Liberty +13 over Western Kentucky
How could you not bet on a team that is led by Coach Hugh “Make the call” Freeze and their former President Jerry “Cuckhold Me” Falwell, Jr. Oh yeah, Liberty had their kids on campus all last spring because they think COVID-19 is a hoax. Liberty coach Hugh Freeze praised the school's strong numbers, saying the team had not had a positive COVID-19 test in three weeks, but he added that the school hadn't actually performed a single test in the past two weeks because no players showed symptoms of the virus. So it’s likely we’ll see Liberty’s starting lineup with no COVID holdouts. Despite the 3 ring circus surrounding the university, Liberty football doesn’t just pray to play well. They have a feisty squad and play the double digit underdog role well, since they can score points.
The public loves to blow the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, but their offense is fraudulent. They only scored 21 points last week against a Louisville team that offered 33 points per game last year. Last week WKU was outgained by Louisville 487 yards to 248 yards. Two of WKU’s touchdowns were on a 1 yard drive and a 4 yard drive and their last touchdown was late in the game garbage. On the other side of the ball, the WKU defense had trouble keeping the Louisville QB from running for first downs and they may face a similar athlete this week in Liberty’s QB (Auburn transfer Malik Willis, one of 3 QB’s who may see playing time).
Liberty won 8 games last year and in their last 11 games they were only beaten by 13 points one time. Liberty did lose some key offensive players, but they have enough talent under Hugh Freeze’s Escort offense and up tempo passing attack to cause trouble to the Hilltopper defense. Four of the top five receivers are back, including TE Johnny Huntley, as are 3 of their offensive linemen. Their returning senior RB Joshua Mack is likely to go for 1000 yards this season. Now familiar with Coach Freeze’s system, they will be better offensively in 2020 than they were last year when they averaged 33.8 points per game. No doubt Jerry Falwell, Jr will like to watch!
I think that Liberty won’t have any trouble getting 3 touchdowns and likely 24 points on Saturday. So the key will be keeping WKU from scoring 37 points in order to cover. Even though the Hilltoppers were down big for most of the game last week, they still ran the ball 60% of the plays (for only 3.4 yards per carry), which means they don’t have a ton of confidence in their QB who had a QB rating of 44 last week and only hit on 10 of 23 passes. I do think that WKU will have success running the ball against the Flames, since Liberty is undersized up front on defense. However, when you’re the double digit underdog, having your opponent run the ball isn’t a bad thing.
“You can’t kick off early enough for me. I don’t like sitting around the hotel all day,” Freeze said. We know what happened last time he sat around in his hotel room with his Ole Miss cellphone. I already “made the call” to my bookie and have locked in the doggy Flames +13.
How could you not bet on a team that is led by Coach Hugh “Make the call” Freeze and their former President Jerry “Cuckhold Me” Falwell, Jr. Oh yeah, Liberty had their kids on campus all last spring because they think COVID-19 is a hoax. Liberty coach Hugh Freeze praised the school's strong numbers, saying the team had not had a positive COVID-19 test in three weeks, but he added that the school hadn't actually performed a single test in the past two weeks because no players showed symptoms of the virus. So it’s likely we’ll see Liberty’s starting lineup with no COVID holdouts. Despite the 3 ring circus surrounding the university, Liberty football doesn’t just pray to play well. They have a feisty squad and play the double digit underdog role well, since they can score points.
The public loves to blow the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, but their offense is fraudulent. They only scored 21 points last week against a Louisville team that offered 33 points per game last year. Last week WKU was outgained by Louisville 487 yards to 248 yards. Two of WKU’s touchdowns were on a 1 yard drive and a 4 yard drive and their last touchdown was late in the game garbage. On the other side of the ball, the WKU defense had trouble keeping the Louisville QB from running for first downs and they may face a similar athlete this week in Liberty’s QB (Auburn transfer Malik Willis, one of 3 QB’s who may see playing time).
Liberty won 8 games last year and in their last 11 games they were only beaten by 13 points one time. Liberty did lose some key offensive players, but they have enough talent under Hugh Freeze’s Escort offense and up tempo passing attack to cause trouble to the Hilltopper defense. Four of the top five receivers are back, including TE Johnny Huntley, as are 3 of their offensive linemen. Their returning senior RB Joshua Mack is likely to go for 1000 yards this season. Now familiar with Coach Freeze’s system, they will be better offensively in 2020 than they were last year when they averaged 33.8 points per game. No doubt Jerry Falwell, Jr will like to watch!
I think that Liberty won’t have any trouble getting 3 touchdowns and likely 24 points on Saturday. So the key will be keeping WKU from scoring 37 points in order to cover. Even though the Hilltoppers were down big for most of the game last week, they still ran the ball 60% of the plays (for only 3.4 yards per carry), which means they don’t have a ton of confidence in their QB who had a QB rating of 44 last week and only hit on 10 of 23 passes. I do think that WKU will have success running the ball against the Flames, since Liberty is undersized up front on defense. However, when you’re the double digit underdog, having your opponent run the ball isn’t a bad thing.
“You can’t kick off early enough for me. I don’t like sitting around the hotel all day,” Freeze said. We know what happened last time he sat around in his hotel room with his Ole Miss cellphone. I already “made the call” to my bookie and have locked in the doggy Flames +13.