{"id":3588,"date":"2009-02-24T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/lsu-florida-betting-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-02-24T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T18:08:00","slug":"lsu-florida-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/lsu-florida-betting-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU-Florida Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Florida Gators take on the LSU Tigers and here is the official betting preview from the staff of ScoresOddsPicks.com<\/a>. <\/span><\/font>LSU is a 3.5 point favorite with a total of 151. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Florida<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is 21-6 straight up on the year, but a middling 9-11 in the back pocket including 2-4 their last six to the Vegas college basketball betting odds<\/a>. <\/p>\n

LSU is 23-4 straight up including 18-1 in the Fat Tuesday state. They have though lost three straight to the number. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

LSU has outstanding numbers on defense holding teams normally getting 43.7 percent shooting to just 39.6. They also shoot 3.1 percent better than their opponent normally allows. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

The Bengal Tigers will be a tough test for the high flying Gators team that averages 79.3 points per game to teams that normally allow 69.4, shooting 48.8 percent against teams normally allowing 42.9. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Florida<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is below average defensively allowing 44.1 percent to teams normally getting 43.7. <\/p>\n

Stevie Vincent, Senior Handicapper at OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/b> points out that LSU is just 17-37 against the sportsbooks as a favorite, but 39-17 against the spread off a home conference win<\/span>. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

As far as motivation\u2014or in the minds of many pro bettors pressure, LSU has a shocking three-game lead in the SEC over Florida, Kentucky and South Carolina and can clinch at least a tie for the overall conference title with a win tonight. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

LSU has won 11 straight conference games straight up. The game is televised nationally on ESPN.<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Florida Gators take on the LSU Tigers and here is the official betting preview from the staff of ScoresOddsPicks.com. LSU is a 3.5 point favorite with a total of 151. Florida is 21-6 straight up on the year, but a middling 9-11 in the back pocket including 2-4 their last six to the Vegas … Continue reading LSU-Florida Betting Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}