{"id":30814,"date":"2013-10-21T14:40:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T19:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30814"},"modified":"2013-10-21T14:40:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T19:40:26","slug":"sec-football-picks-kentucky-wildcats-vs-mississippi-state-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sec-football-picks-kentucky-wildcats-vs-mississippi-state-bulldogs-30814\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Football Picks: Kentucky Wildcats vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kentucky Wildcats vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs
\nThursday, 10\/24\/13, 7:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Mississippi State -10
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Mississippi State -10
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 57
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 57
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Mississippi State Bulldogs have covered their last four meetings with the Kentucky Wildcats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kentucky just went through its toughest four-game stretch in school history, as it dropped each contest against Alabama, South Carolina, Florida and Louisville, while losing the statistical battle in each of those affairs.\u00a0 The Wildcats strength of schedule versus teams played already is No. 6 nationally, which is important to consider when making your college football betting picks Thursday night.\u00a0 The team has recovered six fumbles this season\u2014sitting first in college football and 27th nationally in that category.\u00a0 Kentucky is 0-10 SU and 3-7 ATS on the road the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats \u201cAir-Raid\u201d offense is averaging 352.3 yards per game\u2014featuring a nice pass-run balance that\u2019s completing 60.1 percent of its passes and averaging 4.7 yards per rushing attempt.\u00a0 Kentucky was one of the most inexperienced teams in the nation last season, with that youth movement continuing with 14 newcomers and eight true freshmen seeing action.\u00a0 The road team has won six of the last seven games in this series.<\/p>\n

Mississippi State is looking to become the first team in this series to win five games in a row, as it also looks to capture back-to-back victories for the first time in 2013.\u00a0 The Bulldogs haven\u2019t started Southeastern Conference play with an 0-3 record since 2011, while the last five games in this series have been decided by an average margin of 8.0 points.\u00a0 The first half is critical in this matchup, with Thursday\u2019s host outscoring opponents 126-48 in the first half at this venue\u2014something to consider when looking over the college football betting lines.\u00a0 Mississippi State is 6-12 SU and 9-9 ATS versus conference foes the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs have manufactured 1,997 yards of total offense in four home games this season, while they\u2019ve scored 17 rushing touchdowns overall\u2014just one short of last year\u2019s total in that statistical category.\u00a0 Despite missing three games this year with a concussion, Mississippi State quarterback Tyler Russell is fifth on the school\u2019s all-time list with 4,947 passing yards.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bulldogs due to their 4-0 ATS mark in the last four 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kentucky Wildcats vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs Thursday, 10\/24\/13, 7:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Mississippi State -10 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Mississippi State -10 Opening Total:\u00a0 57 Current Total:\u00a0 57 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kentucky just went through its toughest four-game stretch in school history, as it dropped each contest against Alabama, South Carolina, Florida and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[876,2898,739,3875,6952],"class_list":["post-30814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs","tag-sec","tag-southeastern-conference","tag-tyler-russell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30814","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=30814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30815,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30814\/revisions\/30815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}