The Tennessee Volunteers are in an offensive funk, and facing the Alabama Crimson Tide defense won't be the cure for what ails them, as our early college football betting picks explain.
The Tennessee Volunteers are in an offensive funk, and facing the Alabama Crimson Tide defense won't be the cure for what ails them, as our early college football betting picks explain.Two of the country’s most talented teams look to play to their full potential despite recent stumbles as the No. 7 Alabama Crimson Tide head to Knoxville to face the No. 11 Tennessee Volunteers .
The Tide have been up-and-down this season and haven’t looked like a Top-5 team since halftime of the Georgia game. Ten quarters have passed since then, and public sentiment has fully turned against Kaleb DeBoer’s team. It’s a decent matchup for Alabama because the Vols don’t appear ready to take advantage of their leaky secondary. Offensively, Jalen Milroe and Ryan Williams, who have led the way to rankings of seventh in passing success rate and 13th in EPA per pass, can challenge a Vols secondary that ranks 81st in passing success rate despite facing an easy group of opposing aerial attacks.
On the flip side, Alabama’s offense line has some concerning numbers. The Tide rank 102nd in line yards, 106th in stuff rate, and 97th in front-seven havoc). Tennessee has arguably the nation’s best defensive line, so it may be difficult for DeBoer’s offense to operate with its usual deadly intent. JD is a diehard college football fan with five years of experience writing betting and fantasy content for publications such as SportsGrid, Fantasy Points, Fantrax, and Devy Watch. An avid reader, he uses his inclination to look at things with an exhausting and in-depth, analytic viewpoint combined with a love for statistics and metrics to form a well-rounded handicapping approach.
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