Thursday, May 24th, 2012
It will be an ACC versus SEC conference battle when the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets pay a visit to the Vanderbilt Commodores in a college football game on Saturday night. Kick off time at Vanderbilt is scheduled at 7:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN Gameplan. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this contest and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets opened as a 10-½ point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the favorite, as the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are currently a 12-point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 47 for the betting public to play into. College football money line players can make a play on the favored Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at –405 with the home underdog Vanderbilt Commodores bringing back +335 to pull off the straight up victory without the points on their side.
Georgia Tech is off to a 7-1 start to the season and positioning themselves at a shot of the automatic ACC berth in a BCS bowl game. The Yellow Jackets are winners of 5 in a row and have piled on the rushing yardage. The Yellow Jackets triple option has been difficult for opposing defenses to defend. Georgia Tech averages 291 yards per game on the ground and 32 points per game this season. The Yellow Jackets have had some blow ups on defense but in games against Florida St, Clemson and Mississippi St they were fortunate to win those games by simply outscoring the opposition. So covering a 12-point spread could be a lot to ask a team that allows 24 points a game and 355 yards on defense. Georgia Tech quarterback Josh Nesbitt does not pass much at all as the junior quarterback has throw 8 passes or less in their past 3 games. Nesbitt is the leading rusher for Georgia Tech with 707 yards on 172 carries for 4.1 yards per carry average while running the option offense. Nesbitt is not an accurate passer so an elite defense can shut down this team by not respecting the pass with good single cover corners like we saw with the Miami Hurricanes. But is Vanderbilt good enough to execute this game plan? Vanderbilt allows opposing teams 17 points per game with 321 yards of offense against their defense. They were pounded by Georgia 34-10 two weeks ago and lost closely against South Carolina 14-10 a week ago. They gave up 226 passing yards to Georgia and 312 yards to South Carolina last week. This Vanderbilt offense has been inept all season. They have scored no more than 13 points in their past 4 games. Commodores sophomore quarterback Larry Smith is an inaccurate quarterback hitting on just 46% of his passes. He has thrown just 3 touchdowns and 7 interceptions this season. Freshman running back Warren Norman has rushed 93 times for 5.7 yards per carry average. Vanderbilt is last in the SEC with just 4.5 yards per play average on offense.
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CFB Trend: Vanderbilt is 6-1 to the Under in their past 7 games
The Wagerline consensus has 78.4% of the CFB bettors on Georgia Tech -12
The Wagerline consensus has 54.3% of the CFB bettors playing over 47
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