South Carolina Gamecocks at Alabama Crimson Tide
O/U 54.5 · SPREAD Alabama Crimson Tide -12.5
The pick & result
- Published pick
- South Carolina Gamecocks +12.5 -110
- Published odds
- -110
- Result
- Lost
- Final score
- 18-49
Odds are the American price printed with this pick, not a current offer. Wins, losses and pushes remain on the public record; a missing grade is not a win.
The line
BETMGM · 32 moves| Market | Opened Sep 20 4:43 PM | Close Sep 26 5:52 PM | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPREAD | Alabama Crimson Tide -12.5 (-108) | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-118) | −½ |
| TOTAL | 54.5 (-108) | 53.5 (-110) | −1 |
| MONEYLINE | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 | Holds |
Every move, in order ›
| When | Spread | Total | Moneyline |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPENSep 20 4:43 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12.5 (-108) | 54.5 (-108) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 20 5:43 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12.5 (-110) | 54.5 (-118) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 20 8:44 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -13 (-108) | 54.5 (-112) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +400 |
| Sep 21 6:00 AM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12.5 (-110) | 54.5 (-115) | Alabama Crimson Tide -525 · South Carolina Gamecocks +400 |
| Sep 21 11:01 AM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12.5 (-110) | 54.5 (-118) | Alabama Crimson Tide -525 · South Carolina Gamecocks +400 |
| Sep 21 4:03 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-108) | 54.5 (-118) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 21 6:03 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-108) | 54.5 (-115) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 21 10:06 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-110) | 54.5 (-115) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 22 12:33 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-110) | 53.5 (-108) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 22 1:17 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-108) | 53.5 (-108) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +400 |
| Sep 22 2:17 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-108) | 53.5 (-110) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 23 4:06 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-110) | 53.5 (-108) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 23 7:07 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-110) | 53.5 (-110) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 24 10:01 AM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-110) | 53.5 (-110) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 24 10:31 AM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-110) | 53.5 (-110) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 24 12:22 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-110) | 53.5 (-110) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 24 12:52 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-110) | 53.5 (-110) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 24 1:22 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-118) | 53.5 (-110) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 24 1:52 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12.5 (-112) | 53.5 (-110) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 24 3:24 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-118) | 53.5 (-112) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 24 6:55 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-118) | 53.5 (-115) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 24 9:25 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-110) | 54.5 (-105) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 25 10:31 AM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-118) | 54.5 (-108) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +400 |
| Sep 25 11:01 AM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-118) | 54.5 (-105) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +400 |
| Sep 25 12:01 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-118) | 54.5 (-105) | Alabama Crimson Tide -525 · South Carolina Gamecocks +400 |
| Sep 25 4:00 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-118) | 54.5 (-105) | Alabama Crimson Tide -525 · South Carolina Gamecocks +400 |
| Sep 25 8:04 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12.5 (-108) | 53.5 (-115) | Alabama Crimson Tide -525 · South Carolina Gamecocks +400 |
| Sep 26 9:11 AM | Alabama Crimson Tide -13 (-112) | 54.5 (-105) | Alabama Crimson Tide -525 · South Carolina Gamecocks +400 |
| Sep 26 4:40 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -13 (-112) | 54.5 (-105) | Alabama Crimson Tide -525 · South Carolina Gamecocks +400 |
| Sep 26 5:10 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-118) | 54.5 (-105) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +400 |
| Sep 26 5:31 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-110) | 54.5 (-105) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| Sep 26 5:41 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12.5 (-110) | 53.5 (-110) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
| CLOSESep 26 5:52 PM | Alabama Crimson Tide -12 (-118) | 53.5 (-110) | Alabama Crimson Tide -500 · South Carolina Gamecocks +380 |
The read
A Saturday night in Tuscaloosa, the lights on at Bryant-Denny, and the eighth-ranked Crimson Tide hosting an unranked South Carolina team that has not left home all season. Alabama is 3-0 and rolling. The Gamecocks are 2-1, and their wins came against Kent State and Towson. The surface story says mismatch. The number says something else. The posted 12.5 is the part that matters. Opponent-adjusted, this game is not that wide. Alabama grades about 6.5 points better in SP+ and roughly 10 points better in FPI, and both sit under the posted line.
When the market asks a favorite to win by more than the models do, the dog is where the cushion lives. South Carolina is a live dog in the way that travels. LaNorris Sellers is a runner as much as a passer, 238 pounds of it, with 270 passing yards in the opener and 119 rushing yards in Week 2. Behind him, the offensive line is the real lever. South Carolina's run-blocking profile is the best single unit in this file, a 10.4% stuff rate and 0.80 power success, a group built to stay on schedule. Matt Fuller has produced on the ground and as a receiver out of the backfield. Alabama's defense is the genuine article: 159 rushing yards allowed all season, 10 sacks, five interceptions, a turnover margin of +3. That is how the Tide separate.
But Alabama is 132nd of 138 in explosiveness allowed, and South Carolina is 129th, so neither secondary is airtight. Alabama can win this game and still surrender the chunk that keeps the Gamecocks inside two scores. Keelon Russell is trending up, off a 320-yard, three-touchdown, no-interception afternoon, and this offense scores in bursts. The case against the dog is honest. South Carolina's only real test was a home loss to Mississippi State, its efficient numbers were hung on overmatched teams, and it must handle a true road environment for the first time. I am not betting on South Carolina to win. I am betting that a team with a dual-threat quarterback, a line that can keep it on schedule, and a defense that can manufacture a stop keeps this within two scores, against a favorite that has started slowly and can be generous to explosive plays.
The research
The dated measurements the app shows under this card — observations with their sample and source, not predictions.
TRENCHES
SC: 280 rushing yards per game to ALA's 210.3
69.7 YPGSouth Carolina is running for 280 a game over three games after 111.1 last season, and Alabama is at 210.3 after 104.1. Both jumps are large enough that early opponents are the likely explanation. Expect both to fall back in an SEC game. A run-heavy script from both sides would favor a slower game with fewer possessions.
TURNOVERS
ALA: 2.33 takeaways per game to SC's 0.67
1.67 TOSC is at 0.67 takeaways per game over 3 games; ALA is at 2.33 over 3 games. Those are what each defense has allowed in this season's games through Sep 25.
MISMATCH
SC: 280 rush yards a game to ALA's 210.3
280 VS 210.3South Carolina is running for 280 yards a game over 3 games, way up from 111.1 last season. Alabama is at 210.3, double its 104.1 over 15 games a year ago. Both teams are running far above their history in a three-game sample, so expect both to come down. The run game is the plan for both sides, and the team whose early rushing holds up against real competition controls the clock.
TEAM RECORD
SEC game: SC 0-1, ALA 1-0 in conference
CONFERENCESouth Carolina dropped its first SEC game and Alabama won its first, so each team has one league result so far. That is a one-game sample for both, with no opponent or score shown here, so it tells you very little about who either team is. Expect these records to shift soon. A bettor should size this spot on the two rosters and the home field, not on a 1-0 against 0-1 split.
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Props on this game
1- GARY'S PICKLANORRIS SELLERSRUSHING YARDS OVER 27.5
South Carolina's whole path in this game runs through LaNorris Sellers' legs, and I think the number has been shaded too far the other way. He is 238 pounds of dual-threat, and through three games he has 172 rushing yards on just 23 carries — essentially 7.5 a pop. The 27.5 posted here is roughly half his per-game output, which tells me the line is priced off Alabama's front-seven reputation more than off what the Gamecocks actually ask him to do.
Sellers is a designed part of this run game, not a scrambler of last resort, and the unit in front of him grades as the best single group in this file — a 10.4% stuff rate and 0.80 power success, a line built to stay on schedule. When the pocket collapses against a Tide pass rush that lives in the backfield, he tucks it and gets what he can, and a keeper package or two in the red area is live. The case against is honest: this is his first true road environment, and Alabama has surrendered only 159 rushing yards all season.
But that is a whole-team figure built against lesser offenses, and I am not asking him to win the game on the ground — I am asking for four good carries.
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