{"id":35692,"date":"2014-10-07T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T01:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35692"},"modified":"2014-10-07T17:35:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T22:35:37","slug":"college-football-week-7-predictions-illinois-fighting-illini-vs-wisconsin-badgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-7-predictions-illinois-fighting-illini-vs-wisconsin-badgers-35692\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 7 Predictions: Illinois Fighting Illini vs. Wisconsin Badgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Illinois Fighting Illini vs. Wisconsin Badgers
\nSaturday, 10\/11\/14, 12:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -23
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -25
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 55.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 55
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Wisconsin Badgers are on pace to break their single-season record for rushing yards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Illinois has dropped back-to-back games, including a 38-27 setback to the Purdue Boilermakers as 10-point home favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the betting total of 53.\u00a0 The Fighting Illini have been able to produce big plays offensively in the early stages of the 2014 campaign, which is important to consider when looking over the college football odds page\u2014racking up 40 scrimmage plays of 20-plus yards.\u00a0 The team\u2019s passing game tops the Big Ten Conference in averaging 332.8 yards per game.\u00a0 Illinois is 0-2 SUATS as underdogs of 21.5 to 31 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Illini are extremely pleased with what they\u2019ve seen from freshman wide receiver Mike Dudek, who had eight catches for 200 yards against the Boilermakers last week\u2014the most receiving yards by a Big Ten player this year.\u00a0 Illinois also has a weapon in the backfield with running back Josh Ferguson, who is one of only backfield players with over 400 rushing yards and 200 receiving yards.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the offense may slow down now that signal-caller Wes Lunt suffered an injury that will keep him out for at least four weeks.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin had its three-game winning streak snapped last Saturday, as it dropped a 20-14 decision to the Northwestern Wildcats as 7.5-point road favorites, but it did manage to win the statistical battle for a fourth consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Badgers are led by Heisman Trophy candidate Melvin Gordon, who ran for a career-high 259 yards last week, and is averaging a nation-leading 174.2 yards per game on the ground.\u00a0 He\u2019s the nation\u2019s active career leader in rushing average at 8.14 yards per carry.\u00a0 Wisconsin is 3-1 SUATS as favorites of 21.5 to 31 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Badgers rank 11th nationally in allowing just 15.6 points per game, whihc can\u2019t be ignored when making your college football predictions.\u00a0 Wisconsin has won five straight Big Ten home openers\u201410 of 11 when dating back to the 2003 season.\u00a0 The program is 541 yards ahead of the pace that it had when setting a single-season school-record of 3,689 rushing yards a year ago.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Badgers due to the home team covering the number in four of the last five meetings in this series.<\/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":"

Illinois Fighting Illini vs. Wisconsin Badgers Saturday, 10\/11\/14, 12:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Wisconsin -23 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Wisconsin -25 Opening Total:\u00a0 55.5 Current Total:\u00a0 55 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Illinois has dropped back-to-back games, including a 38-27 setback to the Purdue Boilermakers as 10-point home favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the betting […]<\/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":[3442,697,7677,8544,437],"class_list":["post-35692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-illinois-fighting-illini","tag-melvin-gordon","tag-mike-dudek","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35692","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=35692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35693,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35692\/revisions\/35693"}],"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=35692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}