{"id":5852,"date":"2009-09-30T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/betting-line-colorado-west-virginia-spread-pick-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-09-30T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T23:35:00","slug":"betting-line-colorado-west-virginia-spread-pick-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/betting-line-colorado-west-virginia-spread-pick-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Betting Line: Colorado-West Virginia Spread Pick Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:State><st1:place><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span   style='font-size:12.0pt'>Colorado<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> takes on <st1:State><st1:place>West Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> on ESPN. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=69\">college football odds<\/a> has <st1:State><st1:place>West Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> -17.5, though <span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.bodog.com\/welcome\/1861245\/\">Bodog<\/a><\/span> has -17 -115. The total is 54.5 to 55. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:State><st1:place><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span   style='font-size:12.0pt'>Colorado<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is 1-2 straight up and against the spread. <span class=SpellE>WVU<\/span> is 2-1 straight up, both wins at home and 1-1 to the number. Both lined games have gone over. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Buffaloes are horrible on both sides of the ball. On offense they get 3.1 yards per rush against teams normally allowing 4.3 and 5.6 passing yards per attempt to 6.3. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Defensively they allow a scary 4.5 yards per rush against teams normally allowing 4.0 and 9.0 yards per pass to 7.0. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Mountaineers just roll along getting 5.2 yards per rush against teams normally allowing 4.3 and 9.0 yards per pass to 7.8. In yards per play, <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>West Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> gets 7.0 to 5.8. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Defensively they allow just 2.7 yards per rush to teams normally getting 4.3, 6.5 passing yards per attempt to 7.0 and 4.7 yards per play to 5.6. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The revenge factor is here for the Mountaineers. Fresh off a horrible loss to <\/span><\/font><st1:place>East Carolina<\/st1:place>, <span class=SpellE>WVU<\/span> was flat in a 17-14 overtime loss to <st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> last season. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Is this bulletin board material or a sign of how seriously <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>West Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> wants to destroy <st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>? S Roberts Sands said his Mountaineers are &#8220;looking for a goose egg. We&#8217;re going to shut them out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Will the Buffs be focused? Their next team games are at No. 2 Texas and hosting No. 18 Kansas, both conference foes. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It&#8217;s not a short week for either team as both squads are off a bye week. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Against the spread records: <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is 2-11 as road underdogs. <span class=SpellE>WVU<\/span> is 1-5 after getting more than 280 yards passing last game. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Top expert pick on this game: <\/span><\/font><\/b>Simply put Grandmaster <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">sports handicapper<\/a> Joe Duffy is the top football handicapper ever. Get the side selection winner in the contest and every GodsTips plays for Thursday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Packages\">Click now to purchase<\/a> <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/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>Colorado takes on West Virginia on ESPN. The college football odds has West Virginia -17.5, though Bodog has -17 -115. The total is 54.5 to 55. Colorado is 1-2 straight up and against the spread. WVU is 2-1 straight up, both wins at home and 1-1 to the number. Both lined games have gone over. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/betting-line-colorado-west-virginia-spread-pick-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Betting Line: Colorado-West Virginia Spread Pick Preview<\/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-5852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852","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=5852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}