No. 14 LSU (6-2, 3-1) enters Saturday night at Tiger Stadium hoping to stay alive in the College Football Playoff race as a battle with Alabama draws closer.

All eyes will be on the Top 15 showdown in Baton Rouge, with both programs looking to make a statement in Southeastern Conference play.

For the Bayou Bengals, it will be about getting the ball into the hands of their playmakers while diversifying the playbook to keep the Crimson Tide on their toes.

“I think we have guys like Aaron Anderson, Mason Taylor and even Kyren Lacy was big for us on third down,” Brian Kelly said Monday. “We need to be more consistent across the board and create a little more uncertainty about what we’re doing. Making sure we can get the ball to the playmakers, but including the screen game, the bad direction and the running game to create a little more uncertainty.”

Predictions are pouring in for Saturday night’s showdown in the Bayou State.

Here we’ve taken into account current betting odds, betting trends, what punters suggest and a score prediction from an expert model:

*(All odds according to DraftKings Sportsbook)*

Spread:
– LSU: (+2.5)
-Alabama: (-2.5)

Money line:
– LSU: (+120)
-Alabama: (-142)

More/Less: 58.5

The Alabama Crimson Tide are currently 2.5-point favorites heading into the Week 11 clash. A line that was hovering around the 1.5-point mark a week ago, Vegas continues to lean toward the Tide as favorite Saturday night.

LSU was given 55% of the bets to either pull off an outright victory in an upset Saturday night against the Crimson Tide or cover the spread in a loss by a field goal or less.

The remaining 45% of bets made this week think Alabama will cover the spread by three points and win by a field goal or more.

Looking at Vegas’ predicted betting spread, he estimates the Crimson Tide will defeat the Bayou Bengals by a predicted score of 31-28 in Baton Rouge on Saturday night.

ESPN’s Football Power Index predicts the outcome of every game on the college football slate each week, with the latest results recorded for Week 11.

Now that this weekend’s schedule is getting closer, the FPI has placed an expert prediction for Saturday night in Death Valley.

The model leans heavily toward the Alabama Crimson Tide, with Kalen DeBoer’s club having a 69.8% chance of winning the Southeastern Conference clash.

With that, the Tigers have a 30.2% chance of pulling off the upset at home in a prime-time game.

“In total, the Crimson Tide came in first in 13,960 of the index evaluations. calculations of the game, while the Tigers edged out Bama in the other 6,040 predictions. Alabama should be 7.6 points better than LSU on the same field in the current composition of both teams, according to the model’s latest predictions. »

It’s important to note that Brian Kelly has yet to lose a night game in Baton Rouge, but ESPN’s Football Power Index continues to lean heavily on the Crimson Tide to spoil his hot streak.

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