RideTheHotHand College Football Free Betting Pick Rice VS Stanford

RideTheHotHand College Football Free Betting Pick Rice VS Stanford

ALLIANZ STADIUM – SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Stanford -31 O/U 51

Football junkies and bettors alike are extremely excited to get this season going. Well wait no more. College Football is kicking off early this season with 4 games slated for August 26th. One of those games will see Stanford and Rice fly 8,000+ miles to open their 2017 seasons in Sydney, Australia. Stanford got off to a rocky start in 2016 going 4-3 in their first seven before rattling off 6 straight victories to finish 10-3, including a Sun Bowl win over North Carolina. The 2017 team will be without their best offensive of player from a year ago, running back Christian Mccaffrey and defensive end Solomon Thomas both picked in the top 8 of the NFL draft. The Rice Owls 2016 season was a disaster as the Owls went 1-7 to start the season on the way to 3-9 finish.

Stanford not only lost 2 players in the first 8 picks of the 2017 NFL draft, their starting quarterback Keller Chryst tore the ACL in his right knee in that Sun Bowl win over North Carolina. He didn’t have surgery to repair it until February. That means he is going to start a college football game a mere 6 months after repairing his knee and only a few weeks after being medically cleared to practice. That means Junior RB Bryce Love who only has 100 career carries will be thrown into fire early and often. Rice wasn’t very good last season with that 3-9 record but they return 9 defensive starters from a defense that wasn’t a complete disaster. Rice only lost one game last season by more than 31 points (a 45 point loss to Louisiana Tech) They played #21 ranked Baylor on the road last September and lost by only 17 and they played a much better Stanford team than this one in the last game of the season on the road and only lost 41-17. Look for Keller Chryst to be rusty at best, Rice to be ready for the Cardinal running game and put up 17-21 points of their own to cover the 31 point spread. THE PICK – RICE +31

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