{"id":31245,"date":"2013-11-12T20:30:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T01:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31245"},"modified":"2013-11-12T18:39:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T23:39:48","slug":"college-football-week-12-picks-alabama-crimson-tide-vs-mississippi-state-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-12-picks-alabama-crimson-tide-vs-mississippi-state-bulldogs-31245\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 12 Picks: Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Mississippi State Rebels
\nSaturday, 11\/16\/13, 7:45 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -24.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -25.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 52
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 52
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Alabama Crimson Tide are 8-0 SUATS as favorites of 21.5 to 31 points since 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alabama improved to 9-0 on the season after picking up a 38-17 victory over the LSU Tigers as 14-point home favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the betting total for a fourth consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Crimson Tide have won five straight in this series and 10 of the last 12 matchups, which is important to consider when making your college football expert picks in Week 12.\u00a0 The program is sitting in the top spot in the current BCS standings\u2014ahead of the Florida State Seminoles, Ohio State Buckeyes and Baylor Bears.\u00a0 Alabama is 8-0 SUATS as favorites of 21.5 to 31 points the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 6-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Crimson Tide are led offensively by the steady play of quarterback AJ McCarron, who has 34 career wins, while the defense has allowed the fewest first downs in the Southeastern Conference.\u00a0 Alabama is third in the SEC and 10th in the nation in terms of time of possession, while it has out-gained its last seven opponents by an average of 229.9 yards per game.\u00a0 McCarron has been sacked just four times in the team\u2019s last eight games.<\/p>\n

Mississippi State is looking to snap a two-game losing streak, which includes a 51-41 defeat to the Texas A&M Aggies as 19.5-point road underdogs last Saturday, but it has won the statistical battle in its last four contests.\u00a0 The Bulldogs will be facing a top-ranked Crimson Tide squad for the sixth time in school history\u2014posting a 1-4 record in the previous affairs.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is led by the play of dual-threat signal-caller Dak Prescott, who is the leading rusher and passer on campus.\u00a0 Mississippi State is 0-14 SU and 4-10 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 9-5 in those 14 opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs have faced a challenging schedule through nine games, with their opponents putting together a combined 60-27 record.\u00a0 Mississippi State is averaging 459.2 yards of total offense a game, which would shatter the school record of 422.0 set in 1982.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bulldogs due to the home team being 5-1 ATS in the last six meetings.<\/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":"

Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Mississippi State Rebels Saturday, 11\/16\/13, 7:45 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -24.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -25.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 52 Current Total:\u00a0 52 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Alabama improved to 9-0 on the season after picking up a 38-17 victory over the LSU Tigers as 14-point home favorites last Saturday, […]<\/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":[7627,462,7659,2898,739,3875],"class_list":["post-31245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-aj-mccarron","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-dak-prescott","tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs","tag-sec","tag-southeastern-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31245","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=31245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31246,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31245\/revisions\/31246"}],"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=31245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}