Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
The Auburn Tigers will open SEC conference play as they visit the Mississippi St Bulldogs in a college football game on Thursday night.
The game will kick off from Mississippi St at 7:45PM Eastern Time with live national television coverage provided by ESPN.
The point spread opened up with the road team Auburn Tigers lined as a 2 ½ point betting favorite with an over under of 54.
The early money in this game has come on the side of the home team as the Auburn Tigers are now favored by 2 points. The total has moved upward to 54 ½.
Money line bettors playing the side of the favored Auburn Tigers will lay -130 odds with the home underdog Mississippi St Bulldogs returning +110 to win outright without the need for taking the points on their side.
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Second year Auburn head coach Gene Chizik will find 7 returning starters on offense and 8 to the defense. The Tigers finished off the 2009 season with an 8-5 record and defeated Northwestern in their bowl game 38-35 as a 6 ½ point betting favorite.
The Tigers opened up play last week with the 52-26 victory against the Arkansas St Red Wolves last Saturday as a 31 ½ point favorite.
With 2009 starting quarterback Chris Todd out of eligibility the team starts junior college transfer Cameron Newton under center.
The junior signal caller made his debut last week and completed 9 of 14 passes last week for 186 yards three touchdowns and no interceptions. Newton is a dual threat and the quarterback rushed 15 times for 171 yards and two touchdowns. He broke a 71 yard run against Arkansas St.
The team lost leading ball carrier Ben Tate to the NFL this season. Onterio McCalebb last season produced a 5.4 yards per carry average on 105 carries. The ball carrier rushed 9 times for 76 yards last week. Freshman running back Michael Dyer had a nice start to his college career with 95 yards on 14 rushes and a touchdown.
Junior wide out Quindarius Carr produced 87 yards receiving on 2 catches last week. Senior wide out Darvin Adams had 2 catches for 58 yards. Auburn receivers averaged 21.9 yards per reception last week.
Auburn struggled on defense in 2009 allowing opponents 28 points per game and 374 yards. Arkansas St was able to produced 366 total yards last week. The Tigers did a good job of stuffing the run last week allowing just 1.2 yards per reception.
The Red Wolves moved the ball successfully through the air on Auburn as their quarterbacks completed 33 of 49 passes for 323 yards.
Dan Mullen will have 6 starters back on offense and 8 to the defense for his Mississippi St team in 2010. The Bulldogs finished 2009 with a 5-7 record and failed to make a bowl game for the second straight season.
In their meeting in 2009 it was Auburn posting the 49-24 victory as a 14 point home favorite.
The Bulldogs had a successful start to their 2010 season as they posted an impressive 49-7 victory against Memphis Tigers as a 22 point betting favorite.
Freshman quarterback Tyler Russell had a solid game with 13 of 16 passing for 256 yards 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
With workhorse running back Anthony Dixon with the San Francisco 49ers the team saw junior Vick Ballard rush 7 times for 60 yards and two touchdowns last week with an outstanding 8.6 yards per carry average.
On defense the Bulldogs allowed 27 points and 366 yards per game last season. Memphis was only able to amass 237 yards on the Bulldogs defense. Mississippi St did a good job of getting off the field as the Tigers could convert only 2 of 15 on third down.
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