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Published: November 26, 2009
The Utah Utes will travel to Provo to face their archrival the BYU Cougars in a college football game on Saturday afternoon. Kick off time at BYU is scheduled for 5PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by CBS College Sports. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the BYU Cougars opened as a 7-½ point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the road team Utah Utes, as the BYU Cougars are currently a 7-point favorite. The over under is currently set at 52 ½ points for the college football bettors to play into. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored BYU Cougars at –315 with the road underdog Utah Utes bringing back +265 to win this game without the points on their side.
When these two Mountain West conference foes met last season it was the Utah Utes routing the BYU Cougars 48-24 as a 6 ½ point home favorite. Utah was able to pass for over 300 yards in the game and benefited from 6 BYU turnovers with 0 on the side of the Utes. Utah is 9-2 on the season and in line for a bowl game. The team is coming off a 38-7 win at home against San Diego St. Utah has lost twice this season against the two high profile road opponents losing 31-24 at Oregon and was thoroughly pounded by TCU 55-28. Utah has a freshman under center as Jordan Wynn is hitting on just 56% of his passes with 5 touchdowns and 3 interceptions. Wynn has been no better than 50% passing over his past two games. Junior running back Eddie Wide is the Utes leading rusher sporting a 5.7 yards a carry average in 161 rushing attempts this season. Defensively the Utes allow 19 points a game and rank 3rd in the Mountain West in total defense allowing 318 yards per game. Utah will need to be sharp against the pass and the team sits 3rd in passing defense in the Mountain West allowing 176 yards through the air per game. BYU is 9-2 this season and coming off a 38-21 home victory to Air Force a week ago. The team has won three straight games. Their two losses this season came at home to Florida St and a 38-7 thumping by TCU. Senior quarterback Max Hall has hit on 70% of his passes this season with 28 touchdowns and 14 interceptions on the season. Hall has been bitten by the interception this season with 5 games with multiple picks on the season. Junior running back Harvey Unga is the leading rusher for the Cougars and he averages 5.6 yards a carry on the year with 9 touchdowns. The Cougars give up an average of 21 points a game to their opponents. BYU is fourth in the Mountain West in total defense allowing 334 yards per game and 5.1 yards a carry this season.
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CFB Trend: Utah Utes are 4-1 ATS in their past 5 games with the BYU Cougars
The Wagerline consensus has 55.3% of the CFB bettors on BYU –7
