{"id":36381,"date":"2014-11-22T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=36381"},"modified":"2014-11-22T10:17:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:17:01","slug":"college-football-week-13-picks-usc-trojans-vs-ucla-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-13-picks-usc-trojans-vs-ucla-bruins-36381\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 13 Picks: USC Trojans vs. UCLA Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

USC Trojans vs. UCLA Bruins
\nSaturday, 11\/22\/14, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 UCLA -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 UCLA -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 60.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 63
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The UCLA Bruins are trying to win their third consecutive game against the USC Trojans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

USC has won four of its last five games, including a 38-30 victory over the California Golden Bears as 14-point home favorites on Nov. 13, while capturing the statistical battle in its last four affairs.\u00a0 The Trojans need a win in this spot and the Arizona State Sun Devils to lose in order to land in the Pac-12 Conference Championship Game, which is important to consider when making your Week 13 college football betting picks.\u00a0 \u00a0 The team is led by quarterback Cody Kessler, who has thrown 29 touchdowns and just three interceptions on the year.\u00a0 USC is 4-5 SUATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 7-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Trojans are 44-30-7 SU all-time in this series, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football betting odds, but they\u2019ve dropped the last two meetings.\u00a0 USC has a 9-13 SU record in games in which UCLA is the higher ranked side by the Associated Press at kickoff.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the defense is seventh in the country in the red zone, while the squad is 12th in turnover margin.<\/p>\n

UCLA has put together a four-game win streak, which includes a 44-30 victory over the Washington Huskies as six-point road favorites on Nov. 8, while out-gaining its last six opponents.\u00a0 The Bruins will be led by dual-threat signal-caller Brett Hundley, who leads the nation in completing 72.1 percent of his passes, while needing just 260 yards to break the school-record in terms of total offense.\u00a0 UCLA is 12-5 SU and 9-8 ATS at home the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 10-7 in those 17 opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Bruins have come away with points in 38-of-39 trips inside the red zone, as they look to improve to 18-9 against Pac-12 opponents during the Jim Mora era.\u00a0 UCLA is also searching for its first three-game win streak in this crosstown rivalry since 1996-98.\u00a0 \u00a0 The main player to watch defensively is linebacker Eric Kendricks, who is just 22 stops away from tying the school record of 468 career tackles.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 6-3 in the Bruins\u2019 last nine games as favorites of 3.5 to 10 points.<\/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":"

USC Trojans vs. UCLA Bruins Saturday, 11\/22\/14, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 UCLA -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 UCLA -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 60.5 Current Total:\u00a0 63 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker USC has won four of its last five games, including a 38-30 victory over the California Golden Bears as 14-point home favorites on Nov. 13, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7014,7882,5263,11,472],"class_list":["post-36381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-brett-hundley","tag-cody-kessler","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-ucla-bruins","tag-usc-trojans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36381","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=36381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36382,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36381\/revisions\/36382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}