{"id":17338,"date":"2011-08-31T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17338"},"modified":"2011-08-31T12:11:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:11:32","slug":"2011-ncaa-football-preview-utah-state-aggies-at-auburn-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/2011-ncaa-football-preview-utah-state-aggies-at-auburn-tigers-17338\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 NCAA Football Preview: Utah State Aggies at Auburn Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utah State Aggies at No. 23 Auburn Tigers
\nSaturday, 9\/3\/11, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Auburn -21.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Auburn -20.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 53
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 57
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Auburn<\/a>
The Auburn Tigers begin life without Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Cam Newton Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Utah State kicks off the 2011 season on the road for the fourth-straight season and will be facing a ranked opponent for the third consecutive time.\u00a0 The Aggies will be facing the Tigers for the first time in school history.\u00a0 Many around the program don\u2019t expect the team to be overwhelmed by playing inside Jordan-Hare Stadium, as they are quick to remind people of a seven-point loss it suffered at Oklahoma a year ago.\u00a0 A battle has ensued at the quarterback position, which is the major question mark surrounding the squad in such an environment.\u00a0 Either Adam Kennedy or Chuckie Keeton will be making his first collegiate start.\u00a0 Utah State is 3-0 ATS as a road underdog of 17.5 to 21 points.<\/p>\n

The Aggies welcome back seven players to the playing field who missed all or part of the 2010 season, including star running back Robert Turbin.\u00a0 The junior needs just 22 rushing yards to reach the top 10 list for career yards in school history.\u00a0 Virtually all questions during the offseason outside of the replacement of star quarterback Diondre Borel have been focused on the defense\u2019s change from a 4-3 alignment to a 3-4 scheme.\u00a0 Head coach Gary Anderson will actually be handling the defensive coordinator duties due to changes on this year\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n

Auburn comes in off a national title campaign and the remaining players feel that the school is being given little chance to repeat.\u00a0 \u201cEverybody\u2019s dogging us,\u201d commented defensive end Corey Lemonier.\u00a0 \u201cEverybody\u2019s putting us down.\u201d\u00a0 The Tigers will have to deal with life without Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Cam Newton, who jumped from the collegiate ranks and landed with the Carolina Panthers as the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft.\u00a0 The program does own the distinction of coming in with the nation\u2019s longest win streak, which stands at 15 games.\u00a0 Auburn is 16-10 ATS over the last two years.<\/p>\n

The Tigers will focus on gaining yards on the ground early this year, as they are one of two teams nationally that return a pair of running backs who ran for at least 800 yards last season.\u00a0 Michael Dyer set a school record as a freshman with 1,093 yards, while Onterio McCalebb pitched in with 810.\u00a0 Much of the disrespect the school has been given solely rests on the inexperience up and down the roster, as just 11 seniors with playing experience are back.\u00a0 That number pales in comparison to the 24-member class that graduated with a BCS Championship.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Aggies due to their 9-4 ATS mark in road games, while the Tigers are 24-33 ATS in non-conference action.<\/p>\n

The college football handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready for a huge campaign and ready for you to join in.\u00a0 Stop sitting on the sidelines and get a long-term package today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Utah State Aggies at No. 23 Auburn Tigers Saturday, 9\/3\/11, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Auburn -21.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Auburn -20.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 53 Current Total:\u00a0 57 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Utah State kicks off the 2011 season on the road for the fourth-straight season and will be facing a ranked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[470,3365,5372,5373,5371,2529],"class_list":["post-17338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-auburn-tigers","tag-cam-newton","tag-michael-dyer","tag-onterio-mccalebb","tag-robert-turbin","tag-utah-state-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17338","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=17338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17340,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17338\/revisions\/17340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}