{"id":9960,"date":"2010-10-28T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=9960"},"modified":"2010-10-27T17:38:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T22:38:51","slug":"florida-state-seminoles-at-nc-state-wolfpack-football-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/florida-state-seminoles-at-nc-state-wolfpack-football-predictions-9960\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State Seminoles at NC State Wolfpack Football Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida State Seminoles at North Carolina State Wolfpack
\nThursday, 10\/28\/10, 7:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida State -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida State -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 56.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 57
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Florida State -175 \/ NC State +155<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Florida State enters as a four-point road favorite and is 7-4 SU all-time on Thursday night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florida State is 6-1 overall this season and a perfect 4-0 in conference play and heads to Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, NC to take on the North Carolina State Wolfpack.\u00a0 Under first-year coach Jimbo Fisher, the Seminoles are off to their best start in league play since 2003.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s important for us to figure out how to handle it, handle the success,\u201d said quarterback Christian Ponder.\u00a0 \u201cIt is a positive that we do control our own destiny but we\u2019ve got to handle it the right way.\u201d\u00a0 The team is 7-4 all-time in Thursday night ESN games and rallied from a 24-6 third quarter deficit to defeat the Wolfpack, 30-27 last season.\u00a0 FSU brings in a three-game series winning streak into this contest and six of the last nine meetings have been decided by a touchdown or less.\u00a0 The club is 4-2 ATS this season and 14-15 ATS over the last three seasons. \u00a0The college football lines page is something to watch closely for this nationally-televised contest.<\/p>\n

The Seminoles bring in the league\u2019s top-rated scoring defense at 16.1 points per game and will be attempting to stop an NC State team that ranks second in the ACC in scoring (36.0 ppg).\u00a0 Florida State escaped with a 24-19 win over Boston College at home in its last game and both teams have enjoyed 12-day breaks heading into tonight\u2019s game.\u00a0 The offense is scoring at an 11-year high during the current season, averaging 34.9 points a game through seven games, better than 11 points more than it scored in 2009.\u00a0 The Seminoles have amassed more than 427 yards in five of their first seven games to open the 2010 season.\u00a0 Since managing just 345 at Oklahoma, the unit has tallied 424.4 yards during their five-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

NC State is currently tied for second in the ACC with a 2-1 conference record and is 1-1 so far this season against the Coastal Division.\u00a0 The Wolfpack had a bye following their 33-27 overtime loss to East Carolina on October 16.\u00a0 \u201cWe got so far behind and fought back and just couldn\u2019t get over the hump there at the end,\u201d coach Tom O\u2019Brien said.\u00a0 \u201cWe have to regroup and get ready for our next game.\u201d\u00a0 NC State and Florida State have met 30 times, with the Seminoles holding a 21-9 advantage.\u00a0 The team enters the eighth game of the 2010 season with some of the best offensive marks in the conference, leading the league in pass offense (312.6 ypg) and total offense (448.9 ypg).\u00a0 In six games this season, the squad is 4-2 ATS and the total is an even 3-3 Over\/Under.<\/p>\n

The Wolfpack are led by quarterback Russell Wilson, who leads the conference in passing yards with 303.4 per game and total offense at 332.0 per contest.\u00a0 Wilson has thrown 66 career touchdowns, the second-best mark in school history.\u00a0 His touchdown-to-interception ratio of 3.1 to 1 is better than current NFL quarterback Philip Rivers.\u00a0 NC State\u2019s offensive unit has spread the ball all over the field, with passes caught by 10 or more different players in five of seven games in 2010.\u00a0 The defense gave up a season-high 496 yards of offense last time out against the Pirates, but it\u2019s significant to point out that they still lead the ACC and rank sixth nationally in third-down conversion defense.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in finding the Seminoles being 2-8-2 ATS in their last 12 games as a road favorite of 3.5-10 points, while the Wolfpack are 2-5 ATS in October.<\/p>\n

Maddux Sports is getting into the best part of the season and has expert college football picks available for games the entire week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida State Seminoles at North Carolina State Wolfpack Thursday, 10\/28\/10, 7:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida State -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida State -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 56.5 Current Total:\u00a0 57 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Florida State -175 \/ NC State +155 Florida State is 6-1 overall this season and a perfect 4-0 in conference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[387,3628,3326,1112,3629,3009,3630],"class_list":["post-9960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-carter-finley-stadium","tag-christian-ponder","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-jimbo-sisher","tag-north-carolina-state-wolfpack","tag-russell-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960","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=9960"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9962,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions\/9962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}