{"id":8800,"date":"2010-10-08T17:25:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T22:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=8800"},"modified":"2010-10-08T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T22:25:11","slug":"lsu-at-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/lsu-at-florida-8800\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU Vs Florida Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

LSU Tigers at Florida Gators
\nSaturday, 10\/9\/10, 7:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread: Florida -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line: Florida -6
\nOpening Total: 43
\nCurrent Total: 42
\nCurrent Moneyline: Florida -250\/LSU +210
\n<\/strong>Odds taken from Bookmaker Sportsbook<\/em><\/p>\n

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Urban and the Gators are 6 point home favorites over the LSU Tigers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LSU puts its undefeated record on the line against the Florida Gators at the Swamp in Gainesville, Florida on Saturday night.\u00a0 The Tigers will need to perform at a higher level than it showed in its last victory, a 16-14 home win over the Tennessee Volunteers last Saturday.\u00a0 Head coach Les Miles knows that he must prepare his team better situationally moving forward stating, \u201cI understand the responsibility of the way we managed the back end of the game is mine.\u201d\u00a0 The team committed four turnovers with nine penalties in the contest.\u00a0 LSU still is 5-0 for the second straight year and for the third time under Miles\u2019 direction and he\u2019s 56-15 overall as the head man in Baton Rouge.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the Tigers are an incredible 40-4 in night games and 13-2 in those games away from Tiger Stadium during his tenure, with one of those losses coming at tonight\u2019s venue.<\/p>\n

The Tigers rely on a strong defense that leads the SEC in total defense and rushing defense, while sitting second to only Alabama in scoring defense at 12.4 points per game.\u00a0 LSU has been especially difficult to score upon in the first quarter, allowing just seven points all season, with the score coming in last week\u2019s game against Tennessee.\u00a0 Offensively, the team will use a steady dose of running back Stevan Ridley, who leads the SEC in rushing with 557 yards.\u00a0 Despite scoring only 16 points against the Volunteers, LSU had its best game statistically by gaining 434 total yards.\u00a0 For the first time since 2004, the squad used dual quarterbacks in the game as Jordan Jefferson and Jarrett Lee split time.\u00a0 Over the last three years, LSU has garnered a 10-19 ATS mark in all lined games.<\/p>\n

Florida welcomes the Tigers to The Swamp and currently hold a 4-1 record following its 31-6 road loss to top-ranked Alabama last week.\u00a0 Tonight\u2019s game marks the 57th meeting in series history with the Gators holding a 30-23-3 advantage all-time, including a 3-2 mark under the direction of head coach Urban Meyer.\u00a0 The team snapped the Tigers\u2019 Saturday night 32-game winning streak with a 13-3 victory, holding the hosts to just 162 yards of total offense.\u00a0 \u201cYou don\u2019t have to be pumped to play LSU at night in The Swamp,\u201d defensive lineman Duke Lemmens said.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s another SEC game and we have a chance to either go downhill or uphill with that game.\u201d\u00a0 The Gators have won the last two meetings in Gainesville and are 37-2 at home since losing to them in October 2004, holding opponents to an average of 12.5 points.<\/p>\n

The Gators offense is hoping to have quarterback John Brantley available after suffering a rib injury in last week\u2019s game.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m a little sore like any other game, but nothing major, nothing that\u2019s going to stop me from doing anything,\u201d he said.\u00a0 If he\u2019s unable to perform, freshman Trey Burton will move under center, who has thrown two passes all season.\u00a0 He does lead the team with eight total touchdowns and is often running formations out of the Wildcat.\u00a0 Florida actually outgained Alabama, 281-273, putting up more or equal yards against all five opponents this year.\u00a0 The squad is 1-0 ATS as a home favorite of 3.5 to 7 points the last three years and 9-1 against the college football point spread\u00a0in the situation in its last 10 chances.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in playing the Tigers due to their 20-11 mark in games against ranked opponents under Miles, including 2-0 this year.\u00a0 Florida has put together a 12-4 mark against AP Top 10 opponents under Meyer.<\/p>\n

Maddux Sports doesn’t have an opinion on this game but does have 7 strong winners for Saturday, get these picks including a rare 20 unit play on our college football expert picks page of the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LSU Tigers at Florida Gators Saturday, 10\/9\/10, 7:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread: Florida -7.5 Current Betting Line: Florida -6 Opening Total: 43 Current Total: 42 Current Moneyline: Florida -250\/LSU +210 Odds taken from Bookmaker Sportsbook LSU puts its undefeated record on the line against the Florida Gators at the Swamp in Gainesville, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[499,3311,2264,2804,3309,498,739,3310,3308,557],"class_list":["post-8800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-florida-gators","tag-jarrett-lee","tag-john-brantley","tag-jordan-jefferson","tag-les-miles","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-sec","tag-stevan-ridley","tag-the-swamp","tag-urban-meyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800","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=8800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8802,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions\/8802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}