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Published: September 19, 2009
The Louisville Cardinals will pay a visit to their in state rival as they face the Kentucky Wildcats for a college football contest on Saturday afternoon. Kick off time in Kentucky is set for 12PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN U. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening line in this game and the Kentucky Wildcats opened as 12-point favorites. The early money came in on the favored Wildcats, as they are currently a 13-½ point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 47 ½ for the college football betting public. College football money line bettors can make a money line bet on the favored Kentucky Wildcats at –550 with the underdog Louisville Cardinals returning +425 to win straight up with out the point spread factoring in the outcome of the sports bet.
The Kentucky Wildcats opened the season with a 42-0 win at Miami Ohio of the MAC Conference. The team will start junior quarterback Mike Hartline. Hartline was 18 of 27 for 222 yards two touchdowns and no interceptions in the opener. The Kentucky Wildcats are replacing 6 starters on defense. Kentucky has won two consecutive games against Louisville. In last years game the Wildcats pounded the Louisville Cardinals 27-2. Louisville is coming off a very disappointing season finishing with a 5-7 record and losing 5 straight games to close the 2008 season. The Louisville Cardinals will start rookie Justin Burke at quarterback who went 17 of 31 for 223 yards no touchdowns and 2 picks in their 30-10 victory over Indiana St. Sophomore running back Victor Anderson returns to the club and had an outstanding year in 2008 rushing for 5.7 yards per carry. Justin Burke will have experience at wide receiver as their top pass catching receiver Doug Beaumont returns for Louisville. Louisville lost 5 contributors to their secondary this year. Louisville head coach Steve Kragthorpe is on the hot seat as he is just 11-13 as head coach. In two seasons Kragthorpe has failed to lead the Cardinals to a bowl game since replacing Bobby Petrino who led the Cardinals to four bowl games under his four-year tenure with the team.
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CFB Trend: The Under is 4-1 in their past 5 meetings.
The Wagerline consensus has 50.7% of the CFB bettors on Kentucky -13 1/2
The Wagerline consensus has 68.2% of the CFB bettors playing over 47 1/2
