College football lookahead is the essential grab bag of numbers, trends, reads and concepts each Monday throughout the season
In Week 11 we're calling the fight in Southern California, dissecting the market response to Alabama-LSU and highlighting an ACC squad poised to close strong. There's also a monster number you can't reasonably lay in Week 11, plus a huge early line move.
All lines and totals from Circa Sportsbook as of Sunday.
Openers
First impressions from the schedule and opening lines.
LSU Tigers at Alabama Crimson Tide (-6.5, 65.5)
3:30 p.m. ET, Saturday (CBS)
Opened by the Golden Nugget at -16 back in May and holding at Bama -9.5 for much of the season, this number continues to drop as the public pounds LSU. Circa, like a lot of books, opened this number at -7 but had to move to 6.5 very quickly. Alabama is only a 5.5- to 6-point choice in the leading offshore markets. Public underdogs don't typically fare very well, and their action figures to be lopsided on this one.