Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
The Arizona Wildcats will hit the highway to face the Iowa Hawkeyes in a Pac 10 versus Big 10 non-conference football game Saturday afternoon. Kick off time in Iowa is set for 3:30PM Eastern Time with regional coverage provided by ABC Television. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread and the Iowa Hawkeyes opened as 4-point favorites. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the Iowa Hawkeyes as they are currently a 6-point favorite. The over under is currently available at 41 for the sports betting public. College football money line players can make a play on the favored Iowa Hawkeyes at –180 with the underdog Arizona Wildcats bringing back +160 to win without the need of getting points.
The Arizona Wildcats have displayed a pretty good running game to open the season. The team sits at 2-0 on the year and has been led on the ground by running back Nic Grigsby who has gained 325 yards on 28 carries for 8.6 yards per carry average. First year starting quarterback sophomore Matt Scott gets the start in his first ever road start. Scott has been hitting on 66% of his passes with a touchdown and an interception. Defensively the Arizona Wildcats contained NFL quarterback prospect Dan LeFevour in week 1 who completed only 58% of his passes for 108 yards no touchdowns and an interception. His longest play from scrimmage was only 16 yards in that game so Arizona’s defense must be respected in this game. The Iowa Hawkeyes enter this game with Arizona with a 2-0 record and is coming off a 35-3 victory over in state rival the Iowa St Cyclones. Quarterback Ricky Stanzi has hit on 58% of his passes with 5 touchdowns and 2 interceptions on the season. Up next for Iowa is a huge Big 10 Conference test against Penn St in Happy Valley and ABC will televise the game in prime time. Iowa is an average running team averaging just 4.2 yards per carry. Iowa will be challenged here for offense as the Wildcats have allowed an averaged of just 70 yards rushing and 133 passing.
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CFB Trend: Arizona is 1-4 ATS in their past 5 road games
The Wagerline consensus has 58.6% of the CFB bettors on Iowa -6
The Wagerline consensus has 56.6% of the CFB bettors playing over 41
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