10 Best College Football Predictions Against the Spread: Picks 4 to 7, Featuring Army, Hawaii, and Boise State
By Pete Fiutak,
1 days ago
The 10 Best College Football Predictions Against the Spread roll on with the picks four to seven including two big point totals and two late showdowns.
From the Boise State vs Hawaii game to UAB vs Army, here are the big picks for Week 7.
10 Best College Football Predictions Against the Spread: 4 to 7
As a heads up warning, I have been royally burned this season by games that obviously should've gone over, but for some reason - beyond all logic and reason - have gone WAY under.
Like, I wasn't even close on Temple vs UConn last week.
But as my weekly mantra goes, if you think one team might take care of most of the point total by itself, give it a shot.
North Texas had two weeks off to get ready for this. Before the trip to Boca it put up 52 on Tulsa, 44 on Wyoming, and 52 on South Alabama.
Florida Atlantic also had two weeks off, and its offense is the potential bug in the system. Getting stuffed for ten points against Michigan State and seven against Army is one thing, but only hanging 14 against UConn is another.
It's ULM as almost a touchdown favorite on the road in Sun Belt game.
I'm aware I've gone mad.
But under Bryant Vincent the Warhawks are playing a killer style of defense, and they've been able to pull off some nice wins.
They only beat Troy by four, and they took out a high-powered James Madison by two, but in both games the defense took over and rarely broke.
Southern Miss managed to score just seven against Jacksonville State and lost 23-13 to Louisiana last week. You'll have to sweat through a low-scoring game, but if the ULM defense has a bad day - again, it beat JMU, holding it down in a 21-19 win - it's not your fault.
What would possibly lead you to believe that UAB is ready to handle the Army offense?
I make this joke every other week - if the pick doesn't work, it's not your fault. But this time it totally applies, because there's nothing about this game to suggest anything other than a total Army wipeout.
So why so low? Asking Army to win by four touchdowns is a lot. However, it's No. 1 in the nation in rushing by a freaking mile.
Boise State is ripping off massive running games in chunks averaging 301.2 yards per game. Army is averaging 60 yards per game more than that.
UAB is 124th in the nation in run defense and just got tattooed by Tulane - who ran for 317 yards and six scores - in a 71-20 loss.
If Navy could beat UAB 41-18, Army should be able to do a little better.
What am I about to say? Come on - if you've been with me long enough, you know the drill.
If one team has the potential to take care of the over by itself ...
The only fear is that 1) it's at Hawaii - freaky things occasionally happen there, 2) Boise State might ease off the throttle with an off week and UNLV coming up next, and/or - if you care about the 20.5 - Hawaii could backdoor this on you.
But that last part is fine on the over.
More to the point, Boise State just hung up 62 on Utah State, and that's with taking the second half off. It put up 45 on Washington State, 56 on Portland State, and 56 on Georgia Southern. The only thing bringing down the scoring average was a 37-34 loss to Oregon.
Hawaii will score 20 points. Take that and go from there. This late night over should be fun, and then there's ...
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