Let's talk Bull games that are tomorrow. This is Bull games that are on December 28. We have the Birmingham ball between Houston and Auburn. We have Air Force in Louisville and the first Responder Bowl, the Liberty Bowl between Mississippi State and Texas Tech, the Holiday Bowl between UCLA and NC State, the guaranteed Rate Bowl between West Virginia and Minnesota
phil spade
@Phil · 4:56
I think it could be the difference here. I do think Auburn is bigger. They're faster. I expect them to stay out of those third and long situations and I kind of like Auburn here. Next, I'm going to agree with you on Minnesota, P. J. Fleck. He's two and zero with Minnesota and Bowls, and I think when it comes to Bulls, he brings his players prepared
Brady Poppler
@bradypoppler · 0:32
Ucla, they're not great. Like you said in the past, defense, I think this will be a very high scoring game. And the over. I think it's around 50 ish points upwards in your 60. I got a look at it again. But whatever. I'm hammering the over, both teams are going to put up a lot of points. Like you said, NC State not good with mobile quarterback. Dtr, very good mobile quarterback
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
phil spade
@Phil · 0:48
And I like playing the over with those types of teams, especially if they can't stop the other team because they just throw so many balls that are like six and seven second place. Either they get a touchdown or the clock stops with an incomplete pass. And there's just a lot more time on the clock with those types of teams just tends to be longer games, tends to just get that overhead. I'd probably be looking at the same thing with Texas Tech
Tony Mosesso
@tonymo · 4:53
I don't know how inspired they're going to come out and play this game. I'm laying the points with Mississippi State, NC State and UCLA. Give me NC State here. I know that they are susceptible to giving up the big play, but I don't think UCLA has got enough to beat these guys. As you said, Devon Leary is a not often talked about quarterback that put up a very, very good season
phil spade
@Phil · 0:51
Well, the second half just started in this Houston Auburn game. Auburn just kicking a field goal. You know, in the first half, I was really surprised how little they were using Tank. I thought that the game plan would come in and give the ball to Tank and he make or break this game second half. Somebody got to him and said, Give the ball to Tank. He drives all the way down the field. But then they start getting cute
phil spade
@Phil · 1:36
I think there were a couple of things at play, but I don't know whether this was by design, but they kind of went away from Gigsby somewhere in the second half and really kind of got cute on some of the play calling, and I thought kind of output themselves. And Secondly, they got two turnovers, but they had a couple of stupid penalties. One of those penalties was on the interception that, in essence, cost them 50 yards of field position
Tony Mosesso
@tonymo · 1:15
Yeah, really. What was most interesting was neither one of these teams really looked like they wanted to win for much of the second half. I mean, Houston beat themselves on a number of occasions, including the trick play that resulted in an interception. They were driving that play, too. And could it started to put the game to bed. But through that pick and Auburn couldn't move the ball when they start with it at midfield
phil spade
@Phil · 1:04
Had a month to prepare for it and just seem like they had two minutes to prepare for it. Unbelievable. We'll see how this goes. They do got to get better on their kick off returns. They just Louisville take one back. But over. And Air Force looking good so far
Brady Poppler
@bradypoppler · 1:19
Yeah. I feel like you mentioned NC State, UCLA Holiday Bowl canceled. And this kind of brings up a point where Washington State, Miami Sunball was supposed to be played. The Sun Bowl got canceled. Field due to Miami not being able to field a team. So Washington State looks like they're not going to be able to play a ball game
Brady Poppler
@bradypoppler · 0:54
More to talk about Central Michigan. They're taken from Tucson, Tel Paso, to play Washington State and the Sunbull. The Tony, the Tiger Sun Bowl and the payout from the Arizona Bowl to the Sun Bowl is ridiculous cyclists for Central Michigan, the payout for the Arizona Bowl was $175,000, and now the payout for the Sun Bowl is over $2 million. So they go from playing a Boise State team in the Arizona Bowl with a payout
Brady Poppler
@bradypoppler · 0:42
And now the second quarter, they're kind of starting where they left off. So I feel like I could go first, have a very good chance to run away with this one because West Virginia isn't looking very good in this first quarter. In the second quarter, the Gopher is up 80 early in the second quarter
phil spade
@Phil · 1:15
If you've been paying attention to SEC fans in the past, the normal line of excuses all come out. They didn't want to be there. They're missing people, everybody's missing people. And it really just kind of goes to show what we've been saying all along that the SEC was pretty top heavy this year. There were a lot of teams that were six and six, and I think most of the teams that I've lost are six and six
Brady Poppler
@bradypoppler · 1:00
And I don't think it will be the SEC, but it could be if they can sneak some of these games out. But SEC is not looking too good right now, like you just said. So
Brady Poppler
@bradypoppler · 1:02
Not a fan of West Virginia's play calling inside the Five. They run three straight times, couldn't do anything on a play action. They get a touchdown. But then their two point conversion call not really a fan of it. It was a unique call where they had just one lineman lined up in front of the quarterback and they spread the rest out. And then they roll out their quarterback, der the right and threw it back
Tony Mosesso
@tonymo · 4:49
Well, yesterday went about as we expected, with the exception of Mississippi State, who just got absolutely shellacked by Texas Tech. That was more than an embarrassing loss for them. Just absolutely brutal all showing today. We've just got three of them, but they're games that look a lot better with the team names on paper than they do when you start really digging into it. First up is the Pinstripe Bowl, which features Maryland taking on Virginia Tech
Brady Poppler
@bradypoppler · 1:56
First game, Virginia Tech, Maryland I think you're probably right. Virginia Tech lost some guys, but I think they'll still cover the spread of plus three and a half is the last I looked at it just because Maryland we can turn the ball over a lot. I think Maryland will probably win, but I would take Virginia Tech to cover the spread. Then Clemson and Iowa State. I would not touch a betting side of this Besides under in this game and then maybe clumsy money line
phil spade
@Phil · 4:56
And if there are any key players and starters. And that leads us into our discussion today because of the three bowl games, there are a lot of defections that we really got to be aware of. And in the first matchup, Virginia Tech and Maryland, Virginia Tech has a lot of receivers sitting out. Had the head coach gone. There's a lot of changes in this game, and Maryland seems to have everybody back now. Virginia Tech does have their key running back that will play today
phil spade
@Phil · 3:19
And if he doesn't see anything, he can take off with his legs. I see Oregon scoring a bunch of points. I see Oklahoma scoring a bunch of points. Guess where I'm going. I like the over in this game. I think both teams are going to be scoring a ton of points here. I could see a 55 50 game here. Doesn't matter what you get that over under up to. I think this game's going over
phil spade
@Phil · 1:18
Well, recapping Wednesday here. We had a fantastic day. Almost everything that we talked about came to fruition. Maryland winning against Virginia Tech. Tony was all over it. I was all over it. We just really thought that Maryland was going to absolutely crush. And they did. And the game went over. Clemson, Iowa State. We thought both teams would struggle to score, and they did
Tony Mosesso
@tonymo · 0:56
And I understand that they're taught to do this, but when you see it, when you see the replay, you're going to know why I'm saying this. He could have caught the ball and advanced it. Instead, he attempted to bat it down. Well, he also could have just let it go