We like the Alabama Crimson Tide to defeat the Louisiana State Tigers on Saturday at 7:30pm ET for a number of reasons. Here are some of the more important ones:

In our opinion so far, we believe that the Tide have had the much stronger schedule. Therefore, they've played more competition and will be ready for this game.

Although it's been more even in recent years, Alabama has dominated LSU in since 2012. Since then, they are 11-2 against the Tigers.

The loss against Vandy doesn't look good on their schedule. But, the Tide looked terrific in their last game when they beat Missouri 34-0.

LSU is just 3-5 ATS over their L8 games played this season.

The Tigers are also just 2-5 versus the spread over their L7 games played as the favorite.

Bama has been at the top of the SEC for years now and we don't see them falling off and not making the playoff for the second time in three years.

This is a must-win for each team. We'll go with the team that made the playoff last year who's playing better football right now. Lay the small number or play on the ML. Either is an option.

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