
When No. 6 Alabama heads to Knoxville to take on No. 14 Tennessee, the game is about more than tradition and victory cigars. Both teams are 5-1, each fighting for a College Football Playoff spot, and the stakes couldn't be higher. Neyland Stadium's sea of more than 100,000 checkerboarded fans will crank up the intensity, making way for one of the weekend's most fascinating matchups, not just on the field, but for anyone trying to figure out the betting angle.
Oddsmakers have made Alabama a 7.5-point road favorite and set the total at 53.5, tempting fans with the idea of another high-scoring SEC showdown.
This matchup offers a chance to capitalize on a system that has produced an 84-47 record (64.1% win rate) since September 2021. It is one of two highly profitable systems I'm sharing this week. Both systems have produced a selection, which is rated on a confidence scale from 0 to 5, where 5 means the highest level of confidence. I will also share my model's projection, which is a completely separate predictive metric. When my model and the system agree, that selection is more likely to bring home cash. (No betting approach is perfect, so please bet responsibly.) A confidence level of 0 means I like the other side.
(Below, Hochman, who has hit 59% of his against-the-spread college football selections and is up +1993 since the start of the 2021 season, shares his systems, model predictions and two plays for Week 7.)
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