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Published: October 30, 2009
The winless Eastern Michigan Eagles will travel to face the Arkansas Razorbacks in a college football game in prime time on Saturday night. Kick off time at Arkansas is set for 7PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN U. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the Arkansas Razorbacks opened as a 35-point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the favorite, as the Arkansas Razorbacks are currently a 37-point favorite. The over under is lined at 60 for the college football bettors to play into. College football money line gamblers will find the favored Arkansas Razorbacks at –20000 with the road underdog Eastern Michigan Eagles returning +7500 to pull off the biggest upset of year without the points on their side.
The Arkansas Razorbacks from the SEC conference is a team in need of wins to earn bowl eligibility status. Arkansas is 3-4 on the season with 3 more wins needed to quality for a bowl berth. So the game against Eastern Michigan is important. Arkansas is coming off a 30-17 loss on the road to Ole Miss. The Razorbacks run game was limited to just 45 yards on 22 carries in defeat. But on the defensive side of the ball Arkansas blew up allowing 553 total yards to the Ole Miss Rebels. Razorbacks starting quarterback Ryan Mallet has struggled in his past two games hitting on just 24 of 61 with 2 touchdown passes and no interceptions. Arkansas struggled offensively against some of the best defenses in college football in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. Arkansas senior running back Michael Smith could pad his stats as he currently has a respectable 6.4 yards per carry average. Eastern Michigan will not be much of a challenge in this game. The Eagles are 0-7 this season as they average just 15.7 points per game and give up 33 a game. Their highest profile opponent this season was Michigan and the team fell 45-17 as a 24-point underdog. Eastern Michigan against the best MAC team in Central Michigan was pounded 56-8 as starting quarterback Dan LeFevour passed for 318 yards on only 16 completions. But Eastern Michigan has just been plain awful against the run allowing their opponents 275 rushing yards per game. Eastern Michigan allows their opponents an alarming 6.0 yards per rush attempt against their defense. As a 0-7 team the Eastern Michigan has shuffled quarterbacks. Junior quarterback Kyle McMahon has completed on just 10 of 27 over his past two games.
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CFB Trend: Eastern Michigan Eagles are 2-8 ATS in their past 10 non conference games
The Wagerline consensus has 65.7% of the CFB bettors on Arkansas -37
The Wagerline consensus has 51.7% of the CFB bettors playing over 60
