Georgia Tech vs. Kansas Betting Pick & Odds: September 11th 2010

A little ACC/Big 12 battle takes center stage from Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, KS when the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Kansas Jayhawks meet up for only the second time on the gridiron.

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets vs. Kansas Jayhawks
Game Date/Time: Saturday, September 11th, 12:00 ET
Game Location: Memorial Stadium, Lawrence, KS
TV/Radio Broadcast: FSN, SIRIUS, XM

NCAA Football Odds: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (-14) -110 vs. Kansas Jayhawks (+14) -110: Over/Under 49.5

If you bet on football lines for this match-up when the game of the year lines were up, you would have been able to get you some of the Ramblin’ Wreck at (-7). Now, with Kansas shockingly losing 6-3 at home to North Dakota State and GTECH beating South Carolina State by 31 at home, you have to lay double that – my what a difference a week makes!

Before we get too far ahead of ourselves and blindly lay the two tuddies with GTECH, let’s break this one down a little more.

Though the Yellow Jackets picked up the 41-10 victory, they failed to cover the lofty 34-point spread. Yes, the offense looked to be in fine form with QB Josh Nesbitt leading the way with 130 yards and three TDs on the ground, but he completed just 1-of-6 passes for a grand total of eight yards.

Now, GTECH is a run first team, but you need to have some sort of run/pass balance with your attack to be successful; especially on the road.

On the other side of the ball, head coach Paul Johnson’s team only allowed 272 total yards. However most surprising was the fact that 178 of those yards came on the ground. They only forced one turnover and failed to pick up a sack throughout the game’s entirety.

The coaching debut for Turner Gill certainly left Jayhawk Nation worried about what’s to come. That said; growing pains are to be expected whenever a new regime takes over, but unfortunately, KU looked terrible in many facets of the game last Saturday.

They had numerous chances to take the lead and put away the Bison, but their gritty opponent forced turnovers when it mattered most. Overall, KU turned the pigskin over three times with a backbreaker occurring in NDST’s own end zone on a poorly forced pass by QB Kale Pick.

The Jayhawks were tough to watch offensively, but the stop unit certainly showed the potential for allowing less than the 28+ PPG it allowed the L/2 seasons. It surrendered just 168 yards overall, with just 73 of them coming on the ground.

NCAA Football Insider Tip: Normally you find the most improvement being made from Week 1 to Week 2 in college football. With there being no preseason games to work out the kinks and get acclimated, the kids play more confidently knowing exactly what to expect the second time around.

While I disapproved of the way former coach Mark Mangino was shown the door in Lawrence, I couldn’t have been more pleased with the hiring of Turner Gill. He owns a proven track record having coached the Buffalo Bulls to the MAC Title and first ever Bowl game in 2008, and he will no doubt keep KU’s recent football program success going.

While GTECH is 8-3 SU & 9-2 ATS its L/11 road games, I think JQP is asking a bit too much of them in their first road game of the season – oddsmakers probably had it right with the opener at (-7).

Gill will most definitely play ball control in this spot and try to shorten the game as much as possible. With that being the case, a bet on football correlated parlay of the Jayhawks and the under looks to be the way to go.

My NCAA Football Predictions: Kansas Jayhawks (+14) -110 / Under 49.5