{"id":30056,"date":"2013-09-10T18:27:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30056"},"modified":"2013-09-10T18:27:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:27:17","slug":"vanderbilt-commodores-vs-south-carolina-gamecocks-college-football-week-3-betting-odds-and-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/vanderbilt-commodores-vs-south-carolina-gamecocks-college-football-week-3-betting-odds-and-picks-30056\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanderbilt Commodores vs. South Carolina Gamecocks: College Football Week 3 Betting Odds and Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanderbilt Commodores vs. No. 13 South Carolina Gamecocks
\nSaturday, 9\/14\/13, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 South Carolina -11
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 South Carolina -13.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 49.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 50.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The South Carolina Gamecocks have won 12 consecutive home games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vanderbilt will look for its first victory over a nationally ranked opponent since 2008, as it comes off a 38-3 victory over Austin Peay as 47-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total of 54.5.\u00a0 The Commodores are certainly up against it in this matchup, as they haven\u2019t won a game against a ranked opponent since Dec. 31, 2008, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college football predictions Saturday night.\u00a0 Third-year head coach James Franklin has done a admirable job of turning around the program, as he\u2019s compiled a 16-12 record since 2011.\u00a0 Vanderbilt is 8-6 ATS as underdogs over the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 8-6 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Commodores were the only ones in the SEC to have their entire coaching staff return from a season ago, while 16 underclassmen have experienced their initial action in a Vanderbilt uniform.\u00a0 The program won its final three road games against conference opponents in 2012, but it has dropped 18 of 22 meetings against this week\u2019s opponent.\u00a0 Offensively, quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels ran for two touchdowns and threw for another last time out, while wide receiver Jordan Matthews has 289 receiving yards through two games.<\/p>\n

South Carolina is set to face its second-straight Eastern Division opponent, as it looks to bounce back from a 41-30 setback to the Georgia Bulldogs as three-point road underdogs last Saturday.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s nothing embarrassing about losing as long as you play smart and play with a lot of effort,\u201d commented Gamecocks head coach Steve Spurrier about the performance.\u00a0 \u201cWe didn\u2019t do those two things.\u201d\u00a0 His team is looking to win its 13th consecutive home game, which would tied for the second-longest winning streak in school history.\u00a0 South Carolina is 10-5 ATS at home the last two-plus seasons, which is important to consider when looking over the college football odds page.<\/p>\n

The Gamecocks are worth favorites due to Spurrier\u2019s success against the Commodores, as he\u2019s won 19 of 21 games against them, including a 6-2 mark during his time in Columbia.\u00a0 South Carolina will look to feature running back Mike Davis, who ranks fourth in the conference and 14th in the country in averaging 132.0 rushing yards per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Commodores due to their 21-8 ATS mark in their last 29 games in September.<\/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":"

Vanderbilt Commodores vs. No. 13 South Carolina Gamecocks Saturday, 9\/14\/13, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 South Carolina -11 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 South Carolina -13.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 49.5 Current Total:\u00a0 50.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Vanderbilt will look for its first victory over a nationally ranked opponent since 2008, as it comes off a 38-3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[5508,5406,7577,739,3126,2781,456],"class_list":["post-30056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-connor-shaw","tag-james-franklin","tag-mike-davis","tag-sec","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-steve-spurrier","tag-vanderbilt-commodores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056","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=30056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30057,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056\/revisions\/30057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}