{"id":9986,"date":"2010-12-29T23:54:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T23:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=9986"},"modified":"2010-12-29T23:54:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T23:54:05","slug":"south-carolina-vs-florida-state-chick-fil-a-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/south-carolina-vs-florida-state-chick-fil-a-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina vs. Florida State Chick-fil-A Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chick-fil-A Bowl may not be a BCS matchup but it\u2019s still a pretty serious bowl game for <a title=\"college football bettting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=69\">college football betting<\/a> sharps to ponder. We can\u2019t go wrong with two nationally ranked teams.<\/p>\n<p>(19) South Carolina Gamecocks (9-4) vs (23) Florida State Seminoles (9-4)<\/p>\n<p>Friday, December 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 7:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>The favorite: South Carolina -3<\/p>\n<p>Over\/Under: 54<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina was hot and cold from a <a title=\"betting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/\">betting<\/a> perspective for much of this season, largely because it didn\u2019t have an identity. Was Steve Spurrier\u2019s team a top contender or just a high-end gatekeeper for the real powerhouses? It turned out to be more of the latter. South Carolina beat Alabama but lost to Arkansas and Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>Down the stretch, however, South Carolina found its groove. Before getting dominated in the SEC title game, the Gamecocks won three straight games and beat three straight <a title=\"sportsbook\" href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/clickthrgh.asp?btag=a_1206b_609\">sportsbook<\/a> spreads. Overall, South Carolina is 7-6 ATS this season. Nine of its 13 games trended OVER the total, which isn\u2019t surprising given all the talented SEC offenses they faced. Their games totalled 54.9 points on average.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State seemed destined for a BCS Bowl early this season when it started 6-1 and went 5-2 ATS over that span. However, disappointing losses to N.C. State and North Carolina derailed the Seminoles\u2019 hopes. They went 4-3 over their final seven games and 2-5 ATS during that stretch. FSU is 7-6 ATS on the year and the UNDER is 8-5 for their games.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Spurrier\u2019s Gamecocks aren\u2019t dominant in any one offensive area but pretty solid everywhere. They average 32 points a game; they have an efficient quarterback in Stephen Garcia leading the nation\u2019s No. 47 passing attack; and they have a touchdown machine in Marcus Lattimore pacing the 55<sup>th-<\/sup>ranked rushing offense.<\/p>\n<p>Defensively, South Carolina is Jekyll and Hyde. The Gamecocks are an outstanding seventh against the run but 107<sup>th<\/sup> against the pass. That\u2019s what happens when you share a conference with Cameron Newton and Ryan Mallett.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State\u2019s offense is an underwhelming 63<sup>rd<\/sup> overall, perhaps because it battled injuries all season. Christian Ponder played through an elbow injury and Jermaine Thomas, part of the Seminoles\u2019 multi-pronged rushing attack, is battling a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State\u2019s 65<sup>th<\/sup>-ranked pass defense could be in tough against Garcia but Lattimore and the Gamecocks will have to work hard to penetrate Florida State\u2019s 30<sup>th<\/sup>-ranked run defense (126.8 yards\/game) and 24<sup>th<\/sup>-ranked scoring defense (19.8 points\/game).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chick-fil-A Bowl may not be a BCS matchup but it\u2019s still a pretty serious bowl game for college football betting sharps to ponder. We can\u2019t go wrong with two nationally ranked teams. (19) South Carolina Gamecocks (9-4) vs (23) Florida State Seminoles (9-4) Friday, December 31st, 7:30 p.m. ET The favorite: South Carolina -3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/south-carolina-vs-florida-state-chick-fil-a-bowl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">South Carolina vs. Florida State Chick-fil-A Bowl<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986","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=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9988,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions\/9988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}