Friday, May 25th, 2012
The Oregon St Beavers will travel to the new Cowboys Stadium for a neutral field college football game with the TCU Horned Frogs on Saturday night in prime time.
They kick off this game from Arlington Texas at 7:45PM Eastern Time with live national television provided by ESPN TV.
The LVSC college football odds makers have set the betting line in this game and it was the TCU Horned Frogs opening up as 11 point favorites with an over under of 50.
The early money from the college football betting public has come on the side of the team from the Mountain West as the TCU Horned Frogs are currently 13 point favorites. The total saw movement upward to 50 ½.
Money line bettors playing the favored TCU Horned Frogs will return -550 odds with the road underdog team from the Pac 10 Oregon St Beavers bringing back +425 to pull off the upset victory with no need for getting points on their side.
Oregon St will return 9 starters to their offense and 8 to their defense in 2010.
The team finished off the 2009 season at 8-5 and lost 44-20 in the Las Vegas Bowl to BYU as a three point favorite.
With 2009 starting quarterback Sean Canfield competing for an NFL job in 2010 the Beavers will start sophomore quarterback Ryan Katz. This will be a huge test against a stout defense for the Beavers signal caller who completed 14 of 27 passes a season ago for 232 yards a touchdown and no picks in limited action.
Fortunately for the Beavers they have their running backs returning in 2010. Junior Jacquizz Rodgers rushed for 1502 yards in 2009 with 21 touchdowns and a very good 5.3 yards per rush average. His brother James Rodgers on 58 carries contributed with a 5.2 yards a carry average with 1 touchdown.
James Rodgers is back and was the teams leading receiver in 2009 with 91 catches for 1034 yards and 9 touchdowns.
Oregon St averaged 32 points and 411 offensive yards in 2009 and gave up 25 points and 349 yards.
Oregon St usually starts a bit slow as they began the past two seasons with a 2-2 record and that was behind an experienced starting quarterback. They almost started 1-3 in 2009 as they were life and death and benefited from a questionable call in a crucial moment of their 23-21 victory at hapless UNLV.
Oregon St goes from a QB that completed nearly 68% to one who could hit on only 52% last season.
TCU will be playing this game in their home state of Texas and in Arlington which is very close to their campus so the crowd will be in heavy support of the Horned Frogs.
The club returns 9 players on offense and 7 on the defensive side of the ball. TCU finished 2009 with a 12-1 record and fell in their bowl game 17-10 as a 7 point favorite to Boise St.
Senior quarterback Andrew Dalton returns to the team in 2010. He completed 61.6% of his passes last year with 23 touchdowns and 8 interceptions. Dalton led the team to an undefeated regular season but had his usual meltdown in a big spot in the teams bowl loss to Boise St.
It was running back by committee for TCU in 2009 as 4 ball carries had over 100 carries and three of them return in 2010. Matthew Tucker a sophomore had 105 carries with 8 touchdowns and a very good 6.4 yards per carry average. Ed Wesley is back following a 2009 season with 101 rushes and 6.3 yards a carry. Quarterback Dalton had 116 rushes for 610 yards last season.
Dalton will have familiar receivers to throw too as the Horned Frogs return all 4 of their top pass catchers in 2010. Senior Jimmy Young 33 catches with a 15.7 yards per reception average and 3 touchdowns.
TCU averaged 38 points and 455 offensive yards in the 2009 season. The Horned Frogs were a fierce defense allowing just 13 points per game and only 240 total yards. TCU played two BCS conference clubs in 2009 and won at Virginia 30-14 and at Clemson 14-10.
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