{"id":8005,"date":"2010-09-23T01:49:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T06:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=8005"},"modified":"2010-09-23T01:49:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T06:49:33","slug":"thursday-college-football-picks-miami-vs-pittsburgh-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/thursday-college-football-picks-miami-vs-pittsburgh-predictions-8005\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday College Football Picks: Miami Vs Pittsburgh Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"
Miami-Florida at Pittsburgh, Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, PA
\nThursday, September 23, 2010, 7:45 pm EST, TV: ESPN
\nOpening Line: Miami -3
\nCurrent Line: Miami -3 1\/2
\nOpening Total: 51
\nCurrent Total: 50
\nMoney Line: Miami -170 \/ Pitt +150
\n<\/strong>All Odds for the Miami Vs Pittsburgh game taken from Bookmaker Sportsbook who is offering a 25% signup bonus to all new wagering accounts.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Pittsburgh is currently a 3.5 point home underdog tonight against the Miami Hurricanes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Randy Shannon and the Miami Hurricanes renew their rivalry with former Big East Conference foe the\u00a0Pittsburgh Panhters coached by Dave Wannstadt. Both teams are 1-1 but have lost to ranked teams on the road and beaten cupcakes at home, so it is difficult to judge these teams. The two teams haven’t played since Miami left the Big East for the ACC in 2003. Before that Miami was 8-1\u00a0straight up against the Panthers, including the last 6. Both teams are hungry for a win before conference play starts.\u00a0 The Hurricanes are currently 3.5 point road favorites according to the college football odds makers.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes had last week off after a mistake filled trip to Columbus to take on Ohio St. The normally mild mannered \u00a0Randy Shannon laid into his team after the 36-24\u00a0loss. Canes’ quarterback, Jacory Harris, who is normally solid had an awful day going 22-39 for 232 yards with only one touchdown and 4 picks. The touchdown htrow came\u00a0 in the 4th quarter when the Buckeyes were up 36-17 and it didn’t really matter. Miami’s rushing game could only muster 120 yards against the stout Buckeye defense. The Hurricanes did put up 24 points but 14 of those were off\u00a0special teams.\u00a0Miami returned both a punt and a kickoff for a touchdown against\u00a0the Buckeyes. However, when you add up the turnovers with 8 penalties for 59 yards, and the defense’s inability to contain quarterback\u00a0Terrelle Pryor, you can see why the ‘Canes\u00a0were never in the game. Pryor threw for 233 yards and touchdown and also ran for another 113 yards and a score.\u00a0Miami’s\u00a0offense is ranked 38th in passing and 77th in rushing. most of those yards came against Florida A&M\u00a0in\u00a0a 45-0 rout the first week of the season.<\/p>\n

Like\u00a0Miami, Pitt is 1-1 and had last week off. The\u00a0Panthers have some off the field issues as well. Freshman tailback Jason Douglas and offensive lineman Keith Coleman are both suspended indefinitely while being investigated for\u00a0DUI and aggrav ated assult respectfully. The Panthers are also missing All-American defensive end Greg Romeus who\u00a0is out\u00a0after having to surgery to repair a herniated disk in his back.\u00a0Running back Dion Lewis has been held to 102 yards on 35 carries because teams are just keying on stopping him, as Tyler Sunsieri and the Panther passing game have been\u00a0somewhat ineffective this season. Lewis has actually been outgained by backup Ray Graham 135-102. both have two touchdown runs.<\/p>\n

Both of these teams were ranked in the preseason top 25, and Miami still is ranked #19, Both of these teams have problems, but Miami’s can be more easily solved. The two coaches know each other very well, as Wannstadt recruited Shannon to Miami when he was the defensive coordinator for the ‘Canes in the late ’80’s. He also drafted him for the Cowboys when he coached under Jimmy Johnson, and Wannstadt also hired Shannon to be his defensive coordinator for the Dolphins in 2000. as mentioned it is difficult to know what to make of these two teams, as both lost to ranked teams. This will be an interesting test for both teams.<\/p>\n

Maddux Sports is releasing Thursday college football picks on this game.\u00a0 Currently on a 18-5 college football pick run tonight we look to continue the winning, dont miss our Thursday ESPN TV winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miami-Florida at Pittsburgh, Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, PA Thursday, September 23, 2010, 7:45 pm EST, TV: ESPN Opening Line: Miami -3 Current Line: Miami -3 1\/2 Opening Total: 51 Current Total: 50 Money Line: Miami -170 \/ Pitt +150 All Odds for the Miami Vs Pittsburgh game taken from Bookmaker Sportsbook who is offering a 25% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40249,"featured_media":5051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[387,559,2098,1492,1083,615,2901],"class_list":["post-8005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-big-east","tag-college-football-picks","tag-espn","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-pittsburgh-panthers","tag-thursday-college-football-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005","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\/40249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8025,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions\/8025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}