Friday, May 25th, 2012
The Nevada Wolf Pack will travel in WAC conference play when they meet the San Jose St Spartans in a college football game on Sunday night in prime time. Kick off time in San Jose is scheduled for 8:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening line in this game and the Nevada Wolf Pack opened as a 14-point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has been San Jose St Spartans money, as the Nevada Wolf Pack are currently a 13 ½ point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 62 for the college football bettors to play into. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Nevada Wolf Pack at –550 with the home underdog San Jose Spartans returning +550 to pull off the upset victory without the points.
In their meeting during the 2008 season it was Nevada pulling away with a 41-17 win over San Jose as a 15-½ point favorite. Nevada ran wild on San Jose with 333 yards rushing in the game and they totaled 525 yards for the game on the Spartans defense. San Jose couldn’t run a lick on the Wolf Pack as they were limited to just –23 yards on the ground. After dropping the first three games of the season the Nevada Wolf Pack are winners of 5 straight game and are just 1 win away from becoming bowl eligible. The team is coming off a 31-21 win last week at home to the Hawaii Warriors. The team has seen a huge burst in their running offense as the team has averaged over 300 yards rushing during their winning streak. It’s also worth noting, as the schedule has gotten much easier with the Wolf Pack facing WAC defenses, their offensive production has skyrocketed. In their lone road game in conference, Nevada pulled out a 35-32 win at Utah State as an 8-point favorite. Colin Kaepernick has hit on 61.3% of his passes with 13 touchdowns and just 5 interceptions. Kaepernick has thrown just 1 interception over his past 6 games with 12 touchdown passes. Kaepernick is a threat to run the football as the junior quarterback has rushed for 805 yards on 100 carries this season for 8.1 yards per carry average. Their running backs produce yardage as Vai Taua averages 6.9 yards a carry and Luke Lippincott 6.6 this season. Nevada on defense gives up major points as their opponents average 30.1 yards per game. They are 8th in the WAC in total defense allowing 423 yards per game and 6.4 yards per play against average. San Jose St is in the midst of a very miserable season and is sitting at 1-6 this season. The team is bad on both sides of the football as they are last in the WAC in total defense and 8th in conference in total offense. The Spartans average only 15 points per game this season and can’t run a lick with just 80 yards rushing a contest. San Jose St has not beaten a division 1 football program this season with their only win coming against Cal Poly SLO 19-9. They had some close losses in their past two home games losing just 29-25 to Idaho and 24-14 home to Utah on September 12th. Junior quarterback Jordan La Seda has hit on 61% of his passes this season with 8 touchdowns and 6 interceptions.
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CFB Trend: Nevada Wolf Pack are 6-1 ATS in their past 7 meetings with San Jose Spartans
The Wagerline consensus has 70.6% of the CFB bettors on Nevada –13 1/2
The Wagerline consensus has 56.5% of the CFB bettors playing over 62
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