{"id":10265,"date":"2010-11-04T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T22:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10265"},"modified":"2010-11-04T17:42:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T22:42:21","slug":"free-college-football-picks-alabama-crimson-tide-at-lsu-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/free-college-football-picks-alabama-crimson-tide-at-lsu-tigers-10265\/","title":{"rendered":"Free College Football Picks: Alabama Crimson Tide at LSU Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alabama Crimson Tide at LSU Tigers
\nSaturday, 11\/6\/2010, 3:30 PM EST; TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 44
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 44
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Alabama -255 \/ LSU +215<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Alabama RB Mark Ingram will lead the charge against the SEC's best defense and are favored by just less than a touchdown over LSU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alabama has had more than a week to prepare for SEC West rival LSU and the team is focused on a fast start.\u00a0 \u201cAs an offense, as a defense, we have to get off to a better start,\u201d said wide receiver Julio Jones.\u00a0 \u201cWe have to practice how we want to play.\u201d\u00a0 This will be the 74th meeting between the two schools in a series that the Crimson Tide leads 45-23-5, including an impressive 25-8-2 record in Baton Rouge.\u00a0 \u201cThis team has a great opportunity in the last one-third of the season,\u201d said head coach Nick Saban.\u00a0 \u201cWe need everyone\u2019s best.\u201d\u00a0 He is in his fourth season as the main man in Tuscaloosa ans has compiled a 35-9 record.\u00a0 It\u2019s safe to say that this program loves the big game, posting a 12-3 mark against AP Top 25 teams over the past three seasons.\u00a0 The team is 8-4 ATS as a favorite of 3.5 to 10 points and the college football lines page has them favored by 6.5 points.<\/p>\n

The Crimson Tide are on a three-game winning streak following a bye under Saban\u2019s direction, while he is 9-3 following a week off during his SEC career.\u00a0 Alabama\u2019s motto of \u201cStart Fast – Finish Strong\u201d has been present for most of the year, considering the team holds a 72-30 scoring edge in the first quarter and 38-10 advantage in the fourth. Offensively, the team is still led by a rushing attack that includes two powerful runners and it will face its stiffest test to date against LSU.\u00a0 The Tigers did allow more than 340 yards on the ground to Auburn in their only loss this season.\u00a0 Alabama\u2019s rushing offense is ranked 30th at 186.88 yards per game and fourth in the conference.<\/p>\n

LSU definitely knows that the loser of Saturday\u2019s game will in all likelihood be eliminated from any shot of appearing in the SEC title game in Atlanta.\u00a0 \u201cAll we can do is control our own destiny,\u201d said running back Stevan Ridley.\u00a0 \u201cWe are not going to fold our tent.\u00a0 We have a great team coming here with one loss.\u201d\u00a0 The Tigers are going to need more out of their 113th-ranked passing unit to have any chance of grabbing an upset, but the Tide\u2019s defense ranks fourth in the SEC in giving up only 178 yards a game through the air.\u00a0 LSU must loosen up the aggressiveness of its opponents defense due to them surrendering just 113 yards a game on the ground.\u00a0 The team has gone 1-7 ATS in weeks 10 through 13 and the college football linesmakers have made them a home underdog.<\/p>\n

The Tigers are a spectacular 14-1 in games following a loss under head coach Les Miles and it will be important for them to score first in this contest.\u00a0 LSU is 6-0 this year and 42-6 under Miles when lighting the scoreboard before its opponent.\u00a0 Defensively, the unit ranks as the SEC\u2019s-best, giving up just 277.6 yards per game and is second in the league in scoring defense (15.6 ppg).\u00a0 This will be the fourth straight year that both teams go into the game ranked in the Top 25.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Crimson Tide are 10-4 ATS in their last 14 road games, while the Tigers are 13-6-1 in their last 20 games as an underdog of 3.5 to 10 points.<\/p>\n

This is one of many fantastic matchups that are scheduled on Saturday and the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports will be ready!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alabama Crimson Tide at LSU Tigers Saturday, 11\/6\/2010, 3:30 PM EST; TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 44 Current Total:\u00a0 44 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Alabama -255 \/ LSU +215 Alabama has had more than a week to prepare for SEC West rival LSU and the team is focused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[462,3701,3309,498,588,739],"class_list":["post-10265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-ap-top-25","tag-les-miles","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-nick-saban","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10267,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10265\/revisions\/10267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}