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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

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ACC Game of the Year:  Maryland (-7) over Clemson.  7 Stars.  This is a new Maryland team this season which is 6-0 ATS at home and at 8-1 SU and ATS are playing much better football them Clemson.  Clemson at 5-3 SU and 2-4-1 ATS has sleep walked their way through the season and it is doubtful they will wake up at Maryland.  Maryland also has a 2+ per game margin in turnover ratio which combined with a balanced offense and tough defense should make it an easier day then expected for the Terps.  In addition, Maryland has gone 0-8 SU in the series which will give them some additional motivation against this conference rival especially since Clemson 1-8 ATS after losing to Florida State.

Big East Game of the Year: Syracuse (-14.5) over West Virginia.  7 Stars.  Syracuse has won 7 in a row after a tough start.  They are 4-0 ATS at home need this win to come into Miami with a chance at the Big East title.  Syracuse's defense will seem like a NFL team compared to Rutgers last week.  West Virginia will come into this game patting themselves on their back after the rout of last week and probably get routed themselves.  In this match up, Syracuse has been more careful with the ball and created more turnovers to have an almost 2 per game advantage over West Virginia.  And to wrap this up, the favorite in this series 10-2-1 ATS and West Virginia is 0-6 ATS away against team off BB SU wins.

Rice (-18) over Tulsa.  5 Stars.  Rice has had a solid season at 6-3 SU and gets a freebie this weekend against a terrible Tulsa, who has not covered a game this season 0-7 ATS.  Rice will be able to run all over Tulsa who has lost their last 4 games by a combined 146 points (36+ points per game).  Tulsa is playing in their third straight road game (0-11 ATS playing a road game after a previous road game) and they are 3-16-1 ATS after allowing > 40 points the previous week. 

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.