Week 14 College Football Picks Against the Spread

• Week 14 of College Football features a loaded slate of games on Saturday, December 5th
• Alabama vs LSU and Tennessee vs Florida are among the marquee matchups
• Read below for the best ATS picks for Week 14 of the college football season

The 2020 College Football season is winding down, and there’s no shortage of great matchups for Week 14. The packed slate on Saturday, December 5th features several matchups with enticing betting value.

The Gators will continue their quest for an SEC Championship berth against Tennessee, while Alabama aims for a big revenge win against LSU. Over in the Pac-12, Washington and Stanford clash in Montlake.

Here are three ATS picks to consider for Week 14.

No. 1 Alabama vs LSU Odds

All odds taken Dec. 1 at DraftKings

Tide Exact Revenge On Tigers

Alabama will be looking for a huge revenge win when they travel to Death Valley to face LSU on Saturday. The Crimson Tide lost a close 46-41 game at the hands of Heisman winner Joe Burrow and the Tigers last season. While LSU has lost many of their key players from that matchup, the Tide remain mainly intact and will be hungry for revenge.

Alabama is having a monstrous season and can clinch the SEC West division with a victory. They’ve put up at least 40 points in seven straight weeks and have a Heisman contender at each major offensive position with QB Mac Jones, WR DeVonta Smith and RB Najee Harris. LSU, meanwhile, is having a miserable season and is giving up almost 450 yards of offense per game.

National Player of the Week. ✅ pic.twitter.com/jPO1p642k8

— Alabama Football (@AlabamaFTBL) December 2, 2020

This game features a clear mismatch in talent level and could get real ugly. The line opened with Alabama being 25-point favorites and has steadily moved in favor of the Tide. There’s still plenty of value to pounce on when you consider this game could easily be a 40-plus point blowout. The Tide have covered the spread in five straight games, including as 24.5-point favorites over Auburn in the Iron Bowl last weekend.

Not much is going right for LSU right now, including recent news that top receiver Terrace Marshall is opting out of the season. An early-season injury to QB Myles Brennan means that it’ll be freshman TJ Finley or third-stringer Max Johnson facing this stingy Tide defense. Neither player has showed anything to indicate they can help LSU keep pace with this electric Alabama offense. Nick Saban is going to want to make a statement, so don’t be surprised if he keeps his starters in the game late and runs up the score.

Pick: Alabama Crimson Tide -29 (-110)

No. 6 Florida vs Tennessee Odds

Gators Continue Domination of Vols

The Gators will be going for a sixth straight win when they travel to Tennessee to face the slumping Volunteers in Week 14. Tennessee has lost five straight games and are averaging just 20.1 points per game, while the Gators are still in the hunt for the CFP and are averaging 43.4 points per game.

These are two teams going in different directions, and it’s somewhat surprising Florida isn’t favored by at least 20 points. QB Kyle Trask is the Heisman Trophy favorite and has thrown at least three touchdown passes in every game, while TE Kyle Pitts is back to full health following a concussion and coming off a big performance against Kentucky in which he made three touchdown catches.

The Kyle Trask-Kyle Pitts duo could not be stopped 😤

THREE TDs for that connection 🔥 pic.twitter.com/OZSd0S0zN1

— ESPN (@espn) November 28, 2020

Tennessee might be getting the benefit of the doubt considering they hold home-field advantage, but it isn’t much of an edge when you consider they’ve only won one home game this season and are 1-2 ATS at Neyland Stadium. The last time Florida visited Knoxville was in 2018 when the Gators easily won by a 47-21 score. In the matchup last season at the Swamp, it was all Gators in a 34-3 victory.

One mind-boggling stat for this matchup is that Gators’ QB Trask has thrown 34 TD passes this season, while Vols QB Jarrett Guarantano has thrown 38 TD passes in his entire career. There is a clear skill mismatch in this game and Tennessee simply isn’t playing for much at this point of the season. Florida’s defense has improved over the past few games, but it’s their dynamic offense that will exploit this weak Vols’ defense and ensure this game isn’t close.

Pick: Florida Gators -16.5 (-117)

Stanford vs No. 22 Washington Odds

Huskies Continue Hot Start vs Cardinal 

3-0 Washington will be looking to continue their excellent start to the season when they host 1-2 Stanford in Week 14. This spread seems low for a solid Huskies team that is averaging over 400 yards of offense and leads the Pac-12 conference with only 314 yards allowed per game.

Stanford has been forced to relocate to Seattle and Corvallis, Ore. for the next two weeks in response to a Santa Clara County ban on contact sports, which means they could have limited practice heading into Saturday’s game. They’ve failed to cover the spread in eight straight road games and were dominated 35-14 by Oregon in their lone game away from Stanford Stadium this season.

The Huskies have a solid QB in freshman Dylan Morris, who has thrown for over 200 yards and two touchdowns in each of his last two games, but it’s Washington’s elite defense that will win them this game. Outside linebacker Zion Tupuola-Fetui has been a force for the Huskies, racking up at least two sacks and four tackles in every game thus far. He’ll create all kinds of havoc for Stanford senior QB Davis Mills and the Cardinal’s mediocre passing attack.

Stanford doesn’t have much of a pass-rush, which bodes well for the youngster Morris and his plethora of weapons at wide receiver. Washington also has three quality 100-yard running backs who should have a big day against a Stanford rush defense that couldn’t contain Oregon and Colorado’s ground game earlier this season. The Huskies are clearly the better team and should win by at least two touchdowns.

Pick: Washington Huskies -11.5 (-108)