Washington Huskies at USC Trojans Point Spread Pick and Betting Odds. The 2-2 Washington Huskies will attempt to score a victory against the 3-1 USC Trojans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in California. 5Dimes is giving a -17 point start to the Trojans with total odds of -110. 56 lines are offered on the odds board. Kick-off is scheduled to occur at 21:00 ET on Thursday, 8th October.
Betting Odds
Point Spread: Trojans -17
Total Line: 56
The Huskies were put in their place last week following a 30-24 loss to the California Golden Bears. Considering that Washington had won all its previous six games against California, the loss came as an exceptionally disappointing result and placed the team’s playoff hopes in jeopardy. However, at the end of the day, there was nobody else to blame, except the Huskies. The team had some incredibly erratic play during the game, unfortunately turning the ball over five times, providing the Golden Bears with enough opportunity to create 13 points for themselves.
Ball possession needs to be the key focus for Washington this week. Quarterback, Jake Browning needs to settle down into throwing perfect passes, as his record currently stands at 76 completed of 117 attempted, according to official statistics. Dwayne Washington has received 17 of these passes, and claimed 223 yards in the process as well as two touchdowns. Meanwhile, number nine fullback, Myles Gaskin has carried 39 for 209 yards and secured three touchdowns so far.
The Trojans have only been defeated once so far in the 2015 NCAAF regular season, which came in their week three game against Stanford. However, last week saw them back on fine form, securing a brilliant 42-14 win against Arizona State. Propelling the team to victory in that match was quarterback, Cody Kessler. He completed 19 of 33 passes for 375 yards and notched up five touchdowns in the process. Also in the spotlight was Adoree’ Jackson, who was on the receiving end of three passes for 131 yards, with 80 of those being on a touchdown reception to open USC’s score.
The Trojans have a strong defence line up, who capitalised on Arizona’s sloppiness last week. This same kind of play needs to come into effect against Washington, in order for the team to secure a back-to-back victory. The aforementioned Kessler has completed 89 of his 122 attempted passes this season so far, while Ronald Jones II has carried 30 for 242 yards, scoring two touchdowns in the process. Tre Madden has recorded four touchdowns on 37 carries for 213 yards, while Alex Wood has made 25 extra points as well as two fields goals this season so far.
Washington at Southern California Betting Trends
Washington is 6-3 straight up in their last 9 road games.
The Huskies are 2-5 against the spread in their last 7 road games against Southern Cal.
The game total has gone under in 5 of Washington’s last 7 games against the Trojans.
Southern California is 2-6 against the spread in their last 8 games against Washington.
The Trojans are 6-1 straight up in their last 7 home games.
Injury Report
Washington
[FS] 10/04/2015 – Budda Baker “?” Thursday vs. USC ( Ankle )
[WR] 08/29/2015 – John Ross out for season ( Knee )
[CB] 09/15/2015 – Austin Joyner out for season ( Knee )
Southern California
No Injuries to report
Consensus Pick (ATS)
Washington: 40%
So Cal: 60%
Free College Football Pick
We’re going to forgive the Trojans for their loss against the Cardinal when they went into the game way too confident to face a very strong Stanford team. The real team showed up in their latest in a 42-14 pasting of the Sun Devils. They’ve had an extra week off and we believe that they would have learned from the Stanford game and not come into this match over-confident. The Huskies are a decent team, but we don’t think that they can keep up offensively with USC who have a 17.5 point edge on scoring this season.
Take the USC Trojans -17 @ INTERTOPS – FUNDING YOUR NEW ACCOUNT COULDN’T BE EASIER!
