NCAAF Football Betting – Arkansas Hosts Tennessee Tech

NCAAF football betting will take a back seat to straight-up football watching and bet future calculating when the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles travel to Fayetteville to take on the #17 ranked Razorbacks.

Sports handicappers will be lucky to find any bookie willing to set an NCAAF football betting point spread for Arkansas’ first game of the 2010 College Football Season. I can’t blame them. There just isn’t any way to set a high enough point spread in this game because Arkansas is vastly, I mean vastly, superior to Tennessee Tech.

That doesn’t mean that football bettors shouldn’t pay attention to this game. It just means that they should study Arkansas in this game and try to glean some things about the Razorbacks that might help them determine how good of a team to back against the spread Arkansas might be in future games.

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Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles vs. #17 Arkansas Razorbacks

Where: Razorback Stadium, Fayetteville, Arkansas
When: September 4th, 2010 at 7:00 pm EST
TV: ESPN3.com

Arkansas is so much better than Tennessee Tech that even considering creating college football betting odds in this game would require an imagination beyond any heard of in this universe. That’s how badly Arkansas is going to beat Tennessee Tech on Saturday night in Fayetteville.

But, there are some things that sports gamblers should definitely look for in order to figure out how the Razorbacks will fare once their SEC schedule kicks in. Arkansas gets to beat up the Golden Eagles this week and then Louisiana-Monroe next week and then, well, then the Razorbacks have to get down and dirty, man!

Arkansas travels to #23 Georgia, hosts #1 ranked Alabama, and then takes on Texas A&M, #22 Auburn on the road, and Ole Miss at home. That’s when football handicappers will know if they can make successful NCAAF football betting game predictions.

So, what should football bettors look for in Arkansas this Saturday that might help them glean a few things? The first thing to look for is how many run plays, and whether not those run plays are effective, that coach Bobby Petrino calls against Tennessee Tech.

We know that Arkansas QB Ryan Mallet can throw the football. He’s going to be one of the best college football quarterbacks this season. What we want to know is whether or not Arkansas can run the football.

‘Bama, Georgia, Auburn and every other team in the SEC knows that the Razorbacks can throw the football as well. They’re going to send the house against Mallet when they face him this season. If Arkansas shows on Saturday that they can or cannot run the football, then that gives football handicappers very good information regarding how they will fair against what’s likely to be tough college football betting odds in the future.

Sports gamblers should also pay attention to how the Arkansas defense plays. It’s important to understand that stopping Tennessee Tech from scoring or from moving the ball isn’t enough. Sports gamblers need to look at how the Razorbacks actually play on the field. Are they overrunning their assignments? Are they closing on defenders correctly? Are the defensive backs supporting the rush defense without allowing their man to run 20-yards by himself down the field? Is the defensive line or linebackers making plays because they are just more athletic than Tennessee Tech’s offense or are they actually making plays because they are running what the coaches tell them to run?

Answering these key questions should help football handicappers determine how well Arkansas will do against the NCAAF football betting against the spread lines when the Razorbacks take on the tougher teams on their schedule.

Check out all of the NCAAF football betting lines for this weekend’s games!

Sources: espn.com, usatoday.com