Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
The Miami Florida Hurricanes will hit the highway for a Labor Day Monday Night college football game against in state rival the Florida St Seminoles. Kickoff time at Florida St is set for 8PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN. The LVSC college football sports betting odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the home team Florida St Seminoles opened as 4 point betting favorites. The sports betting public will find the early money came in on the favorite, as the Florida St Seminoles are currently a 6-point favorite. College football total bettors will find the current over under lined at 47. College football money line bettors can make a bet on the favored Florida St Seminoles at –250 with the underdog Miami Florida Hurricanes bringing back +210 to win straight up without the benefit of getting points.
The past two meetings between these schools have seen high scoring games. Both offenses have shown improvement in recent years. Miami will start Jacory Harris a sophomore at quarterback. Harris saw action last season as Miami ran a rotating quarterback system. Harris hit on just under 61% of his passes as a freshman for 12 touchdowns and 7 interceptions while completing for 1195 yards. Harris stands six foot four inches tall and is 190 pounds. Graig Cooper the Hurricanes leading rusher is back and will look to build upon a 4.9 yards per carry average in 2009. Harris will have his entire pass catching receivers back. Four of the Hurricanes offensive lineman has seen starts in college. Miami has good depth and experience on their defensive line and secondary and it’s their linebacking corps that’s inexperienced. On the Florida St side the Seminoles will start junior Christian Ponder at quarterback. Ponder hit on over 55% of his passes in 2008 for 2006 yards, 14 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. The Seminoles must replace their top running back from a year ago as Antoine Smith and his 866 rushing yards is out of college eligibility. The Seminoles also must replace their top 2 wide outs from 2008. The projected starters at wide receiver are both smallish standing only 5’ 11” tall. On the defensive side of the ball the Seminoles lost 7 starters. The Seminoles lose 4 defensive linemen including their leading sack man from 2008.
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CFB Trend: Miami Hurricanes are 5-1 ATS in their past 6 meetings in Florida St
The Wagerline consensus has 55.5% of the CFB bettors on Florida St -6
The Wagerline consensus has 55.5% of the CFB bettors playing under 47
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