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Marco D'Angelo
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[CFB] (137) North Texas at (138) UNLV
Time: 3:00 PM EDT
North Texas +2.5 (-110)
Analysis:
4% (137) N. TEXAS +2.5
Don’t over react to UNLV’s good showing last week against California. Two things to point out from that game. California hasn’t done anything offensively in two games so far so don’t suddenly think UNLV has a great defense. It also must be pointed out that California was in as big of a look ahead spot as you can have as they had a trip to Notre Dame on deck. Whether you like Notre Dame or not it’s a big deal to these kids to play in Notre Dame. You can also bet the California game plan last week was very vanilla not to show anything on tape for Notre Dame to see and prepare for. So I am completely throwing out that performance by UNLV. Now UNLV is going to be facing the best offense they have seen all year. N. Texas can score points and they are a 200 Club member. Teams I refer to as 200 Club Members are teams that both run and pass the ball for 200 or more yards. Talk about a balanced offense N. Texas both runs and passes for 238 yards a game. That kind of balance is very hard to prepare for as what do you try and take away as they do both extremely well. I just don’t see UNLV being able to stop N. Texas. I also want to point out the quirky start time. UNLV will have this game kick off at noon local time which for Vegas standards noon is way too early. N. Texas will be better acclimated to this start time. In what should be a high scoring game. N. TEXAS 41-31
TAKE N. TEXAS as my 4% CFB UPSET SHOCKER
4%
[CFB] (137) North Texas at (138) UNLV
Time: 3:00 PM EDT
North Texas +2.5 (-110)
Analysis:
4% (137) N. TEXAS +2.5
Don’t over react to UNLV’s good showing last week against California. Two things to point out from that game. California hasn’t done anything offensively in two games so far so don’t suddenly think UNLV has a great defense. It also must be pointed out that California was in as big of a look ahead spot as you can have as they had a trip to Notre Dame on deck. Whether you like Notre Dame or not it’s a big deal to these kids to play in Notre Dame. You can also bet the California game plan last week was very vanilla not to show anything on tape for Notre Dame to see and prepare for. So I am completely throwing out that performance by UNLV. Now UNLV is going to be facing the best offense they have seen all year. N. Texas can score points and they are a 200 Club member. Teams I refer to as 200 Club Members are teams that both run and pass the ball for 200 or more yards. Talk about a balanced offense N. Texas both runs and passes for 238 yards a game. That kind of balance is very hard to prepare for as what do you try and take away as they do both extremely well. I just don’t see UNLV being able to stop N. Texas. I also want to point out the quirky start time. UNLV will have this game kick off at noon local time which for Vegas standards noon is way too early. N. Texas will be better acclimated to this start time. In what should be a high scoring game. N. TEXAS 41-31
TAKE N. TEXAS as my 4% CFB UPSET SHOCKER
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