{"id":19070,"date":"2011-11-02T16:16:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T21:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19070"},"modified":"2011-11-02T16:16:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T21:16:26","slug":"sec-football-picks-south-carolina-gamecocks-vs-arkansas-razorbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sec-football-picks-south-carolina-gamecocks-vs-arkansas-razorbacks-19070\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Football Picks: South Carolina Gamecocks vs. Arkansas Razorbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Carolina Gamecocks at Arkansas Razorbacks
\nSaturday, 11\/5\/11, 7:15 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arkansas -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Arkansas -5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 52.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 53
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The South Carolina Gamecocks will look to continue winning games without the services of star running back Marcus Lattimore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

South Carolina is set to play its third straight Southeastern Conference road game when traveling to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks in Fayetteville.\u00a0 The Gamecocks have won three consecutive games since dropping a 16-13 contest to the Auburn Tigers, including a 14-3 victory over the Tennessee Volunteers as 3.5-point road favorites.\u00a0 Key injuries and the dismissal of former starting quarterback Stephen Garcia will make things difficult on the program Saturday.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a real big test,\u201d commented Gamecocks linebacker Antonio Allen.\u00a0 Surprisingly, offensive guru Steve Spurrier brings in the third-best defense in the SEC.\u00a0 South Carolina is 5-1 ATS in November, while the \u2018under\u2019 is 5-1 in the team\u2019s last six road games.<\/p>\n

The Gamecocks are in control of their own destiny to win the SEC Eastern Division title for a second straight year.\u00a0 South Carolina will be involved in a game featuring two top 10 teams for the first time since the 1987 Gator Bowl.\u00a0 This is the 20th game in a series that dates back to 1992, posting a 7-12 mark, including losses in the last two meetings.\u00a0 Spurrier is 1-2 all-time against Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino.<\/p>\n

Arkansas returns home and puts its 3-0 home record on the line, while entering a month that has been very good to its head coach.\u00a0 Petrino boasts a .778 winning percentage in November, a mark that leads all SEC coaches with at least a year of experience.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m really excited about it and happy about it,\u201d he commented in practice this week about hosting a game featuring two top 10 programs for the first time since 1979.\u00a0 Arkansas is 0-4 ATS after two or more straight-up wins this season, while the \u2018over\u2019 has cashed in three of those contests.<\/p>\n

The Razorbacks have won five straight games against opponents from the Eastern Division, which is the longest such winning streak in school history.\u00a0 Arkansas will also be playing its Homecoming game Saturday, posting a 53-32-4 record in that situation.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is incredibly efficient inside the 20-yard line, scoring on 32-of-35 chances when in the red zone.\u00a0 Quarterback Tyler Wilson is the leader of that attack, not throwing an interception in a school-record 176 passes, while leading the conference with 2,327 passing yards.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Razorbacks due to the favorite being 4-1 ATS in this series, while the Gamecocks are 1-5 ATS in Arkansas.<\/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":"

South Carolina Gamecocks at Arkansas Razorbacks Saturday, 11\/5\/11, 7:15 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arkansas -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Arkansas -5 Opening Total:\u00a0 52.5 Current Total:\u00a0 53 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker South Carolina is set to play its third straight Southeastern Conference road game when traveling to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":8141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[2448,3313,739,3126,2781,5457],"class_list":["post-19070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-bobby-petrino","tag-sec","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-steve-spurrier","tag-tyler-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070","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=19070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19071,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070\/revisions\/19071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}