Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
The LSU Tigers will hit the road in their SEC conference opener as they face the Vanderbilt Commodores on Saturday night.
This game kicks off from Vanderbilt at 7PM Eastern Time and you can watch it on ESPNU.
The point spread came with the road team LSU Tigers as 9 ½ point favorites with an over under of 43 ½.
The early money from the college football bettors has come on the side of the road team as the LSU Tigers are now 10 point favorites. The total has been bet downward to 42 ½ points.
Money line bettors on the side of the favored LSU Tigers will lay -360 odds with the home underdog Vanderbilt Commodores returning +300 to win this game without the aid of a point spread.
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LSU had a high profile game last week and produced the 30-24 win against a short handed North Carolina Tar Heels team as a 7 ½ point favorite. The Tar Heels were missing 12 players total with 6 starters on defense.
LSU stormed out to the 30-10 halftime lead and held off a late rally by the Tar Heels to hang on to a 6 point victory. North Carolina outscored the Tigers 14-0 in the second half.
Junior starting quarterback Jordan Jefferson completed 15 of 21 passes last week for 151 yards with 2 touchdowns and 1 pick.
Running back Stevan Ridley got 19 carries last week for 81 yards with no touchdowns. Russell Shepard saw 3 carries and produced 67 yards with a 50 yard touchdown run from scrimmage.
Sophomore wide out Rueben Randle had 4 catches against North Carolina for 71 yards which included a 51 yard touchdown reception.
The LSU defense wore down late in this football game. North Carolina was able to gain 436 yards on the Tigers with 412 coming through the air. The Tigers offensively were sloppy with the football with 4 lost fumbles and 1 interception.
Vanderbilt former head coach Bobby Johnson resigned during the off season. He was replaced by Robbie Caldwell who finds 7 starters returning on offense and 5 to the defense.
Vanderbilt following a bowl berth and bowl victory in 2008 returned to mediocrity in 2009 with a 2-10 record and the team failed to make a bowl bid. The team was atrocious on offense last year averaging just 16 points and 307 yards per game.
The team opened the season posting a 23-21 loss to Northwestern as a 3 point underdog.
Junior quarterback Larry Smith hit on 19 of 33 against the Wildcats for 240 yards a touchdown and a pick. Smith in 2009 hit on just 46.7% of his passes for 1126 yards four touchdowns and 7 picks.
Sophomore running back Zac Stacy had a good day running the football with 69 yards on 9 carries and a touchdown.
Junior tight end Brandon Barden led the Commodores with 4 receptions for 63 yards and a touchdown last week.
The Commodores on defense allowed 23 points and 363 yards last year. Against Northwestern the team allowed 365 yards. They allowed the Wildcats quarterback to convert on 19 of 21 passes for 222 yards and 3 touchdown passes.
A positive for Vanderbilt was their running game that produced 192 yards and a 5.1 yards per rush average last week.
LSU defeated Vanderbilt in their meeting last season 23-9 as a 14 point home favorite. The LSU defense smothered the Commodores as Vandy could only muster 122 yards passing and 88 on the ground.
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