College Football Wagering – TicketCity Bowl Lines

4th January, 2011 - Posted by tang - No Comments

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College football betting results were mixed for the Wildcats as they suffered some key late losses that kept a breakout NCAA football betting season.



The TicketCity Bowl is a NCAA post-season college football bowl game that will be competed beginning on New Year’s Day (January 1), 2011 at the Cotton Bowl in Good Park in Dallas, Texas. This match replaces the Cotton Bowl Classic, which moved from its longtime home to Cowboys Stadium in nearby Arlington in 2010. The conferences are slated to obtain a US $1.2 million payout for the teams’ participation.

College football betting expectations have fallen for the Texas Tech Red Raiders as they tumbled considerably in NCAA football betting esteem lacking coach Mike Leach.

The Cotton Bowl in Dallas, TX will host the TicketCity Bowl between the Northwestern Wildcats and the Texas Tech Red Raiders with a start time on noon on January 1 and a aired on ESPNU. Sports-Gambling opened with TicketCity Bowl prospects of Texas Tech as a 9.5 point fave and with a total of 60.

Northwestern has a record of 7-5 straight up and 3-9 with the NCAA prospects while beating the total 8 times. The Wildcats were just 3-5 in Big Ten play to finish in a 7th place tie. Northwestern lost 5 of their final 7 games and blew Big leads against Purdue, Michigan State, and Penn State to prevent a much better record and bowl berth.

The Wildcats will be missing junior qb Dan Persa in this one as he’s out with an Achilles injury suffered while throwing a successful Touchdown pass against Iowa in the 10th game of the season. Northwestern concluded 92nd in the country for total defense while ranking 74th for scoring offense.

Texas Tech has a record of 7-5 straight up and 5-6-1 with the NCAA football probabilities as they had an even 6-6 divided on over/unders. Coach Tommy Tuberville inherited a talented and experienced roster from the fired Leach but could not take the Raiders to the following level. Defense, the meant strength of Tuberville, was the difficulty as Tech concluded 112th nationally for total defense while ranking sixteenth for total offense.

Taylor Potts passed for 3357 yards and a 31/8 TD/INT proportion with a 66% completion rate. The Red Raiders lacked inspire for a lot of the season and their big decline on defense was particularly disturbing following a strong performance a year ago.

Northwestern has covered just 2 of their past 7 non conference college football betting bouts and just 1 of their last six games versus teams with a successful record. Texas Tech has paid out in just 2 of their past 7 neutral web site games and in just 1 of their previous 5 bowl games.


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