{"id":35638,"date":"2014-10-04T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35638"},"modified":"2014-10-04T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T14:30:15","slug":"college-football-week-6-predictions-smu-mustangs-vs-east-carolina-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-6-predictions-smu-mustangs-vs-east-carolina-pirates-35638\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 6 Predictions: SMU Mustangs vs. East Carolina Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"

SMU Mustangs vs. East Carolina Pirates
\nSaturday, 10\/4\/14, 12:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 East Carolina -34.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 East Carolina -41
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 62.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 58.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The East Carolina Pirates are nearly six-touchdown favorites Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SMU is 0-4 SUATS through four games this season, which is important to consider when making your Week 6 college football predictions, as it has been outscored by a 202-12 margin over that span.\u00a0 The Mustangs have split their four all-time meetings in this series, while they\u2019ve captured four of their last five conference openers.\u00a0 SMU is 0-2 SUATS as underdogs of 31 or more points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Mustangs are expected to go with Garrett Krstich under center, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds page, as he started the year as the team\u2019s fourth-string quarterback.\u00a0 He completed 14 of 30 passes for 142 yards and an interception last time out in a 56-0 setback to the TCU Horned Frogs as 31-point home underdogs.<\/p>\n

East Carolina is 3-1 SU and 4-0 ATS this season, as it comes off a pair of upset victories over the Virginia Tech Hokies and North Carolina Tar Heels.\u00a0 The Pirates have won 20 of their last 22 games when scoring 30 or more points, while they\u2019ve compiled a 13-2 SU record in their last 15 contests at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.\u00a0 The program has posted a 68-37 all-time mark against current members of the American Athletic Conference.\u00a0 East Carolina is 17-2 SU and 11-7-1 ATS as favorites the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 11-7 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Pirates are much improved on the defensive end this season, as they\u2019ve limited opponents to an average of 366.9 yards this season\u2014far better than their 430.0 mark in 2013.\u00a0 East Carolina will be led by Shane Carden offensively, as he\u2019s thrown for a combined 865 yards in those most recent wins against Virginia Tech and North Carolina.\u00a0 Running back Breon Allen is also an important playmaker, as he set career highs with 18 rushes and 211 yards with two touchdowns last week.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Mustangs due to their 5-2 ATS mark versus teams with a winning record 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":"

SMU Mustangs vs. East Carolina Pirates Saturday, 10\/4\/14, 12:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 East Carolina -34.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 East Carolina -41 Opening Total:\u00a0 62.5 Current Total:\u00a0 58.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker SMU is 0-4 SUATS through four games this season, which is important to consider when making your Week 6 college football predictions, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7543,2826,8531,7736,435],"class_list":["post-35638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-american-athletic-conference","tag-east-carolina-pirates","tag-garrett-krstich","tag-shane-carden","tag-smu-mustangs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35638","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=35638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35639,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35638\/revisions\/35639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}