Thursday, February 9th, 2012
It will be two Pac 10 teams coming off wins in their big rivalry games when the Arizona Wildcats travel to the west coast to face the USC Trojans in a college football game on Saturday afternoon. Kick off time at the LA Coliseum is scheduled for 3:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ABC. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the home team USC Trojans opened as an 8 point favorite with the total coming in at 49 ½ points. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the road underdog Arizona Wildcats, as the USC Trojans are currently a 7-point favorite. The over under has seen early movement towards the over, as the total is currently lined at 51. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored USC Trojans at –300 with the road underdog Arizona Wildcats bringing back +250 to win without the points on their side.
These Pac 10 teams played last year with the USC Trojans defeating the Arizona Wildcats 17-10 as a 14-½ point road favorite. The Trojans were able to rush for 151 yards on the Wildcats in victory. The Trojans are coming off a 28-7 win at home against their cross-town rival the UCLA Bruins. The team benefited from 4 Bruins turnovers and had a +3 turnover margin in victory. Freshman Trojans quarterback Matt Barkley is hitting on 59% his passes with 12 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. It has been a rough campaign for the freshman quarterback. The Trojans have been miserable on third downs as the team converts only 34% of them ranking 8th in the Pac 10. In the Pac 10 conference if you cannot sustain drives you cannot win games against the good teams with so many playmakers in this conference. Junior quarterback Joe McKnight has seen the bulk of the carries this season and he carries a 6.3 yards per rush average. He is coming off his worst rushing performance of the season with just 47 yards on 12 carries against UCLA. USC allows 20 points per game this season and allows a very high 344 yards per game ranking an incredible 6th in the Pac 10. Arizona sits at 7-4 on the season and pretty much assured of a bowl berth this season. They defeated their in state rival the Arizona St Sun Devils last week 20-17. The Wildcats blew a 14-3 fourth quarter lead and rallied to win the game on a field goal as time expired. Sophomore running back Keola Antolin has rushed for a 5.7 yards a carry average this season. He has broken some big runs over his past three games. Sophomore quarterback Nick Foles is hitting on 67% of his passes with 17 touchdowns and 7 interceptions. He did not have a passing touchdown last week against the top defense in the Pac 10 last week. It was the signal callers’ first game without a touchdown pass and only hit on 55% of his passes. On the defensive side the Wildcats allow 23.7 points per game and 318 yards per game ranking 2nd in the league.
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CFB Trend: Arizona Wildcats are 1-4 ATS on the road this season
The Wagerline consensus has 56.1% of the CFB bettors on USC –7
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