{"id":7766,"date":"2010-09-17T14:19:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2010-09-17T14:19:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T19:19:15","slug":"florida-at-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/florida-at-tennessee-7766\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Predictions: Florida Vs Tennessee Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Gators at Tennessee Volunteers<\/strong>
\nSaturday, 9\/18\/10, 3:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 CBS<\/strong>
\nOpening Point Spread: Florida -15<\/strong>
\nCurrent Betting Line: Florida -14<\/strong>
\nOpening Total: 48<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 45.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline: Florida -550\/Tennessee +450
\n<\/strong>All odds taken from Bookmaker Sportsbook who is offering a 25% signup bonus to all new online sports bettors.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"John
Brantley and the Florida Gators are 14 point road favs against the Vols<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florida travels to Knoxville to open its SEC slate against rival Tennessee.\u00a0 The Gators come in with a perfect 2-0 record, including a 38-14 win against in-state foe South Florida.\u00a0 Saturday\u2019s game will mark the 40th all-time meeting between the teams, with the Gators holding a 20-19 edge.\u00a0 The team has been dealing with an off-the-field distraction all week, as starting wide receiver Chris Rainey was arrested and charged with aggravated stalking.\u00a0 Offensive coordinator Steve Addazio has been doing his best in keeping his unit\u2019s focus by saying, \u201cHe is not part of our team right now.\u00a0 That\u2019s really all I have to say on that.\u201d\u00a0 Florida brings winning streaks of 22 regular-season games, 12 road games and 14 regular-season SEC games into the matchup.\u00a0 The squad is 11-7\u00a0against the college football point spread\u00a0versus conference opponents over the last three years.<\/p>\n

The Gators have been led by their defense that has eight interceptions through the first two games, which is twice as many as any SEC school.\u00a0 The team tallied 28 points off of turnovers in its last game and has 48 points off turnovers through the first two games of the season.\u00a0 With quarterback Tim Tebow\u2019s departure after three full years behind center, new starter John Brantley has been thrown into the fire.\u00a0 He completed 18 of 31 passes for 172 yards and two touchdowns against the Bulls and holds a streak of 117 straight passes without being intercepted.\u00a0 The total is 19-9 O\/U in the Gators\u2019 games the last three seasons.<\/p>\n

Tennessee needs to certainly regroup after falling 48-13 at home to Oregon last week.\u00a0 The Volunteers held a 13-3 lead early in the second quarter, but ultimately allowed 45 unanswered points.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re focusing so much on the scoreboard that when things aren\u2019t going our way on the scoreboard, we get frustrated,\u201d\u00a0 head coach Derek Dooley said.\u00a0 The team may trail in the overall series, but leads 11-9 in Knoxville, but have lost the last two such meetings at Neyland Stadium.\u00a0 Tennessee is in the midst of opening up with four straight home games for the first time since 1978, producing a 26-9 record in those contests.\u00a0 It\u2019s also the first time in program history that the squad will home two teams ranked in the national top 10 in consecutive weeks.\u00a0 The Volunteers have been an underdog of 10.5 to 21 points just two times in the past three years, going 1-1 ATS in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Volunteers did receive encouraging play from running back Tauren Poole in last week\u2019s blowout loss, gaining 162 yards on 23 carries.\u00a0 The junior has 272 yards and three touchdowns on the season.\u00a0 Tennessee\u2019s offensive line is comprised of five players that all made their starting lineup debuts in the season opener against UT Martin.\u00a0 They enabled the team to rush for an impressive 332 yards in that contest followed up by a respectable 182 yards versus Oregon.\u00a0 Junior quarterback Matt Simms has been under center the past two weeks, completing 29 passes for 332 yards combined.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Gators are a worthy 11-3 ATS in their last 14 road games, but the Volunteers are an impressive 7-3 ATS in their last 10 SEC games.\u00a0 We are still looking at this game but have released our 20 Unit Non conference game of the month and it goes Saturday.\u00a0 We are currently on a 14-3 college pick run and will continue the winning on Saturday.\u00a0 Get the best college football picks on the Internet today from the nations #1 sports handicapping service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida Gators at Tennessee Volunteers Saturday, 9\/18\/10, 3:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread: Florida -15 Current Betting Line: Florida -14 Opening Total: 48 Current Total: 45.5 Current Moneyline: Florida -550\/Tennessee +450 All odds taken from Bookmaker Sportsbook who is offering a 25% signup bonus to all new online sports bettors. Florida travels to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":3997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3043,499,2264,3044,739,469],"class_list":["post-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-chris-rainey","tag-florida-gators","tag-john-brantley","tag-matt-simms","tag-sec","tag-tennessee-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","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\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7768,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions\/7768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}