{"id":18054,"date":"2011-09-27T15:17:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T20:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18054"},"modified":"2011-09-27T15:17:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T20:17:33","slug":"sec-college-football-predictions-alabama-crimson-tide-at-florida-gators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sec-college-football-predictions-alabama-crimson-tide-at-florida-gators-18054\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC College Football Predictions: Alabama Crimson Tide at Florida Gators"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 3 Alabama Crimson Tide at No. 12 Florida Gators
\nSaturday, 10\/1\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 45.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 44.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Alabama Crimson Tide head into The Swamp to face the Florida Gators Saturday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alabama enters with a perfect 4-0 record and comes into The Swamp off a 38-14 win over the Arkansas Razorbacks as 11-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Crimson Tide have won the statistical battle in every game, including a 171-yard advantage in Tuscaloosa a week ago.\u00a0 The two SEC rivals will be meeting for the 37th time this Saturday, with Alabama holding a 21-14 advantage, including spread victories in the last two years.\u00a0 The Crimson Tide came away with a 31-6 win as 7.5-point home favorites in 2010.\u00a0 Alabama is 19-10 ATS as a favorite the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Crimson Tide are not afraid of knocking helmets with a ranked opponent, posting a 16-5 mark against such foes over the past three seasons.\u00a0 Alabama has already tallied a 2-0 mark in this category though the opening two weeks.\u00a0 Defensively, the team possesses one of the more dominant units in the country, allowing seven points or less in the first half of its last nine games.\u00a0 Alabama is also tied with Ohio State for surrendering the fewest rushing touchdowns in the nation since the start of the 2005 campaign.\u00a0 Heisman Trophy candidate Trent Richardson is the leader on the offensive side, averaging 110.2 rushing yards per game, while tying for the SEC-lead in scoring 13.5 points a game.<\/p>\n

Florida moved its record to 4-0 this year with a dominating 48-10 win over the Kentucky Wildcats, cashing as 17.5-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Gators are averaging 461.8 yards per game, while also possessing a top-five nationally ranked defense.\u00a0 Chris Rainey and Jeff Demps are a powerful running back tandem, combining for 731 rushing yards and six touchdowns, which matches up favorably to Richardson and Eddie Lacy on the other sideline, who have garnered 806 total yards.\u00a0 Florida is 0-2 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Gators have a very young team under the watchful eye of first-year head coach Will Muschamp, suiting up just nine scholarship seniors on its roster.\u00a0 Overall, Florida first-year head coaches are 12-24 versus ranked opponents, which includes a 3-2 mark under former leader Urban Meyer.\u00a0 The program has gotten off to fast starts this year, outscoring opponents 54-3 in the first quarter and 96-20 in the first half of games this season.\u00a0 The running game has been the dominant story, rushing for 405 yards at Kentucky, which was the highest total in that category for any SEC team this season.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Crimson Tide due to their 9-4 ATS mark as a road favorite, while the Gators are 2-5 ATS in October.<\/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 Alabama Crimson Tide at No. 12 Florida Gators Saturday, 10\/1\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 45.5 Current Total:\u00a0 44.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Alabama enters with a perfect 4-0 record and comes into The Swamp off a 38-14 win over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[462,3043,499,5480,739,3308,5390,5476],"class_list":["post-18054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-chris-rainey","tag-florida-gators","tag-jeff-demps","tag-sec","tag-the-swamp","tag-trent-richardson","tag-will-muschamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054","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=18054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18055,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054\/revisions\/18055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}