Looking at this game in more detail I would say the under is a pretty solid bet. 64 is the number
64 is high.
Mostly due to a UCF team that would score 30 on most teams not in the top 10 in football.
AND a bad showing against a Cuse team that was desperate, playing at home, and they had a weird screwy fake covid scare pregame to mess up our mojo.
Louisville's offense hasn't been stellar so far this year, and most would bet they find their rhythm against us. I beg to differ. We will now return some defensive help minus Swilling, have both TEs back, and hopefully Clayton is up to speed after a sleepy first start in Syracuse. Louisville is probably good for 24 points.
Now for GT.... Can we not turn the ball over? Or will we find new ways to give the defense the ball? I think we come down from 4-5 turnovers, but still give the ball away 2-3 times. My bet is on 2 turnovers, with us getting 2 ourselves. This makes for a mostly even playing field. I think with 2 or less turnovers we can put up 27-30 points.
As you can see where I am going with this... Both teams putting up extremely respectful points say 27 and 24. This still falls 2 TDs short of the over. Barring some garbage time TD one way or the other, this game should fall in the 50s.
This is about the only way I would play this game, other than teasing the under and GT 6 points which would give me under 70 and GT +11.
@RyanS12 thoughts?