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South Alabama +9
Fresh off their bye week, S.Alabama travels to Navy to face a team that played 4 extremely close games in a row (yes, last weeks game against Hawaii was close too). S.Alabama has 5 losses this season and the combined margin in those 5 losses was -12. Three times this season they lost the game in the final 7-8 seconds, and once with under 7 minutes left in the game. They had their chance late in the game @ Tennessee too. With a few lucky breaks going their way they could have been a 7-1 team right now. Two weeks of rest should be enough for them to re-focus and to prepare for Navy. As for Navy, they had all kinds of problems against winless Hawaii and their passing attack (Hawaii QB Schroeder was almost perfect with 246 pass.yards, 3 TD and 0 interceptions, completing 29 of 33 passes), but also their ground game (Iosefa rushed for 191 yards and 1 TD). A week before Notre Dame had over 500 yards of offense and rushed for 7.3 yards per carry against Navy, ND QB threw for over 240 yards and 2 TDs. Pittsburgh QB Savage had a solid game against Navy D as well, while Toledo and Duke moved the ball at will against the Midshipmen. Navy defense is horrible, and they should not be favored against anyone right now.
Fresh off their bye week, S.Alabama travels to Navy to face a team that played 4 extremely close games in a row (yes, last weeks game against Hawaii was close too). S.Alabama has 5 losses this season and the combined margin in those 5 losses was -12. Three times this season they lost the game in the final 7-8 seconds, and once with under 7 minutes left in the game. They had their chance late in the game @ Tennessee too. With a few lucky breaks going their way they could have been a 7-1 team right now. Two weeks of rest should be enough for them to re-focus and to prepare for Navy. As for Navy, they had all kinds of problems against winless Hawaii and their passing attack (Hawaii QB Schroeder was almost perfect with 246 pass.yards, 3 TD and 0 interceptions, completing 29 of 33 passes), but also their ground game (Iosefa rushed for 191 yards and 1 TD). A week before Notre Dame had over 500 yards of offense and rushed for 7.3 yards per carry against Navy, ND QB threw for over 240 yards and 2 TDs. Pittsburgh QB Savage had a solid game against Navy D as well, while Toledo and Duke moved the ball at will against the Midshipmen. Navy defense is horrible, and they should not be favored against anyone right now.
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