SEC Football: Week 10 picks ATS, playoff ramifications abound

Ranked SEC Football Games

No. 14 Auburn Tigers (-15) at Texas A&M Aggies
12:00 pm – Kyle Field, College Station, Tx. 

Watch this one carefully. Auburn may already have Georgia on their minds, or even thinking about sweet home Alabama, and a road game at Kyle Field is never an easy task. The Aggies will be fired up for this game.

Auburn probably manages to eek out the win here, but they won’t cover that over two touchdown spread. Aggies beating the odds again.

South Carolina Gamecocks at No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs (-23.5)
3:30 pm – Sanford Stadium, Athens, Ga. 

This will be the first big test for Georgia as the number one team in the nation. Back when these two teams played early season games every year, it was almost always a tough battle won in the trenches, and you never knew who might come out on top.

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South Carolina has improved under Will Muschamp this season, and is riding a three-game win streak which is about to come to a halt.

Georgia is just too much dawg for these chickens. But 23.5 points? That’s too rich for my blood. The Gamecocks will have upset on their minds and Georgia may have some early nerves. By the fourth quarter, Georgia should pull away by a couple of scores, but scared money never wins, and I’d be scared of a nearly 24-point spread.

No. 19 LSU Tigers at No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide (-21)
8:00 pm – Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, Al. 

Alabama is coming off a bye week and Nick Saban will have his team pretty angered that Georgia leaped over them in the rankings…and LSU will get the brunt of that anger.

Don’t expect the classic Alabama-LSU battles we’ve seen in the past. This will be Saban’s team making a statement that regardless of what any committee says, they’re still the team to beat in the SEC.

21 points would normally seem like a ridiculous line for this game, but I’d bet on the Tide to cover up to 30 points to be honest. Once this game is over, you can bet the rumblings about Ed Orgeron will resume in Baton Rouge.

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It’s very possible Georgia and Alabama flip-flop positions in the playoff rankings when their two games are complete this week.