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Oregon State at Colorado State
Sat 8/26 291 Oregon State +3½ -110+145 o60½ -110
2:30PM 292 Colorado State -3½ -110 -165 u60½ -110
Hawaii at Massachusetts
Sat 8/26 293 Hawaii pk -110 o64½ -110
6:00PM 294 Massachusetts pk -110 u64½ -110
South Florida at San Jose State
Sat 8/26 295 South Florida -20 -110-1333 o67 -110
8:30PM 296 San Jose State +20 -110 +875 u67 -110
Rice vs Stanford - Allianz Stadium - Sydney, Australia
Sat 8/26 297 Rice +31 -110+5000 o51 -110
10:00PM 298 Stanford -31 -110 -12500 u51 -110
Portland State at BYU
Sat 8/26 299 Portland State +33 -120
3:00PM 300 BYU -33 -120

 

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Hawaii pk: They improved a lot in both sides of the ball. Year 2 for Nick Rolovich and opener against a non-conf winable team. Dru Brown comes off a solid season and is the first sure QB to open the season in years. Saint Juste is a good RB to run the ball behind a vastly improved OL. Umass have 10 returning startes of a defense that managed to get worse as the season went on, getting destroyed over the second half of the season allowing 46 points or more in four of the last six games. The lack of playmakers makes the defense very vulnerable. On offense they could not run the ball and the OL is even worse. Adam Breneman is the only talent. He receives most of the targets, but also most of the covers, so that limits a lot the offense. I see the Rainbow Warriors winning this by double-digit and getting moral to begin an interesting season.
 

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Thats a LONG road trip for HI

ghey usually play very poorly on the mainland.
 

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They will travel with time enough to recover. It's an important factor, but not a key for me. They play poorly in the mainland when they haven't time to recover from jetlag.
 

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liking the over here myself, expecting many big plays on both sides this weekend in this game
 

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Colorado State -3.5: The Rams are one of the most improved teams in the country. This is the 22nd most experienced team in the country. With a few tough exceptions against Colorado and Wyoming, the offense was close to unstoppable – and it should be even better. There wasn’t a hotter quarterback – at least in terms of accuracy – over the second half of the season than Nick Stevens. He’s back, along with all-star receiver Michael Gallup and five of the top six receivers. The secondary is pretty good and the run defense has worked fine. The Beavers still have to decide who gets the starting QB job against the Rams. They struggled in the passing game last season so Ryan Nall (running behind a line that has to replace 3 starters) will be the workhorse and center of the offense again. This is an unidimensional offense and the Rams have exactly the pieces to stop them and put this powerful offense in position to roll the Beavers.
 

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Spartans QB is still to be decided but Josh Love looks like the guy. USF offense will destroy our defense, scoring 40+ easy.

The main question is how the Spartans offense will work. We'll see a lot of changes and tests in Brennan's first game. I will probably make a game-time decision, maybe waiting for team totals. USF's D struggled last season and I think this will be a fast-pace game with all the guys looking to shine.
 

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Would like to get more info about Portland State. BYU's QB Tanner Mangum will start under center and have flashes to be a strong passer. The O-Line is among the best in the country. Portland State allowed 66 points against the Spartans last season. BYU should not allow more than 10 points here while I see Mangum directing a powerful offense to ~50 points. Your thoughts?
 

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USF's D struggled last season and I think this will be a fast-pace game with all the guys looking to shine.

That's a little misleading, their run D was actually pretty good, especially towards the end of the year. Love doesn't have a huge body of work but he hasn't done anything to suggest to me he can effectively run a passing offense at all. 4 senior OL could be his only saving grace.
 

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Whoever wins San Jose State's QB job is likely to operate an offense strikingly similar to USF's. USF has 10 starters back from a unit that ranked 120th nationally in allowed yards, that's not strictly an improving metric. Spartans have playmakers among receivers and backs, so the offense success is in hands of the QB. I think that USF D won't be able to stop mostly the Spartan's spread offense if the QB can run and releases the ball quickly. Josh Love hasn't had much success but I am hearing he improved a lot his accuracy in medium-deep throws.
 

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Whoever wins San Jose State's QB job is likely to operate an offense strikingly similar to USF's. USF has 10 starters back from a unit that ranked 120th nationally in allowed yards, that's not strictly an improving metric. Spartans have playmakers among receivers and backs, so the offense success is in hands of the QB. I think that USF D won't be able to stop mostly the Spartan's spread offense if the QB can run and releases the ball quickly. Josh Love hasn't had much success but I am hearing he improved a lot his accuracy in medium-deep throws.

Love was 31-60 for 392 yards and five picks last year. Nobody has talked about Charlie Strong. The man has a ton of pride. Think he comes out and makes a statement.

Think in this game you either play USF or nothing.
 
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Love was 31-60 for 392 yards and five picks last year. Nobody has talked about Charlie Strong. The man has a ton of pride. Think he comes out and makes a statement.

Think in this game you either play USF or nothing.

Im in the thinking mode if it crosses 21, SJSU becomes an auto play.
 

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I think USF will score easy but Coach B needs to test the selected QB (still unknown), forcing him to throw the ball deep and run out the pocket. The 2 returning backs are good so if the QB has some success I think the Spartans will score about 23-25 points and then cover. Almost everybody is on USF so the line should reach the 21 points on Saturday. I will wait until the Game Day, stay tuned for Coach D decision (who is interviewed today in sirius xm) and pay much attention about the camp.

Just noticed that some of the veterans from last year were passed over. I figured a new coach would shake things up, but there were some pretty good players. So it's not necesarily a bad new, because young talent seems to be good. Almost whole 2nd defense will be redshirt freshman so they will be tested soon.
 

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Would like to get more info about Portland State. BYU's QB Tanner Mangum will start under center and have flashes to be a strong passer. The O-Line is among the best in the country. Portland State allowed 66 points against the Spartans last season. BYU should not allow more than 10 points here while I see Mangum directing a powerful offense to ~50 points. Your thoughts?
Nobody? :(
 

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San Jose St currently at +21 so I will go with the Spartans and Coach B debut.

BOL to everybody.
 

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Not bad. 3-0 to start the season. Hope the year will be kept like this.
 

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Great start box...
 

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