{"id":799,"date":"2013-08-28T11:40:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T15:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=799"},"modified":"2013-08-29T15:48:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T19:48:29","slug":"alabama-crimson-tide-versus-virginia-tech-hokies-odds-points-spread-overunder-and-streaming-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/08\/28\/alabama-crimson-tide-versus-virginia-tech-hokies-odds-points-spread-overunder-and-streaming-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Crimson Tide versus Virginia Tech Hokies: Odds, points spread, over\/under and streaming info"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-716\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-716\" alt=\"Streeter Lecka\/Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/mccarron.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/mccarron.jpg 635w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/mccarron-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Streeter Lecka\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alabama&#8217;s quest to becoming the first three-peat starts on Saturday against Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n<p>It is no surprise that the Nick Saban led Crimson Tide enters the season as No. 1 in both the USA Today Coaches and AP poll but Saban has been quick to remind everyone that the focus for a historic third straight National Title begins with Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama and Virginia Tech will play each other in the Georgia Dome at 5:30 pm ET on Saturday (August 31) with coverage airing on ESPN and WatchESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The Crimson Tide enters the game as a massive 20 point favorite against Frank Beamer&#8217;s banged up Hokies. The over\/under for this game is set at 45.5 total points.<\/p>\n<p>Most analysts believe that the more experienced and talented Alabama will give Virginia Tech a heaping taste of it&#8217;s ground game. Does Virginia Tech have any means of stopping Alabama from covering the nearly three touchdown spread? Or is it Roll Tide onward to a Sept. 14 match-up against Texas A&amp;M?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama&#8217;s quest to becoming the first three-peat starts on Saturday against Virginia Tech. It is no surprise that the Nick Saban led Crimson Tide enters the season as No. 1 in both the USA Today Coaches and AP poll but Saban has been quick to remind everyone that the focus for a historic third straight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ncaafb-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}