The Troy Trojans will try and move up the standings in the Sun Belt Conference when they square-off against the Florida International Golden Panthers this Tuesday night at FIU Stadium. Kick-off is slated for 8 p.m. and the game will be broadcast nationally on ESPN. <\/p>\n
Date\/Time: Tuesday, Oct.25\u00a0\u00a0 8 p.m. (ET)<\/strong> Troy has a pair of wins over Middle Tennessee and UAB around stuffed between four losses to open the year 2-4 straight-up (1-5 against the spread). The Trojans have actually been favored in their last two games against Louisiana-Lafayette and Louisiana-Monroe, but lost both games straight-up by a combined score of 69-27 before last week\u2019s bye. The total has stayed \u2018under\u2019 in its last three games.<\/p>\n Scoring has been an issue for Troy on both sides of the ball as it is averaging 22.7 points a game while giving-up an average of 34.7. The Trojans\u2019 passing game has been decent, but its rushing attack is one of the worst in the country; averaging just 102.7 yards a game.<\/p>\n Florida International started the season with three straight victories, but losses in three of its last four games has dropped it to 4-3 SU (3-4 ATS). Last Tuesday night, it lost to Arkansas State 34-16 as a 3.5-point road underdog. The total stayed \u2018under\u2019 the 54-point line in this game and is 2-4-1 on the year. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n The Golden Panthers offense has been slightly better than Troy\u2019s with an average of 26.1 points a game while its defense is giving-up just 23 points a game. Running back Kendrick Rhodes has gained 590 yards on 124 carries and wide receiver T.Y. Hilton has 43 receptions for 738 yards to lead FIU\u2019s offensive attack.<\/p>\n Troy is 2-5 ATS in its last seven road games and the total has stayed \u2018under\u2019 in four of its last five conference games.<\/p>\n Florida International is 2-6 ATS in its last eight games as a home favorite and the total has stayed \u2018under\u2019 in seven of its last 12 games at home.<\/p>\n Head-to-head in this series, the road team is 5-1 ATS in the last six meetings and the total has gone \u2018over\u2019 in the last three games. While FIU should find a way to win this game at home, stick with the Trojans to keeps things closer than the 6.5-point spread.<\/p>\n The Pick: FIU 23 vs. Troy 20<\/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 Tuesday October 25th 2011 its the Week 9 Troy Trojans vs. FIU Golden Panthers matchup. Odds currently have the Panthers listed as 6.5-point favorites\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":25483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[28750,324,1485,548,763,18232,52797,52796,52798,52799,52800,3679,4016],"class_list":["post-44885","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-ncaa-football-betting","tag-ncaa-football-preview","tag-trojans-golden-panthers-lines","tag-trojans-vs-golden-panthers-predictions","tag-troy-trojans-vs-fiu-golden-panthers","tag-troy-vs-fiu-free-pick","tag-troy-vs-fiu-pick","tag-week-9","tag-week-9-free-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44885","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=44885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44901,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44885\/revisions\/44901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Venue: FIU Stadium, Miami, FL.<\/strong>
\n Broadcast: ESPN<\/strong>
\n Trojans at Golden Panthers lines by BetOnline.com<\/strong>
\n Point spread: Golden Panthers -6.5<\/strong>
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