College Football Week 7 Odds, Picks & Prediction: Alabama vs. Tennessee (2022)
Let’s take a look at the College Football Week 7 odds, picks, and predictions for this week’s game: Alabama vs. Tennessee.
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College Football Week 7 Odds, Picks & Prediction: Alabama vs. Tennessee
The weekend’s biggest game is at Neyland Stadium, a top-10 matchup between Alabama and Tennessee. The Volunteers haven’t started 6-0 since their national championship season in 1998. They’ve lacked the explosive offense the past two decades that they’ve shown this year. Led by Heisman candidate QB Hendon Hooker, Tennessee has the 2nd rated offense per SP+.
They’ll face their toughest test yet in Alabama. The 2nd ranked defense per SP+ has had no issue slowing down all of the opponents they’ve played so far. However, they’ve shown some weakness against the higher-rated offenses they’ve played. They were locked into a 28-23 game at Arkansas early into the 4th quarter before Arkansas’s defense started giving up big plays, leading to a blowout. Against Texas, QB Quinn Ewers was moving the ball easily on the Crimson Tide’s defense before he was knocked out of the game with an injury.
This defense has feasted on bad offenses and backup quarterbacks. Tennessee will be able to put up points in this game.
On the other side of the ball, Bryce Young is still questionable to play. They struggled to move the ball against Texas A&M last week without him. If he cannot go, that could be more than enough to swing things in Tennessee’s favor, but even if he can play, he may not be at full strength.
The crowd in Knoxville will be rocking on Saturday afternoon. With an elite offense led by Hendon Hooker, the Vols are primed to send Alabama home with their first loss of the year.
Pick: Tennessee ML (+235)
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