The Louisville Cardinals square-off against the Connecticut Huskies this Saturday afternoon at Rentschler Field in a matchup of two teams trying to keep their faint hopes of a Big East title alive. Game time is set for 12 p.m. and it will be available on ESPN3.com. <\/p>\n
Date\/Time: Saturday, November 19\u00a0\u00a0 12 p.m. (ET) Louisville\u2019s title chances took a major blow this past Saturday with a 21-14 loss to Pittsburgh as a three-point home favorite. The loss dropped it to 5-5 straight-up (6-4 against the spread) overall and to 3-2 SU in the conference. The total stayed \u2018under\u2019 the 45.5-point line and has now stayed \u2018under\u2019 in eight of its 10 games this season.<\/p>\n The main thing that has been lacking for the Cardinals this year has been any kind of offensive fire-power. They are ranked 80th<\/sup> in the nation in passing and 94th<\/sup> in running the ball. Overall, the offense is ranked 108th<\/sup> in scoring with an average of just 19.3 points a game.<\/p>\n Connecticut\u2019s chances of repeating as Big East champs is also fading fast with three losses in its last five games. It did manage to knock-off Syracuse 28-21 on Nov. 5 as a two-point home favorite, but overall it is just 4-5 SU (3-6 ATS) this season and 2-2 SU in conference play. The total has stayed \u2018under\u2019 in five of its nine games this year. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n The Huskies have been a bit more potent on the offensive side of the ball with an average of 22.7 points a game, but they have hung their hat this season on a defense that is holding teams to 22.3 points a game.<\/p>\n The Cardinals are 4-1 ATS in their last five games as road favorites and 5-1 ATS in their last six conference games. The total has stayed \u2018under\u2019 in their last six games as favorites. Head-to-head in this series, the home team is 5-1 ATS in the last six meetings and Louisville is 2-5 ATS in the last seven games. The total has stayed \u2018under\u2019 in three of the last four games between the two. While once again the \u2018under\u2019 is probably the best play given both of these teams inability to score points, but stick with Connecticut\u2019s defense to shine in a straight-up win at home.<\/p>\n The Pick: Connecticut 19\u00a0vs. Louisville 16<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Louisville Cardinals vs. Connecticut Huskies + Handicapping Preview. Connecticut\u2019s chances of repeating as Big East champs is also fading fast with three losses in its last five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":25655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[19811,321,3732,2086,53010,53011,770,2166],"class_list":["post-45652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa-football","tag-cardinals-vs-huskies","tag-college-football-lines","tag-huskies","tag-louisville","tag-louisville-cardinals-vs-uconn-huskies","tag-louisville-vs-uconn","tag-ncaa-football-predictions","tag-uconn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45652","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=45652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45691,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45652\/revisions\/45691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVenue: Rentschler Field, East Hartford, CT.
\nBroadcast: ESPN3.com
\nCardinals at Huskies lines by BetOnline.com
\nPoint spread: PICK
\nOver\/Under: 40.5<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe Huskies are 7-2 ATS in their last nine games against the Big East and the total has gone \u2018over\u2019 in 16 of their last 23 games at home.<\/p>\n