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First Responders Bowl!!!!!

Go Broncos!!!!

12:30 p.m. kickoff EST. Going to have to get creative with time off from work...

(12-08-2019 04:23 PM)RunningGame Wrote:  12:30 p.m. kickoff EST. Going to have to get creative with time off from work...

Super glad I took the dead week off this year now.

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I’ll be there!

Also known as the “Jack Harbaugh Bowl”!

WKU opens as a 2 point favorite, CMU a 4.5 point underdog, EMU a 9.5 point dog, Kent an 8 point dog, Ohio a 7 point favorite and Miami a whopping 14.5 dog to Louisiana. Thoughts???

(12-08-2019 07:25 PM)Broncos83 Wrote:  WKU opens as a 2 point favorite, CMU a 4.5 point underdog, EMU a 9.5 point dog, Kent an 8 point dog, Ohio a 7 point favorite and Miami a whopping 14.5 dog to Louisiana. Thoughts???

Sounds about accurate for how the MAC has been this year

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Detroit News introduction to the First Responder Bowl https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports...374163002/

Army ran for 200 yds against scUM but only 137 yds against the Hilltoppers.

Know your foe. Kentucky POV of WKU https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sp...376633002/

FYI if anyone is planning on attending and you are a first responder, you get 4 free GA tickets! They are in the endzone but hey, free is free.

I am a probation officer, so i am going to double check tomorrow if I am considered one.

I'll post more tomorrow, but I like this match-up. Shouldn't be a big difference between a 7-5 MAC team & 8-4 CUSA team.

Quote:WKU opens as a 2 point favorite, CMU a 4.5 point underdog, EMU a 9.5 point dog, Kent an 8 point dog, Ohio a 7 point favorite and Miami a whopping 14.5 dog to Louisiana. Thoughts???

I'd put:
WMU +6
CMU +10
EMU +14
Kent +10
Ohio +6
Miami +13
Buffalo -6

(12-08-2019 08:40 PM)Aimless1 Wrote:  Detroit News introduction to the First Responder Bowl https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports...374163002/

Army ran for 200 yds against scUM but only 137 yds against the Hilltoppers.

I attended the Army Michigan game and watched the Army WKU game on TV. Army was dealing with more injuries in the WKU game, but frankly, WKU looked good against Army, and Army looked bad. Don't know if it was great defense, but Army never got much going offensively, and as I recall, threw the ball a bunch for Army; probably way more than it should have.

My guess is that WKU would have won the MAC this year, and without much of a challenge.

Army was not a good team this season. 5 wins (two of which came against bad fcs teams) and not a single win against another team with a winning record. FYI Georgia state also beat army this year.

Army vs. Navy this Saturday!

(12-08-2019 05:36 PM)Broncos83 Wrote:  Also known as the “Jack Harbaugh Bowl”!

Ugh.

(12-08-2019 07:25 PM)Broncos83 Wrote:  WKU opens as a 2 point favorite, CMU a 4.5 point underdog, EMU a 9.5 point dog, Kent an 8 point dog, Ohio a 7 point favorite and Miami a whopping 14.5 dog to Louisiana. Thoughts???

These numbers will obviously move between now and the games themselves, but against these spreads I would have:

Western Kentucky -2
SDSU -4.5
EMU +9.5 (I already bet this and got +11)
Utah State -8
Nevada +7
Miami +14.5

ULL is gonna kill Miami. In fact this could be another 0-6 bowl year. Ohio and WMU I think are the realistic win possibilities.

(12-09-2019 09:08 AM)wmubroncopilot Wrote:  ULL is gonna kill Miami. In fact this could be another 0-6 bowl year. Ohio and WMU I think are the realistic win possibilities.

Actually I'd say Buffalo has our best chance. But yeah... the MAC does poorly during bowl season even during the conference's "good" years, so it's hard not to think our ceiling is like 1 or 2 wins (tops) out of 7 games.