{"id":10798,"date":"2010-11-19T23:11:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T04:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10798"},"modified":"2010-11-19T23:11:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T04:11:57","slug":"arkansas-razorbacks-vs-mississippi-state-bulldogs-ncaa-football-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/arkansas-razorbacks-vs-mississippi-state-bulldogs-ncaa-football-picks-10798\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas Razorbacks vs Mississippi State Bulldogs NCAA Football Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arkansas Razorbacks at Mississippi State Bulldogs
\nSaturday, 11\/20\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arkansas -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Arkansas -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 52
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 52.5
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Arkansas -150 \/ Mississippi State +130<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Arkansas has averaged 46.5 points per game over its last four contests and has won six of its last seven November games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arkansas hits the road for the last time in 2010, traveling to Starkville, Mississippi to face the 22nd-ranked Bulldogs.\u00a0 The Razorbacks only blemishes on their schedule up to this point is losses to Alabama and Auburn, which many SEC experts predicted before the season kicked off.\u00a0 Quarterback Ryan Mallett is the leader of a high-scoring offense, completing more than 67 percent of his passes for 2,967 yards and 24 touchdowns.\u00a0 He has been instrumental in the offense scoring nearly 38 points per game.\u00a0 \u201cThey run kind of a pro-style offense,\u201d Bulldogs linebacker Chris White stated.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a big game for us and they can put up some numbers if we don\u2019t play well.\u201d\u00a0 Arkansas extended its winning streak to four games with an impressive 58-21 win over UTEP last Saturday.\u00a0 The team is 5-1 ATS versus conference opponents and the college football lines page has them listed as a slight road favorite.<\/p>\n

The Razorbacks are averaging 46.5 points per game while allowing 19.5 per contest during its four-game streak.\u00a0 Arkansas has also won six of its last seven games in November dating back to the final game of the 2008 season.\u00a0 Head coach Bobby Petrino\u2019s .760 career winning percentage during the month ranks as the second-highest among current SEC coaches with at least one full year as a head coach.\u00a0 Many teams will simply concentrate on the Razorbacks\u2019 potent aerial attack, but the unit has rushed for at least 100 yards in six straight games, including a season-high 326 versus the Miners last week.\u00a0 Defensively, Arkansas has been impressive in holding opponents to a 30.8 percent conversion rate on third-down, which is the best mark in the SEC.<\/p>\n

Mississippi State returns to Davis Wade Stadium for a Southeastern Conference matchup against a Western Division opponent after suffering a 30-10 road loss to Alabama last week.\u00a0 \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter who we\u2019re playing, if we give-up three 45-yards touchdown plays, we\u2019re not going to do very well,\u201d said head coach Dan Mullen.\u00a0 The team did have a six-game winning streak snapped, but Mullen believes that his team is well-equipped to bounce back.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019ve been in this position before,\u201d he commented.\u00a0 \u201cI think they kind of got used to winning a little bit, so it stung.\u201d\u00a0 One element of the squad\u2019s game that shouldn\u2019t be missing is the running game, gaining at least 100 yards in 21 of the last 22 games.\u00a0 MSU is 8-7 ATS as a home underdog of three points or less.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs will have to look no further than the turnover column on Saturday, posting a +11 margin in their seven wins and -4 in three losses.\u00a0 Mississippi State has also outrushed its opponent seven times this season, winning each of those games.\u00a0 Arkansas is definitely going to score some points in this contest, but the defense\u2019s ability to limit them from scoring touchdowns is going to be important.\u00a0 The unit is third in the SEC in red-zone defense, allowing 22 scores on 30 trips.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in playing the Razorbacks due to their 16-5 ATS mark in November, while the Bulldogs are 2-8 ATS in the month.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a huge day of gridiron action and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports deliver you a full-day of winners!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arkansas Razorbacks at Mississippi State Bulldogs Saturday, 11\/20\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arkansas -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Arkansas -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 52 Current Total:\u00a0 52.5 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Arkansas -150 \/ Mississippi State +130 Arkansas hits the road for the last time in 2010, traveling to Starkville, Mississippi to face the 22nd-ranked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[2448,3313,586,2898,2042,739,3875],"class_list":["post-10798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-bobby-petrino","tag-dan-mullen","tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs","tag-ryan-mallett","tag-sec","tag-southeastern-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798","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=10798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10799,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions\/10799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}