Week 7: Rebels vs Aggies Pick
NCAA Football Week 7 Betting action sees the Ole Miss Rebels taking on the Texas A&M Aggies on Saturday October 11th at Kyle Field. Cappers Picks provides free college football handicapping tips all season long.
NCAA Football Wagering
Ole Miss vs A&M
Date/Time: Saturday, October 11th 2014, 9 pm EST
Venue: Kyle Field, College Station TX
Ole Miss +2, Texas A&M -2
Over/Under: OFF
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This match-up features one team coming off an iconic victory for the school and another emerging from a humbling road loss. We have two teams in Ole Miss and Texas A&M that rapidly shifted in different directions – it will be interesting to see how that impacts play this weekend in College Station.
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Fans basically tore apart Vaught-Hemingway Stadium after the home team Ole Miss Rebels dispatched prohibitive favorite Alabama last week, and all the fans did was pay for the stadium repairs (and then some) in just three hours of online donations.
Obviously, it’s a football-mad fanbase that has been used to a lot of whippings at the hands of conference rivals, and it was great to see them come away with a win against the juggernaut Crimson Tide.
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That being said, the work is far from done for the Rebels.
Mississippi has an upcoming slate that includes this weekend’s tricky A&M game, Auburn and Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl; it will be a challenge to hold or improve upon that #3 AP ranking the Rebels are enjoying.
Texas A&M plans to knock them down a peg. The Aggies made a game of it last week against Mississippi State; when it looked like the Bulldogs were just going to steamroll them, the potent Aggies offense scored a few times en route to a 48-31 final.
Texas A&M’s defense has to get its act together once again. The unit was playing excellent football earlier on, but surrendering 28 points to the run-happy Arkansas Razorbacks and a whopping 48 points to Heisman candidate QB Dak Prescott is a step in the wrong direction.
If the defense falters once again, Ole Miss can make the home team pay. Quarterback Bo Wallace has played inspired ball and is helped by future NFL wideout Laquon Treadwell and Evan Ingram, who is all kinds of athlete at the TE position.
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The Rebels have also brought tons of defense to the table. The Rebs rank second in the nation in total defense, trailing only Stanford. Hill and the A&M attack didn’t look amazing last week in Starkville, and the Rebs’s defenders are more talented than State’s.
It will be interesting to see how they adapt.
There’s no doubt that Aggies’ head coach Kevin Sumlin has been a revelation since coming to College Station. Yet, I think this A&M team has been playing a bit over their heads recently and it was exposed last week at MSU.
Texas A&M’s only impressive victory is a Week 1 win over South Carolina and the Aggies have nearly dropped two in a row to SEC West opponents (A&M needed overtime to beat Arkansas two weeks ago).
I like Ole Miss’s fairytale season to continue just a bit longer.
4* Play On Ole Miss 27, Texas A&M 24
I think the higher-ranked team will come out on top Saturday night in the Lone Star State.
Check out our Updated CFB Week 7 Odds.
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