{"id":9023,"date":"2010-10-15T15:50:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T20:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=9023"},"modified":"2010-10-15T16:55:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T21:55:24","slug":"mississippi-state-at-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/mississippi-state-at-florida-9023\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi State Bulldogs at Florida Gators Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mississippi State Bulldogs at Florida Gators
\nSaturday, 10\/16\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU
\nOpening Point Spread: \u00a0Florida -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line: \u00a0Florida -8
\nOpening Total: \u00a048.5
\nCurrent Total: \u00a047
\nCurrent Moneyline: \u00a0Florida -315 \/ Mississippi State +265<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Florida faces tough SEC foe in trying to avoid three straight losses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mississippi State arrives in Gainesville, Florida on a three-game winning streak for the first time since 2007, but the last two victories have been against Alcorn State and a Houston team without Heisman candidate Case Keenum.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to get back adjusted to the speed of the SEC,\u201d head coach Dan Mullen said.\u00a0 \u201cFlorida\u2019s one of the fastest teams, if not the fastest team, in the country.\u201d\u00a0 A victory on Saturday would give the Bulldogs their first four-game winning streak since opening the 1999 campaign with eight straight victories.\u00a0 MSU nearly knocked off Florida for the fifth-consecutive time at Scott Field last year, falling 29-19 at Scott Field.\u00a0 The team is 10-9 ATS versus conference opponents over the last three years and the total is 7-12 Over\/Under in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs offense racked up 409 rushing yards against Houston, their most since gaining 464 in a 1992 win over Arkansas State.\u00a0 Running back Vick Ballard has emerged as one of the best tailbacks in the country this season, scoring 12 touchdowns, including at least one in each games.\u00a0 At the halfway mark of the 2010 season, 11 different offensive players have at least one rushing attempt and 14 different players have at least one reception.\u00a0 On the defensive side of the ball, Mississippi State has allowed only seven touchdowns in 19 times the ball has reached the red zone.\u00a0 The unit has also been especially tough in the second half, helping the Bulldogs outscore opponents by 43 points in the final two quarters.\u00a0 They have pitched second-half shutouts against Auburn and Alcorn State, while allowing only garbage-time scores by both Memphis and Georgia.<\/p>\n

Florida\u2019s football program isn\u2019t use to losing two games in a row and certainly the fan base can\u2019t imagine a third-straight loss on Saturday.\u00a0 The Gators have not lost three games in a row in 11 years and hope their home dominance over this week\u2019s opponent will end the streak.\u00a0 The team has won 16 straight over Mississippi State in Gainseville since losing 18-13 in 1965.\u00a0 \u201cSome things just don\u2019t fall the way you want them to,\u201d said linebacker Brandon Hicks.\u00a0 \u201cThe good thing is that we still have that spark of light at the end of the tunnel.\u201d\u00a0 Florida is 2-0 against the Bulldogs under head coach Urban Meyer, including last year\u2019s 10-point win in Starkville last season.\u00a0 The squad is 13-9 ATS versus conference opponents and 11-11 Over\/Under in those games.<\/p>\n

The Gators offense hasn\u2019t fired on all cylinders all season and is currently 11th in the SEC, averaging just 323.7 yards of total offense, while turning the ball over six times in two losses.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re struggling right now,\u201d said Meyer.\u00a0 \u201cWe have to get everybody rolling.\u201d\u00a0 He remains confident that Steve Addazio can handle the dual role of offensive line coach and offensive coordinator despite this season\u2019s woes.\u00a0 Before Addazio was calling the plays at The Swamp, MSU\u2019s Mullen served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Florida from 2005-08.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Bulldogs are 2-6 in their last eight games as a road underdog, while the Gators are 9-3 ATS following an ATS loss.\u00a0 We dont have an opinion on this game but do have 7 strong winners lined up for Saturday.\u00a0 One of which is a 20 unit pick which we haven’t missed one yet this year.\u00a0 Visit the winning college football picks page to get this easy winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mississippi State Bulldogs at Florida Gators Saturday, 10\/16\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPNU Opening Point Spread: \u00a0Florida -9.5 Current Betting Line: \u00a0Florida -8 Opening Total: \u00a048.5 Current Total: \u00a047 Current Moneyline: \u00a0Florida -315 \/ Mississippi State +265 Mississippi State arrives in Gainesville, Florida on a three-game winning streak for the first time since 2007, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[586,499,2898,739,3308,557,3366],"class_list":["post-9023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-dan-mullen","tag-florida-gators","tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs","tag-sec","tag-the-swamp","tag-urban-meyer","tag-vick-ballard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023","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=9023"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9130,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions\/9130"}],"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=9023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}