| Virginia Tech vs. East Carolina College Football Picks |
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Thursday, 05 November 2009
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Virginia Tech vs. East Carolina College Football Picks: The No. 22 ranked Virginia Tech Hokies will come down from the Appalachian's and head to the lower lands of Eastern North Carolina to play the East Carolina University Pirates in an intersectional college football picks ACC/C-USA battle at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in Greenville, N.C. The ESPN televised game will kick-off at 7:30 pm ET. Sportsbetting.com has lined East Carolina as +13-chalk home dogs in this college football picks contest versus the Hokies with a 51 total. For those expecting a blow-out win by the Hokies, you might want to think twice. While Virginia Tech has dominated the series historically going 9-5, the Pirates won last year in Charlotte and in 2007 covered as a 17-chalk road dog losing 17-7 at Blacksburg. The 5-3 Hokies come limping into this game having lost two straight and dropping out of the BCS picture. The 5-3 Pirates enter tonight's game having won four of their last five games SU and three of four ATS. One thing East Carolina hasn't done in 2009 is get a season defining win against a BCS school. The Pirates are 0-2 against teams from BCS conferences losing at BIG EAST member West Virginia 20-35 in Week 2 followed by a 17-31 loss at North Carolina. The Pirates failed to cover the spread in both games. East Carolina is coming off a big 38-19 SU C-USA win and 6-chalk cover at Memphis Oct. 27. Virginia Tech has not covered the spread on the road once this season, losing their last road game at Georgia Tech Oct. 17 as a 3-chalk favorite 23-28. The Hokies struggled as a double-digit (-17) favorite at Duke Oct. 3, just getting by with a 34-26 SU win but coming up far shy of the 17-point cover ATS. College Football Picks: At Point-Spreads.com we expect East Carolina to play hard at home and cover the +13 points. Cash in with sign-up bonuses, weekly reload bonuses and free payouts at SPORTSBETTING.com, where betting is safe, secure and easy.                        |
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