{"id":9972,"date":"2010-10-27T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2010-10-27T08:44:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T13:44:20","slug":"college-football-picks-tulsa-at-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-picks-tulsa-at-notre-dame-9972\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsa Golden Hurricane at Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tulsa Golden Hurricane at Notre Dame Fighting Irish
\nSaturday, 10\/30\/2010, 2:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -10
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -8.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 61.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 62<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly is solely focused on getting the Irish bowl eligible the rest of the season after last week's loss to Navy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tulsa steps away from Conference USA play this week and goes on the road to play the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Saturday.\u00a0 The Golden Hurricane carry a 4-3 overall record and 2-2 conference mark into this contest and will be meeting Saturday\u2019s opponent for the first time.\u00a0 Quarterback G.J. Kinne knows how much this game means to the program and will be ready to perform on a national stage.\u00a0 \u201cNo doubt about it, we have a chance to get the biggest win in school history,\u201d Kinne stated.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re excited about that.\u201d\u00a0 Many believe this game will be a shootout due to Tulsa\u2019s offense and Notre Dame\u2019s passing ability.\u00a0 The team will be focusing in on taking care of the ball and winning the time of possession battle in practice this week.\u00a0 Tulsa is 2-2 ATS as an underdog of 3.5 to 10 points the last three seasons.<\/p>\n

The Golden Hurricane offense has gone over 500 yards in 29 games under head coach Todd Graham during his tenure and has hit that mark in four contests this season.\u00a0 Tulsa has also reached 40 points in four games this year, including a loss at East Carolina and wins over Central Arkansas, Memphis and Tulane. \u00a0Bettors need to pay close attention and click here for the college football lines. \u00a0On the other side of the ball, after allowing 1,563 total yards in the first three games this year, Tulsa\u2019s defense has given up 1,540 total yards in the last four contests, 136 yards less per game than the first three.\u00a0 The team is very young and has seven freshmen have started games, including three true freshmen.<\/p>\n

Notre Dame dropped a disappointing 35-17 contest to Navy last week and now must face a dangerous spread offense on Saturday.\u00a0 \u201cI think probably the biggest thing is don\u2019t let Navy affect how you play against Tulsa,\u201d said head coach Brian Kelly.\u00a0 The Fighting Irish are now 4-4 on the season and the program must refocus in becoming bowl eligible.\u00a0 They are favored over this week\u2019s opponent, then host Utah before finishing with Army and at USC.\u00a0 Kelly\u2019s team is 3-2 in Notre Dame Stadium in 2010 and have a home record of 113-44-1 over the last 25 years.\u00a0 The team owns a 55-10-1 mark in games when the opponent is making its first visit to the Stadium.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 12-17 ATS the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish have been a disciplined team despite the mediocre record in ranking third in the country in fewest penalties per game, at 4.63.\u00a0 Notre Dame still have a great chance of closing out the season strong, especially considering Kelly\u2019s 37-10 record as a coach since the start of the 2007 season.\u00a0 Offensively, the rushing game has been virtually non-existent all year, ranking 98th in the country.\u00a0 Quarterback Dayne Crist has completed 59.6 percent of his passes for 2,033 yards and 15 touchdowns, ranking among the top 30 signal callers in the country in passing yards per game.\u00a0 He hopes that wide receiver Michael Floyd will return to action this week after sitting out the Navy game with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Golden Hurricane are 1-5 ATS in their last six games as a road underdog, while the Fighting Irish step in with a 4-1 ATS mark after suffering an ATS loss.<\/p>\n

Maddux Sports is enjoying a fantastic college football season<\/a> and is ready for another full week of winning selections for the final weekend of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tulsa Golden Hurricane at Notre Dame Fighting Irish Saturday, 10\/30\/2010, 2:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -10 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 61.5 Current Total:\u00a0 62 Tulsa steps away from Conference USA play this week and goes on the road to play the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":7117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[1192,3124,3638,3640,1311,2802,3639,2825],"class_list":["post-9972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-brian-kelly","tag-dayne-crist","tag-g-j-kinne","tag-michael-floyd","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-notre-dame-stadium","tag-todd-graham","tag-tulsa-golden-hurricane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972","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=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9980,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/9980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}