{"id":35869,"date":"2014-10-19T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35869"},"modified":"2014-10-19T15:45:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T20:45:20","slug":"college-football-week-9-picks-miami-hurricanes-vs-virginia-tech-hokies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-9-picks-miami-hurricanes-vs-virginia-tech-hokies-35869\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 9 Picks: Miami Hurricanes vs. Virginia Tech Hokies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Hurricanes vs. Virginia Tech Hokies
\nThursday, 10\/23\/14, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread: \u00a0Virginia Tech -3
\nCurrent Betting Line: \u00a0Virginia Tech -2
\nOpening Total: \u00a0N\/A
\nCurrent Total: \u00a0N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Miami Hurricanes are 17-3 SU when being featured on ESPN’s Thursday Night Football<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami has alternated wins and losses over its last five games, as it comes off a 55-34 victory over the Cincinnati Bearcats as 16.5-point home favorites on Oct. 11, while going OVER the betting total of 61.\u00a0 Through seven games this season, Hurricanes quarterback Brad Kaaya is one of only 12 signal-callers to throw for over 1,00 yards and 16-or-more touchdowns, which is important to consider when making your Week 9 college football betting picks.\u00a0 Miami is 0-4 ATS in its last four road games.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes are 17-3 SU all-time when playing on ESPN Thursday nights, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football betting odds, especially since that includes a 6-2 mark when on the road.\u00a0 Miami running back Duke Johnson is providing balance on the offensive end, as he\u2019s rushed for 100-plus yards in each of his last three games, which is significant when finding out that Al Golden has put together a 22-11 SU record in the month of October over his coaching career.<\/p>\n

Virginia Tech is 4-3 SU and 3-4 ATS on the season, as it returns home after suffering a 21-16 defeat to the Pittsburgh Panthers as one-point road favorites, while going UNDER the betting total for the fourth time in five contests.\u00a0 The Hokies have been sputtering offensively, which is clearly shown in finishing with just 291 yards of offense and converting on 2 of 14 third-down situations last time out.\u00a0 Virginia Tech has covered 10 of the last 13 meetings in this Atlantic Coast Conference rivalry.<\/p>\n

The Hokies have won eight of their last 11 games against the Hurricanes, while they entered the 2014 campaign with a dominating 31-9 SU home record when hosting ACC opponents.\u00a0 Virginia Tech needs quarterback Michael Brewer to improve upon his lackluster play recently, as he completed just 26-of-45 passes against the Panthers, but the team was also playing with injured running backs Trey Edmunds, Shai McKenzie and Marshawn Williams.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 8-3 in the last 13 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":"

Miami Hurricanes vs. Virginia Tech Hokies Thursday, 10\/23\/14, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread: \u00a0Virginia Tech -3 Current Betting Line: \u00a0Virginia Tech -2 Opening Total: \u00a0N\/A Current Total: \u00a0N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Miami has alternated wins and losses over its last five games, as it comes off a 55-34 victory over the Cincinnati Bearcats […]<\/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":[387,7549,1083,8452,1926],"class_list":["post-35869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-duke-johnson","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-michael-brewer","tag-virginia-tech-hokies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35869","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=35869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35875,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35869\/revisions\/35875"}],"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=35869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}