Friday, May 25th, 2012
The Virginia Cavaliers from the ACC conference will travel way out west to face Pac 10 conference power the USC Trojans in a college football game on late night Saturday night.
The game will kick off from the LA Coliseum at 10:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by FSN Television.
The betting line opened up with the home team USC Trojans opening as 17 ½ point favorites with an over under of 47 ½ points.
The early money from the betting public has come on the side of the home team as the USC Trojans are now favored by 19 ½ points. The total saw movement upward to 50.
Money line bettors laying the chalk with the USC Trojans will find – 1250 odds with the road underdog Virginia Cavaliers returning +800 to pull off the upset victory without the need for taking the points.
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First year head coach Mike London welcomes back 6 starters on offense and 7 to the defense in 2010.
Last season was a poor season for the Cavaliers and Al Groh’s final year with the club resulted in a 3-9 season an the club missed a bowl game for the second straight season.
Senior quarterback Marc Verica is under center for Virginia. In limited action the signal caller hit on only 44.4% of his passes for 156 yards no touchdowns and 1 pick.
In his 2010 debut it was Verica hitting on 24 of 35 for 283 yards a touchdown and no interceptions against FCS Richmond Spiders.
Senior running back Kevin Payne rushed for 114 yards on 16 carries and 4 touchdowns against Richmond last week.
Wide out Kris Burd a junior produced 7 receptions with 122 yards and 1 touchdown last week. Burd led the Cavaliers in 2009 with 31 catches for 413 yards and 1 touchdown.
Defensively the Cavaliers allowed 26 points and 358 yards per game.
Richmond behind former USC quarterback Aaron Corp was able to produce 333 yards as Corp passed for 18 of 32 for 183 yards on Virginia. The Spiders had success on the ground with 144 yards rushing on 30 attempts for a solid 4.8 yards per rush average.
The Lane Kiffin era at USC got underway last week and the team posted a 49-36 victory against Hawaii as a 21 point betting favorite.
These two teams met in 2008 to open the season and the Trojans posted the 52-7 blowout victory with Mark Sanchez at starting quarterback as a 20 ½ point road favorite. The Trojans torched the Cavaliers for 558 yards and allowed only 187.
In the Trojans 49-36 victory against the Warriors it was sophomore quarterback Matt Barkley hitting on 18 of 23 passes for 257 yards 5 touchdowns and no picks.
The Trojans rushed for 246 yards on the Warriors defense. USC will need to clean up their act with penalties as the Trojans were flagged 11 times for 100 yards.
Junior running back Marc Tyler won the starting position over senior Allen Bradford and he produced with 154 yards on the ground on 17 carries and a touchdown last week. Bradford got 8 carries for 54 yards. The big blocking fullback Stan Havili took 1 pass for 49 yards.
Senior wide out Ronald Johnson led the Trojans with 7 catches and produced 59 yards and 3 touchdowns.
It was not a pretty site for the Trojans defense. The team took a turn for the worse in 2009 and the 2010 opener resembled some of the dark days of last season.
A walk on and former pizza delivery man Bryant Moniz was able to hit on 18 of 36 passes for 269 yards and a touchdown on the Trojans secondary.
All in all the Warriors gained 588 total yards on the Trojans with 459 yards coming by way of the pass from 3 Hawaii quarterbacks. The Warriors also converted on 8 of 15 on third down.
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