more, 14-6 after a straight up win, 13-6 against teams with winning records, 34-16-1 in October, 2-7 overall, 1-4 at home and against teams with winning road records, 1-5 on fieldturf, 1-6 after allowing more than 450 total yards, and 0-5 in Pac 12 games. The home team is 5-2 ATS in this series recently.<\/p>\n

Both Oregon and Arizona have been prolific in the passing attack but neither has been able to stop teams from passing against them. This should be a very high scoring game but 79 is a lot of points. Oregon is a 24 point favorite and they are certainly capable of rolling the Wildcats. Still, I think Arizona stays within the big number.<\/p>\n

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Arizona Wildcats at #2 Oregon Ducks Autzen Stadium – Eugene, Oregon Thursday, October 2, 2014, 10:30 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN Opening Line: Oregon -25 1\/2 Current Line: Oregon -24 Opening Total: 70 Current Total: 79 1\/2 Opening Money Line: Oregon -2158 \/ Arizona +1492 Current Money Line: Oregon -1700 \/ Arizona +1075 Both the Arizona […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40249,"featured_media":34729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[8525,578,9531,1923,2289,2274,2098,1492,2539,7106,7787,29,457,5281,485],"class_list":["post-35603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-anu-solomon","tag-arizona-wildcats","tag-college-football","tag-college-football-betting","tag-college-football-handicapping","tag-college-football-odds","tag-college-football-picks","tag-espn","tag-football-betting","tag-marcus-mariota","tag-mark-helfrich","tag-ncaa-football","tag-oregon-ducks","tag-pac-12","tag-rich-rodriguez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603","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\/40249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35609,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603\/revisions\/35609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}