Thursday, May 17th, 2012
The Auburn Tigers and their explosive offense will travel to face the Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday night in an SEC conference college football contest. Kick off time in Tennessee is scheduled for 7:45PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this contest and the home team Tennessee Volunteers opened as 3 point favorites. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the underdog Auburn Tigers, as the Tennessee Volunteers are currently 1-point betting favorites. College football totals gamblers can play on the current over under of 49 ½. College football money line bettors can make a play on the favored Tennessee Volunteers at –135 with the underdog Auburn Tigers returning +115 to win without the points on their side.
The Auburn Tigers are a perfect 4-0 on the season with explosive offense that produces an average of 526 yards and 45 points per game. That ties them with Florida in the SEC conference. Auburn did play two BCS schools in the non-conference beating Mississippi St and West Virginia making the Tigers offensive numbers relevant against Tennessee. Senior quarterback Chris Todd has hit on 58% of his passes this season for 1012 yards 11 touchdowns and only 1 interception on the season. Auburn has run the ball effectively as the team averages 5.6 yards per carry on the season. Leading ball carrier Ben Tate in 72 carries on the season is averaging 5.7 yards per attempts for a single touchdown. Onterio McCalebb is off to a great start with 54 carries for 365 yards three touchdowns and an impressive 6.8 yards per carry average. Defensively Auburn allows their opponents to rush for 154 yards and 3.9 yards per carry ranking them 10th in the conference. The Tennessee Volunteers are 2-2 on the season. The teams plays good defense allowing their opponents only 233 total yards and just 18 points per game on the season. Tennessee held the top offense in the SEC the Florida Gators to just 23 points and 323 yards in their 23-13 loss back on September 19th. With the defense going good the Volunteers offense needs major improvement. It all starts with the play of starting quarterback Jonathon Crompton. The senior quarterback is hitting on 57% of his passes for 641 yards with seven touchdowns and a brutal 9 interceptions on the season. An alarming stat was Compton’s 50% passing accuracy against the MAC school Ohio last week. Tennessee is averaging 5 yards per carry on the ground and are led by Montario Hardesy who has rushed for 485 yards on 84 attempts four touchdowns for a 5.8 yards per carry average. Tennessee must control the ball and keep the explosive Auburn Tigers offense off the field. Should Tennessee be able to move the sticks spear headed by their running game they will be very competitive in this SEC game.
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CFB Trend: Tennessee Volunteers are 14-4 to the under in their past 18 SEC Conference games
The Wagerline consensus has 54.9% of the CFB bettors on Auburn +1
The Wagerline consensus has 57.1% of the CFB bettors playing under 49 1/2
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