{"id":17689,"date":"2011-09-13T18:38:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T23:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17689"},"modified":"2011-09-13T18:38:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T23:38:05","slug":"auburn-tigers-at-clemson-tigers-2011-ncaa-football-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/auburn-tigers-at-clemson-tigers-2011-ncaa-football-predictions-17689\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn Tigers at Clemson Tigers 2011 NCAA Football Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 21 Auburn Tigers at Clemson Tigers<\/strong>
\n Saturday, 9\/17\/11, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC<\/strong>
\n Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Clemson -4<\/strong>
\n Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Clemson -3<\/strong>
\n Opening Total:\u00a0 56.5<\/strong>
\n Current Total:\u00a0 59<\/strong>
\n Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Auburn<\/a>
Auburn has won 14 consecutive meetings in this series<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Auburn takes to the road for the first time this season after picking up two home wins over Utah State (42-38) and Mississippi State (41-34).\u00a0 The Tigers have been out-gained in each contest and will be looking to hand Clemson a 15th consecutive loss in the series.\u00a0 It will also put the nation\u2019s longest win streak on the line, as it\u2019s reached 17 and head coach Gene Chizik doesn\u2019t expect the fresh faces in the locker room to allow it to be snapped without putting up a fight.\u00a0 \u201cI think that we are still trying to figure out really as a whole what the identity of our team is, and I think that as the season unfolds you figure it out game by game,\u201d he commented during the week.\u00a0 The last two meetings between these two schools have gone to over time and been decided on the final play.\u00a0 Auburn is 6-2 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have tallied a 5-3 record under Chizik in true road games, as the offense has scored 24 or more points in five of those eight contests.\u00a0 Auburn\u2019s offense has scored 30 or more points in 18 of his 29 games on the sidelines.\u00a0 The running game started to get its footing last week, finishing with 235 yards against the Bulldogs, including 150 yards and two touchdowns from Mike Dyer.\u00a0 He served as the school\u2019s first returning 1,000-yard rusher since 2006.<\/p>\n

Clemson is looking to taste victory in this series for the first time since 1951, but it won\u2019t come easy.\u00a0 The Tigers have trailed at times against lesser opponents in the early going this season, coming away with 43-19 and 35-27 wins over Troy and Wofford respectively.\u00a0 \u201cWe got to get better,\u201d said Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney.\u00a0 \u201cBut we\u2019re 2-0 and that\u2019s all that matters.\u201d\u00a0 If the team is able to pull off the victory, it would be the longest winning streak stopped by the program in school history.\u00a0 Clemson is 15-17 ATS versus SEC opponents.<\/p>\n

The Tigers will need a big game from running back Andrew Ellington, who is currently 14th in the nation in averaging 127 rushing yards.\u00a0 Clemson certainly missed his explosiveness in not being available for most or all of six games a season ago.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging 206 rushing yards and 266 passing yards a game.\u00a0 Those numbers have led to tremendous success over the years, posting a 54-0-1 all-time record when gaining at least 200 yards of each type of offense in the same game.\u00a0 Quarterback Tajh Boyd has thrown for three touchdown passes in each of the first two games.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back Auburn due to its 6-0 ATS mark versus winning teams, while Clemson is 1-4 ATS at home.<\/p>\n

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No. 21 Auburn Tigers at Clemson Tigers Saturday, 9\/17\/11, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Clemson -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Clemson -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 56.5 Current Total:\u00a0 59 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Auburn takes to the road for the first time this season after picking up two home wins over Utah State (42-38) […]<\/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":[3590,470,634,3374,3045,5433],"class_list":["post-17689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-andre-ellington","tag-auburn-tigers","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-dabo-swinney","tag-gene-chizik","tag-mike-dyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689","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=17689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17690,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689\/revisions\/17690"}],"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=17689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}