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Best college football bets for Week 13

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As we enter the most critical stage in the college football season, each team reveals more about itself by the week, and each game offers a chance for the most observant bettors to take advantage of what they learn. Every Thursday, Phil Steele, Chris Fallica and "Stanford Steve" Coughlin pick their top plays across the college football landscape. This week, the column drops a day early to accommodate a couple of games on Thanksgiving and a solid slate of options on Friday.

Here are the best bets for Week 13 of the college football season.

Lines from Westgate SuperBook, as of Wednesday afternoon.


No. 18 Mississippi State Bulldogs (-13.5) at Ole Miss Rebels (O/U 62)

Thursday, 7:30 p.m. ET (ESPN)

Coughlin: There will be plenty of emotion in Oxford Thanksgiving night when these two rivals take the field. The rivalry is tied 10-10 in the past 20 meetings. We know how the Bulldogs offense has struggled to throw the ball this year, but Nick Fitzgerald is fresh off his best effort of the year, in which he completed 9 of 14 passes for 127 yards and 4 TDs while running for 85 yards -- including a 2-yard touchdown. He now has 3,387 career rushing yards, extending his Southeastern Conference record for rushing yards by a quarterback.

On the other side, the Ole Miss offense is led by QB Jordan Ta'amu, who has thrown for more than 3,800 yards this year. I think there will be

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