{"id":8672,"date":"2010-10-07T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2010-10-07T02:53:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T07:53:58","slug":"nebraska-at-kansas-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nebraska-at-kansas-state-8672\/","title":{"rendered":"Free College Football Picks: Nebraska at Kansas State Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nebraska Cornhuskers at Kansas State Wildcats
\nThursday, 10\/7\/10, 7:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread: Nebraska -10.5
\nCurrent Betting Line: Nebraska -11
\nOpening Total: 53
\nCurrent Total: 50
\nCurrent Moneyline: Nebraska -410\/Kansas State +340
\n<\/strong>Odds taken from Bookmaker Sportsbook who offers online college football betting.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Taylor Martinez and the Cornhuskers are 11 point road favorites with a posted total of 50, maddux likes the over as their free college football picks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nebraska opens its final season of Big 12 Conference competition with a tough test at undefeated Kansas State in Manhattan.\u00a0 It marks the second straight year the Cornhuskers have opened conference play with a Thursday night game on the road, as they defeated Missouri in Columbia in 2009 on its way to a Big 12 North championship.\u00a0 The team is coming off a bye week after picking up a listless 17-3 victory over South Dakota State in Lincoln on September 25.\u00a0 \u201cThey bought into all the things that were being said about them, they started believing that instead of taking a good, hard look about what we talk about each day,\u201d said head coach Bo Pelini.\u00a0 \u201cOur guys didn\u2019t play team football.\u201d\u00a0 The team is still excited about being 4-0 on the season despite losing four starters to injury before the first game and two are out for the season.\u00a0 Nebraska is 3-2\u00a0against the\u00a0college football spreads\u00a0over the last three years following a bye week and the total is 2-3 O\/U.<\/p>\n

The Cornhuskers own a dominating 77-15-2 all-time record in the series against the Wildcats, including a 34-7-2 edge in Manhattan.\u00a0 Nebraska has won the past five meetings and the last four by at least two touchdowns.\u00a0 The team has a history of great success in conference openers, winning 33 of their last 35 since 1975.\u00a0 Since the formation of the Big 12 Conference, the Huskers have posted an 8-6 mark in conference road openers.\u00a0 It\u2019s also important to note the squad\u2019s perfect 5-0 record in Thursday Night ESPN games since first appearing in the series in 1993.\u00a0 All five of those wins have been on the road, including last year\u2019s 27-12 win at Missouri.\u00a0 The team is 6-2 ATS in its last eight Thursday night games and the total is 3-3 O\/U in those contests.<\/p>\n

Kansas State improved to 4-0 for the first time since the 2003 season with a 17-13 come-from-behind victory over UCF on September 25.\u00a0 The Wildcats have been led by a stout rushing attack that is averaging 216 yards a contest on the ground.\u00a0 All-America candidate Daniel Thomas ranks fourth in the nation with 628 yards, while his 157.0 yards per game average ranks fifth nationally overall.\u00a0 The offense must find a way to throw the ball during conference play, as teams in the Big 12 are capable of shutting down a featured rusher.\u00a0 Fifth-year quarterback Carson Coffman has provided marginal results, completing 61 percent of his passes and has a five-to-two touchdown-to-interception ratio.\u00a0 The Wildcats are 5-8 ATS in home games and the total is 7-5 O\/U in that span.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have averaged 10.2 wins a season in their nine years of starting 4-0 as a program and the last time a K-State team opened the season 5-0 was back in 2000.\u00a0 Head coach Bill Snyder has been a dangerous coach when giving his Wildcats\u2019 teams an extra week to prepare, posting an 11-4 record following 15 previous mid-season bye weeks.\u00a0 The squad is also a solid 45-26 versus North division opponents since 1996, which is second to only to Nebraska.\u00a0 Kansas State is an even 7-7 ATS as an underdog over the past three years and 34-26 ATS in the last 60 opportunities.<\/p>\n

Bettors will take notice that the Cornhuskers are a dominating 8-1 in their last nine games as a road favorite of 10.5 points or greater, while the Wildcats are 7-3 ATS in the last 10 meetings.\u00a0 Maddux Sports does release free college football picks via our newsletter but also on the blog from time to time.\u00a0 Today we like the Over 50 as our free play.\u00a0 We also have a strong play on the side tonight and are currently on a 70% pick run for our members.\u00a0 You can get this winner by visiting our college football sports picks page of the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nebraska Cornhuskers at Kansas State Wildcats Thursday, 10\/7\/10, 7:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread: Nebraska -10.5 Current Betting Line: Nebraska -11 Opening Total: 53 Current Total: 50 Current Moneyline: Nebraska -410\/Kansas State +340 Odds taken from Bookmaker Sportsbook who offers online college football betting. Nebraska opens its final season of Big 12 Conference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":8730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3267,3266,475,2098,3129,3268,2386,2807,1143],"class_list":["post-8672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-bill-snyder","tag-bo-pelini","tag-college-football-picks","tag-college-football-sports-picks","tag-daniel-thomas","tag-free-college-football-picks","tag-kansas-state-wildcats","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672","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=8672"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8729,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions\/8729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}