subject: College Football Week 1: Arizona vs Toledo Odds - Friday 8:05pm EST on ESPN [print this page] The first full weekend of college football continues with a Friday night ESPN game as the Toledo Rockets host the Arizona Wildcats with kick-off set for 8:05pm EST. Online sportsbooks have opened with Arizona as a 16.5-point favorite in week 1 college football picks with an over/under total of 60. Gamblers may recall last year when Toledo scored a huge Friday night upset win on ESPN at home over Colorado so the Rockets will have that experience to draw on for this opener. Arizona is coming off their second consecutive 8-5 season in college football betting odds as they ended last year on a bad note with a 33-0 blowout loss in the Holiday Bowl to Nebraska.
The defense is a big question mark for this year as just 4 starters return and coordinator Mark Stoops does not as he took the DC job at Florida State. The offense will need to carry the Wildcats in Mike Stoops 7th season as the head coach and does have potential with 8 starters back led in 2010 college football odds by junior QB Nick Foles, who passed for 2,486 yards and a 19/9 TD/INT ratio last year. The unit should improve on its 27 PPG average of last year. Arizona has covered just 1 out of 6 games as road favorite since 2008 and has gone just 3-8 against the spread in non conference college football predictions since 2006.
Toledo enters the 2nd season of the Tim Beckman regime after improving to 5-7 last year, which was their 4th consecutive losing season. The Rockets showed marked improvement on offense going from 22 to 30 PPG in Beckman's first season but will have a new QB in sophomore Austin Dantin. Sophomore Eric Page returns after a phenomenal freshman season in which he had 1159 yards receiving with 7 TD's. The defense returns 6 starters and needs huge improvement from the 37 PPG allowed last year. Toledo has been a dangerous home underdog in college football picks with 10 payouts in their last 13 games in that role.
College Football Week 1: Arizona vs Toledo Odds - Friday 8:05pm EST on ESPN
