Thursday, May 24th, 2012
It’s the big one on Saturday Night as the USC Trojans travels to Columbus Ohio to face the Ohio St Buckeyes in a highly anticipated college football contest on Saturday Night. Game time is schedule at Ohio St at 8PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN Television. The Las Vegas Sports Consultants opened the line in this college football game and the USC Trojans opened as 4 ½ point favorites. The college football betting public has come early on the favored USC Trojans, as they are currently 7-point favorites. College football bettors can make a play on the total as it’s currently lined at 45. College football money line players can play the favored USC Trojans at –270 with the underdog Ohio St Buckeyes returning +230 to win straight up without the aid of getting points.
The Trojans enter Columbus off an impressive 56-3 victory over San Jose St where their defense allowed just 9 rushing yards. In comparison Navy rushed for 186 yards against Ohio St last week in the Buckeyes 31-27 victory. Freshman quarterback Matt Barkley makes his road debut for the Trojans in a huge spot. Matt Barkley in his Trojan debut went 15-19 for 233 yards a touchdown and no interceptions. Barkely has the fortunes of an outstanding Trojans rushing offense and an offensive line with 4 seniors in the lineup. Barkley has a strong arm and can hit big plays on the Buckeyes secondary, as Ohio St was victim to two touchdowns passes to Navy in week 1. Terrelle Pryor is under center for the Buckeyes and is a dual threat quarterback. The issues in this game are that Pryor has lost many of his offensive weapons in 2009. In the opener against Navy Pryor showed better passing skills hitting on 14-21 for 174 yards a touchdown and an interception. He attempted 6 rushes for 30 yards last week.
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CFB Trend: USC Trojans are 8-1 ATS in their past 9 non conference games
The Wagerline consensus has 66.1% of the CFB bettors on USC -7
The Wagerline consensus has 64.4% of the CFB bettors playing over 45
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