Auburn takes the court for the first time in a week on Saturday as the Tigers travel to Baton Rouge to take on LSU.
The Tigers were set to play Mississippi State on Tuesday but the winter weather in the Southeast postponed that game until Thursday. The matchup was then postponed again to a date to be announced.
The rust might affect Bruce Pearl’s squad and the people at BetMGM have Auburn as 4.5-point underdogs to the Bayou Bengals.
“If we had known we had a bye week, we would have approached it a little differently,” Pearl said. “We would not have practiced on Sunday and then taken Monday off. That was really weird. We spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday preparing for Mississippi State, and then come to find out we’re playing LSU. Then we’ve got to get the staff together and quickly drill down on LSU, which are really different teams. We got a chance to work on us a little bit this week, which was good.”
Here are odds for the rest of the SEC action on Saturday:
Odds courtesy of BetMGM, The King of Sportsbooks.
Georgia at Florida (-8.5)
Mississippi State at Ole Miss (-6.5)
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