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Published: November 25, 2009
The Arkansas Razorbacks will hit the highway in SEC play when they face the LSU Tigers in a college football game in prime time on Saturday night. Kick off time in LSU is scheduled for 7PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the LSU Tigers opened as a 6-point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the road team, as the LSU Tigers are currently a 3-½ point favorite. The total is currently lined at 53 for the bettors to play into. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored LSU Tigers at –165 with the road underdog Arkansas Razorbacks bringing back +145 to pull off the upset victory with no point spread involved in the play.
When these two SEC conference rivals met last year it was Arkansas pulling out an exciting 31-30 victory over the Tigers as a 7-point home underdog. Arkansas was able to move the ball successfully through the air against LSU with 280 passing yards in victory. It was another high scoring game when these teams met in 2007 at LSU with the Razorbacks pulling out a 50-48 victory. Arkansas sits at 7-4 on the season and is winners of 4 straight games. The Razorbacks have produced points in this streak by averaging 48 ½ points per game. The sophomore quarterback Ryan Mallet is hitting on 58% of his passes with 28 touchdown passes and 6 interceptions. He has passed for over 300 yards over his past three games with 10 touchdown passes. Sophomore running back Dennis Johnson has had increased carries over his past two games with 15 rushing attempts for 108 yards. Arkansas issues on the season have been their defense. The team allows 25 points per game on the season. They sit last in the SEC conference in defense allowing 408 yards per game on the season. College football pundits have projected the Razorbacks into the Independence Bowl and LSU into the Cotton Bowl. So a victory over LSU could better their bowl game this season. LSU sits at 8-3 on the season and coming off a huge 25-23 road loss at Mississippi. The loss was critical as LSU is nearly eliminated from BCS bowl consideration. With USC and Oklahoma down this season a 2-loss LSU Tigers team had a shot of snatching a BCS bowl bid. With a win LSU most likely would be the best of the 3 loss teams and barring some huge upsets with the 2 loss teams and Boise St and TCU losing a game they would earn a BCS Bowl bid. Starting Tigers quarterback Jordan Jefferson could only hit on 19 of 37 for 250 yards two touchdowns and an interception. Jordan Jefferson has struggled leading the team and against SEC conference opponents has only been able to covert 47% of LSU trips into the end zone with touchdowns, which ranks 7th in the SEC conference. With running back Charles Scott out for the year it has been Keiland Williams seeing more carries. Williams had only 40 yards on 11 rushing attempts last week. Against Arkansas the LSU Tigers will need to be good in pass defense and the team is 8th in the SEC allowing 189 yards through the air and only 11 touchdown passes this season.
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CFB Trend: The Over is 5-1 to the over in their past 6 games
The Wagerline consensus has 59.9 the CFB bettors on LSU –3 1/2
