Florida State imposes will on Wolfpack to secure dominant sports betting road cover

A huge sports betting ACC tussle will be served up on ESPN Thursday night when the Florida State Seminoles and NC State Wolfpack look to settle a score that could make a cloudy ACC Atlantic Division all the more clearer.

Florida State Seminoles vs. North Carolina State Wolfpack

Game Date/Time: Thursday, October 28th, 7:30 ET
Game Location: Carter-Finley Stadium, Raleigh, NC
TV/Radio Broadcast: ESPN, ESPN3, Sirius, XM

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NCAA Football Odds

Florida State Seminoles (-3.5) -110
NC State Wolfpack (+3.5) -110
Over/Under 59

With only a divisional win under its belt against what’s proven to be a woeful Boston College Eagles outfit, Thursday night’s home battle with the Seminoles doesn’t get any bigger for head coach Tom O’Brien’s Wolfpack.

With a tough home loss to VTECH already in the books and coming off a debilitating OT loss on the road to the East Carolina Pirates, you can bet your bottom dollar the Wolfpack have worked very hard throughout their bye to rectify what’s plagued them of late. That said; it still might not be enough for this young squad to get over the hump against what looks to be a Seminoles outfit bound for the ACC Championship Game.

Since getting steamrolled in Norman by the Oklahoma Sooners, head coach Jimbo Fisher’s Noles have run roughshod over four of their L/5 opponents with only a poor outing to show the week heading into their bye at home against Boston College.

What’s really turned FSU’s sports betting fortunes around since the late stages of the Bowden and Andrews era has been the excelled play of the defense. Once again, Florida State is getting after opposing QBs already acquiring 30 sacks through seven games to average nearly 4.5 sacks per game. With the Wolfpack O-Line giving up an average of 2.43 per game, it could be lights out for Russell Wilson if he doesn’t watch his back tonight.

On top of the big time QB pressure the Noles constantly get, the stop unit is sound in defending both the pass and even more so the run. FSU has given up an average of 203.3 YPG through the air (#49) and a miniscule 104.9 YPG on the ground (#17).

With NC State managing just 136.3 YPG on the ground to date (#83), it will be entirely up to Wilson to move his offense through the air considering his offense currently ranks out as the nation’s 7th best passing attack (312.6 YPG). However, he’s been very careless with the pigskin of late throwing a whopping nine interceptions in the Wolfpack’s L/4 sports betting tussles. With what will undoubtedly be constant pressure on him all night long, it will be interesting to see if he can avoid throwing it to a defender clad in garnet and gold.

NCAA Football Insider Tip: Though NC State has flat out dominated the pointspread proceedings in this series covering eight of the L/9 overall meetings, this is the lowest the number has ever been in the respective programs 15 all time meetings on the gridiron. For that reason alone, the value resides with the Noles who have come out on top in all but five of those meetings.

On top of that, the Noles are 11-5-1 the L/17 times they played off an ATS defeat and 4-0 SU & 3-1 ATS the L/4 times they played off a bye. With three of their final four regular season games to be played at the Doak following this game, FSU knows a trip to the ACC Championship Game will all but be assured if it puts its best foot forward and creams a potential road block in the Wolfpack this evening.

While NC State has a nice squad this season, it’s far from the BCS material the Noles currently look to be. FSU used to thrive in these spots in the glory days, and this will be Coach Fisher’s first appearance as the head man in Tallahassee in front of a national TV audience. Look for him and the Seminoles to impress as they silence what’s certain to be a raucous Carter-Finley Stadium en route to the decisive road win and sports betting cover.

My NCAA Football Predictions: Florida State Seminoles (-3.5) -110

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