Texas and LSU come into their massive Week 11 matchup with the same objective but with different mindsets based on what happened to them in Week 10.
For the Longhorns, they will try to win on the road for the second straight week after their big win at Mizzou on Saturday afternoon.
For the Tigers, they will try to bounce back from Saturday’s bitter loss to rival Alabama, at home, and avoid losing back-to-back games at home along with it.
The ranked SEC matchup in Baton Rouge will get the royal treatment as far as the TV audience is concerned, with it slotted in the 7:30 p.m. ET window on ABC. After LSU fell to Bama in the 3:30 p.m. ET window in Week 10, primetime will greet Death Valley in Week 11 as the 6-3 Tigers (3-3 SEC) try to keep any faint hopes alive of making the College Football Playoff.
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Meanwhile, 7-2 Texas (4-2 SEC) will try to further its surging Playoff hopes with a second ranked road win in as many weeks by taking down the Tigers and pulling the plug on their Playoff aspirations once and for all.
With that as the backdrop, Circa Sports unveiled its early betting lines for Week 11 on Sunday, and the early thinking is that LSU might have the advantage next Saturday night. The Tigers and star quarterback Sam Leavitt have been installed as a 4.5-point favorite at home, with the early over-under total set at 46 points.
Will there be a course correction, so to speak, with LSU bouncing back from the Bama loss and taking down surging Texas? The answer will come on the field, along with all the other Week 11 matchups whose lines were set on Sunday.
Here is the Texas-LSU line along with the early lines for a stacked Week 11 in college football:
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
