College Football Probabilities – Cotton Bowl – Texas A&M versus LSU

4th January, 2011 - Posted by tang - No Comments

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The Cotton Bowl on Friday, January 7th has the Tigers preferred by some point in ncaa nfl probabilities against the Texas A&M Aggies. This is among the handful of bowl matches that is not going to be televised on ESPN as Fox has the coverage. It should be a great matchup in ncaa nfl gambling probabilities between the Aggies and Tigers.




Crowd Advantage for A&M – There’s no doubt that the Aggies will have the edge in enthusiast support with the game performed at Cowboys Stadium. That can be crucial in what should be a close game. LSU lost only two times this season and those losses game against Auburn and Arkansas. The loss to Arkansas in the regular-season finale cost the Tigers any shot at a BCS bowl. A&M lost just 3 times this season and actually evened up for the Big 12 South championship but lost they lost the tiebreakers and did not win the championship. Texas A&M ended the season on a six-game profitable streak. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill took over as the starter and was superb during the streak completing over 65% of his passes with 11 TDs and just 3 interceptions. Running back Cyrus Gray was also great as he ran for over one hundred yards in each one of the last six matches. A&M has also a quality defense directed by Von Miller who won the Butkus Award for the country’s best linebacker.

No LSU Offense – The reason that LSU lost 2 matches was due to the fact of their terrible offense. They were 92nd in the country in total offense at 332.6 yards per game. If you had informed the LSU coaches before the Arkansas game that their qbs would complete 59 percent of their passes for 194 yards with no interceptions, whereas Ryan Mallett would complete 57 percent of his throws, going just 13 of 23 with 2 interceptions, they might have taken it in a heartbeat and might have assumed all of it came out on the right side. Whereas the LSU defense did a fantastic position of keeping Mallett under wraps, it couldn’t stop receiver Cobi Hamilton in the second quarter and the offense couldn’t pick up the slack. The LSU running game did not appear, and there were 3 lost fumbles. The Tigers don’t have a quality quarterback so they have to run the ball to put points on the board. LSU victories with defense as they were evened up for 9th in scoring defense. Cornerback Patrick Peterson won the Chuck Bednarik award as the country’s best defensive player.

Longtime Rivalry – This series between A&M and LSU goes all the way back to 1899. The Aggies have won the last five meetings but they still trail 26-20-3 in the all-time series. LSU is 21-19-1 in bowl matches. The Aggies are 13-18 in bowl appearances and they’ve lost 8 of their last nine. This might be the time they smash the streak though as they are 6-0 against the ncaa nfl gambling probabilities in their previous six matches in total and the Tigers are 1-4 against the ncaa nfl probabilities in their previous 5 matches as a fave.


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