Latest College Football Lines – Auburn Tries To Avoid Minefield At Mississippi

The chase for the college football national championship intensifies, as No. 1 Auburn closes out the month of October with a tricky trap game on the road at unranked Ole Miss.Here’s a preview along with the latest college football lines.

Auburn Tigers @ Mississippi Rebels
Saturday, October 30th – 6:05 PM ET
Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, MS
Broadcast: ESPN2

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Latest College Football Lines:

Auburn -7, Mississippi +7

Thetension is building, and the nation is waiting to see what the Auburn Tigers will do. Now ranked No. 1 in the BCS standings, the Tigers will receive every opponent’s best shot on a weekly basis.

Auburn is crossing state lines this week and leaving the state of Alabama to play a fired-up Ole Miss team. We’ll see if an upset can unfold in Oxford.

Latest College Football Lines: What Auburn Has To Do To Win

The Tigers just need to lean on Cameron Newton and see if any defense can stop him.

Chances are that’s just not going to happen in 2010. Newton led an Auburn offense to new heights this past Saturday. Going up against an LSU defense that was and still is one of the best in the nation, Newton basically said he didn’t care.

He led Auburn to 442 rushing yards, an absolutely obscene total against a quality SEC defense, and enabled his own Tigers to topple the LSU Tigers, 24-17. Newton, at 6-6 and 250 pounds, is plainly a freak of nature.

He’s blessed with lightning-quick speed and above-average open-field ability despite his enormous size and bulk. He bowls over defenders like a linebacker, but he can also elude defenders like a skilled running back. He’s carrying Auburn on his broad shoulders and shows no signs of slowing down.

If Auburn has any keys other than establishing Newton, the Tigers must simply do enough on defense to remain in good position. As long as Auburn forces field goals and limits Mississippi to no more than 30 points, Newton should be able to light up the scoreboard and prevail.

If Auburn does allow an opponent to score six touchdowns and break the 40-point barrier, the Tigers would be in trouble.

Latest College Football Lines: What Mississippi Has To Do To Win

This is the kind of game during a college football season in which an underdog, playing at home, will treat a regular-season conference clash as its bowl game.

The Rebels know that since Auburn is No. 1 in the country, this is the biggest game they’ll play all year. Ole Miss will certainly spill the tank in an effort to score an historic ambush-style upset.

This group of Rebels was not a motivated team in September, but it played Alabama hard and well on the road in Tuscaloosa, despite a 13-point loss. Coach Houston Nutt’s ballclub also put up a decent fight at Arkansas last weekend before fading in the fourth quarter.

If the Rebels can somehow contain Newton –not on an overall level, but in the red zone –Ole Miss can force just enough field goals to limit Auburn’s scoring and win a shootout behind its own talented quarterback, Jeremiah Masoli, who is used to playing in big games after leading Oregon into the 2010 Rose Bowl against Ohio State.

Ole Miss has the accomplished and seasoned type of quarterback that can make plays and win this game. If the Rebels can hold Auburn to no more than 30 points, they’ll have a very reasonable chance of winning.

Latest College Football Lines: Outlook & Pick

Ole Miss probably will score about 30 points, but that will enable Newton to score 35. This won’t be an easy game, but Auburn should win it because it has the best player on the field by far.

Ole Miss, though, should be able to cover a touchdown spread on a day when it will play hard and well for at least three quarters, if not more.

Latest College Football Lines Pick: Mississippi +7