
Lots of upsets so far this Bowl season. Underdogs are 4-1. Good thing I entered an underdog special in the bowl pool. It's gone 4-1 too but not a lot of points wagered. Still plenty of action left.
Boca Raton Bowl - Akron +22.5 @ Florida Atlantic - This time it’s not strength against strength, it’s strength against weakness.
Lane Kiffin has the Florida Atlantic offense humming.The rushing offense was sixth overall behind RB Devin Singletary. Singletary has rushed for 1,794 yards and has 11 straight 100 yard games. He became the first ever Owl to become a CFB All American ending up on the 3rd team.
He needs just 204 yards to become a 2,000 yard rusher, which should be in the grasp. Akron was 99th in rushing defense.
The Zips don’t do anything really good. The rotated three different QBs throughout the season since they all sucked.
Florida Atlantic will have the home field advantage since they will be playing on their actual home field.
This game should be a blow out. At 22.5 points, the Owls are the biggest favorite on the bowl season. In fact, it's the biggest spread in a bowl game in a decade
I’ll take the Zips assuming the Owls are over confident. That and the underdogs are 4-1 ATS too. No quatloos though. Zips could just as easily get blown out early.
That and Kiffin is a troll. He knows exactly what the point spread is in every single game that he's coaching in.
The Owls delivered two of the most devastating beat downs of the entire season to bettors.
On November 3, Florida Atlantic hosted Marshall in a huge C-USA East tussle. The Owls were up 30-23 with just seconds remaining, and rather than punt the ball to Marshall, Kiffin instructed his punt unit to give up a safety.
The spread was Florida Atlantic -6.5.
Three weeks later, the Owls were laying 24.5-points against Charlotte. Florida Atlantic was beating the spread, leading 31-6 late in the third quarter. Charlotte punched in a touchdown to make it a 31-12, a 19 point lead. FAU proceeded to march the length of the field to get down to the 1-yard line with under a minute go in the game. The nation's No. 6 rushing offense couldn't get a single yard in four tries against the nation's No. 106-ranked rush defense. Imagine that....
Take out those two ATS defeats, and Florida Atlantic has covered every game it has played since September
Boca Raton Bowl - Akron +22.5 @ Florida Atlantic - This time it’s not strength against strength, it’s strength against weakness.
Lane Kiffin has the Florida Atlantic offense humming.The rushing offense was sixth overall behind RB Devin Singletary. Singletary has rushed for 1,794 yards and has 11 straight 100 yard games. He became the first ever Owl to become a CFB All American ending up on the 3rd team.
He needs just 204 yards to become a 2,000 yard rusher, which should be in the grasp. Akron was 99th in rushing defense.
The Zips don’t do anything really good. The rotated three different QBs throughout the season since they all sucked.
Florida Atlantic will have the home field advantage since they will be playing on their actual home field.
This game should be a blow out. At 22.5 points, the Owls are the biggest favorite on the bowl season. In fact, it's the biggest spread in a bowl game in a decade
I’ll take the Zips assuming the Owls are over confident. That and the underdogs are 4-1 ATS too. No quatloos though. Zips could just as easily get blown out early.
That and Kiffin is a troll. He knows exactly what the point spread is in every single game that he's coaching in.
The Owls delivered two of the most devastating beat downs of the entire season to bettors.
On November 3, Florida Atlantic hosted Marshall in a huge C-USA East tussle. The Owls were up 30-23 with just seconds remaining, and rather than punt the ball to Marshall, Kiffin instructed his punt unit to give up a safety.
The spread was Florida Atlantic -6.5.
Three weeks later, the Owls were laying 24.5-points against Charlotte. Florida Atlantic was beating the spread, leading 31-6 late in the third quarter. Charlotte punched in a touchdown to make it a 31-12, a 19 point lead. FAU proceeded to march the length of the field to get down to the 1-yard line with under a minute go in the game. The nation's No. 6 rushing offense couldn't get a single yard in four tries against the nation's No. 106-ranked rush defense. Imagine that....
Take out those two ATS defeats, and Florida Atlantic has covered every game it has played since September

Frisco Bowl – La Tech +5.0 vs SMU – Well, this just got interesting. SMU HC Chad Morris split for Arkansas so SMU went out and hired Sonny Dykes. Sonny Dykes coached at La Tech from 2010-12 before bolting for Cal where he got canned last year.
Dykes has agreed to coach this game. Pretty unusual since new coaches let the interim HC coach the bowl game while they focus on recruiting and hiring a new staff. Perhaps it’s the chance to coach against his old team.
He inherits a potent offense. SMU and Oklahoma State are the only FBS teams with a 3,000-yard passer, 1,000-yard rusher and two 1,000-yard receivers. Sophomore quarterback Ben Hicks threw for 3,442 yards and 32 touchdowns while WRs Trey Quinn and Courtland Sutton each caught 12 touchdowns. Sutton is NFL special, with 6-4, 216-pound size, nice deep speed, and a matchup nightmare. He’ll be an early NFL draft entry.
The La Tech offense dropped off this year but should get back to form in this game. SMU’s defense is a mere rumor. Want to run? The Mustang defensive front gives up over five yards per carry and 32 touchdowns. Want to throw? Go for it – the Mustang D allows a whopping 8.9 yards per throw.
It’s Sonny Dykes vs Skippy Holtz so there will be tons of points. I’ll take La Tech and the points as SMU tries to adjust to Sonny. No quatloos. This games will come down to who has the ball last.
I’ll do a Mini Mega on the over 70.0 though. The last eight SMU games averaged 73 points. For the year 8 of 12 games went over 70.
Dykes has agreed to coach this game. Pretty unusual since new coaches let the interim HC coach the bowl game while they focus on recruiting and hiring a new staff. Perhaps it’s the chance to coach against his old team.
He inherits a potent offense. SMU and Oklahoma State are the only FBS teams with a 3,000-yard passer, 1,000-yard rusher and two 1,000-yard receivers. Sophomore quarterback Ben Hicks threw for 3,442 yards and 32 touchdowns while WRs Trey Quinn and Courtland Sutton each caught 12 touchdowns. Sutton is NFL special, with 6-4, 216-pound size, nice deep speed, and a matchup nightmare. He’ll be an early NFL draft entry.
The La Tech offense dropped off this year but should get back to form in this game. SMU’s defense is a mere rumor. Want to run? The Mustang defensive front gives up over five yards per carry and 32 touchdowns. Want to throw? Go for it – the Mustang D allows a whopping 8.9 yards per throw.
It’s Sonny Dykes vs Skippy Holtz so there will be tons of points. I’ll take La Tech and the points as SMU tries to adjust to Sonny. No quatloos. This games will come down to who has the ball last.
I’ll do a Mini Mega on the over 70.0 though. The last eight SMU games averaged 73 points. For the year 8 of 12 games went over 70.

Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl - Florida International +7.0 vs Temple – Way to go St Pete. You dropped the lame Beef O’Brady’s title and amped it out of the stadium with Bad Boy Gaspirilla. I’m pumped already
Another coach will be facing off against his old team. Up and coming Temple HC Geoff Collins was the defensive coordinator for the Golden Panthers back in 2010, when FIU captured a conference title and went on to win the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.
Butch Davis was Dantonio lite in his first year. He flipped the FIU script going from 4-8 to 8-4 this year.
It’s two teams coming in hot into bowl season. Neither Temple nor FIU is a particularly high-scoring team as the Owls rank 96th nationally in points while the Panthers are 75th. However, both teams closed with strong offensive performances as Temple averaged 33 points going 3-1 to get bowl eligible. FIU put up 104 points in its final two wins over Western Kentucky and Massachusetts.
This is not the Temple defense of the past few years. They finished in the middle of the pack (63rd) in total defense and 73rd in points allowed. But they do have a couple of sack masters in Jacob Martin (11.0 TFL / 8.0 sacks) and Sharif Finch (14.5/7.5)
I’m going to go with FIU and the points. Neither team really lit it up this season and FIU has one thing going for it. The Panthers offense led the nation in scoring percentage in the red zone with 39 scores in 40 trips while the Owls' red-zone defense was far from great, holding their opponent scoreless on just 13 percent of red-zone trips.
I’ll put a quatloo on Butch. He’s 5-2 in bowl games with the two losses by a combined 3 points.
And for fun, I'll put a quatloo on the over 56.0.
Another coach will be facing off against his old team. Up and coming Temple HC Geoff Collins was the defensive coordinator for the Golden Panthers back in 2010, when FIU captured a conference title and went on to win the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.
Butch Davis was Dantonio lite in his first year. He flipped the FIU script going from 4-8 to 8-4 this year.
It’s two teams coming in hot into bowl season. Neither Temple nor FIU is a particularly high-scoring team as the Owls rank 96th nationally in points while the Panthers are 75th. However, both teams closed with strong offensive performances as Temple averaged 33 points going 3-1 to get bowl eligible. FIU put up 104 points in its final two wins over Western Kentucky and Massachusetts.
This is not the Temple defense of the past few years. They finished in the middle of the pack (63rd) in total defense and 73rd in points allowed. But they do have a couple of sack masters in Jacob Martin (11.0 TFL / 8.0 sacks) and Sharif Finch (14.5/7.5)
I’m going to go with FIU and the points. Neither team really lit it up this season and FIU has one thing going for it. The Panthers offense led the nation in scoring percentage in the red zone with 39 scores in 40 trips while the Owls' red-zone defense was far from great, holding their opponent scoreless on just 13 percent of red-zone trips.
I’ll put a quatloo on Butch. He’s 5-2 in bowl games with the two losses by a combined 3 points.
And for fun, I'll put a quatloo on the over 56.0.

Bahamas Bowl – Ohio -7.5 vs UAB - Welcome back UAB. They took the last two years off from this whole football thing and returned with a vengeance this year - - winning a school record eight games.
You want rushing offense? Here you go. Ohio led the MAC in rushing, UAB was second in Conference USA on the ground. Get ready for these two to bash away.
Toledo might have had the MAC’s best offense, but Ohio’s was the most efficient and often the most effective. Not only did the Bobcats lead the MAC in rushing, they were also the best in red zone offense, and third down conversions and 14th in the nation in scoring with 39.8 points per game.
They were led by QB Nathan Rourke who was second in the nation in rushing touchdowns, four scores better than any other quarterback. The Bobcat sophomore ran for 882 yards and 21 scores – only FAU RB Devin Singletary ran for more TDs.
The UAB ground game revolves around freshman RB Spencer Brown, who finished the season with 1,292 yards and ten scores. The Blazers are 5-1 when the 235-pounder ran for 100 yards, and 6-1 when he scores.
I’ll take the Bobcats. In a game that will be decided on the ground, Ohio has the better rush defense, the best in the MAC. The Bobcats allowed over 200 yards on the ground to Purdue and Bowling Green – that's it. Ohio has allowed under 100 yards six times on the year, and UAB is 0-3 when rushing for under 165 yards.
I’ll put a quatloo on the Bobcats. The hook has scared me off from any more.
You want rushing offense? Here you go. Ohio led the MAC in rushing, UAB was second in Conference USA on the ground. Get ready for these two to bash away.
Toledo might have had the MAC’s best offense, but Ohio’s was the most efficient and often the most effective. Not only did the Bobcats lead the MAC in rushing, they were also the best in red zone offense, and third down conversions and 14th in the nation in scoring with 39.8 points per game.
They were led by QB Nathan Rourke who was second in the nation in rushing touchdowns, four scores better than any other quarterback. The Bobcat sophomore ran for 882 yards and 21 scores – only FAU RB Devin Singletary ran for more TDs.
The UAB ground game revolves around freshman RB Spencer Brown, who finished the season with 1,292 yards and ten scores. The Blazers are 5-1 when the 235-pounder ran for 100 yards, and 6-1 when he scores.
I’ll take the Bobcats. In a game that will be decided on the ground, Ohio has the better rush defense, the best in the MAC. The Bobcats allowed over 200 yards on the ground to Purdue and Bowling Green – that's it. Ohio has allowed under 100 yards six times on the year, and UAB is 0-3 when rushing for under 165 yards.
I’ll put a quatloo on the Bobcats. The hook has scared me off from any more.

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl – Central Michigan PK vs Wyoming – Well, that was one big pffffft Josh Allen. Considered one of the top QBs coming into the season he did basically nothing this year for Wyoming.
And now he’s hurt. He missed the last few games of the year with a shoulder injury, and he’s very, very questionable. If he plays get ready for a three hour discussion about whether or not he really is worthy of a top ten overall, franchise-defining pick.
Central Michigan's counter with Michigan transfer QB Shane Morris and his 2,908 passing yards. He leads the MAC’s hottest team, winning five in a row including nice wins over Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan, and Northern Illinois. The Chippewas took down Ohio on the road, too. After struggling over the first part of the season, the team has figured out ways to win.
The two teams also employ similar defensive styles that result in takeaway opportunities. Central Michigan ended the regular season second in the nation with 19 interceptions, while Wyoming finished 12th with 16 interceptions.
Allen referred to the Central Michigan as "ball hawks." Two members of that unit -- defensive backs Josh Cox and Sean Bunting -- are two of college football's interceptions leaders with six and five, respectively.
Wyoming counters with Rico Gafford and Andrew Wingard. Both picked off four passes in the regular season.
Which team can avoid turnovers? Both clubs thrived on forcing opponents to turn over the ball, with Central Michigan leading the FBS by creating 31 turnovers while Wyoming was right behind with 30.
Neither team has been good in the post season. The Chippewas have dropped three straight in the postseason, including a 55-16 rout in last December's Miami Beach Bowl to Tulsa. Wyoming hasn’t won a bowl since 2009.
I’ll take CMU (is it OK to root for a scum transfer?) No quatloos
And now he’s hurt. He missed the last few games of the year with a shoulder injury, and he’s very, very questionable. If he plays get ready for a three hour discussion about whether or not he really is worthy of a top ten overall, franchise-defining pick.
Central Michigan's counter with Michigan transfer QB Shane Morris and his 2,908 passing yards. He leads the MAC’s hottest team, winning five in a row including nice wins over Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan, and Northern Illinois. The Chippewas took down Ohio on the road, too. After struggling over the first part of the season, the team has figured out ways to win.
The two teams also employ similar defensive styles that result in takeaway opportunities. Central Michigan ended the regular season second in the nation with 19 interceptions, while Wyoming finished 12th with 16 interceptions.
Allen referred to the Central Michigan as "ball hawks." Two members of that unit -- defensive backs Josh Cox and Sean Bunting -- are two of college football's interceptions leaders with six and five, respectively.
Wyoming counters with Rico Gafford and Andrew Wingard. Both picked off four passes in the regular season.
Which team can avoid turnovers? Both clubs thrived on forcing opponents to turn over the ball, with Central Michigan leading the FBS by creating 31 turnovers while Wyoming was right behind with 30.
Neither team has been good in the post season. The Chippewas have dropped three straight in the postseason, including a 55-16 rout in last December's Miami Beach Bowl to Tulsa. Wyoming hasn’t won a bowl since 2009.
I’ll take CMU (is it OK to root for a scum transfer?) No quatloos