{"id":30680,"date":"2013-10-14T15:27:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T20:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30680"},"modified":"2013-10-14T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T20:27:13","slug":"college-football-week-8-picks-arkansas-razorbacks-vs-alabama-crimson-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-8-picks-arkansas-razorbacks-vs-alabama-crimson-tide-30680\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 8 Picks: Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Alabama Crimson Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Alabama Crimson Tide<\/strong>
\n Saturday, 10\/19\/13, 7:00 PM EST<\/strong>
\n Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -28<\/strong>
\n Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -28<\/strong>
\n Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A<\/strong>
\n Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A<\/strong>
\n Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Alabama Crimson Tide have won 19 of their last 20 October games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arkansas is one of two SEC teams to play at least eight straight weeks to open the 2013 campaign, as it looks to snap a four-game losing streak, which includes a 52-7 setback to the South Carolina Gamecocks as 4.5-point home underdogs last Saturday.\u00a0 The Razorbacks are the only team nationally that plays preseason Top 10 opponents in four consecutive weeks, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college football predictions Saturday night.\u00a0 The program has outscored its opponents 59-34 in the first quarter.\u00a0 Arkansas is 3-7 SU and 1-9 ATS on the road since 2011, with the OVER cashing in seven of those 10 opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Razorbacks are led by freshman running back Alex Collins, who is the only first-year player in college football averaging at least 100.0 rushing yards per game.\u00a0 Arkansas and UCLA are the only teams in the country to start two true freshmen on the offensive line this season.<\/p>\n

Alabama is 6-0 SU and 3-3 ATS through six games this season, as it comes off a 48-7 victory over the Kentucky Wildcats as 26.5-point road favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 The Crimson Tide have won six consecutive games against the Razorbacks\u2014capturing those games by an average of 24.4 points.\u00a0 Defensively, no team in the conference has allowed fewer first downs, while ranking fourth in the country in that all-important statistical category.\u00a0 Alabama is 6-0 SUATS as favorites of 21.5 to 31 points the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 4-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Crimson Tide are second in the conference and sixth nationally in time of possession, with quarterback AJ McCarron being the key player in that equation.\u00a0 He has compiled a 31-2 record during his time on campus\u2014completing 67.1 percent of his passes.\u00a0 Alabama has also won 19 of 20 games in the month of October over the last six seasons.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Crimson Tide due to the favorite covering four of the last five meetings in this series.<\/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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Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Alabama Crimson Tide Saturday, 10\/19\/13, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -28 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -28 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Arkansas is one of two SEC teams to play at least eight straight weeks to open the 2013 campaign, as it looks to snap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7627,462,7610,2448,739],"class_list":["post-30680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-aj-mccarron","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-alex-collins","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680","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=30680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30681,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680\/revisions\/30681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}