Is the Tulsa Golden Hurricane one of the more safely a improved college football picks to cover the spread this Sunday, Sept. 5th? Tulsa is a unselfish 8 ½ point road fave to put a beat down on East Carolina.
The sports betting line makes sense since the Golden Hurricane will be facing a revamped defense and an East Carolina team with a new coach. Skip Holtz skipped town leaving the Pirates to turn to first year head man Ruff McNeill. Speaking in the third person, McNeill, a graduate of East Carolina in 1980, stated that, “This is not a stepping stone hop for Ruff.” Ruff McNeill feels that coaching East Carolina is a dream job.
Of movement, those feelings won’t help East Carolina against Tulsa.
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Tulsa Golden Hurricane vs. East Carolina Pirates
Where: Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, Greenville, NC
When:September 5th, 2010 at 2:00 pm EST
TV: ESPN 2, ESPN3.com
NCAAF Betting Lines
Tulsa Golden Hurricane-8 ½ -110-330O 59 -110
East Carolina+8 ½ -110+270U 59 -110
According to the trends, East Carolina is one of the superior NCAAF football online picks this Sunday.
- The East Carolina Pirates are 5 and 1 ATS in their mould 6 conference games.
- The East Carolina Pirates are 4 and 1 ATS in their carry on 5 games overall.
- The Tulsa Happy Hurricane is 0-3-1 ATS in its last 4 games on the road.
- The Tulsa Golden Typhoon is 5 and 1 ATS in its last 6 games in September.
So, Ruff believes that coaching East Carolina is a “dream job”? It puissance start out to be but it won’t be this Sunday or even this season.
Good old Skip Holtz has left Ruff with a lot of work to do. Holtz coached the Pirates to two straight 9 win seasons, but this season, Ruff will be lucky to get 5 or 6 victories out this congregation. There’s a reason that the Golden Hurricane is one of the more, shall we say, expressive football handicapping picks to cover this weekend.
Various football handicappers are already stating that Tulsa is the best bet of the undamaged weekend. East Carolina returns only 2 starters from the #1 ranked scoring D in Conference USA in 2009. Neither ditty of those starters played in the front 7 meaning that East Carolina faces Tulsa this week with a brand new, least young, defense.
Tulsa’s offense, which had averaged around 40 points per game and was #1 in the nation preceding 2009, was stymied as a service to most of last season. The offense should be much heartier this season because it returns 9 starters including quarterback and Tulsa leading rusher G.J. Kinne.
East Carolina’s offense compel be using the spread formation to go to the first habits. Although Boston college transfer Dominique Davis takes throughout at quarterback and the Pirates have a bevy of well-versed wide receivers and 3 starters returning on their offensive line, it effectiveness take a few games in front of they at bottom get the spread array offense going.
That should help Tulsa’s somewhat suspect defense in this game. The Golden Hurricane isn’t very singular at stopping a lot of teams from scoring. They might be able to imagine some turnovers on Sunday, though, because Davis and the rest of the Pirates’ offense is inexperienced in the spread.