College football Week 9 spread: Connecticut, Rutgers, South Carolina

The betting preview and point spread for the football games USF vs. Connecticut, West Virginia vs. Rutgers and South Carolina at Tennessee.

College football Week 9 spread: Connecticut, Rutgers, South Carolina The point spread and betting previews of the Week 9 college football games continues with the match-up between the No.11 South Florida (6-1) and Connecticut (6-1). South Florida is coming on the field favorite at Bookmaker with odds on winning the Saturday game at -200 and the hosting Connecticut are listed at +170. The point spread for the South Florida vs. Connecticut game is currently favoring USF -4.5 points and the total is sitting at 46.5 points. Keep in mind that Connecticut is 4-1 against the spread in its last 5 games. The last time these tow college football teams met was in October of last year and South Florida won the game 38-16.

The Bulls are leading on the Huskies only by average points scored - 34 on average by South Florida and 31.4 points by Connecticut. But the Huskies will come out very strong defensively, leading the Big East on points allowed at only 12.7 per game and second overall defense in the Big East allowing 284.4 yards on average. compared to South Florida with 322 total yards. South Florida wide receiver Taurus Johnson is out indefinitely, and NT Richard Clebert and G Matt Huners remain questionable fore Week 9. LB Corey Stringeis out indefinitely from the Connecticut team on suspension. If you like to bet against the bookie, this is a good game to do so.

We move to the Week 9 college football game between West Virginia (6-1) and Rutgers (5-2). Bookmaker has listed the West Virginia Mountaineers as favorite to win the Saturday opener with odds -250 and the hosting Rutgers have the betting odds +210. The point spread on the West Virginia vs. Rutgers is posted at -6 chalk the Mountaineers and the total is at 57 points. West Virginia is 11-4 against the spread in its last 15 games on the road and have won five of the last five games against the Rutgers.

The Mountaineers are leading the Big East in total defense with only 274.1 yards per game and also lead the division by points scored with 42.1 points on average per game. For West Virginia questionable for Week 9 remains LB Archie Sims, but RB Noel Devine have been upgraded to probable. Rutgers quarterback Mike Teel is day-to-day, but DB Ron Girault and RB Kordell Young are still questionable for the Saturday game.

And finally a quick look at the South Carolina (6-2) vs. Tennessee (4-3). At Bookmaker the Tennessee Vols are favorite with betting odds -160 and South Carolina will visit as underdogs with odds +140. The point spread on the South Carolina vs. Tennessee game favors the Volunteers -3 points with total at 53 points. South Carolina is 9-1 against the spread in its last 10 games on the road and 4-0-1 against the spread in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Tennessee. The Vols are 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home.

Published on 10/23/2007