{"id":6633,"date":"2009-01-01T03:08:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T08:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:08:02","slug":"utah-alabama-sugar-bowl-gambling-10109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/sportsbooks\/utah-alabama-sugar-bowl-gambling-10109\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah vs. Alabama Sugar Bowl Gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>NCAAF: BETTORS NOT BUYING UTAH<\/h2>\n<p>The Utah Utes put together a tremendous season to make the BCS out of the Mountain West Conference but bettors aren\u2019t buying them as nine-point underdogs against Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>A whopping 76% of the support for Friday night\u2019s Sugar Bowl is backing the Alabama Crimson Tide as nine-point favorites over the Utes, who crash the BCS party for the second time in four seasons. \u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At 12-0, Utah is thrilled to be back in the BCS but Alabama had hopes of playing for a title before losing to Florida in the SEC title game.<\/p>\n<p>Will motivation be the difference?<\/p>\n<p>What mindset does Alabama bring to the Sugar Bowl? Are they angry after losing to Florida or do they have a hangover that so many unbeaten teams have after losing their championship dreams?<\/p>\n<p>The Crimson Tide ended up 9-4 against the spread (ATS) this season and third in the country on defense.<\/p>\n<p>Besides trying to complete a perfect season, Utah has the added pressure of trying to uphold the non-BCS schools and make people believe Hawaii just wasn\u2019t ready for the big stage last season. The Utes are 23-9 ATS as an underdog of 3.5 to 10 points and can make even further noise about a playoff system with the upset.<\/p>\n<p>Utah has been one the best bowl team\u2019s with a 10-3 straight up record while going 8-3 ATS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sugar Bowl Series Trend:<\/strong> In each of the past two seasons, a SEC team has taken on a BCS-crashing school in the Sugar Bowl and has throttled them, 41-14 &amp; 41-10. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 1px solid #ffffff;\" title=\"Sportsbook.com\" src=\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/impressions.asp?btag=a_2744b_484\" alt=\"CFB Pick\" width=\"230\" height=\"150\" \/>Overall, the SEC has enjoyed great success in this bowl series, going 6-1 SU &amp; 5-2 ATS in the last seven. Five of those games also went UNDER the total.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top ATS Trend<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022              UTAH is 23-9 ATS (+13.1 Units) when playing with 2 weeks or more of rest since 1992. The average score was UTAH 28.9, OPPONENT 17.4 &#8211; (Rating = 1*)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Totals Trend<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022              UTAH is 15-4 UNDER (+10.6 Units) in road games off a win by 10 points or more over a conference rival since 1992. The average score was UTAH 24.8, OPPONENT 20.0 &#8211; (Rating = 1*)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent UTAH Bowl Game Trends<\/strong><br \/>\n* UTAH boasts a 7-bowl game winning streak, going 5-2 ATS in that span.<br \/>\n* UTAH is 5-1 ATS as a bowl game underdog since &#8217;92.<br \/>\n* The UNDER the total is 7-2-1 in UTAH&#8217;s L10 bowl games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent ALABAMA Bowl Game Trends<\/strong><br \/>\n* Alabama is just 2-5 ATS in its L7 bowl games.<br \/>\n* As a bowl game favorite, Alabama is 3-1 ATS in its L4.<br \/>\n* Alabama&#8217;s L6 bowl games have been decided by 6 pts or less.<\/p>\n<h3>Sugar Bowl Prediction: ALABAMA 32, UTAH 20<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Utah Utes put together a tremendous season to make the BCS out of the Mountain West Conference but bettors aren\u2019t buying them as nine-point underdogs against Alabama&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[6163,147,148,6989,312,2358,763,3671,66516,1178,7704,7705,7707,7823,7822,5640,6990,6224,7709,7710],"class_list":["post-6633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sportsbooks","tag-2008-sugar-bowl","tag-bet-on-college-football","tag-bet-on-football","tag-bowl-prediction","tag-college-football","tag-football-odds","tag-ncaa-football-betting","tag-ncaaf-point-spread","tag-point-spreads","tag-sportsbookcom","tag-sugar-bowl-gambling","tag-sugar-bowl-lines","tag-sugar-bowl-odds","tag-sugar-bowl-picks","tag-sugar-bowl-prediction","tag-sugar-bowl-predictions","tag-top-ats-trends","tag-utah-utes-vs-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-utah-vs-alabama","tag-utes-vs-crimson-tide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106194,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions\/106194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}