{"id":35279,"date":"2014-09-09T16:15:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T21:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35279"},"modified":"2014-09-09T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T20:45:39","slug":"southern-miss-golden-eagles-vs-alabama-crimson-tide-college-football-week-3-odds-and-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/southern-miss-golden-eagles-vs-alabama-crimson-tide-college-football-week-3-odds-and-picks-35279\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Miss Golden Eagles vs. Alabama Crimson Tide: College Football Week 3 Odds and Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southern Miss Golden Eagles vs. Alabama Crimson Tide
\nSaturday, 9\/13\/14, 6:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -48
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -48
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Alabama Crimson Tide have dominated their first two opponents statistically<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Southern Miss snapped an 11-game home losing streak in its victory against Alcorn State in Week 2, while it has played six true freshmen and eight redshirt freshmen through the first two contests.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles will need to cause the Crimson Tide to make some mistakes in order to cover this number on the college football odds page, but they\u2019ve managed to force multiple turnovers in their last three games dating back to last season.\u00a0 The program is 15-62-1 SU against ranked opponents\u2014dropping its last three contests in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles are 6-34-2 all-time against the Crimson Tide, including a 2-18-1 mark when playing in Tuscaloosa.\u00a0 Southern Miss returned 57.4 percent of its total offense from a season ago, with sophomore quarterback Nike Mullens being one of the main contributors due to playing the final six games of the 2013 campaign.\u00a0 The school is 34-108-3 all-time against Southeastern Conference opponents.<\/p>\n

Alabama has out-gained Florida Atlantic and West Virginia 1,158-538 in total yards in capturing its first two games, which is important to consider when making your Week 3 college football picks.\u00a0 The Crimson Tide used both Jake Coker and Blake Sims under center last time out, with each player passing for over 200 yards.\u00a0 Both of those players have some major players to target downfield, including wide receiver Amari Cooper, who had 45 grabs for 736 yards last season.\u00a0 He leads the nation in receptions and receiving yards this year.\u00a0 Alabama is 9-0 SU and 2-6-1 ATS as favorites of 31 or more points since 2012.<\/p>\n

The Crimson Tide also have one of the more talented running back duos in the country, with Derrick Henry averaging 6.2 yards per carry, while T.J. Yeldon is averaging 5.6 yards per touch.\u00a0 Alabama is 62-1 since the start of the 2008 season when rushing for at least 140 yards.\u00a0 From a special teams standpoint, head coach Nick Saban has been very pleased in the kicking game, with sophomore Adam Griffith being perfect on six field goal attempts.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Golden Eagles due to the Crimson Tide being 4-7 ATS in their last 11 non-conference games.<\/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":"

Southern Miss Golden Eagles vs. Alabama Crimson Tide Saturday, 9\/13\/14, 6:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Alabama -48 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Alabama -48 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Southern Miss snapped an 11-game home losing streak in its victory against Alcorn State in Week 2, while it has played six […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[462,8450,8328,8362,588,3976],"class_list":["post-35279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-blake-sims","tag-jake-coker","tag-nick-mullens","tag-nick-saban","tag-southern-miss-golden-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35279","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=35279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35280,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35279\/revisions\/35280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}