{"id":7747,"date":"2010-09-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=7747"},"modified":"2010-09-17T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T16:56:28","slug":"cal-at-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/cal-at-nevada-7747\/","title":{"rendered":"California Golden Bears Vs Nevada Wolfpack Betting Odds & Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

California Golden Bears at Nevada Wolf Pack
\nFriday, 9\/17\/10, 10:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread: California -1
\nCurrent Betting Line: California -2.5
\nOpening Total: 63
\nCurrent Total: 65.5
\nCurrent Moneyline: California -135\/Nevada +115<\/strong>
\nLines Taken From Bookmaker Sportsbook<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Nevada Wolfpack are 2.5\/3 point home underdogs on Friday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cal visits Nevada in a matchup of unbeaten teams in a nationally televised ESPN2 games at Mackay Stadium.\u00a0 The Bears will bring in the nation\u2019s top defense in total defense (161.0 ypg) and take on the country\u2019s best offense (592.0 ypg).\u00a0 The team has actually averaged more points than tonight\u2019s opponent, averaging 52 points per game while the Wolf Pack tally 50 per contest.\u00a0 Friday\u2019s contest is the first road game of the season and the first time the Golden Bears have played a regular-season game on a day other than Saturday since their 41-13 victory at New Mexico State in 2005.\u00a0 The team has tallied victories over FCS opponent UC Davis in the opener (52-3) and then hammering future Pac-10 foe Colorado of the Big 12 (52-7).<\/p>\n

The Golden Bears will come in knowing the schools holds a dominating 21-1-1 all-time advantage over the Wolf Pack, but the teams have only squared off once since 1945.\u00a0 Cal has an overall record of 60-12-1 in 73 games against schools currently in the WAC.\u00a0 The stop unit allowed 81 yards of total offense against the Aggies and followed that with a performance of limiting the Buffaloes to 241 yards.\u00a0 Offensively, the squad is tied for the conference lead in the red zone, scoring 10 touchdowns and two field goals for a perfect percentage in 12 trips.\u00a0 QB Kevin Riley leads the unit, ranking first in the Pac-10 and third in the nation with a passer efficiency rating of 205.27.\u00a0 He continues to lead the Pac-10\u2019s active quarterbacks in career victories (17), touchdowns and games played (30).\u00a0 The team is 3-8\u00a0against the college football spreads\u00a0versus WAC opponents since the 1992 season and the total is 4-2 O\/U in those contests.<\/p>\n

Nevada stays home after an impressive 51-6 blowout victory over Colorado State to host one of the most anticipated games of the year.\u00a0 This is the first-ever visit by Cal to Mackay Stadium, as both teams are currently receiving votes in each national poll.\u00a0 The Wolf Pack are off to a 2-0 start for the first time since 1995 and the team returned 15 starters from last year\u2019s team that went 8-5 overall and 7-1 in WAC play.\u00a0 This year is also the first campaign since 1991 that Nevada will open the season with three consecutive home games.\u00a0 Overall, the team will play at Mackay seven times in 2010.\u00a0 The Wolf Pack are fully focused on this contest in front of a major audience and have a trip to Provo, Utah lined up next week to tackle the BYU Cougars.<\/p>\n

The Wolf Pack are known for the pistol offense and its unit is led by signal caller Colin Kaepernick.\u00a0 Last week, he became the ninth player in NCAA history to rush for 3,000 yards and throw for 3,000 yards in his career.\u00a0 Since the offense was created prior to the 2005 season, the offense has been near the top nationally, including becoming the first team to have three 1,000-yard rushers.\u00a0 Over the last five years, Nevada ranks fourth in yards per game on the ground (241.94), trailing only Navy, Air Force and West Virginia.\u00a0 The Wolf Pack are a disappointing 3-8 ATS in non-conference games over the last three years.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Golden Bears are a solid 6-1 ATS in their last seven games in September.\u00a0 Nevada comes in with a 26-12 ATS mark in their last 38 home games.\u00a0 For picks on this game and others check out the college football predictions page of our site.\u00a0 We are currently riding a 14-3 ATS run in college football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California Golden Bears at Nevada Wolf Pack Friday, 9\/17\/10, 10:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread: California -1 Current Betting Line: California -2.5 Opening Total: 63 Current Total: 65.5 Current Moneyline: California -135\/Nevada +115 Lines Taken From Bookmaker Sportsbook Cal visits Nevada in a matchup of unbeaten teams in a nationally televised ESPN2 games […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":4002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[2958,3034,1082,432,740,2796],"class_list":["post-7747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-california-golden-bears","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-kevin-riley","tag-nevada-wolf-pack","tag-pac-10","tag-wac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747","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\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7747"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7760,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions\/7760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}