{"id":17670,"date":"2011-09-12T20:47:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T01:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17670"},"modified":"2011-09-12T20:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T01:57:30","slug":"sec-thursday-night-lsu-tigers-at-mississippi-state-bulldogs-free-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sec-thursday-night-lsu-tigers-at-mississippi-state-bulldogs-free-picks-17670\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Thursday Night: LSU Tigers at Mississippi State Bulldogs Free Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 3 LSU Tigers at No. 25 Mississippi State Bulldogs
\nThursday, 9\/15\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 LSU -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 LSU -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 48
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 48.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The LSU Tigers are slight road favorites in their SEC opener against the Mississippi State Bulldogs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LSU is set to play only its second non-Holiday Thursday night game in school history and is coming off a 49-3 non-conference win over Northwestern State as 49-point home favorites.\u00a0 \u201cWe are playing and practicing at a good tempo right now,\u201d said Tigers wide receiver Rueben Randle.\u00a0 \u201cWith the game being Thursday, we have to increase and speed everything up.\u201d\u00a0 The Tigers are definitely at an advantage of not expending much energy facing a much lesser opponent, while the Bulldogs were in a physical SEC opener against Auburn.\u00a0 LSU is 21-15 ATS as a road favorite.<\/p>\n

The Tigers are 24-13 against top 25 teams during head coach Les Miles tenure on campus and the school will be playing in the first game in this series when both teams enter ranked.\u00a0 LSU\u2019s rushing defense leads the conference in allowing just 45.5 yards a game and will be going against a Mississippi State rushing attack that has gashed opposing defenses for 321 yards a game.\u00a0 Losing in September just isn\u2019t acceptable around Baton Rouge and the Tigers will head off on the road looking to continue a streak of 19 straight wins in September.<\/p>\n

Mississippi State failed to deliver as 5.5-point road favorites last week in dropping a 41-34 contest to Auburn, but will play its ninth straight games as a ranked team, which is the longest streak for the program since 1999.\u00a0 The Bulldogs came within a yard of possibly tying the game last week and head coach Dan Mullen will preach that positively in practice.\u00a0 \u201cWe have to find a way to take that final inch,\u201d he stated after last Saturday\u2019s defeat.\u00a0 Offensively, the team has had no problems in scoring, tallying 30 or more points in five consecutive games.\u00a0 Mississippi State is 0-2 ATS as a home underdog of three points or less the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs faithful will likely storm the field in Starksville if they happen to pull off the upset, as it will snap an 11-game losing streak to the Tigers.\u00a0 Mississippi State has actually lost 18 of the last 19 in the series.\u00a0 Senior running back Vick Ballard will be the main weapon in trying to spring the upset, coming in with 301 yards and four touchdowns this season.\u00a0 He was limited to 28 yards on 11 carries in last year\u2019s 29-7 loss as 7.5-point road underdogs.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Tigers due to their 11-3 ATS mark in the last 14 meetings, while the Bulldogs are 1-6 ATS on Thursdays.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No. 3 LSU Tigers at No. 25 Mississippi State Bulldogs Thursday, 9\/15\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 LSU -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 LSU -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 48 Current Total:\u00a0 48.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker LSU is set to play only its second non-Holiday Thursday night game in school history and is coming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":16545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[586,3309,498,2898,739,3366],"class_list":["post-17670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-dan-mullen","tag-les-miles","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs","tag-sec","tag-vick-ballard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670","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=17670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17674,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670\/revisions\/17674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}