Lot of points for a pretty meaningless bowl game, but perhaps it's not gonna be totally meaningless for Bama who not only got knocked out of the CFP by Michigan last year, but their new head coach was with Washington last year when the Wolverines beat them in the title game. Should be easy enough to roll on a Wolverines team who is in rebuild mode and who had most of their best players bail after their Super Bowl beating Ohio State
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Alabama -15.5 2 units.
Lot of points for a pretty meaningless bowl game, but perhaps it's not gonna be totally meaningless for Bama who not only got knocked out of the CFP by Michigan last year, but their new head coach was with Washington last year when the Wolverines beat them in the title game. Should be easy enough to roll on a Wolverines team who is in rebuild mode and who had most of their best players bail after their Super Bowl beating Ohio State
South Carolina definitely overachieved based on expectations and much of their resurgence came as dogs, now the cats out of the baf that they're good and they're 10 pt favs vs a 9-3 Big10 team? Seems a bit of an overreaction and a role reversal that I dunno they will handle. They're not usually big favs against FBS opponents and last time the spread was around this number vs one (Mizzou) they didn't cover.
Sellers has played really well but he is still young and it's his first bowl game. Same for Altmyer but he has been around a bit longer and has had a really solid season. They only lost 3 games and the 2 losses that would be double digits were against Penn St and Oregon. SC is on the up but they're not at the level of those teams yet and the other loss to Minnesota was by 8.
I like SC's defense and think they'll probably win but I anticipate a competitive game bc the Illini rarely get blown out and SC only blows out FCS schools.
Illinois +9.5
South Carolina definitely overachieved based on expectations and much of their resurgence came as dogs, now the cats out of the baf that they're good and they're 10 pt favs vs a 9-3 Big10 team? Seems a bit of an overreaction and a role reversal that I dunno they will handle. They're not usually big favs against FBS opponents and last time the spread was around this number vs one (Mizzou) they didn't cover.
Sellers has played really well but he is still young and it's his first bowl game. Same for Altmyer but he has been around a bit longer and has had a really solid season. They only lost 3 games and the 2 losses that would be double digits were against Penn St and Oregon. SC is on the up but they're not at the level of those teams yet and the other loss to Minnesota was by 8.
I like SC's defense and think they'll probably win but I anticipate a competitive game bc the Illini rarely get blown out and SC only blows out FCS schools.
Boise had a bye week, obviously has a monster RB and very significantly has the least turnovers in the nation. Not much of a conspiracy guy but with all the blowouts in the first round of the CFP I think we can expect some closer games this round bc 'they' won't want that again to justify the new format, things need to get more exciting and the fact this is the first game of the 2nd round and also the only CFP game today AND the nightcap, I think it we will be hearing 'finally we get some gsmrs that are competitive' from the commentary crews.
Boise St +11.5
Boise had a bye week, obviously has a monster RB and very significantly has the least turnovers in the nation. Not much of a conspiracy guy but with all the blowouts in the first round of the CFP I think we can expect some closer games this round bc 'they' won't want that again to justify the new format, things need to get more exciting and the fact this is the first game of the 2nd round and also the only CFP game today AND the nightcap, I think it we will be hearing 'finally we get some gsmrs that are competitive' from the commentary crews.
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