{"id":8669,"date":"2010-10-06T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=8669"},"modified":"2010-10-06T02:52:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T07:52:51","slug":"uab-at-ucf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/uab-at-ucf-8669\/","title":{"rendered":"UAB Blazers Vs UCF Golden Knights Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

UAB Blazers at UCF Knights
\nWednesday, 10\/6\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread: UCF -12
\nCurrent Betting Line: UCF -12.5
\nOpening Total: 47
\nCurrent Total: 48.5
\nCurrent Moneyline: UCF -450\/UAB +370<\/strong><\/p>\n

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UCF has a stingy defense lead by Bruce Miller and is favored by 12.5 points tonight over UAB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UAB is coming off a hard-fought, 32-29 double-overtime loss at Tennessee, after trailing 23-7 at halftime.\u00a0 Blazers quarterback Bryan Ellis finished with 373 yards passing in that contest, as he\u2019s been sharing duties with David Isabelle in order to show contrasting styles to keep defenses off balance.\u00a0 Ellis is known as the passer in the two-quarterback system, while Isabelle is a runner.\u00a0 Three of the team\u2019s four games this season have been decided on the final play of the game.\u00a0 UAB has gone 1-1 while racking up 1,079 yards of total offense with both signal callers sharing action after gaining just 685 in its 0-2 start.\u00a0 The team has also played eight true freshmen through four games this season.\u00a0 The Blazers are 10-11\u00a0against the college football point spread\u00a0as an underdog and the total is 11-10 O\/U in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Blazers will be meeting with UCF for the eighth time and trail 1-6 in the series.\u00a0 UAB claimed its only victory over the Knights two years ago at Orlando with a 15-0 victory on five field goals.\u00a0 Defensively, the team had its best game of the season against the Volunteers, holding them to 245 total yards.\u00a0 It was a surprising effort when considering the unit allowed an average of 444.7 total yards of offense, including an average of 163.3 on the ground through the first three games.\u00a0 The squad is also fortunate that the program is one of just four FBS teams that returned its entire coaching staff for the fourth consecutive season in 2010.\u00a0 The Blazers are 11-7 ATS in their last 18 games following a bye week and the total is 3-0 O\/U in that situation the past three years.<\/p>\n

UCF comes in with an even 2-2 record and narrowly lost both of its games to NC State (28-21) and Kansas State (17-13) by a combined total of 11 points.\u00a0 The Knights made an instant change at quarterback this season, as freshman Jeff Godfrey has started the last two games after relieving junior Rob Calabrese in the second half against North Carolina State.\u00a0 Godfrey has thrown for only 222 yards in his two starts, completing 23 of 42 passes and also rank for 133 yards.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a learning experience and we\u2019re working like heck to get it done,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cWe can try to simplify, simplify, but it\u2019s also easier for the other side of the ball.\u201d\u00a0 Offensively, the team has led in time of possession in 13 of the 16 quarters it has played this year and is averaging 33:36 time of possession, which ranks eighth best in the nation.\u00a0 The squad is 17-9 ATS in its last 26 games overall.<\/p>\n

The Knights are looking to extend their winning streak in Conference USA to seven games and they\u2019ve also won their last six conference games last season.\u00a0 UCF has relied heavily on its stop unit, ranking ninth nationally in pass defense and 10th in total defense over the first five weeks of the season.\u00a0 The defense has ranked in the top two in scoring defense in the conference each year dating back to 2007.\u00a0 Through four games, UCF has allowed just 1,057 yards of total offense, which is the lowest amount by the defense in the FBS era (since 1996.).\u00a0 The total is 3-8 O\/U in the Knights last 11 home games.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in examining the Blazers 2-5 ATS mark in their last seven games as an underdog of 10.5 points or more, while the Knights are 2-8 ATS in their last 10 games following a bye week.<\/p>\n

Maddux Sports is currently on a 70% college pick run.\u00a0 We are still looking at this game at the time of publish but could possibly release a play on tonights game in the morning.\u00a0 Be sure to check out our college football picks page and get on board for not only Wednesday’s play but our Saturday package which includes a 20 unit game of the year pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UAB Blazers at UCF Knights Wednesday, 10\/6\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread: UCF -12 Current Betting Line: UCF -12.5 Opening Total: 47 Current Total: 48.5 Current Moneyline: UCF -450\/UAB +370 UAB is coming off a hard-fought, 32-29 double-overtime loss at Tennessee, after trailing 23-7 at halftime.\u00a0 Blazers quarterback Bryan Ellis finished with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":8193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3263,2558,3264,3262,3260,3261],"class_list":["post-8669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-bryan-ellis","tag-conference-usa","tag-david-isabelle","tag-jeff-godfrey","tag-uab-blazers","tag-ucf-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669","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=8669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8704,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions\/8704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}