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Published: November 1, 2009
The Marshall Thundering Herd will travel south in Conference USA action when they take on the Central Florida Knights in a college football game in prime time on Sunday night. Kick off time at Central Florida is scheduled for 8PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the home team Central Florida Knights opened as a 3 point betting favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the favorite, as the Central Florida Knights are currently a 7-point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 43 for the college football bettors to play into. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Central Florida Knights at –275 with the road underdog Marshall Thundering Herd returning +235 to pull off the upset victory without the points spread a factor in the wager.
The teams met last season in Conference USA action with Central Florida winning 30-14 on the road. Marshall was very sloppy with the football committing 4 turnovers in defeat. Central Florida is 4-3 on the season with 2 losses already in Conference USA action. The team is coming off a 49-7 victory at Rice last week. The Knights two losses in Conference USA were both on the road at Southern Mississippi and East Carolina. Central Florida is led by a senior quarterback Brett Hodges who hits on 58% of is passes with only 8 touchdown passes and 7 interceptions. On the ground they are led by running back Brynn Harvey who has carried the football 152 times for a 4.2 yards per carry average. UCF is third in Conference USA on defense allowing 335 yards per game and 4.8 yards per play against average. The Marshall Thundering Herd is 5-3 this season and is coming off a 27-7 win at home to UAB. The team is 3-1 in Conference USA action with its lone loss coming to East Carolina. Marshall has posted two road wins in conference this season winning at Tulane and at Memphis. They battled West Virginia two weeks ago on the highway very tough losing 24-7. The Thundering Herd is led by junior quarterback Brian Anderson who completes just under 60% of his passes for 7 touchdowns and 7 interceptions. Anderson is coming off a good performance against UAB last week hitting on 25 of 38 for 315 yards two touchdowns with no interceptions. On the ground for Marshall junior running back Darius Marshall gets it done as he has carried the ball 168 times this season with 10 touchdowns and an impressive 5.7 yards per carry average. The running back faces a huge test as UCF only allows 2.56 yards per rush this season ranking 6th in all of college football. On the defensive side Marshall is 5th in Conference USA allowing 386 yards per game and a 5.8 yards per play against average.
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CFB Trend: Central Florida Knights are 5-0 ATS in their past 5 games with the Marshall Thundering Herd
The Wagerline consensus has 66.9% of the CFB bettors on Central Florida –7
The Wagerline consensus has 63.4% of the CFB bettors playing over 43
