{"id":1732,"date":"2009-09-24T09:57:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T13:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/24\/sec-predictions-week-41\/"},"modified":"2009-09-24T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T14:01:00","slug":"sec-predictions-week-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/24\/sec-predictions-week-41\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Predictions (Week 4.1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the SEC gets featured on ESPN\u2019s Thursday Night Football spectacular.  The Fighting Chickens host the #4 in the land old Rebel boys from Oxford.  This week I am going to use the Glantz-Culver Line (as of Thursday, September 24, 2009 in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>4 Mississippi vs. South Carolina<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nOle Miss opened as 4.5 point favorites to take down the Gamecocks, but the line has withdrawn a little, now sitting at 3.5 points.<\/p>\n<p>I am not impressed with South Carolina.  They squeaked by North Carolina State 7-3.  Even if this was a road win, a win over a mid tier ACC team is really not worth that much consideration.  The next week the Gamecocks stumbled against Georgia, 41-37.  That is a lot of points to give up; defense was supposed to be the team\u2019s strong point.  Last week offered up an unspectacular 38-16 over Florida Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi is even far less impressive.  Sure, they may be a top 5 ranked team, but what have they done to earn this ranking?  They beat the Tigers from Memphis 45-14, which was a nice win I guess, but a game they were expected to win.  Then they took a week off to rest before taking on the powerhouse known as the Lions \u2013 that would be the Southeastern Louisiana Lions.  Whatever.  How do you even count this 52-6 win in Mississippi\u2019s rankings?<\/p>\n<p>So now we come to the pivotal moment where I have to make my selection.  I am going to go away from the Mississippi hype; they need to prove it before I will jump on the turnip truck.  South Carolina with the 3.5 points.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the SEC gets featured on ESPN\u2019s Thursday Night Football spectacular. The Fighting Chickens host the #4 in the land old Rebel boys from Oxford. This week I am going to use the Glantz-Culver Line (as of Thursday, September 24, 2009 in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer). 4 Mississippi vs. South Carolina Ole Miss opened as 4.5 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/24\/sec-predictions-week-41\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEC Predictions (Week 4.1)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}