Auburn Early Favorites in Showdown with Mississippi State

The Auburn Tigers will be gunning for their sixth straight-up win in a row when they travel to Davis Wade Stadium Saturday afternoon to take on the undefeated Mississippi State Bulldogs as early three-point road favorites at the online sportsbooks.

The game unexpectedly involves two of the top-ranked teams in the nation following a tumultuous Week 6 in which four of the top six ranked teams went down to defeat; a first since 1990.

The 5-0 Tigers are coming off a decisive 41-7 win over No. 15 LSU, ending a two-game losing streak against the spread. The Bulldogs, meanwhile, handed No. 6 Texas A&M its first loss of the season, a 48-31 beating as three-point favorites that catapulted them from No. 12 to their current No. 3 in the AP Top 25 poll.

No. 2 Auburn holds the upper hand in recent matchups with the Bulldogs, 11-2 SU in  their last 13 meetings including a 24-20 home victory last season.

Texas A&M will look to bounce back when it takes on No. 3 Ole Miss as a 2.5-point home favorite at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark. The 5-1 Aggies impressed early on with a 52-28 upset win over South Carolina in Week 1 but are just 1-3 ATS in their last four and 3-10 ATS in their last 13.

The 5-0 Rebels have been one of the big surprises of the 2014 college football season. Mississippi is also 5-0 ATS this season following an inconsistent 2013 campaign in which they were 8-5 SU and 7-6 ATS. The Aggies came out on top in last year’s matchup between the clubs, posting a 41-38 win, but it was the Rebels who covered as seven-point underdogs.

No. 1 Florida State is pegged as an early 20-point road favorite ahead of Saturday afternoon’s Seminoles vs. Orange matchup at the Carrier Dome. The 5-0 Seminoles picked up their first win ATS last weekend, pounding ACC Atlantic rival Wake Forest 43-3 as 37-point favorites, and face a 2-3 Syracuse squad that has lost three straight, SU and ATS.

In other college football betting action, No. 25 Stanford is an early 18-point favorite over Washington State, according to sportsbooks monitored by Oddsshark.com, while No. 5 Baylor is favored by 11 against TCU. No. 6 Notre Dame opened as a 16-point favorite ahead of its Saturday afternoon matchup with North Carolina.