Going to Caesars Sports Book in Atlantic City this weekend for some football action...here are my picks for the week...analysis to follow...which ones do you like? (and why?)
Going to Caesars Sports Book in Atlantic City this weekend for some football action...here are my picks for the week...analysis to follow...which ones do you like? (and why?)
if your Ky, how do you get off the mat after coming so close last night. Tough week of practice hanging your head and wishing “what if”. hard to see them being really motivated to come out and blast Ohio especially given who they have next.
if your Ky, how do you get off the mat after coming so close last night. Tough week of practice hanging your head and wishing “what if”. hard to see them being really motivated to come out and blast Ohio especially given who they have next.
We all remember the blockbuster movie hit “Black Knight” starring Martin Lawrence. At the end of the movie he defeated the evil Percival and gets the girl. Today’s Black Knights from West Point have nothing to fear when the Rice Owls travel up the Hudson. This is my best bet on the board. When Army gets the ball, there is no secret of what they plan to do. They will run run run the ball. They have run the ball on 91% of their plays this season and are averaging 6.8 yards per carry. Army has played 2 games so far, overwhelming both of their opponents, beating Lehigh 42-7 and FAU 24-7. Sagarin has Rice rated about 22 points better than Lehigh, so Army has a cushion there on the point spread (beating Lehigh by 35 minus 22 equals 13 points better than Rice). FAU’s power rating is identical to Rice and Army covered that spread by 17 against FAU.
Turning to Rice, they lost to Houston by the score of 33-7 and Massey has Army ranked higher than Houston. Rice also lost to Sam Houston by the score of 34-14 and Sagarin has Army ranked 4 points better than Sam Houston. Every way you look at comparative score, Army covers this spread easily.
Clearly Rice has a problem on offense, and Army doesn’t have a problem with defense. They are actually playing very good defense, giving up only 7 points per game. Rice did score a lot of points against Texas Southern, but Texas Southern is ranked 252 out of 263 division 1 teams. Nothing to see here..keep moving on. Rice is going to try to move the ball on the back of EJ Warner and his passing, but the number of possessions that Rice gets in this game will certainly be 10 or less. He hasn’t had tremendous luck so far, averaging only 4.9 yards per pass attempt. He had already thrown 4 interceptions against 3 touchdowns. He’s not very good and is ranked near the botton of FBS quarterbacks so far. Sorry..unlike his Dad, he may be stocking grocery shelves. Rice won’t have luck running the ball against the disciplined Army defense. If you exclude the Texas Southern game, you’ll see that Rice is only averaging 2.9 yards per carry. You know what happens when you can’t run the ball on the road? You lose…that’s what happens.
Defensively, Rice is going to have all kinds of problems stopping Army. Army has only one lost fumble so far this season, so clearly QB Daily has good ball control skills. Sam Houston and Houston had little trouble against Rice, gaining 415 yards on the ground on 88 carries for 4.7 yards per carry. If Army gets 65 offensive plays in this game, they could very easily get over 500 yards rushing against the Owls. Since they run the ball all of the time, even if the game is in hand, they will keep marching down the field late in the game when they get the ball and likely get into the Rice red zone with every possession. Rice won’t have a chance for a back door cover, especially since Army ranks in the top 5 in Red Zone defense. Call this game 28-10 for the guys who protect our freedom, sending home the eggheads back to Houston. Easy cover for Army.
We all remember the blockbuster movie hit “Black Knight” starring Martin Lawrence. At the end of the movie he defeated the evil Percival and gets the girl. Today’s Black Knights from West Point have nothing to fear when the Rice Owls travel up the Hudson. This is my best bet on the board. When Army gets the ball, there is no secret of what they plan to do. They will run run run the ball. They have run the ball on 91% of their plays this season and are averaging 6.8 yards per carry. Army has played 2 games so far, overwhelming both of their opponents, beating Lehigh 42-7 and FAU 24-7. Sagarin has Rice rated about 22 points better than Lehigh, so Army has a cushion there on the point spread (beating Lehigh by 35 minus 22 equals 13 points better than Rice). FAU’s power rating is identical to Rice and Army covered that spread by 17 against FAU.
Turning to Rice, they lost to Houston by the score of 33-7 and Massey has Army ranked higher than Houston. Rice also lost to Sam Houston by the score of 34-14 and Sagarin has Army ranked 4 points better than Sam Houston. Every way you look at comparative score, Army covers this spread easily.
Clearly Rice has a problem on offense, and Army doesn’t have a problem with defense. They are actually playing very good defense, giving up only 7 points per game. Rice did score a lot of points against Texas Southern, but Texas Southern is ranked 252 out of 263 division 1 teams. Nothing to see here..keep moving on. Rice is going to try to move the ball on the back of EJ Warner and his passing, but the number of possessions that Rice gets in this game will certainly be 10 or less. He hasn’t had tremendous luck so far, averaging only 4.9 yards per pass attempt. He had already thrown 4 interceptions against 3 touchdowns. He’s not very good and is ranked near the botton of FBS quarterbacks so far. Sorry..unlike his Dad, he may be stocking grocery shelves. Rice won’t have luck running the ball against the disciplined Army defense. If you exclude the Texas Southern game, you’ll see that Rice is only averaging 2.9 yards per carry. You know what happens when you can’t run the ball on the road? You lose…that’s what happens.
Defensively, Rice is going to have all kinds of problems stopping Army. Army has only one lost fumble so far this season, so clearly QB Daily has good ball control skills. Sam Houston and Houston had little trouble against Rice, gaining 415 yards on the ground on 88 carries for 4.7 yards per carry. If Army gets 65 offensive plays in this game, they could very easily get over 500 yards rushing against the Owls. Since they run the ball all of the time, even if the game is in hand, they will keep marching down the field late in the game when they get the ball and likely get into the Rice red zone with every possession. Rice won’t have a chance for a back door cover, especially since Army ranks in the top 5 in Red Zone defense. Call this game 28-10 for the guys who protect our freedom, sending home the eggheads back to Houston. Easy cover for Army.
What is it about James Franklin that makes him so obnoxious? Was it because he said he only wants to recruit players with hot girlfriends because that means the players must be condident? Or is it because when he hosts a body bag game, he doesn’t mind running up the score. For example, last season Penn State played UMass who was ranked #131 and the Nittany Lions blew them out 63-0. Earlier in the season, PSU hosted FCS Delaware. The result, another 63-7 destruction. It seems like Penn State likes to score 63 points against bad teams. So you guessed it, they are a bunch of bullies.
Well this week, they are getting the worst of the worst. Crosby Stills Nash and Young are going to have to write another sad song about how bad this football team is. They need to change their nickname from the Golden Flashes to the Golden Showers and have some guy dressed up as a urinal running around the football field with all of the fans sissing on him. Yeah, they are that bad.
Penn State, ranked #7 in the country, held a pretty decent West Virginia offense to only 246 yards and 1 touchdown and 2.3 yards per carry. Against Pitt, WVU had 398 yards of offense and 4.2 yards per carry to give you an idea of how PSU smothered them. Now here’s the rub, in their next game, the Penn State defense did not play well against Soylent Green and the team trailed for much of the game. Fortunately, the Penn State offense bailed them out with a pretty good day running the ball – 234 yards and 6.3 yards per tote to allow them to escape with a 34-27 victory. Now you can bet that Coach Franklin, with the benefit of a bye week, really gave it to his team over the last 2 weeks of practice for taking their MAC opponent lightly and probably called out the defense for being a bunch of pussies for letting Bowling Green score 27 points. One would have to be an idiot of they don’t think that the Penn State defense is not going to be fired up for this horrid Kent offense. It is highly likely that they will pitch a shutout in this game. The Golden Showers could only muster 17 points against middle of the road FCS team St. Francis. Last week against Tennessee was a complete embarrassment, as Kent State was down 65-0 at the half. There is no way…no way…that Kent will find the end zone against Penn State.
Being generous, I would say Kent scores 6 points in this game. That means Penn State will need to score 56 to cover. They’ll probably score 63 points again for the cover, sending the home team home happy. It’s crazy to lay that many points…but there cannot be a bigger disparity in this game. Penn State will certainly be able to name the score and the defense will be proud enough at home to keep Kent out of the end zone. So count the touchdowns and likely we’ll see this covered by the first half. I’m all over Penn State this week.
What is it about James Franklin that makes him so obnoxious? Was it because he said he only wants to recruit players with hot girlfriends because that means the players must be condident? Or is it because when he hosts a body bag game, he doesn’t mind running up the score. For example, last season Penn State played UMass who was ranked #131 and the Nittany Lions blew them out 63-0. Earlier in the season, PSU hosted FCS Delaware. The result, another 63-7 destruction. It seems like Penn State likes to score 63 points against bad teams. So you guessed it, they are a bunch of bullies.
Well this week, they are getting the worst of the worst. Crosby Stills Nash and Young are going to have to write another sad song about how bad this football team is. They need to change their nickname from the Golden Flashes to the Golden Showers and have some guy dressed up as a urinal running around the football field with all of the fans sissing on him. Yeah, they are that bad.
Penn State, ranked #7 in the country, held a pretty decent West Virginia offense to only 246 yards and 1 touchdown and 2.3 yards per carry. Against Pitt, WVU had 398 yards of offense and 4.2 yards per carry to give you an idea of how PSU smothered them. Now here’s the rub, in their next game, the Penn State defense did not play well against Soylent Green and the team trailed for much of the game. Fortunately, the Penn State offense bailed them out with a pretty good day running the ball – 234 yards and 6.3 yards per tote to allow them to escape with a 34-27 victory. Now you can bet that Coach Franklin, with the benefit of a bye week, really gave it to his team over the last 2 weeks of practice for taking their MAC opponent lightly and probably called out the defense for being a bunch of pussies for letting Bowling Green score 27 points. One would have to be an idiot of they don’t think that the Penn State defense is not going to be fired up for this horrid Kent offense. It is highly likely that they will pitch a shutout in this game. The Golden Showers could only muster 17 points against middle of the road FCS team St. Francis. Last week against Tennessee was a complete embarrassment, as Kent State was down 65-0 at the half. There is no way…no way…that Kent will find the end zone against Penn State.
Being generous, I would say Kent scores 6 points in this game. That means Penn State will need to score 56 to cover. They’ll probably score 63 points again for the cover, sending the home team home happy. It’s crazy to lay that many points…but there cannot be a bigger disparity in this game. Penn State will certainly be able to name the score and the defense will be proud enough at home to keep Kent out of the end zone. So count the touchdowns and likely we’ll see this covered by the first half. I’m all over Penn State this week.
Yeah I gotta say Penn state struggling with Bowling Green makes me think they really want to smash up on a lesser opponent to get some momentum back. Plus the fact that Kent state was down 60 something at half last week. I like PSU a lot
Yeah I gotta say Penn state struggling with Bowling Green makes me think they really want to smash up on a lesser opponent to get some momentum back. Plus the fact that Kent state was down 60 something at half last week. I like PSU a lot
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