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Published: September 12, 2009
The Syracuse Orange from the Big East Conference will make a trip to Happy Valley to face Joe Paterno’s Penn St Nittany Lions. Kickoff time at Penn St is scheduled for 12PM Pacific Time with national television coverage provided by the Big 10 Network. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening line in this contest and the home team Penn St Nittany Lions were opened as 28 ½ point favorites. The early money from the sports betting public has come in on the favorite, as the Penn St Nittany Lions are currently a 29-point favorite. The current over under in this game is lined at 51 ½ for the sports bettors to play into. College football money line bettors can make a play on the favored Penn St Nittany Lions at –5500 with the heavy underdog Syracuse Orange returning a whopping +2750 to win straight up without the point spread factoring in the outcome of the sports bet.
Penn St is ranked #7 nationally and is coming off a 31-7 victory over Akron from the Mid American Conference. Penn St was outstanding defensively limiting the Zips to just 28 yards rushing. Penn St returns senior quarterback Daryll Clark from the Rose Bowl team a year ago. Clark completed 29 passes in 40 attempts for 353 yards three touchdowns and 1 interception a week ago. Junior running back Evan Royster rushed for 61 yards in just 14 attempts. Royster rushed for over 1200 yards for Penn St a year ago. Penn St lost three of Darryl Clark’s top wide outs this year and it was a good showing for the young corps in week 1. On the Syracuse side the Orange is coming off a 23-20 overtime loss to Minnesota last week. Former Duke University basketball guard Greg Paulus is the starting quarterback for the Orange and had a crucial interception in overtime that cost the Orange the game last week. Paulus completed 19 of 31 passes for 167 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception last week. After falling behind 14-3 the Orange made a strong run to close out the first half up 20-14. Syracuse will need to do a better job of running the football as the team only averaged 2.6 yards per carry in 34 rushing attempts against the Gophers a week ago. Head coach Joe Paterno has lost 13 starters from his Big 10 champion team a season ago.
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CFB Trend: Penn St Nittany Lions are 9-3 ATS in their past 12 non-conference games
The Wagerline consensus has 53.6% of the CFB bettors on Syracuse +29
The Wagerline consensus has 64.0% of the CFB bettors playing under 51 1/2
