{"id":8812,"date":"2010-10-09T02:02:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=8812"},"modified":"2010-10-09T02:08:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T07:08:22","slug":"ucla-at-cal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ucla-at-cal-8812\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Bruins Vs California Bears Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCLA Bruins at California Golden Bears
\nSaturday, 10\/9\/10, 3:30 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread: Cal -7
\nCurrent Betting Line: Cal -8
\nOpening Total: 49.5
\nCurrent Total: 48
\nCurrent Moneyline: Cal -280\/UCLA +240<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cal enters todays in state contest as a 8 point home favorite against the UCLA Bruins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UCLA has won three straight games and now hits the road to Berkeley to square off against California in a Pac-10 Conference game.\u00a0 The Bruins have now won four games in a row since 2005, when they started 8-0 under coach Karl Dorrell.\u00a0 \u201cSince we\u2019ve been here, we\u2019ve never won four in a row,\u201d tailback Johnathan Franklin said.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re definitely not satisfied.\u00a0 Last week is over and it\u2019s on to the next one.\u201d\u00a0 The program owns a 49-30-1 record in the series with the Golden Bears, but have dropped the last two contests, including a 45-26 decision a season ago at the Rose Bowl.\u00a0 In last year\u2019s loss, Franklin totaled 101 yards rushing and scored both touchdowns.\u00a0 The team is 16-14 ATS in its last 30 games and the total is 10-19 O\/U over that span.\u00a0 It\u2019s also important to note that the Bruins are 15-4 ATS on the road when the total is between 45.5 and 49.<\/p>\n

The Bruins coaching staff studied Nevada coach Chris Ault\u2019s pistol offense in the offseason and has used it with great success this season.\u00a0 UCLA will definitely be watching film of Cal\u2019s road loss to Nevada this week, as the Wolf Pack rushed for 316 yards and gained 497 overall in that contest.\u00a0 Offensively, the team\u2019s 437 rushing yards against Washington State last week was its highest since gaining 446 at Oregon in 1979.\u00a0 Starting quarterback Kevin Prince is also expected back under center, missing last week\u2019s game due to a swollen knee.\u00a0 On the defensive side of the ball, the front seven will have to make a decision in continuing its great play of allowing just 158 total rushing yards to Texas and Washington State or return to a unit that surrendered 524 yards on the ground in its first two games.<\/p>\n

California resumes action in a Homecoming contest at Memorial Stadium after having a week off.\u00a0 Prior to its bye week, the Golden Bears dropped a pair of road contests at Nevada and Arizona, both currently ranked in the Top 25.\u00a0 This afternoon\u2019s contest will be the first home game in four weeks for the team.\u00a0 Head coach Jeff Tedford has had mixed results in games coming off a bye week, posting an 8-6 record in 14 regular season games.\u00a0 Even though they trail in the all-time series, the squad hasn\u2019t lost to UCLA on its home turf since 1998, rolling off a current streak of five straight home victories.\u00a0 California is 10-3 ATS at home over the last three years and the total is 7-6 O\/U in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Golden Bears are led by running back Shane Vereen and wide receiver Marvin Jones, respectively leading the conference in rushing and receiving.\u00a0 Despite not scoring in Cal\u2019s most recent game at Arizona, Vereen continues to lead the Pac-10 and is now tied fourth nationally in scoring with an average of 12.0 points per game.\u00a0 Jones has a team-leading 25 receptions and 369 receiving yards and is on pace for 81 grabs on the year.\u00a0 On defense, Cal has shutout its opponent in the first half in three of four games in 2010 and scored 48 points after forcing turnovers this season.<\/p>\n

Bettors will notice that the Bruins are 3-8 ATS in their last 11 conference games and the under is 20-5-1 in the same situation.\u00a0 Cal has posted an 8-2 ATS mark as a home favorite of 3.5-10 points.<\/p>\n

Maddux Sports has killed the sportsbooks with their college football picks so far this season.\u00a0 Get on board for another winning Saturday by signing up for our college football picks against the spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UCLA Bruins at California Golden Bears Saturday, 10\/9\/10, 3:30 PM EDT Opening Point Spread: Cal -7 Current Betting Line: Cal -8 Opening Total: 49.5 Current Total: 48 Current Moneyline: Cal -280\/UCLA +240 UCLA has won three straight games and now hits the road to Berkeley to square off against California in a Pac-10 Conference game.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[2958,3318,3317,3319,3315,3316,11],"class_list":["post-8812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-california-golden-bears","tag-johnathan-franklin","tag-kevin-prince","tag-memorial-stadium","tag-pac-10-conference","tag-shane-vereen","tag-ucla-bruins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812","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=8812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8815,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions\/8815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}