NCAA Football Betting – Defense is the theme on New Year’s Day

Online sports betting players who will be pouring over their offshore sportsbooks looking to make their NCAA football picks on New Year’s Day shouldn’t expect any shootouts from the later games, as all four of the participants in the Rose and Orange Bowls finished in the top 25 in defense. Orange Bowl betting has picked Cincinnati to end the best season in their history with a victory, while Rose Bowl betting has gone with USC to take its third straight win in the “Granddaddy of Them All”.
Cincinnati vs Virginia Tech odds
The Big East champion Bearcats (11-2) will be making their first appearance in a BCS bowl as 2.5-point Orange Bowl betting favorites, and they prefer to do their offensive damage in the air, coming in 25th in pass offense, while they were solid defensively as well, finishing 25th in the nation. The ACC champion Hokies (9-4) can only dream of that sort of balance, as they are seventh in defense, but an atrocious 107th in offense, including 111th in the air. These two have met only twice in their history, splitting a pair of meetings in 1995 and 2006 at Virginia Tech.
Penn State vs USC odds
The Pac-10 champion Trojans (11-1) and their No.1 defense are 8.5-point Rose Bowl betting favorites against the Big Ten champion Nittany Lions (11-1), who will be a much bigger test for USC than Illinois was last year. Penn State is superbly even, finishing fifth in defense and 14th in offense, while the Trojans weren’t bad on offense themselves, coming in just ahead of the Nittany Lions in 13th. This game will be won on desire, tackling and whoever can make the fewest mistakes. These two schools split a pair of meetings back in 1996 and 2000, both at Penn State.
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