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Tuesday Night Toledo (-11) over Western Michigan. 3 Stars. Toledo has been looking forward to this game all season to avenge their perfect season ruining loss to Western Mich. Although Toledo is again on pace for a one loss season that could leave them out of the MAC title game, the conference has two bowl slots this season which leaves room for a Toledo team that wins the rest of the their games. Western Mich has struggled with the injuries to their quarterback who is trying to recover from a collapsed lung and other injuries. Toledo is 6-1 ATS as a conference home favorite and 8-3 ATS in the series, and Western Michigan is 0-3 ATS in the Last Road Game and currently losers of their last 5 on the row ATS. Toledo in a rout. Saturday Saturday Free Picks Miami (-20.5) over Boston College. 3 Stars. Miami just continues to dominate every team it faces this season and they should carry that strong momentum into this tough stretch of games they are beginning. Boston College suffered a huge loss with the suspension of Star RB William Green for this game. He represents 75% of the BC ground game that has carried them to this season's successes. Miami still wants to earn the maximum BCS points possible by carrying at least a 21 point margin of victory. Although BC is a +1 in the turnover column for the season, Miami's opportunist D will cause Boston College's backup running backs to put the ball on the ground and a big win into Miami's hands. In addition, BC has floundered in games after a bye week going 2-6 ATS. Virginia Tech (-24) over Temple. 3 Stars. Virginia Tech is an historically strong road favorite and the Owls have loss 6 of 7 as DD Home Dogs. Temple has been one of the big disappointments in the country this season when there were high hopes in September. Virginia Tech is a perfect spot to rebound against a bad team after two straight losses as a favorite. The Hokies are 14-2-1 ATS after BB SU losses. Buffalo (+16) over Army. 2 Stars. Defense is not the forte of the either team in this contest but Buffalo pitched a shutout against Ohio U last week in a surprising blowout as a double digit dog. Army has changed things around this season adding a passing scheme to their formerly run oriented offense, but they have not been effective too often. We just don't think that Army will be able to blow out Buffalo let alone beat them. New Mexico (-2.5) over UNLV. 4 Stars. Hey its Christmas, because this game is a gift from the gods. New Mexico has covered 3 straight and 3-0 ATS at Home this season. UNLV was expected to have a great season this year after their 8-5 finish last year but floundered the whole season. New Mexico has an awesome rushing defense and UNLV's QB Jason Thomas has been a failure passing this season at a less then 45% completion rate. New Mexico is a program that is slowly building momentum against a UNLV team that has taken a huge step backwards this season. Oregon (-1) over UCLA. 2 Stars. This game already tilted towards Oregon in our book before DeShaun Foster was suspended for the week. Oregon is 4-0 SU and ATS on the road and they have been getting better week after week. UCLA lost 2 weeks in a row on the road and now come home to a whole new situation and are just trying salvage a season and possibly Coach Toledo's job. UCLA has not been a good team at home off a loss and they will not win this week. La. Tech (-14) over UTEP. 3 Stars. La. Tech has a potent passing offense that has carried the team 5-3 SU and 6-2 ATS record this season. La. Tech has scored over 43 point per outing over their last 5 while UTEP has allowed an average 50+ points during their last 4 games where they lost by an average of 34+ points. Although UTEP is coming off a bye week where the coach "shook some things up", the Miners are 3-7 ATS after the week off. Look for La. Tech to get their 6th game in a row of scoring over 40 and another notch in the win column as they hold the lead in the WAC. |