For Thursday spot for Saturday with 26’s back on betting board...
Saturday, September 21, 2019—387 Baylor -26 -110 (BookMaker)
7 pm EDT/4 pm PDT (CBSC)—At first look, the NCAAF Week 4 schedule looks difficult, with some Conferences starting play and few Point Spreads that look like they have holes in them. Looking to fade C-USA West Division bottom feeders Rice (0-3 SU, 1-1-1 ATS) may be a smart betting approach in NCAAF in 2019, with the Owls 12-14-1 ATS L2+ seasons and now 3-25 SU their L28 after losing the first three games this Summer. Rice’s L3 SU Wins were vs Old Dominion, FCS Prairie View and UTEP. Please quit betting my shit non-eog readers. I'm getting "the worst of it every time." This is for my entertainment and for those who do not employ me who should have. The Mystics went from 8 to 10 and Atlanta United FC from 145 to 190 already and I am up at the crack of Dawn putting my humble paper down.
Last week, host Rice was boiled by Texas, 48-13 (TEX -32) as the Horns eked out an ATS cover in a
Bad Beat situation for Rice backers and improved to 72-21-1 SU in the all-time series with their 14th straight Win against the Owls. Give a hoot, don’t pollute. In Week 1, Rice (+23½) played well at Army and covered in a 14-7 loss and then Pushed as 20-point Underdogs to Wake Forest in a 41-21 loss in Week 2.
With the Total at 58, oddsmakers think that Rice can control the Pace, and with the game at Rice Stadium (FieldTurf), it is possible. But trying to control Pace against Baylor used to be like taming a tiger although the Bears rank 115 in Plays Per Game (63.0) and aren’t as prolific as days past (29 ppg in 2018, 24 in 2017, 35 in 2016 and 48 in 2015). And with Rice at #125 averaging 59 plays, this could be lower-scoring than some think. But with Wake and Texas controlling Pace vs Rice, 41 and 48 points were scored and both games went Over the Total (59, 57). How can Razor Blades cost $1,053.08? Are we buying a skid, Bobby?
The
Point Spread here opened at 25 on Sunday night and is up 1½ in some places to 26½ with a few 26’s still out there Offshore (Wednesday afternoon). Like Houston, this is a lower Orange level ($22/20) pick where a costly TO or a bad start may prohibit the big chalks Baylor from getting over the hump. The Bears (56, 63 points) have almost gone Over the Totals themselves in their first 2 games, but Baylor faced Stephen F Austin and UTSA—scrimmages in a way and Rice will be a step up. But a step up how high is the real question.
The Trends show Baylor (2-0 SU/ 1-1 ATS) is 7-1 ATS L8 meetings with Rice (1-8 SU L9), with the Owls actually covering ATS the last meeting (2017), getting 34 points in a 38-10 setback in Houston. QB Charlie Brewer and the Bears thrashed UTSA on Saturday, 63-14. The performance of the Owls D should be the big quotient here.
Allowing 89 points in its L2 games does not instill Confidence and playing the team ranked #1 in Scoring Offense (59.5 ppg) in the early bettor apparently.
Lay that lumber my friend and feel no guilt. We will be labeled “Squares” together. RBs Gerry Bohanon (177 yards) and Trestan Ebner (3 TDs) and WR Denzel Mims (177 yards) will nobly fight for our little pieces of Green Paper with dead Presidents smiling on them. They would all be crying now.
Other Trends via the good folks over at Covers.com: The Home team, the Favorite and Baylor are all 5-1 ATS the L6, the Bears are 3-9-1 ATS L13 Non-Conference games but Baylor is 7-2-1 ATS L10 vs C-USA. Coming off 2 games where they scored almost 60 points, playing on a fast-track Field Turf surface in high Humidity (78%) leads to a hopefully logical conclusion
the Bears (
49-30-2 in series) will approach the (game) Total itself in a mini-blowout on Saturday night. Kinishiwa.
Baylor 52 Rice 20