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Vanderbilt Commodores versus Tennessee Volunteers ESPNU Saturday Night College Football Odds Sports Betting Pick Preview

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Published: November 20, 2009

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The Vanderbilt Commodores will travel in SEC conference action when they take on the Tennessee Volunteers in a college football game on Saturday night in prime time. Kick off time in Tennessee is scheduled for 7PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPNU. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the Tennessee Volunteers opened as an 18-point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the road team, as the Tennessee Volunteers are currently a 17-point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 45 ½ for the betting public to play into. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Tennessee Volunteers at –825 with the road underdog Vanderbilt Commodores bringing back +625 to win straight up without the points.

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In their 2008 game it was Tennessee winning 20-10 as a three-point road underdog. Tennessee was good defensively limiting the Commodores to just 25 yards rushing on 28 carries. Tennessee sits at 5-5 on the season and is in need of 1 more victory to become bowl eligible. Should the Volunteers become bowl eligible the pundits have penciled them in for the Music City Bowl on December 27th. The Volunteers are coming off a 42-17 beating at Mississippi last week. They allowed the Rebels to rush for 359 yards last week in defeat. Senior quarterback Jonathan Crompton is hitting on 58% of his passes with 23 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Crompton over his past three games has passed for 9 touchdowns and without an interception. Senior running back Monatrio Hardesty has been the workhorse in the backfield for the Volunteers and the ball carrier has rushed the ball 193 times with 5.0 yards a carry average and 8 touchdowns. Tennessee is 6th in the SEC in defense allowing 314 yards a game. Vanderbilt is having a bad season as they team is 2-9 on the season. They have dropped 7 straight games. The team has struggled big time for offense and the team has not passed for more than 179 yards over this 7 game losing streak. Senior quarterback Mackenzi Adams is only hitting on 50% of his passes on the season with 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions. Vanderbilt has been very poor in the red zone with 33 tries inside the 20 and only 13 touchdowns scored. Freshman running back Warren Norman is averaging 5.5 yards a carry this season but the ball carrier has had no more than 15 carries during this losing streak. Vanderbilt is 9th defensively in the SEC allowing 357 yards a game and 22 points per game.

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CFB Trend: Vanderbilt Commodores are 8-2 to the under this season

The Wagerline consensus has 58.6 the CFB bettors on Tennessee -17

The Wagerline consensus has 58.0% of the CFB bettors playing over 45 1/2

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