Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
The Colorado Buffaloes will hit the west coast for a college football game with the California Golden Bears on Saturday afternoon.
This game will kick off at 3:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided nationally by FSN Television.
The point spread opened up in this game with California a 4 point favorite with the over under coming in at 50 ½ points.
The early money from the college football bettors has come on the side of the favorite as the California Golden Bears are now favored by 9 ½ points. The total saw movement over to a current over under of 51 points.
Money line bettors on the side of the favored California Golden Bears will lay -355 odds with the road underdog Colorado Buffaloes bringing back +295 odds to pull off the upset victory without the aid of taking the points.
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Dan Hawkins had a much needed victory over arch rival Colorado St last week with the 24-3 win as an 11 ½ point favorite. The coach is on the hot seat following a 3-9 record in 2009 as the team missed a bowl game for the second straight season.
Junior quarterback Tyler Hanson produced a solid performance against the Rams with 17 of 25 passing for two touchdowns and 1 pick last week. He earned the starting job last season over the coaches son Cody Hawkins who was ineffective.
Junior running back Rodney Stewart produced 67 yards on the ground on 16 carries. Senior wide out Scotty McKnight led the Buffaloes last week with 6 catches for 78 yards and a touchdown.
Colorado still will need to clean up the penalties as the team was flagged last week 10 times for 104 yards.
Defensively it was an outstanding performance for the Buffaloes as they held Colorado St to just 245 yards and only 1 of 12 on third downs. Colorado’s run defense was solid allowing the Rams just 2.0 yards per carry last week.
California head coach Jeff Tedford enters his ninth year with the program and he will have 9 starters back on offense and 7 to the defense. The team finished last season with an 8-5 record but lost 37-27 to Utah as a 3 point favorite in their bowl game.
Starting quarterback Kevin Riley returns for his senior season. The signal caller hit on just 54.7% of his passes for 2850 yards 18 touchdowns and 8 picks. He has battled accuracy issues throughout his entire college career.
Cal opened up the season with the 52-3 victory against FCS school UC Davis.
Riley hit on 14 of 20 passing for 258 yards and three touchdowns against a weak opponent.
The team returns junior running back Shane Vereen to the backfield. Vereen produced 1000 yards on 183 carries and 12 touchdowns. Vereen will most likely see more carries with Jahvid Best now a Detroit Lion. Last week he produced 67 yards on 14 carries and two touchdowns. Sophomore running back Isi Sofele saw 9 carries for 52 yards as the backup.
Junior wide out Marvin Jones is back in 2010 and led the team in pass receptions last season with 43 catches with a 15.1 yards per catch average and 6 touchdowns.
Defensively Call allowed 26 points and 378 yards per game to their opponents in 2009. They held UC Davis last week to only 81 yards and 3 of 14 on third down with only 4 first downs all game.
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