re: Laughing at Vegas ... Tennessee +12.5 ... Now +17

As a general rule when a line seems this far off I stay away from it. The fact that the game is betting so far to one side means Vegas is betting against LSU.

We have covered every spread except the Kentucky game. We had that one covered until we gave up that long drive in the fourth quarter.

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I dont know about them killing team xyz, but they are gonna blow out Tenn. this Sat.. It will not be pretty for the Vols...

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you're probably right. But there have been plenty of games, where better teams struggled with lesser foes even losing (See LSU-Florida 2003). Its hard to keep up that pace every week. Tenn is rowdy crowd, all it takes is one busted play, epsecially late or a couple of turnovers and you are lucky to escape with a win and can easily get a back door cover. Trust me I'm enjoying this ride plenty and not looking for the dark cloud behind the silver lining but you can laugh at Vegas at your own peril, it has nothing to do with LSU. They are banking on people like you BTW.

i hear ya! but they are not banking on me,, I never bet.... call me scary, but I understand that them boys are in it because they know what up... I am just a good ole southern boy enjoyin the Tigers!

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We have covered every spread except the Kentucky game. We had that one covered until we gave up that long drive in the fourth quarter

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LSU being conservative and never running up score

Tenn will be lucky to put a TD on the board. The Tiger D is wanting to smash UT for Chavis

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If the Vols are still in the game late in the third quarter, the Tigers could have their biggest test yet, to get out of there with a victory.

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I just don't see how they can hang with us. Even if we do turn it over a couple of times early and that keeps it close in the third quarter, I don't see how they even keep up with us from that point unless we just keep turning it over. Anything's possible, but that would be really out of character for our team this year and I doubt seriously our coaches' game plan will put us in positions where that is likely to happen. We'll probably just try to run the ball for the most part and wear them down. If it doesn't work at first, provided our defense keeps them from taking advantage, we'll just keep doing it until they finally break.

Now, covering a 17-point spread may be a different story, but a straight up loss seems highly unlikely.

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in front of a rabid crowd fired up to upset #1 on national TV.

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I've seen Tennessee's crowd before. "Rabid" is not a word that has ever come to mind to describe it. The few times they have been loud and a factor, it's always been when there was a lot on the line for UT. In this game, there's really nothing, except the possibility of a nice but meaningless upset. They're out of the running for the SEC East title or a BCS bowl, and won't finish very high in the polls, if they finish in them at all.

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We need to get them down early

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That's every team in every game. When is it NOT an advantage to get the opponent down early? We can win this game the way we won the Florida game (jumping on them early and never letting them in it), or the Mississippi State game (grinding it out slowly but surely in a defensive slugfest until we finally overpower them late) or the Oregon game (going back and forth, even falling behind, then blowing them away). The only way we realistically lose this game is if we continuously shoot ourselves in the foot over and over throughout the game. It's possible, but not likely.

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I am confident we will continue to take care of business, but I also know that crazy stuff happens

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Crazy stuff is what it would take, and although it does happen, it doesn't happen very often.

I've got LSU -14 and OSU -7. I'm worried because both of those seem too good to be true.