{"id":5725,"date":"2009-09-23T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/ncaa-football-betting-week-4-picks\/"},"modified":"2009-09-23T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T21:25:00","slug":"ncaa-football-betting-week-4-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/ncaa-football-betting-week-4-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Football Betting &#8211; Week 4 Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/\" title=\"Online sports betting\">Online sports betting<\/a> fans know that the football season goes by very quickly. After all, time flies when you are having fun. Set aside the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/football\/nfl\" title=\"NFL betting line\">NFL betting line<\/a> for this week as we focus on some picks for the college card this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Washington<\/span><\/b><\/st1:place><\/st1:State><b><span style='font-weight:bold'> Huskies @ Stanford Cardinal<\/span><\/b> <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Washington Huskies pulled a shocker last week when they were unranked and knocked off the USC Trojans but let&#8217;s take a closer look at that win. For starters, the Huskies were at home. Secondly, the Trojans were without their starting quarterback, Matt Barkley, and without top running back Joe McKnight. On top of that, the Trojans had no confidence in their passing game with Aaron Corp under center and they committed three turnovers.&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Let&#8217;s give <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> some credit for the win. After all, they were winless last year. But even so, the Huskies should not be in the Top 25 right now and they aren&#8217;t going to be a Pac 10 contender. They are good and they have come back to life, but they are overrated at this particular time.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>After that upset win, there is no way that Stanford is going to take them lightly this week. Stanford is further along in their development and they are very familiar with the role that <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is in. They will be aware and they won&#8217;t get upset on their home field. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesportsbetting.org\/\" title=\"Sports Picks\">Sports Picks<\/a>: Stanford<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><span class=SpellE><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>TCU<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/span><b><span style='font-weight:bold'> <span class=GramE>Horned<\/span> Frogs @ Clemson Tigers<\/span><\/b><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The <span class=SpellE>TCU<\/span> Horned Frogs are the last team carrying the Mountain West banner.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It was an ugly week for the conference last week as two of the top teams were <span class=SpellE>pimpslapped<\/span> by unranked opponents, which has left the Horned Frogs as they only team with a real opportunity at the BCS Championship game.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Utah Utes, who had the nation&#8217;s longest winning streak, lost last week in <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Oregon<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> while the <span class=SpellE>BYU<\/span> Cougars were manhandled by <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Florida<\/st1:PlaceName>  <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> at home.&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This week, <span class=SpellE>TCU<\/span> head to Clemson and this is both a winnable and a losable game for them.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><span class=SpellE><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>TCU<\/span><\/font><\/span> is very much capable of winning this game because Clemson is a perennial underachiever and they always struggle in big games. On the other hand, Clemson is good enough to beat <span class=SpellE>TCU<\/span> and the Horned Frogs should be aware that heading to <st1:place>Death  Valley<\/st1:place> is always tricky.&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlineracebook.org\/\" title=\"Racebook Picks\"><span class=SpellE>Racebook<\/span> Picks<\/a>: Clemson<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online sports betting fans know that the football season goes by very quickly. After all, time flies when you are having fun. Set aside the NFL betting line for this week as we focus on some picks for the college card this Saturday. Washington Huskies @ Stanford Cardinal The Washington Huskies pulled a shocker last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/ncaa-football-betting-week-4-picks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NCAA Football Betting &#8211; Week 4 Picks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}