Thursday, February 9th, 2012
The Tennessee Volunteers will look to bounce back after their loss to Florida last week and will host the Ohio Bobcats from the Mid American Conference in a college football game on Saturday night. Kick off time in Knoxville Tennessee is set for 7PM Eastern Time with television coverage provided by the ESPN Game plan college football package. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this non-conference game and the Tennessee Volunteers opened as 21-point favorites. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the favored Tennessee Volunteers, as they are currently a 23-point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 44 ½ for the college football bettors. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Tennessee Volunteers at –1600 with the heavy underdog Ohio Bobcats returning +1100 to pull off a major upset victory straight up with no point spread factoring in the college football bet.
Tennessee in their loss last week to Florida played pretty good defense limiting the Gators passing attack led by quarterback Tim Tebow to just 115 passing yards. Florida only put up 23 points on the board. Tennessee is allowing opposing teams to just average 197 yards of offense per game. The Volunteers need better production from their starting quarterback Jonathon Crompton who is hitting on only 61% of his passes with five touchdowns and an ugly 7 interceptions in three games. Crompton got his five touchdown passes against Western Kentucky and did not deliver a touchdown pass in consecutive losses to UCLA and Florida. With a better quarterback under center the Tennessee Volunteers would be a perfect 3-0 on the season. Running back Monatrio Hardesty has rushed for 345 yards on 45 carries with three rushing touchdowns and a respectable 5.4 yards per carry average. The Ohio Bobcats enter this game 2-1 on the season. They opened the year with a very close 23-16 home loss to Connecticut. They then traveled to North Texas and pulled out a 31-30 overtime road victory. Senior Bobcat starting quarterback Theo Scott is only completing 50% of his passes on the season and has hit on six touchdowns and two interceptions. Against their only high profile opponent of the season Connecticut the senior quarterback only completed seven of twelve passes for 69 yards with one touchdown and one interception in their loss. The Bobcats were only 3 of 14 on third downs against Uconn and had a miserable 1.9 yards per rushing average.
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CFB Trend: Tennessee Volunteers are 1-5 ATS in their past 6 non-conference games
The Wagerline consensus has 73.4% of the CFB bettors on Tennessee -23
The Wagerline consensus has 67.8% of the CFB bettors playing over 44 1/2
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