{"id":35897,"date":"2014-10-21T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T22:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35897"},"modified":"2014-10-21T17:04:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T22:04:36","slug":"ncaa-football-week-9-picks-ohio-state-buckeyes-vs-penn-state-nittany-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-football-week-9-picks-ohio-state-buckeyes-vs-penn-state-nittany-lions-35897\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Football Week 9 Picks: Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Penn State Nittany Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Penn State Nittany Lions
\nSaturday, 10\/25\/14, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -13
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -13.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 51.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 51.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ohio State Buckeyes are rolling offensively during their 4-0 SUATS run<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ohio State has won and covered the number in four consecutive games since its only loss of the season, as it comes off a 56-17 victory over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights as 20.5-point home favorites, while going OVER the betting total for a fifth straight affair.\u00a0 The Buckeyes have won their last 18 Big Ten Conference regular season games, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your Week 9 NCAA football betting picks, while they\u2019ve managed to score at least 50 points in four consecutive contests for the first time in school history.\u00a0 Ohio State is 2-0 SUATS as road favorites of 10.5 to 14 points under head coach Urban Meyer.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes are being led offensively by the play of quarterback J.T. Barrett, which is important to consider when looking over the NCAA football odds, as he\u2019s thrown for 17 touchdowns and just a single interception in his last four games.\u00a0 Ohio State is a worthy double-digit favorite due to the fact that Meyer has not lost a game in the month of October since the 2010 campaign.<\/p>\n

Penn State has dropped back-to-back games, including an 18-13 setback to the Michigan Wolverines as 2.5-point road underdogs on Oct. 11, while going UNDER the betting total in four of its last five affairs.\u00a0 The Nittany Lions are 13-16 SU all-time against the Buckeyes, as they look to improve upon their 2-1 mark at Beaver Stadium in James Franklin\u2019s first year at University Park.\u00a0 Defensively, the team ranks first in the country in allowing just 60.8 rushing yards per game, which is significant when facing a foe that averages 533.8 total yards of offense.<\/p>\n

The Nittany Lions have a talented signal-caller in their own in Christian Hackenberg, but he\u2019s thrown just five touchdowns with seven interceptions this season.\u00a0 The sophomore clearly misses the guidance that former head coach Bill O\u2019Brien provided him, but he left the program to become the front man of the Houston Texans during the offseason.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Buckeyes due to the road team covering the number in five of the last seven meetings in this rivalry.<\/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

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Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Penn State Nittany Lions Saturday, 10\/25\/14, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Ohio State -13 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Ohio State -13.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 51.5 Current Total:\u00a0 51.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Ohio State has won and covered the number in four consecutive games since its only loss of the season, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3991,3442,7662,8441,463,497],"class_list":["post-35897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-beaver-stadium","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-christian-hackenberg","tag-j-t-barrett","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35897","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=35897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35898,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35897\/revisions\/35898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}