{"id":35615,"date":"2014-10-03T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35615"},"modified":"2014-10-03T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T20:39:06","slug":"college-football-week-6-predictions-wisconsin-badgers-vs-northwestern-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-6-predictions-wisconsin-badgers-vs-northwestern-wildcats-35615\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 6 Predictions: Wisconsin Badgers vs. Northwestern Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wisconsin Badgers vs. Northwestern Wildcats
\nSaturday, 10\/4\/14, 3:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 47
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Wisconsin Badgers have ran for 250 or more yards in three of their four games in 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wisconsin is riding a three-game win streak as it prepares to open its 119th season of Big Ten Conference play, while it also looks to capture its third consecutive meeting in this particular series.\u00a0 The Badgers are led by Heisman Trophy candidate Melvin Gordon, as he ranks fifth nationally in averaging 153.0 rushing yards per game, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your Week 6 college football predictions.\u00a0 He needs just 60 yards to become the 11th 3,000-yard rusher in school history.\u00a0 Wisconsin is 5-1 SU and 4-2 ATS as road favorites the last two-plus seasons, with no clear edge in terms of the betting total (3-3 Over\/Under).<\/p>\n

The Badgers lead the Big Ten in both scoring defense and total defense, which is important to consider when looking over the college football odds page, as senior linebacker Derek Landisch leads that group in racking up 1.5 tackles for loss per game and has three sacks.\u00a0 Wisconsin has rushed for at least 250 yards in three of its first four games, while it paces the country in averaging 7.04 yards per rushing attempt.<\/p>\n

Northwestern has won back-to-back games, including a 29-6 victory over the Penn State Nittany Lions as 10.5-point road underdogs in its conference opener last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total for a fourth consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Wildcats rank third in the Big Ten and 19th nationally in giving up just 16.8 points per game\u2014caused by holding opponents to single-digit scoring totals in consecutive games for the first time since 2008.\u00a0 Northwestern is 7-4 SU and 9-2 ATS in its last 11 opportunities as home underdogs of 7.5 to 10 points.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats need a big game out of quarterback Trevor Siemian, who has just two touchdown passes on the season, and none in the past two games.\u00a0 He was sacked five times and connected on just 13 of 34 pass attempts for 163 yards against the Badgers a year ago.\u00a0 Siemian will be looking to target tight end Dan Vitale in the middle of the field, who enters with 18 catches for 216 yards.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Badgers due to their 5-1 SUATS mark in October the last two-plus seasons.<\/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":"

Wisconsin Badgers vs. Northwestern Wildcats Saturday, 10\/4\/14, 3:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -9.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 47 Current Total:\u00a0 47 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Wisconsin is riding a three-game win streak as it prepares to open its 119th season of Big Ten Conference play, while it also looks to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3442,7677,3119,8526,437],"class_list":["post-35615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-melvin-gordon","tag-northwestern-wildcats","tag-trevor-siemian","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35615","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=35615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35616,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35615\/revisions\/35616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}