{"id":35833,"date":"2014-10-17T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T21:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35833"},"modified":"2014-10-17T16:26:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T21:26:39","slug":"college-football-week-8-picks-kentucky-wildcats-vs-lsu-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-8-picks-kentucky-wildcats-vs-lsu-tigers-35833\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 8 Picks: Kentucky Wildcats vs. LSU Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kentucky Wildcats vs. LSU Tigers
\nSaturday, 10\/18\/14, 7:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 LSU -11.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 LSU -10.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 49.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 53
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The LSU Tigers have dominated opponents when playing at Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kentucky has won three games in a row, including a 48-14 victory over Louisiana-Monroe as 19.5-point home favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the betting total for a second consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Wildcats had a 100-yard rusher and 100-yard receiver in the same game for the first time since 2012 last time out, which is important to consider when making your Week 8 college football betting picks, while quarterback Patrick Towles threw for 216 yards in the win and three touchdowns.\u00a0 Kentucky is 0-11 SU and 2-9 ATS as underdogs of 10.5 to 21 points the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 6-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats are off to a 5-1 start this season, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds, as it serves as their best open to a campaign since 2007.\u00a0 Kentucky has one of the best statistical defenses in the Southeastern Conference, as the group ranks 15th in scoring\u00a0 defense and eighth in turnovers gained.\u00a0 Offensively, a total of 73 percent of the team\u2019s rushing yards have come from student-athletes who did not play for the program a year ago.<\/p>\n

LSU will look to make it a two-game sweep of SEC Eastern Division foes when taking the field at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, as it returns home after picking up a 30-27 victory over the Florida Gators as 1.5-point favorites in Week 7, while going OVER the betting total for the third time in four contests.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the team is a dominating 44-3 SU in Saturday night games at this venue during the Les Miles era, with all three losses coming to ranked opponents.\u00a0 LSU is 5-0 SU and 1-4 ATS as favorites of 10.5 to 21 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have turned the ball over just one time in their three SEC games, while they possess a plus-five turnover margin for the entire season.\u00a0 True freshmen have accounted for 16 of the squad\u2019s 31 offensive touchdowns, with running back Leonard Fournette really starting to gain some traction.\u00a0 The nation\u2019s top recruit from a year ago is coming off a 140-yard rushing performance.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Tigers due to the home team being 5-1 ATS in the last six 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. LSU Tigers Saturday, 10\/18\/14, 7:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 LSU -11.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 LSU -10.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 49.5 Current Total:\u00a0 53 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kentucky has won three games in a row, including a 48-14 victory over Louisiana-Monroe as 19.5-point home favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the betting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[876,3309,498,8577,739,3875,5487],"class_list":["post-35833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-les-miles","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-patrick-towles","tag-sec","tag-southeastern-conference","tag-tiger-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35833","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=35833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35834,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35833\/revisions\/35834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}