{"id":18073,"date":"2011-09-28T16:19:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T21:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18073"},"modified":"2011-09-28T16:19:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T21:19:11","slug":"sec-preview-kentucky-wildcats-at-lsu-tigers-ncaa-football-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sec-preview-kentucky-wildcats-at-lsu-tigers-ncaa-football-predictions-18073\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Preview: Kentucky Wildcats at LSU Tigers NCAA Football Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kentucky Wildcats at No. 1 LSU Tigers
\nSaturday, 10\/1\/11, 12:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 LSU -28
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 LSU -30
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 47
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 44.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The LSU Tigers are the No. 1 team in the country heading into Saturday's action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kentucky will travel on the road for the first time this Saturday and is coming off a 48-10 defeat to the Florida Gators as 17.5-point home underdogs.\u00a0 The Wildcats have been out-gained in all four contests this year, including by a 221-yard margin last week.\u00a0 Turnovers have been a major issue for the squad, giving the ball to the Gators four times, which allowed the contest to turn into a blowout.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve got to get this football team to know how precious the football is,\u201d commented Wildcats head coach Joker Phillips.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve had poor field position the last couple weeks.\u201d\u00a0 Kentucky is 5-11 ATS as an underdog and 7-10 ATS versus conference opponents.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats are led offensively by quarterback Morgan Newton, who has completed 59-of-110 passes for 590 yards and five touchdowns.\u00a0 Kentucky\u2019s top wide receiver has been La\u2019Rod King, who leads the team with 19 catches for 276 yards and four touchdowns.\u00a0 This will be the 56th meeting in this series, with the Wildcats posting a 16-38-1 record, including a 5-22-1 mark in Baton Rouge.\u00a0 Over the years, the program has played 223 games against ranked competition, coming away with a 39-179-5 record.\u00a0 Kentucky is 4-23-1 all-time against ranked LSU teams.<\/p>\n

LSU can pretty much name the score in this contest and comes off spread victories over Mississippi State and West Virginia on the road.\u00a0 The Tigers were out-gained by 167 yards last week, which should definitely be noted despite the 26-point margin of victory.\u00a0 \u201cWe hold the No. 1 spot in college football today, but that is not the final achievement,\u201d commented Tigers head coach Les Miles.\u00a0 The team has been relying on a punishing defense that has forced 11 turnovers, including four last week.\u00a0 LSU is 9-10 ATS as a favorite and 8-8 ATS versus conference foes.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have cashed in on those turnovers mentioned above, scoring eight times, including seven touchdowns on drives following opponent\u2019s miscues.\u00a0 LSU will go into this contest with a 14-3 record in games played as the nation\u2019s No. 1 ranked team.\u00a0 Despite all the accolades, the squad still allowed 533 yards to West Virginia, but the defensive unit remains among the best in the nation in terms of points allowed.\u00a0 LSU is 38-6 in seven seasons under Miles when playing inside of Tiger Stadium, including a 7-0 record last year.\u00a0 Quarterback Jarrett Lee seems to be settling in at quarterback and is now 9-4 when being under center to start a contest.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Wildcats due to their 5-2 ATS mark in this series, while the Tigers are 1-5 ATS as a home favorite of 10.5 or more points.<\/p>\n

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Kentucky Wildcats at No. 1 LSU Tigers Saturday, 10\/1\/11, 12:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 LSU -28 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 LSU -30 Opening Total:\u00a0 47 Current Total:\u00a0 44.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kentucky will travel on the road for the first time this Saturday and is coming off a 48-10 defeat to the […]<\/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":[3311,5486,876,3309,498,739,5487],"class_list":["post-18073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-jarrett-lee","tag-joke-phillips","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-les-miles","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-sec","tag-tiger-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073","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=18073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18074,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073\/revisions\/18074"}],"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=18073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}