{"id":8411,"date":"2010-10-01T01:27:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T06:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=8411"},"modified":"2010-10-01T01:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T06:27:00","slug":"byu-at-utah-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/byu-at-utah-state-8411\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Picks: BYU at Utah State Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

BYU Cougars at Utah State Aggies<\/strong>
\nFriday, 10\/1\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN<\/strong>
\nOpening Point Spread: BYU -6.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Betting Line: BYU -4<\/strong>
\nOpening Total: 50<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 51.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline: BYU -190\/Utah State +160<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Utah State is currently a 4 point home underdog against BYU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BYU is looking to avoid dropping its fourth-straight game for the first time since the middle of the 1993 season.\u00a0 The Cougars have a great chance in accomplishing this given the fact they\u2019ve won 10-straight meetings with the Utah State Aggies and have not scored less than 30 points against them since a 20-17 loss in 1982.\u00a0 The team is coming off a disappointing 27-13 home loss to the Nevada at LaVell Edwards Stadium, given the defense held the Wolf Pack\u2019s high-powered offense to well below its season average of 50.7 points per game.\u00a0 Over the past three seasons, BYU has compiled a 10-19 ATS record and the total is 14-15 O\/U in that span.\u00a0 You can shop around and compare odds on this game at the college football lines page of our site.<\/p>\n

The Cougars will be under the direction of freshman quarterback Jake Heaps for the second straight game due to a season-ending injury to junior signal caller Riley Nelson.\u00a0 He went 24-for-45 for 229 yards in the contest and received praise from head coach Bronco Mendenhall.\u00a0 \u201cHis performance was a bright spot and a work in progress,\u201d he said after the game.\u00a0 \u201cThe standards I\u2019m measuring are week to week.\u201d\u00a0 BYU will look to turn things around against a WAC opponent, posting a 23-8 mark against current schools competing in the conference, including a 29-27 mark against all teams other than Utah State.\u00a0 Since Mendenhall took over in Provo, the team is 3-1 against the conference with all three wins coming against the Aggies.\u00a0 The Cougars are 4-5 ATS when playing as a road favorite over the last three campaigns.<\/p>\n

Utah State is desperate to pick up its first win in this series since a wild 58-56 battle in 1993 and trying to snap the Cougars\u2019 10-game win streak in the series.\u00a0 The Aggies lead 17-15-2 in games played at Logan, but BYU has won the last four.\u00a0 Since 1987, Utah State and BYU have played each other 17 times with 13 of them falling on Friday night, as the men from Provo have won all 13 such meetings.\u00a0 In fact, the team has lost 14 straight non-Saturday games since winning the Las Vegas Bowl in 1993.\u00a0 Another discouraging streak is the squad\u2019s current 12-game losing streak to the Mountain West Conference.\u00a0 The Aggies are 12-7 ATS over the last three seasons as an underdog and the total is 10-10 O\/U in those games.<\/p>\n

The Aggies are led by senior quarterback Diondre Borell, who will be making his 26th start under center, setting four school records along the way.\u00a0 He set a single-season total offense record with 3,343 yards from scrimmage last season.\u00a0 Head coach Gary Anderson still has hopes of turning the season around, but has been forced to play eight freshmen due to injuries and the team has to recover emotionally from a 41-7 blowout loss to San Diego State last week.\u00a0 \u201cWe have to move on quickly,\u201d he said after the game.\u00a0 Utah State is 6-2 ATS in its last eight games against the MWC and the under is 3-0-1 in the last four such meetings.<\/p>\n

Bettors may aim in playing the underdog in this contest due to the Cougars 1-8 ATS mark in their last nine October tilts, while the Aggies are 5-1 ATS in their last six contests during the month.<\/p>\n

Maddux Sports has released college football picks for this game and is currently on 71% run with our premium football picks.\u00a0 Get Friday nights winner and start your weekend off right by visiting our college football picks against the spread page to get this easy winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BYU Cougars at Utah State Aggies Friday, 10\/1\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread: BYU -6.5 Current Betting Line: BYU -4 Opening Total: 50 Current Total: 51.5 Current Moneyline: BYU -190\/Utah State +160 BYU is looking to avoid dropping its fourth-straight game for the first time since the middle of the 1993 season.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":8453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3220,434,2098,3221,3219,508,2529,2796],"class_list":["post-8411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-bronco-mendenhall","tag-byu-cougars","tag-college-football-picks","tag-diondre-borell","tag-jake-heaps","tag-mountain-west-conference","tag-utah-state-aggies","tag-wac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411","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=8411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8413,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411\/revisions\/8413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}