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BATON ROUGE, La. -- Duop Reath scored 16 of his game-high 23 points in the second half as LSU rallied for a 91-69 victory against Wofford in the season opener for both teams Saturday.The Tigers trailed the Terriers 43-39 at halftime. However, LSU dominated the second half by outscoring Wofford 52-26. After shooting 53 percent from the field (17 of 32) before halftime, the Terriers made just 21 percent of their field-goal attempts (7 of 33) in the final 20 minutes.Reath, a junior-college transfer who was playing his first game for the Tigers, made all six of his field-goal attempts in the second half. Reath, a 6-foot-10 center, was also 4 of 6 at the foul line after halftime. Reath grabbed a game-high 14 rebounds, blocked three shots made three steals.Our two point guards (Skylar Mays and Jalyn Patterson) have a really high basketball IQ, Reath said. So, its really important that I always stay alert and keep my hands ready. Our perimeter defense made it really easy for me and Aaron (Epps). We had size already. We had to learn to take advantage of that.Epps had 17 points, all but four in the first half. Wayde Sims came off the bench and scored 13 points. Antonio Blakeney and Mays each had 10.After tying at 51-51 on a layup by Reath, the Tigers went on a 12-0 run to take control of the game. Reath scored five of those 12 points. Wofford never trailed by fewer than 10 the rest of the game.Im really proud of the guys and how they hung in there in the first half, LSU coach Johnny Jones said. They came back out in the second half and did a great job of being connected and not getting their heads down. We got off to a great start in the second half and did a good job of not looking back.Reserve Nathan Hoover was the leading scorer for Wofford with 18 points. Both Cameron Jackson and Fletcher Magee added 14 points, while Eric Garcia had 13. Wofford made just one 3-pointer in the second half after connecting on seven before halftime.We played a pretty good ballgame in the first half, Wofford coach Mike Young said. Coach Jones and his staff made a couple of adjustments coming out of the locker room to start the second half that hurt us a little bit. They gave us a couple of looks offensively that we didnt handle very well.BIG PICTURELSU: The Tigers won their 28th straight season opener at home with the last defeat coming at the hands of TCU to begin the 1986-87 campaign. The 22-point margin of victory was the largest in a LSU season opener in five seasons when it beat Nicholls State 96-74.Wofford: The Terriers have won just one season opener since they joined Division I for the 1995-96 season. That victory came against Fairleigh Dickinson 11 years ago. Woffords record against Southeastern Conference teams fell to 3-43.TURNING POINTLSU fell behind Wofford 37-28 just under three-minute mark of the first half. The Terriers made three more field goals before halftime, but the Tigers were able to reduce their deficit to four points on the strength of three 3-pointers by Epps. In his career, Epps never had made more than two 3-pointers in a game.BIG FIRST GAMEHoover, a freshman, began his career by scoring a team-high 18 points. Hoover was 5 of 11 from the field, including 4 of 6 on 3-pointers. Like his teammates, Hoover had trouble knocking down shots after halftime. He missed four of his five second-half field goal attempts.UP NEXTLSU: The Tigers will continue a season-opening three game homestand when they take on Southern Mississippi on Tuesday.Wofford: The Terriers will have their home opener against Allen University, a NAIA school, on Tuesday.Mike Quick Eagles Jersey . -- The Bishops Gaiters are showing they belong among the countrys top varsity football teams. Miles Sanders Eagles Jersey . 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The Vancouver coach and an announced sellout crowd of 18,910 watched in dismay as the Canucks lost 7-4 to the New York Islanders on Monday night by squandering a 3-0 lead in the third period.Chris Andrews has nearly 30 years of Nevada bookmaking experience under his belt, but this will be the Vegas veterans first college football weekend back behind the counter in over a decade.I always say that Im really not worried about one thing over another, Andrews told me with chuckle. Im worried about everything.Now the sportsbook director at the South Point Casino, Andrews is lopsided on the season win totals for Miami, Arizona State, Buffalo and Florida International. Hes overloaded with Ohio State money on his early line for the Week 3 showdown between the Buckeyes and the Oklahoma Sooners, and the pesky sharps are relentless and continually keep him guessing. Relax, Chris, were guessing youll be just fine.We can offer these points of assurance:? According to Nevada Gaming Control, the states sportsbooks are up $1.3 billion on football since 1989.? The books have not suffered a losing month during footballs regular season since November 2012.? Overall, Nevada sportsbooks have come out ahead in 36 consecutive months, with their last loss in July 2013.? The books have never had a losing September since gaming control began archiving sports betting revenue numbers in 1988.Here are a number of gambling tidbits (Chalk points in our parlance) that will guide you entering college football season:National title? The worst-case national champion for Las Vegas sportsbook operator CG Technology to start the season? The plucky Iowa Hawkeyes.Opening as 100-1 longshots, the Hawkeyes are now 20-1, after a customer backed Iowa with a series of notable four-figure futures bets at 75-1 and at 60-1. Iowas odds to win the Big Ten also have shortened, improving from 7-1 to 3-1 at CG Technology. The Westgate SuperBook also took a four-figure bet on the Hawkeyes to win the national title at 80-1.? The money on the odds to win the national championship is divided between six teams. More money has been bet on Clemson to win the title than any other team at William Hill and MGM sportsbooks, and Alabama is a close second at both books. But at Westgate, LSU has attracted the most money. There has been a lot of decent-sized wagers on LSU, even at crazy low odds, said SuperBook assistant manager Ed Salmons. Ohio State, Florida State and Michigan have seen a similar amount of support, both in terms of money and overall bets.? On Aug. 2, William Hill took a $10,000 bet on Clemson to win the national championship at 9-1.? Top five teams to win the national championship by money bet at the Westgate SuperBook1. LSU 2. Michigan 3. Clemson 4. Ohio State 5. Notre Dame? Top five teams to win the national championship by number of bets at the SuperBook:1. Michigan 2. Ohio State 3. LSU 4. Alabama 5. Florida State? Alabama was a 6-point favorite over Clemson in last years national championship game. Asked what the line would be on a rematch between the two teams played this week, Salmons said, Alabama -2.5.? Top five teams in Salmons power rankings:1. Alabama 2. Ohio State 3. LSU 4. Florida State 5. Clemson? Utah State has zero tickets and is the only team listed in the SuperBooks national title odds without a bet. Cincinnati, Kentucky and Temple each have attracted one $5 bet.? Auburn has fallen from 30-1 to 80-1 to win the national championship at the SuperBook.? Baylor has fallen from 12-1 to 50-1 to win the national championship at the SuperBook.? The SuperBook took a four-figure bet on Oklahoma State at 100-1 to win the national championship.? As of Sunday, four times as much had been bet on the odds to win the Super Bowl than the odds to win the college football national championship at the SuperBook.? Salmons, a Vegas veteran who is considered by his peers to be one of sharpest college football oddsmakers in town, placed futures bets on these teams to win the national championship: Florida State, Tennessee, Washington and TCU.? Right now, LSU is our worst-case scenario, said Treasure Island sportsbook director Tony Nevill, regarding his odds to win the national championship.? At Station Casinos sportsbook, Texas A&M is the worst-case national championship scenario.? At MGMs sportsbook, Texas Tech is the worst-case national championship scenario.? William Hill took a pair of $5,000 futures bets on July 30: one on Nebraska (60-1) and one on Georgia (40-1).? The SuperBook took a $400 bet on Kansas State to win the national championship at 1,000-1.? William Hill took a $1,000 bet on Utah (125-1) to win the national championship on Aug. 25.? Two days later, William Hill took a $1,000 bet on Arkansas (125-1) to win the national title.? The South Point sportsbook is offering on a prop bet in which you can either take a group made up of Alabama, Oklahoma, Clemson, Washington and Michigan or the field to win the national championship. Each side is -110. Good two-way action, Andrews said.Individual games? At the MGM sportsbook, the ticket count on the Alabama-USC game was even; the money was not. As of Tuesday, 15 times as much money had been wagered on the Crimson Tide than the Trojans. Included in that one-sided money was an $11,000 bet on Alabama -11, placed Monday. Alabama was an 11.5-point favorite at most books in the middle of the week.? The largest bet William Hill U.S. had taken on a Week 1 game as of Mondaay was $44,000 on the Texas Longhorns +4 vs.dddddddddddd Notre Dame.? On Monday at CG Technology, Clemsons opener at Auburn was the most-heavily bet game of Week 1. The ticket count was 2-1 in favor of Dabo Swinneys Tigers. The money count was 15-1 in favor of Clemson.? To start the week, the most-heavily bet Week 1 game at the SuperBook was Thursdays Appalachian State-Tennessee game. We had a house player make a decent-size wager on Tennessee, Salmons said. Its kind of skewing [the handle]. The trendy Volunteers are 20.5-point favorites over Appalachian State.? On Monday, a bettor at William Hill, likely clad in orange, put down $40,000 on the Tennessee money line at -1,300 to beat Appalachian State. If the Vols prevail, the bettor would net $3,076.90.? Top five candidates to win the Heisman Trophy by money bet at William Hill U.S.:1. Stanford RB Christian McCaffrey 2. LSU RB Leonard Fournette 3. Clemson QB Deshaun Watson 4. Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield 5. Ohio State QB J.T. Barrett? College football favorites covered the spread in more games last year during the regular season than any other regular season in the last 11 years. Favorites went 423-385 (52.35 percent) last season. It was only the third time in the last 11 seasons that favorites covered the spread in more than 400 games ( it has happened three of the last five regular seasons). Overall, since 2005, favorites are 4,074-4,029 ATS, according to sports betting database BetLabs on SportsInsights.com.? In 2015, $1.69 billion was bet on football, both college and the NFL, at Nevadas regulated sportsbooks. The books kept $82.5 million of the amount bet.? In 2015, the NFL attracted 58 percent of the money bet on football at the Westgate SuperBook. Thats in line with estimates at other books.? Top three teams in South Point sportsbook director Chris Andrews power ratings:1. Alabama 2. Clemson 3. LSU? The lowest-ranked team in Andrews power rankings is North Texas.? Best ATS records over last 5 years:1. Georgia Southern 20-8 2. Stanford 44-24 3. Houston 42-23-1 4. Baylor 40-23-1 5. Arkansas State 40-24-1? Worst ATS records in last 5 years:1. UConn 20-39-2 2. Eastern Michigan 22-37-1 3. Kansas 22-37-1 4. Virginia Tech 24-40-2 5. Kentucky 23-37-0? Coach Nick Saban is 7-1 ATS in season openers at Alabama.? Alabama is 3-12 ATS after a straight-up loss under Nick Saban.? For his career, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer is 37-9 ATS with more than one week to prepare, including 8-3 ATS in season openers.? Ohio State is currently a 5-point underdog in its Week 3 game at Oklahoma. Urban Meyer is 19-5 ATS as an underdog in his career.? Approximately 95 percent of the money wagered on the Ohio State-Oklahoma game at South Points sportsbook is on the Buckeyes.? In the last five seasons, teams are 19-33 ATS in their next game after playing Ohio State.? Ohio State is currently a 5-point home favorite over Michigan in their Nov. 26 meeting.? Notable Games of the Year lines at South Point:Stanford at Washington (-4), Sept. 30 Tennessee at Georgia (-1), Oct. 1 Oklahoma (-10.5) vs. Texas, Oct. 8 Alabama (-2.5) at Tennessee, Oct. 15 Stanford (-3) at Notre Dame, Oct. 15 Clemson at Florida State (-2.5), Oct. 28 Michigan (-4) at Michigan State, Oct. 28 Alabama at LSU (-2.5), Nov. 5 Michigan (-4) at Iowa, Nov. 12 USC at UCLA (-3), Nov. 19 Florida at Florida State (-11), Nov. 26 Auburn at Alabama (-15.5), Nov. 26 Army vs. Navy (-12), Dec. 10? Since returning to coach Kansas State in 2009, Bill Snyder is 18-9 ATS off a straight-up loss.? Since 2009, Bill Snyder is 42-19-1 ATS in Big 12 play.? Kentucky is 7-17 ATS in SEC play under coach Mark Stoops.? Nearly 70 percent of Indianas games under coach Kevin Wilson have gone over the total, including a 10-2-1 over/under mark last season.? There have been 4,007 unders and 3,692 overs in the regular season since 2005. Last season, there were 412 unders and 400 overs.? Scoring in college football continues to trend up. In 2015, FBS teams averaged 29.6 points per game. In 2010, it was 27.9, and in 2005, 26.8.? Alabama and Michigan each have nine draft-eligible NFL prospects, the most of any schools, according to Todd McShays preseason rankings.?? Baylor is 24-7 ATS at home in last five seasons.? Oregon is 19-3 ATS on the road over the last five seasons.? Army is 4-20-1 ATS on the road over the last five seasons.? South Alabama is 7-19 ATS over the last five seasons.? At the South Point, Andrews posted win totals on each of the 128 FBS teams, from Air Force (8.5 -145 over) to Wyoming (3.5 -120 under), with Kansas (2 -125 under) in between. The most lopsided action has been on the over on Miami, Fla. (8 -130 under) and the over on Arizona State (6.5 -130 under). Bettors also have sided with the under on Buffalo (4.5 -115 under) and the under on Florida International (5 -130 under).? Top 5 teams ATS after a straight-up loss in last five seasons:1. Louisville 12-4 2. Stanford 12-3 3. Missouri 16-6 4. Kansas State 12-5 5. Michigan 14-6? California is 9-25 ATS after a straight-up loss in last five seasons.Statistical data courtesy of: BetLabsSports.com on SportsInsights and TeamRankings.com ' ' '