Saturday, February 4th, 2012
The Virginia Tech Hockies will take it to the road to face their in state archrival the Virginia Cavaliers in an ACC conference college football game on Saturday afternoon. Kick off time in Virginia is scheduled for 3:30PM 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 Virginia Tech Hokies opened as a 13-point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the road favorite, as the Virginia Tech Hokies are currently a 16-point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 42 for the bettors to play into. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Virginia Tech Hokies at –800 with the home underdog Virginia Cavaliers bringing back +600 to win without the points on their side.
These two rivals from Virginia in their meeting last season saw the Virginia Tech Hokies pulling out a close 17-14 home victory as a 7 point favorite. The Hokies shut down the Cavaliers passing attack in that game with just 77 yards through the air. Virginia Tech is 8-3 on the season and coming off a 38-10 victory against NC State. The Hokies forced 4 turnovers in victory and allowed just 10 points to a high scoring NC State offense. Virginia Tech junior quarterback Tyrod Taylor is hitting on 56% of his passes with 13 touchdowns and only 3 interceptions. Taylor has avoided the interception, as the signal caller has not throws a pick over his past 4 games. On the ground freshmen running back Ryan Williams is averaging 5.6 yards a carry on the season. Williams has rushed for over 100 yards over his past three games. Virginia Tech is the #3 defense in the ACC allowing just 300 yards per game. The Hokies are playing outstanding defense right now allowing no more than 10 points over their past 3 games. Virginia is having a poor season sitting at 3-8 on the season. The Cavaliers have dropped 5 straight games and are coming off a 34-20 loss last week at Clemson. Virginia struggles for offense averaging just 20 points per game. The team is last in the ACC conference in total offense averaging just 267 yards a game. Senior quarterback Jameel Sewell is hitting on just 53% of his passes with 7 touchdowns and 7 interceptions. Sewell has thrown just 2 touchdown passes against ACC opponents this season. Virginia’s twin backs combine for a 4.8 yards a carry average. Virginia’s offensive line has done a poor play protecting the quarterback as they have allowed 38 sacks this year, which is 12th and last in the ACC conference. Virginia’s defense allows 25 points per game and allows 347 yards a game ranking 7th in the ACC.
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CFB Trend: Virginia Tech Hokies are 4-1 ATS in their past 5 meetings with the Virginia Cavaliers
The Wagerline consensus has 66.9 the CFB bettors on Virginia Tech –16
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