Your comp winner for Thursday is on Buffalo getting 16 to Ohio against the NCAA point spread
Clearly the 6-2 Ohio Bobcats at home are the superior team on the field today but can this group really be laying north of two touchdowns? Seriously?
Yes the improving days of Turner Gill leading the way for the Bulls winning MAC championships is gone and the program has regressed mightily of late but I’ll fade the Bobbies here at this number. It’s a rare nighttime televised type game and weird things happen in these spots. We sometimes see well inferior schools rise up and upset a better team, ala NC State over Florida State last week among other countless examples but we also see mediocre teams laying numbers that they just shouldn’t as their foe is playing their Super Bowl in front of many more viewers than normal.
Buffalo isn’t good and I’m not trying to act like they are. The Bulls have been whacked around a ton this season and just lost at home to a very mediocre Miami, Ohio team after getting drilled by Temple. Jerry Davis and his 12 interceptions didn’t intimidate many leading to a change as the true freshman Alex Zordich is now calling the signals. Zordich won’t be confused with Dan Marino or Joe Montana but he didn’t throw a pick in that last game and that was an improvement of sorts.
Boo Williams and the ‘Cats have won five in a row and it should be six after tonight but the number seems a bit too steep and in the end I’ll grab this hefty number back with Buffalo as they rally in front of a lot more people and play their best game of the season resulting in a cover.
The pick: Buffalo +16
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