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Published: September 9, 2009
The Clemson Tigers will travel to Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for an important ACC Conference Thursday Night College football game. Kickoff time at Georgia Tech is set for 7:45PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN Television. The LVSC college football odds makers set the opening betting line in this contest as the home team Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have opened as 3 ½ point favorites. The sports betting public has pounded the favorite in the early betting as the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are currently 5 ½ point favorites. The sports bettors will find the total currently lined at 48. College football bettors can make a bet on the money line in this college football game and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are favored at – 160 with the underdog Clemson Tigers returning +140 for winning the game straight up without the aid of getting points.
Former Navy coach Paul Johnson took over the program in 2008 and the team finished with a 9-3 regular season record and a trip to the Chick-fil-A- Bowl. Georgia Tech rallied to win at Clemson 21-17 in last years ACC Conference meeting. Yellow Jacket quarterback Josh Nesbitt runs the option style offense for Paul Johnson and rushed for 832 yards and passed for 808 yards in 2008. Nesbitt only hit though on just 43.9% of his passes. Georgia Tech returns 10 starters in 2009 to its offense. On the Clemson side of the ball long time head coach Tommy Bowden is out and Dabo Swinney earned the head coaching duties as he did well when he relieved Bowden in season. Clemson opened last week against Middle Tennessee St and rushed for 202 yards last week. The Tigers return C.J. Spiller who will be the feature back for the Tigers. Spiller averaged 5.4 yards per carry last year. Historically Clemson has been good on defense allowing an average of less than 20 points per game in the past 4 seasons. Eight starters return on defense for head coach Dabo Swinney for a squad that allowed an average of 17.3 points per game a year ago. Clemson will start a freshman at quarterback Kyle Parker in his first ever road game against an ACC foe. Parker went 9-20 for 159 yards and two touchdown passes last week. Parker is listed at six foot tall and 210 pounds.
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CFB Trend: Clemson is 4-1 ATS in their past 5 meetings.
The Wagerline consensus has 68.9% of the CFB bettors on Georgia Tech –5 1/2
The Wagerline consensus has 51.0% of the CFB bettors playing over 48
