Friday, May 25th, 2012
The Fresno St Bulldogs behind their power running game will travel in WAC conference play when they face the Idaho Vandals in a college football game in a late night Saturday night college football game. Kick off time in Idaho is scheduled for 10:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPNU. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the road team Fresno St Bulldogs opened as a 7 ½ point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the road favorite, as the Fresno St Bulldogs are currently an 8-point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 67 ½ for the betting public to play into. College football money line bettors can make a play on the favored Fresno St Bulldogs at –310 with the home underdog Idaho Vandals returning +260 to win straight up without the points.
When these teams met in the 2008 season at Fresno it was Fresno St winning 45-32. Both teams moved the ball effectively on offense with Idaho netting 452 offensive yards and Fresno St 443. The Fresno St Bulldogs was able to compile 318 rushing yards in that game and the 2009 version of the Bulldogs football team is a solid running team. Fresno St is the number two rushing offense in the WAC conference averaging 259 yards per game and an outstanding 6.0 yards per rush this season. Junior running back Ryan Matthews is putting up great numbers with 179 carries for 1316 yards for 7.4 yards per carry average. Fresno St is 5-3 this season and in search of 1 more victory to become bowl eligible. The team is sitting on a 4 game winning streak and coming off a 31-27 home win against Utah St as a 17 point favorite. Fresno St had a poor defensive game in victory as the Utah St Aggies compiled 503 yards on the Bulldogs last week. Junior quarterback Ryan Colburn is hitting on 59% of his passes this season with 12 touchdowns and 9 interceptions. Colburn has only passed for 1 touchdown pass over the past 2 weeks. Idaho hosts their second nationally televised game and defeated Colorado St 31-29 back on October 3rd. Idaho enjoyed home court advantage with a loud crowd in that game. The Vandals are bowl eligible with a 7-2 record and some have them penciled for the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise Idaho. The Vandals are coming off a 35-34 come from behind victory last week home to Louisiana Tech. The team has a potent offense led by junior quarterback Nathan Enderle who has hit on 62% of his passes with 15 touchdowns and 9 interceptions. Enderle has passed for well over 300 yards and 6 touchdowns over his past 2 games. Idaho’s three backs have shared 148 carries for nearly 5 ½ yards a carry. Idaho’s rush defense will be tested by Fresno St’s stud running back Ryan Matthews and the Vandals allow 153 rushing yards per game and 4.66 per carry ranking 3rd in the WAC. Idaho averages 31.9 points per game this season but allows 31.1 to their opponents.
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CFB Trend: Idaho Vandals are 5-1 to the Over in their past 6 games.
The Wagerline consensus has 61.6% of the CFB bettors on Fresno St –8
The Wagerline consensus has 62.0% of the CFB bettors playing under 67 1/2
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