{"id":25396,"date":"2012-10-08T17:31:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=25396"},"modified":"2012-10-08T17:31:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T22:31:12","slug":"college-football-week-7-picks-against-the-spread-south-carolina-gamecocks-vs-lsu-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-7-picks-against-the-spread-south-carolina-gamecocks-vs-lsu-tigers-25396\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 7 Picks Against the Spread: South Carolina Gamecocks vs. LSU Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 3 South Carolina Gamecocks at No. 9 LSU Tigers
\nSaturday, 10\/13\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 LSU -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 LSU -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 42.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 40.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The South Carolina Gamecocks and LSU Tigers are both playing back-to-back weeks against top-10 opponents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

South Carolina has won a school-record 10 straight games, which includes a dominating 35-7 win over the Georgia Bulldogs as one-point home favorites last week, while going UNDER the posted total of 54.5.\u00a0 \u201cEvery week\u2019s the same around here as far as getting ready for the opponent we play,\u201d stated Gamecocks head coach Steve Spurrier.\u00a0 The program is shooting for its second-ever 7-0 start, while facing a second top-10 opponent in as many weeks.\u00a0 South Carolina is 1-2 ATS as a road underdog, while the OVER is 2-1 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Gamecocks are 2-16-1 all-time against Saturday\u2019s opponent, with the only win in Baton Rouge coming in 1994.\u00a0 Spurrier should give his locker room some confidence, considering he\u2019s gone 11-3 all-time against LSU.\u00a0 All eyes will be on defensive end Jadeveon Clowney when that particular unit is on the field, coming in with 5.5 sacks, while the team has 22 total.\u00a0 On the other side of the football, running back Marcus Lattimore has accounted for 364 yards and three touchdowns in the last two games.<\/p>\n

LSU will lean heavily on head coach Les Miles\u2019 17-1 record following a loss, as it looks to bounce back from a disappointing 14-6 setback to the Florida Gators as two-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Tigers have failed to cover the spread in their last three games, but they\u2019ve often done their best work inside Tiger Stadium.\u00a0 The team\u2019s last 10 home wins have come by an average of 32.6 points, while it enters with the nation\u2019s longest home win streak of 21 games, which also happens to be a school record.\u00a0 LSU is 2-0 ATS off a loss against a conference rival.<\/p>\n

The Tigers are certainly up against it in terms of the schedule, as their next four opponents have combined to tally an impressive 20-1 record.\u00a0 LSU has won four straight in this series, with Miles coming up on the winning end in each of his two tries, including a 24-17 win as 1.5-point road favorites on Oct. 18, 2008.\u00a0 The last time the program lost two games during the month of October came in 2008.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Gamecocks due to their 6-0 ATS mark versus teams with a winning record, while the Tigers are 0-4 ATS after rushing for 100 or fewer yards.<\/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

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No. 3 South Carolina Gamecocks at No. 9 LSU Tigers Saturday, 10\/13\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 LSU -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 LSU -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 42.5 Current Total:\u00a0 40.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker South Carolina has won a school-record 10 straight games, which includes a dominating 35-7 win over the Georgia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":23889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3309,498,3128,739,3126,2781,5487],"class_list":["post-25396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-les-miles","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-marcus-lattimore","tag-sec","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-steve-spurrier","tag-tiger-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396","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=25396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25397,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396\/revisions\/25397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}