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Published: November 18, 2009
The LSU Tigers will take to the road in SEC action when they face the Mississippi Rebels in a college football game on Saturday afternoon. Kick off time is scheduled for 3:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by CBS. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this contest and the Mississippi Rebels were opened as a 3-point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the home team, as the Mississippi Rebels are currently a 4-point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 42 for the bettors to play into. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Mississippi Rebels at –190 with the road underdog LSU Tigers bringing back +160 to win straight up without the points on their side.
In their meeting in the 2008 season it was Ole Miss defeating LSU on the road in Baton Rouge 31-13 as a 3-point underdog. The Rebels were able to shut down the run game of the Tigers allowing just 37 rushing yards in 29 carries. LSU committed two costly interceptions in defeat. The Rebels were able to pass for 307 yards on LSU in their win. Mississippi is coming off an impressive 42-17 win at home last week against Tennessee. The team ran all over a Monte Kiffin coached defense for 359 yards on 50 rush attempts in victory. The defense was good allowing just 275 yards to the Volunteers. Senior running back Dexter McCluster had a monster game last week with 4 touchdowns on 282 yards rushing in just 25 attempts. McCluster is turning some NFL heads with an impressive 7.1 yards per carry average on the year. McCluster has rushed for 511 yards over his past 3 games. Starting quarterback Jevan Snead has been an inconsistent passer as the junior is hitting on just 52% of his passes with 17 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. Snead has been all over the map this season with passing accuracies in three conference games in the mid 60’s to two performances of 35% accuracy or less. Mississippi is number five in the SEC in total defense allowing 314 yards per game and a 4.7 yards per carry average. LSU will need to be good against the run on Saturday in containing Dexter McCluster. LSU is 4th in the SEC in rushing defense allowing 126 yards per game and just 3.4 yards per rush attempt. LSU is coming off a lackluster 24-16 home win to Louisiana Tech last week. The team could only put up 246 yards on their in state neighbor. Sophomore quarterback Jordan Jefferson is expected to be in the lineup this week for LSU. Jefferson did not play last week suffering from a sprained ankle. Jefferson is hitting on 63% of his passes this season with 12 touchdowns and 4 interceptions. LSU senior running back Charles Scott is out for the season with a broken collarbone. Senior ball carrier Keiland Williams had a season high 15 carries last week with 116 yards rushing on Louisiana Tech. Williams has only 15 carries this season against SEC opponents.
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CFB Trend: Mississippi Rebels are 7-1 ATS in their past 8 games with LSU Tigers
The Wagerline consensus has 52.9% of the CFB bettors on LSU–4
The Wagerline consensus has 53.4% of the CFB bettors playing under 42
2 Comments on "LSU Tigers at Mississippi Rebels CBS Saturday College Football Odds Sports Betting Pick Preview"
cajun on Sun, 22nd Nov 2009 12:21 am
i sure like to know whats going on with jefferson this year i just watched olemiss an Lsu game why did they wanna spike the ball with 1 second left on the clock they should of kicked a field goal the way i feel next year i hope they don’t use jefferson again he was good at one time when it came to the #1 an #3 rank they lost both of them i sure like to know whats up with that
Jason from Alabama LSU Tickets (1 comments.) on Thu, 15th Apr 2010 4:21 pm
LSU better step it up this year or Les miles is going to be on the hot seat.