By james art 
No. 16 LSU (6-2, 3-1) will host the Alabama Crimson Tide next Saturday night with the ESPN College GameDay crew in attendance.
Brian Kelly and Co. will have a prime-time matchup in the Southeastern Conference with Kalen DeBoer’s club making its way to Baton Rouge.
A game that will have significant postseason implications on the line, the stakes couldn’t be higher for both programs.
What are the current betting lines? What do the oddsmakers predict will happen? What channel will the clash be on?
LSU Tigers On SI went to the ESPN Football Power Index to see what the expert model had to say about the Week 11 SEC showdown at Tiger Stadium along with the current betting odds:
SEC football schedule for November 9
11 a.m. CT – Florida at Texas, ABC
2:30 pm CT – Georgia at Ole Miss, ABC
3:15 pm CT – South Carolina at Vanderbilt, SEC Network
* 6 or 6:45 CT – Oklahoma at Missouri, ESPN or SEC Network
* 6 or 6:45 CT – Mississippi State at Tennessee, ESPN or SEC Network
6:30 p.m. CT – Alabama at LSU, ABC
*(All odds per FanDuel Sportsbook)*
Distribution:
– LSU: (+2.5)
– Alabama: (-2.5)
Money line:
– LSU: (+112)
– Alabama: (-134)
Over/Under: 59.5
ESPN Football Power Index: LSU has a 21.2 percent chance to make the 12-team College Football Playoff and a 4.3 percent chance to win the SEC Championship.
LSU will take it week by week, but it’s simple: The Bayou Bengals must win to keep their postseason goals alive with games against Alabama, Florida, Vanderbilt and Oklahoma remaining on the 2024 schedule.
ESPN’s FPI provided early predictions for the Tigers’ remaining schedule.
LSU will have a 32 percent chance to beat the Crimson Tide on Nov. 9, a 59 percent chance against the Gators and a 75 percent against the Sooners with the Tigers also projected to come out on top against Vanderbilt.
That being said, LSU is favored in three of the last four games of the season with just one game as an underdog against the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Heading into the game against the Crimson Tide, LSU will focus on developing a consistent defensive game plan for dual-threat quarterback Jalen Milroe while sharpening both the offense and special teams department.
“We have to be really good at a few things and that’s what we’re doing, and let’s get really good at it. We have a bye week. We’re going to clear some things up. We have a good football team. It was a bad half of football for us tonight. And we’re going to get back to working on ourselves and get ready to play better football,” Kelly said after the loss to Texas A&M.
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