Byu +17 at UCLA and bowling green + 3 vs Memphis....

Addicted2quack · Sep 16, 2015

I guess I'm a little confused with these lines...

In my eyes, bowling green vs Memphis should be a pickem. Bowling green may have an atrocious defense but they hung in with Tennessee offensively by hanging 30 on an sec team and then torched Maryland a big 10 team. Granted those two teams aren't the cream of the crop, but both are power five schools and Tennessee is seemingly on the rise. Memphis played central Missouri and Kansas.... Not exactly tough teams. Bowling green won't stop many teams but they will certainly score a shit ton of points. I'm not going to over think this much at all. +3 for a home dog who I feel is better offensively is the play for me. We will see what Memphis really is.

• BG +3 (-110)

Ucla has played Virginia who they beat somewhat easily and unlv.... Byu beat Nebraska in Nebraska and a. Ranked Boise state team. I think the stormin Mormons have something rolling here. UCLA also enter a hellacious 4-5 week span of tough opponents (Arizona, asu, Stanford, and cal) all after Byu. Do for a good offense like Byu to be getting 17 points at against a freshman QB is pretty valuable to me. Maybe a look ahead to conference play for UCLA and underestimating Byu. This is a big game for Byu and I can't see them losing huge here

•Byu +17 (-115)

good of luck and will be adding more later

WinOne · Sep 16, 2015

A2Quack,
I'll offer a contrarian view on the Breedum Young/UCLA game. I do think that 17 is a big number. I'm not sure UCLA will be looking ahead, but I don't think BYU has the team speed to threaten UCLA. BYU has yet to have a 100 yard rusher and I believe they average about 60 yards a game. My thought is the UCLA front 4 can handle the run and drop 7 guys into coverage. Should slow down the coogs. Also BYU has gotten off to a slow start and UCLA has gotten off to a hot/fast start which would indicate BYU goes away from the run even more and allow the Bruin pass rushers to pin their ears back. BYU has already been sacked 8 times this year. I can actually see a pick 6 or fumble return for a couple of cheap scores. I also like the Bruin return game in this one as well especially if Ishmael Adams is re-instated (just a rumor). i see it 41-17 UCLA

RunLeeRun · Sep 16, 2015

BYU has also had two extremely emotional victories vs tough opponents. Might be very hard to keep up that emotion.

thecruncher · Sep 16, 2015

Yeah, I'ma ride with the Cougs in this one too. Mangum put up far better #s than Rosen last week against a vastly superior team.

Bowling Green's passing game has been so good so far it's hard to know how high the ceiling is with that unit. Still, they haven't run it very well or played much defense yet. I think you need a pretty complete team to contend with Memphis. I lean Memphis but am going to pass, though. It is BGSU's first home game and they might get some better defensive play as a result. It should be a wild, fun one. If you're playing BGSU I'd put some ML on it too -- always a good idea as those small spreads matter less in high scoring games.

Addicted2quack · Sep 16, 2015

Thanks for the input guys, always appreciated

HBGPhillyPhan · Sep 16, 2015

I posted same thing about BG..I was thinking pickem at worst...
Do you like anything about Navy?

Addicted2quack · Sep 16, 2015

HBGPhillyPhan said:
I posted same thing about BG..I was thinking pickem at worst...
Do you like anything about Navy?

When it it comes to college football I love betting option teams, especially triple option teams as I think it's a very difficult and dynamic offense to prepare for. East Carolina hasn't played a triple option team thus far and won't all year other than navy so it's very likely the only prep time they've had is this week. The line I see on bovada is -4 navy at home which is a little tricky. I would much rather see -3. It appears east Carolina has some offensive line and WR injuries but not sure how major those are. I would assume navy is the way to go