Florida State is back in the
top ten and they are laying the lumber at home against the Demon Deacons of
Wake Forest. Will the Seminoles cover the heavy point spread in this
conference battle? Let's review the facts.
Wake Forest vs. Florida
State
Florida State is back in the
top ten and they are laying the lumber at home against the Demon Deacons of
Wake Forest. Will the Seminoles cover the online point spread in this
conference battle?
I am going to tell you
straight up that I love what I see when I scope out this week's NCAA football
odds. There are a couple of games that I
like a lot and one of them is the ACC battle between the Florida State Seminoles,
who are ranked number five in the AP poll and number six in the USA Today poll
and the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest.
Wake Forest All Out Beat
North Carolina
In their season opener Wake
Forest barely got by Liberty, 20-17 as 25.5 point favorites, and this is not a
good sign coming into the Florida State game.
Last week Wake Forest
entertained North Carolina and it was a barn burner. The Demon Deacons
quarterback Tanner Price engineered a 93 yard game-winning drive going 6 of 7
through the air for 67 yards before scoring the winning touchdown on a
quarterback sneak.
In that game the online sportsbooks opened with North Carolina as a 6.5 point favorite.
However, bettors pushed the figure up to 10 or 10.5 depending on where you
placed your bet. So, it was a nice win ATS for Jim Grobe's bunch, but it came
with a cost. Their thin defense got banged up quite a bit, with cornerback Kevin Johnson suffering a concussion and nose
guard Nikita Whitlock spraining an ankle.
When you read remarks from
the coach it sounds like he felt as though the team really reached a pinnacle
last Saturday. That's a mixed bag because you don't really want to shoot your
load this early in the season. It would seem as though a let-down is in order,
psychologically and physically, as Wake Forest put it all on the line while
suffering some significant casualties.
Florida State Looking for
Revenge
Florida State is loaded this
year and they are sitting in a prime spot this week. They opened their season
against Murray State. It got ugly early, as you might expect, with the
Seminoles eventually walking away with the 69-3 victory in a game that the odds
makers didn't bother to place on the boards.
They followed that up with a
game against Savannah State last week. The second week opponent for Florida
State was originally slated to be West Virginia so Florida State did not
intentionally start off with two straight gimme games. It turned out that the Mountaineers had to back out when their move
to the Big 12 created a conflict in scheduling.
Last Saturday's game against
Savannah State is going to be talked about for quite a while in online NCAA football betting circles, because it was in fact, on the board with
Florida State laying a rather incredible 67 points. They were ahead 55-0 with
just under 9 minutes left in the third quarter but the game was called due to
bad weather. That is a rare type of bad beat if you did in fact lay the 67 with
Florida State.
Last year Wake Forest beat
Florida State at home in Winston-Salem by a score of 35-30. So, Florida State
is going to have revenge on their minds going into this contest on their home
field at Doak Campbell Stadium.
Free NCAA Football Pick
Wake Forest vs. Florida State
If you check out our free
college football betting lines you'll see that Florida State is a 25.5 point
favorite (as of this writing).
Florida State barely broke a
sweat last week in a rain shortened game against a very poor opponent. Wake
Forest on the other hand gave everything they had to eke out a victory at home
against North Carolina.
Florida State is like a
finely tuned race car that hasn't yet had an opportunity to hit the oval and
they're finally getting a chance on Saturday. For this reason, the Florida State Seminoles are on my pick list and I look forward to a nice
cash on this betting ticket.
Free College Football Pick: Florida State Seminoles -25.5