{"id":35882,"date":"2014-10-21T11:15:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35882"},"modified":"2014-10-21T11:25:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:25:15","slug":"college-football-week-9-picks-mississippi-state-bulldogs-vs-kentucky-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-9-picks-mississippi-state-bulldogs-vs-kentucky-wildcats-35882\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 9 Picks: Mississippi State Bulldogs vs. Kentucky Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mississippi State Bulldogs vs. Kentucky Wildcats
\nSaturday, 10\/25\/14, 3:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Mississippi State -14
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Mississippi State -13.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Mississippi State Bulldogs are 7-0 ATS in their last seven SEC affairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mississippi State returns to action after an open date, as it was last seen picking up a 38-23 victory over the Auburn Tigers as two-point home underdogs on Oct. 11, while winning the statistical battle for the fourth consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Bulldogs own a 21-20 all-time advantage in this Southeastern Conference series, which is important to consider when making your Week 9 college football betting picks, as they\u2019ve captured the last five meetings.\u00a0 Quarterback Dak Prescott is a legitimate Heisman Trophy contender, as he ranks third nationally in points responsible for with 23.0 per game.\u00a0 Mississippi Sate is 18-1 SU and 13-6 ATS as favorites the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs rank second nationally in redzone defense, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds page, especially with Benardrick McKinney leading the stop unit with 41 tackles.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, Prescott is leading an offense that paces the SEC and sits behind just nine in the country in averaging 529.7 yards per game.\u00a0 It\u2019s also important to point out that the squad has forced 30 turnovers in its last 11 games dating back to the 2013 campaign.<\/p>\n

Kentucky suffered a disappointing 41-3 defeat to the LSU Tigers as 11.5-point road underdogs last Saturday, as it lost the statistical battle by 209 yards, including 235 on the ground.\u00a0 The Wildcats have compiled a 3-11 SU all-time record when playing the top-ranked team in the country, with none of those games coming against this weekend\u2019s opponent.\u00a0 Kentucky is 0-12 SU and 2-10 ATS as underdogs of 10.5 to 21 points the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 7-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats have been getting after opponents on the defensive end, as they\u2019ve totaled 12 interceptions in their first seven games, which has played a part in ranking 11th nationally in turnover margin.\u00a0 A total of 74 percent of Kentucky\u2019s rushing yards offensively have come from student-athletes who did not play for the program a season ago.<\/p>\n

College football handicappers will likely back the Bulldogs due to their 7-0 ATS run in conference play.<\/p>\n

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Mississippi State Bulldogs vs. Kentucky Wildcats Saturday, 10\/25\/14, 3:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Mississippi State -14 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Mississippi State -13.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Mississippi State returns to action after an open date, as it was last seen picking up a 38-23 victory over the Auburn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[7659,1150,876,2898,739,3875],"class_list":["post-35882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-dak-prescott","tag-heisman-trophy","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs","tag-sec","tag-southeastern-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35882","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=35882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35883,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35882\/revisions\/35883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}