Owls vs Bulldogs Gambling Odds
The Rice Owls will look to continue their historic season. After winning their first outright conference title in 56 years, the Owls will now look for a school best 11th win.
The Rice Owls will look to continue their historic season. After winning their first outright conference title in 56 years, the Owls will now look for a school best 11th win.
The Marshall Thundering Herd are no surprise to be in the Conference USA Championship this season. They outdueled East Carolina to get here but find a surprising opponent in Rice.
The Rice Owls will look to improve to 8-3 overall, and 6-1 in the conference. A win in Birmingham and the Owls will gain a half gain lead in the Conference USA West division over the North Texas Mean Green.
The Rice Owls are in a tough spot on Thursday night. They have lost their last two games and are out of it in Conference USA. Last year they jumped up and bit the Cougars at home but the last time they visited Houston they gave up a whopping 73 points, losing by 59.
The Rice Owls appeared to be breaking out after winning ten games in 2008, but the last two seasons have seen the Owls revert to their losing ways.
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Team records:
Rice: 2-5 SU, 4-3 ATS
Central Florida: 4-2 SU, 4-1 ATS
The College Football season may be 3-4 weeks away but our man Kyle Hunter has been deep in study and will provide his take and 2010 College Football Predictions on as many NCAA teams as he can before the 2010/11 season kicks off.
Neither of these teams come from a power conference; after all, Rice is part of Conference USA, while Western Michigan is a member of the Mid-American Conference. Neither team has stepped up in a very big way against upper-echelon competition, though it should be mentioned that Western Michigan beat Temple and Buffalo on the road and beat Illinois at Detroit, a neutral site, while Rice won its big regular season game in a 56-42 shootout over cross-town rival Houston.
Texas is a 29 point favorite the over under is 69.5.
Back by popular demand – or maybe just demand – are the college football moneylines. Here we’ll make two big moneyline favorite picks and two underdog picks and hope to avoid the big land mines on the big favorites and hope to cash with the tasty underdogs.