Free Week 2 Prediction: Vikings vs Ducks Odds
Looking for Portland State Vikings vs. Oregon Ducks free picks? Week 2 betting sees the Vikings taking on the Ducks on Saturday, September 8th, 2018 at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon. Cappers Picks provides complimentary handicapping picks all NCAA football season long so stay tuned for more FREE college football predictions like this Portland State Oregon free pick.
College Football Handicapping: Week 2
(0-1) Portland State Vikings vs. Oregon Ducks (1-0)
Date: Saturday, September 8th 2018
Time: 2:00 pm EST
Venue: Autzen Stadium, Eugene, Oregon
NCAA Football Spread: OFF
NCAA Betting Total: OFF
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The Ducks opened their season with a dominant win over the Bowling Green Falcons, 58-24. Portland State, on the other hand, fell to the Nevada Wolfpack, 72-19.
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This game has a chance to get real ugly, real fast.
Portland State Vikings
For those who watched Oregon’s beatdown of the Falcons last week, you’ll find some similarities between Portland State’s season opener and Bowling Green’s.
Bowling Green was the team who came out of the gate ready to fight against Oregon, and Portland State had that same fire. The Vikings took a 9-0 lead early against Nevada, and shades of last year’s near loss to Oregon State started to creep into the minds of fans tuning in.
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Unfortunately for Portland State (but not exactly unexpectedly), the power order was restored when Nevada ultimately blew out the FCS squad.
Against Oregon, Portland State needs—let’s emphasize that a little more…needs—to come out of the gate aggressive. Getting into the backfield of the Ducks is crucial, but guarding the deep ball is just as important, as we saw Heisman candidate Justin Herbert bail this team out of some bad situations with both his arms and his legs a week ago.
Portland State must also watch out for the screen pass. The Ducks found a way to lull the Bowling Green defense to sleep a week ago and then break out two huge plays that began with short passes to the tailbacks.
If the Vikings can come into this game with aggression and energy, it has a chance to keep the contest close early.
Oregon Ducks
Justin Herbert opened his potential Heisman season with five touchdown passes. That number is ridiculous enough as is, but it becomes completely insane when you realize he threw 10-for-21 on the night.
You read that right. Half of his 10 completions went for scores. And just to top things off, he decided to rush for 41 yards on six attempts and another score on the ground.
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Against Portland State, you can expect just about the same performance from Herbert. You never want to mark someone down for six total touchdowns ahead of any contest, but there’s a good chance he comes out, plays a patient game, gets going much earlier than we saw against Bowling Green, and finds a way to impact this game early, often and through whenever coach Mario Cristobal decides it’s time to bring in the backup.
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Let’s put it this way: If the Ducks struggle in this one, it’s a sign of very bad things to come for the Oregon pregame.
Luckily for Ducks stans out there, that shouldn’t be a concern.
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The line hasn’t yet been set for this contest, as of this writing on Labor Day, 2018. But it’s easy to see that Oregon is going to come out and play a much cleaner game against Portland State than it did against Bowling Green.
That’s saying something considering the Ducks took down the Falcons in grant fashion a week ago, but it should be an accurate prediction when this Week 2 matchup is all said and done.
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