The Central Florida Knights will try and get back over .500 on the season when they square-off against the UAB Blazers this Thursday night in a Conference-USA East Division clash. The game is slated to kick-off at 8 p.m. and it will be available on ESPN3.com. <\/p>\n
Date\/Time: Thursday Oct. 20\u00a0\u00a0 8 p.m. (ET) UCF\u2019s season has not gone according to plan with a 3-3 straight-up start (2-4 against the spread) including a 17-10 loss to Florida International on Sept.17 as a 6.5-point road favorite and a 38-17 loss to SMU as a 3.5-point road underdog this past Saturday. The total has stayed \u2018under\u2019 in five of its six games.<\/p>\n Despite the slow start, the Knights are still very much in the hunt for the C-USA East Division title with a 1-1 SU conference record and four division games left to play starting with the Blazers on Thursday night. They have a rushing offense that is averaging 183.5 yards a game and a defense that is holding its opponents to just 14.7 points a game, so they are more than capable of going on a run to turn things around.<\/p>\n The future prospects for UAB are not nearly as bright. It has stumbled and fumbled it way to a 0-6 SU start (4-2 ATS) while getting outscored 198-79 along the way. Its latest setback was a 37-20 loss to Tulsa this past Saturday as a 21.5-point road underdog. The total has stayed \u2018under\u2019 in five of its six games. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n The Blazers are pretty much ranked at the bottom of D-IA across the board with an offense that has been unable to effectively run or pass the ball coupled with a defense that cannot keep opposing teams out of its end zone. The only bright spot has been wide receiver Jackie Williams, who has 33 receptions while averaging 9.7 yards a catch.<\/p>\n The Knights are 14-5 ATS in their last 19 conference games and the total has stayed \u2018under\u2019 in eight of their last nine games overall.<\/p>\n The Blazers are 2-5 ATS in their last seven games in Conference-USA and the total has stayed \u2018under\u2019 in four of their last five conference games.<\/p>\n Head-to-head in this series, UCF is 6-1 SU and 5-2 ATS in the last seven meetings and the total has gone \u2018over\u2019 in four of the last five meetings. Do not worry about the two-touchdown spread in this game as the Knights roll to a convincing road victory over the hapless Blazers.<\/p>\n The Pick: UCF 28 vs. UAB 9<\/strong> <\/p>\n The 2011 CFB Season is finally here. Welcome to the CappersPicks.com college football weekly predictions pages! We KNOW you will find our FREE weekly college football picks<\/strong><\/a>, tips, betting advice, strategies, CFB gambling articles and more to help you become the best College football bettor on your block!!<\/p>\n On Saturday October 15th, 2011 its the Week 8 Central Florida Knights vs UAB Blazers matchup. Odds currently have the Knights listed as 14.5-point favorites\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":27325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[28750,324,1485,548,52709,52710,763,18232,52706,52707,52708,3311,3693],"class_list":["post-44661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa-football","tag-28750","tag-college-football-odds","tag-football-lines","tag-handicappers-predictions","tag-knights-blazers-lines","tag-knights-vs-blazers-predictions","tag-ncaa-football-betting","tag-ncaa-football-preview","tag-ucf-knights-vs-uab-blazers","tag-ucf-vs-uab-free-pick","tag-ucf-vs-uab-pick","tag-week-8","tag-week-8-free-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44696,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44661\/revisions\/44696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVenue: Legion Field, Birmingham, AL.
\nBroadcast: ESPN3.com
\nKnights at Blazers lines by BetOnline.com
\nPoint spread: Knights -14.5
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