{"id":19687,"date":"2011-11-26T10:21:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T15:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19687"},"modified":"2011-11-26T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T15:21:24","slug":"iron-bowl-2011-alabama-crimson-tide-vs-auburn-tigers-sec-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/iron-bowl-2011-alabama-crimson-tide-vs-auburn-tigers-sec-betting-preview-19687\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Bowl 2011: Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Auburn Tigers, SEC Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide at No. 24 Auburn Tigers
\nSaturday, 11\/26\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -21.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -21
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 45
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Alabama Crimson Tide are seemingly one win away from earning a spot in the BCS Championship Game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alabama is set to finish off its regular season and due to its No. 2 ranking in the latest BCS standings, it\u2019s likely it will play in the national title game with a victory in this heated rivalry.\u00a0 Fans of both sides have gotten use to the high-stakes game of this particular matchup, with this being the fourth straight season that it has championship implications.\u00a0 Saturday\u2019s game is the 76th meeting, with Alabama holding a 40-34-1 all-time advantage, as it looks for revenge from last year\u2019s 28-27 loss as 4.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 Alabama is 8-5 ATS as a road favorite the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Crimson Tide have tallied a 15-2 record in true road games since the start of the 2008 campaign, while also registering a 17-6 mark versus AP Top 25 teams the past three seasons.\u00a0 Alabama is led offensively by Heisman Trophy candidate Trent Richardson, as the running back has gained 1,380 yards on the ground through 11 games, which is slightly behind Mark Ingram\u2019s 1,399-yard pace when he won the award in 2009.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, the defense is allowing just 195.9 yards per game, ranking first nationally.<\/p>\n

Auburn will host ESPN College GameDay and will put its 14-game winning streak on the line at Jordan-Hare Stadium.\u00a0 The Tigers know they will be facing off against one of the top teams in the country this afternoon.\u00a0 \u201cThis is not a good football team, this is a great football team we\u2019re playing,\u201d commented Tigers coach Gene Chizik.\u00a0 The program\u2019s four losses this year have all come on the road against ranked competition, which certainly gives it a chance in hosting its biggest rival.\u00a0 Auburn is 13-8 ATS at home the past two-plus seasons, while the \u2018over\u2019 is 12-7 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Tigers will lean heavily on running back Michael Dyer, who is the first player in school history to rush for over 1,000 yards in each of his first two seasons.\u00a0 He has rushed for the fifth-best two-year total in program history, coming in with 2,287 yards since the start of the 2010 campaign.\u00a0 Auburn shouldn\u2019t be discounted due to the large betting odds Saturday, as it has faced the second-toughest schedule nationally.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Tigers due to their 6-0 ATS mark as a home underdog, while the Crimson Tide are 0-4 ATS in November.<\/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. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide at No. 24 Auburn Tigers Saturday, 11\/26\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -21.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -21 Opening Total:\u00a0 45 Current Total:\u00a0 47 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Alabama is set to finish off its regular season and due to its No. 2 ranking in 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":[462,470,5808,3127,5372,5390],"class_list":["post-19687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-auburn-tigers","tag-bcs-standings","tag-jordan-hare-stadium","tag-michael-dyer","tag-trent-richardson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687","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=19687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19689,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687\/revisions\/19689"}],"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=19687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}