Thursday, February 9th, 2012
The East Carolina Pirates will look to qualify for bowl eligibility when they square off with the Tulsa Golden Hurricane in a Conference USA college football game on Sunday night in prime time. Kick off time at Tulsa is scheduled for 8:15PM 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 Tulsa Golden Hurricane were opened as a 7 point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the road underdog East Carolina Pirates, as the Tulsa Golden Hurricane is currently a 4-½ point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 51 for the betting public to play into. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Tulsa Golden Hurricane at –190 with the road underdog East Carolina Pirates bringing back +270 to win without the points on their side.
Tulsa is 4-5 on the season and must win two of their next three games to become bowl eligible. The team lost a heartbreaker last week to the Houston Cougars as the Golden Hurricane could not recover an onside kick that led to a late Houston field goal that resulted in a 46-45 defeat. Tulsa is losers of 4 straight games. The team allows 383 yards on defense this season and ranks 5th in Conference USA. Tulsa is breaking in a new quarterback this season and sophomore quarterback G.J. Kinne is hitting on 60% of his passes with 15 touchdowns and 6 interceptions on the season. Kinne has been inconsistent on the season but is coming off a 19 of 25 passing performance against the Cougars with 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions. But this is a different Tulsa team, as we don’t see as many passes with Kinne under center. Tulsa runs 58% of the time this season. Leading ball carrier Jamad Williams is the leading running back this season with 77 rushes for 3.9 yards a carry average. Kinne has run 101 times this season with a 2.8 yards a carry average. East Carolina is #2 in total defense in Conference USA giving up just 360 yards per game and just 5.3 yards per play against average. East Carolina is fourth against the run in conference as the team allows 3.69 yards per rush attempt. East Carolina has a senior quarterback and Patrick Pinkney has hit on 56% of his passes this season with 8 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He is coming off a 48% passing performance last week home to Virginia Tech in victory. East Carolina has played the tougher schedule this season with games against Virginia Tech, West Virginia and North Carolina this season that all resulted in defeats. Senior running back Dominique Lindsay has 112 carries on the season with 5.7 yards per carry average this season.
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CFB Trend: Tulsa Golden Hurricane is 7-1 to the under this season
The Wagerline consensus has 57.6% of the CFB bettors on Tulsa –4 1/2
The Wagerline consensus has 65.8% of the CFB bettors playing over 51
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