{"id":11041,"date":"2010-11-27T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T14:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11041"},"modified":"2010-11-27T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T14:39:47","slug":"ncaa-football-rivalry-south-carolina-gamecocks-at-clemson-tigers-free-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-football-rivalry-south-carolina-gamecocks-at-clemson-tigers-free-picks-11041\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Football Rivalry: South Carolina Gamecocks at Clemson Tigers Free Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Carolina Gamecocks at Clemson Tigers
\nSaturday, 11\/27\/10, 12:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 South Carolina -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 South Carolina -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 45
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 45
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 South Carolina -140 \/ Clemson +120<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Clemson Tigers are slight home underdogs in hosting the South Carolina Gamecocks in Death Valley on Saturday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

South Carolina will wrap up the 2010 regular season by making the 135-mile trek to Upstate to face the longtime rival Clemson Tigers for the 108th time.\u00a0 \u201cI think we have a good, healthy rivalry with Clemson now,\u201d said head coach Steve Spurrier about taking over the program after the 2004 brawl.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t sense in any way that could happen with the coaching staffs in place and the players that are in place.\u201d\u00a0 South Carolina won last year\u2019s meeting in Columbia 34-17 and looks to make it two in a row over the Tigers for the first time since winning three straight from 1968-70.\u00a0 The team enters the contest as the SEC Eastern Division Champions for the first time in school history.\u00a0 It could be tough for the squad to get up for this game due to playing Auburn next, which highlights the team\u2019s 0-3 ATS mark after two or more consecutive wins.\u00a0 The college football lines page has them listed as a slight road favorite.<\/p>\n

The Gamecocks are led by freshman running back Marcus Lattimore, who set the school record for single-season touchdowns in the win over Troy, scoring three times to run his total to 19 for the season.\u00a0 He also topped the 1000-yard rushing mark for the season, giving South Carolina a 1000-yard rusher and a 1000-yard receiver in the same season for the first time in school history.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, the defensive unit leads the SEC and ranks third nationally with a school-record 36 sacks.<\/p>\n

Clemson has more wins over South Carolina than any other school and those victories represent over 10 percent of Clemson\u2019s all-time victory total.\u00a0 \u201cThese players really have a lot of respect for each other,\u201d said head coach Dabo Swinney.\u00a0 \u201cThey are competitors.\u00a0 They are going to line up and compete and when the game is over they\u2019re going to shake each other\u2019s hands and that\u2019s the way you\u2019ve go to do things.\u201d\u00a0 Since the team\u2019s have gone to a home and home schedule in 1960, Clemson has a 31-17-1 advantage, including a 16-8-1 mark at home.\u00a0 The team is 6-6 ATS as an underdog the past three years.<\/p>\n

The Tigers senior class that will be playing its final game at Memorial Stadium has produced a 2-1 record against the Gamecocks.\u00a0 The group has enjoyed playing in Death Valley and has a 21-6 record over the last four years.\u00a0 In those games, the offense has averaged 29 points per game and the defense has surrendered just 18 points a contest.\u00a0 It\u2019s also important to note that the last time Clemson lost a night game in the series was 1996.\u00a0 In order to pick up the mild upset tonight, the defensive unit must play a solid football game for four quarters, as it comes in ranked ninth in scoring defense.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Gamecocks are 8-3 ATS versus a team with a winning record, while the Tigers are 19-7 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a huge 20-Unit Game of the Year selection and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports go to work for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Carolina Gamecocks at Clemson Tigers Saturday, 11\/27\/10, 12:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 South Carolina -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 South Carolina -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 45 Current Total:\u00a0 45 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 South Carolina -140 \/ Clemson +120 South Carolina will wrap up the 2010 regular season by making the 135-mile trek to Upstate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":7700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[634,3374,3992,3128,3319,739,3126,2781],"class_list":["post-11041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-dabo-swinney","tag-death-valley","tag-marcus-lattimore","tag-memorial-stadium","tag-sec","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-steve-spurrier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041","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=11041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11043,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions\/11043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}