Under may be worth a look. First road start for Zona QB like WinOne mentioned. UTSA defense played well as they held a spread offense to 7 points. They gave up only 208 yards, 70 of which came on a garbage time TD drive. UTSA's offense didn't look good despite scoring 27 points. Granted they were breaking in a new QB but they couldn't get much going on the ground and only averaged 5 yards per passing attempt. Their TD drives were of 3, 56, and 60 yards and their FG drives were of 34 and 28 yards. Arizona's defense will definitely be a step up from Houston's and the same for UTSA's from UNLV. Early o/u is 54 which would indicate a 31-23 type game.
I agree that this looks easy at first glance but as it has been said already utsa is a good team.
Think about the oddsmakers sitting around their big round mahogany table discussing where to line this game. Both looked great on national tv. They've gotta anticipate square Ari $ to flood in including parlays/teasers on a Thursday night game with the nfl kickoff (gb/sea). Are they scared of sharp $ grabbing an 8 then having to go down just when the square $ hits? My guess is they leave it on 7 and end up with a position on utsa, or maybe it does move higher... who knows but imho it does say something that the line was set so low knowing Ari $ will come in.
Also utsa hc Coker is a defensive minded coach, unders hit 67% during his time at Mia. So we are dealing with a total of 54 which we can't categorize as low but definitely isn't high so 7 won't be easy to cover. I second everything WinOne wrote.
Think about the oddsmakers sitting around their big round mahogany table discussing where to line this game. Both looked great on national tv. They've gotta anticipate square Ari $ to flood in including parlays/teasers on a Thursday night game with the nfl kickoff (gb/sea). Are they scared of sharp $ grabbing an 8 then having to go down just when the square $ hits? My guess is they leave it on 7 and end up with a position on utsa, or maybe it does move higher... who knows but imho it does say something that the line was set so low knowing Ari $ will come in.
Also utsa hc Coker is a defensive minded coach, unders hit 67% during his time at Mia. So we are dealing with a total of 54 which we can't categorize as low but definitely isn't high so 7 won't be easy to cover. I second everything WinOne wrote.
LY UTSA lost to OK ST but covered as a 28' pt dog (56-35). The next week they went to Zona and covered in Tucson (38-13) as a 25'pt dog. interstingly in that game UTSA had 23 FD and a TOP edge 33-27. They were 50% on 3rd down, however Zona benefited from 2TOs that led to short TD drives (34 and 50yds). They held Ka'deem Carey to 128 on the ground on 27 carries which is really, really good.
