College Football Picks Week 14 (Part 2) | Conference Championship Games Predictions

Gary Segars:

Welcome in to the BetUS College Football Show. It is week 14, championship week, and this is part two. If you missed the first one, of course it is archived. Go over to the YouTube channel, which is where you’re watching right now, of course, if you were watching live, but make sure and watch the Wednesday show.

We went over the first batch of conference championship games, and today we have got some big ones to discuss, good gracious, live. Let’s go ahead and start by introducing the experts.

I am not an expert, but I am your host, Gary Segars. You can follow me online on Twitter, wherever @garywce. On the right side of your screen, you will see Kyle Hunter. He is our professional award-winning handicapper, and you can find him on Twitter @kylehunterpicks. Kyle, feeling good about these big games?

Kyle Hunter:

Yeah, Gary, this is a busy time of the year with a ton of college basketball and college football. And I have to say, I’m always looking forward to these shows and chatting over these games. And gosh, we haven’t had bigger games to talk about all year, so let’s do this.

Gary Segars:

You have certainly got that right. On the left side of the screen, Parker Fleming, the numerical guru, as I like to call him. He’s the stats guy. He’s the numbers guy. I think the official term is analyst, but you can find him on Twitter @statsofwar. Parker, I know you’re feeling good about this stuff. You’ve had some crazy numbers on this Georgia Alabama game, right?

Parker Fleming:

Yeah. We’re going to have to get into this one evidently because again, consistent model, just tossed the inputs in there and I was shocked myself. So yeah, some really fascinating games here and some interesting matchups too, just beyond kind of how teams are playing on average. We’ve got some good mismatches of style and pace throughout all these games today. So really excited to talk about them.

Gary Segars:

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So along with that, jump into the chat. We love to have the Q&A at the end of this. We are going to hit every game this weekend, so there’s not additional games that you can toss in to get our opinion on, but you may have questions about coaching changes or what we think about Bowl season or what we’re looking forward to in the playoff, et cetera, anything you want to ask, feel free to. We’ve already got Jerry and Aaron and several other people in the chat. And Eric just jumped in as well. So make sure and dive into the chat.

Gary Segars:

Leave your comments with your picks on these games. We want to know what you think. Maybe you can sway us to one side or the other for some of these that we may not have a play on. Let’s do our recap. We’ll tell you exactly what we are looking at so far on the season, what we have done last week, not a great week, but Rivalry Week is always a little crazy. I went four and three, Kyle two and two, Parker, three and six.

Overall on the season, I am currently sitting at 49 wins, 39 losses and four pushes. Kyle sits at 35 wins and 29 losses, and Parker, 47 wins, 57 losses and three pushes. Overall, 131, 125 and 7. We are above water. And we would like to continue that this week, of course. So gentlemen, we’re going to start off with a massive, massive game.

Gary Segars:

The SEC Championship game in Atlanta at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the Georgia Bulldogs, a 6.5 point favorite over the Alabama Crimson Tide. The total right now sits at 49.5. Last year, Alabama beat Georgia, with Stetson Bennett at quarterback, 41 to 24. Alabama is 6 and 0 straight up in their last six against Georgia. In the last three, where they have faced Kirby Smart, Alabama is 1-1-1 against the spread against the ‘Dogs. Georgia has not beaten Alabama since 2007.

And that was Nick Saban’s first season when Mark Richt was still the head coach. Overs in this matchup, 8-1 since 2002. The last time that Alabama was an underdog in a game was 2015. They played in Athens. They were a one point ‘dog. Alabama went on to win that game, 38 to 10 en route to another national title.

Gary Segars:

Looking at just all of these different things, Alabama’s 0-3 against the spread, their last three against the SEC. Georgia 4-2 against the spread in their last seven games. And it’s been win loss, win loss, win loss, but the numbers that they have tried to cover have been just astronomical. I mean, the numbers are so big. It would make sense that they will not cover all of them, especially when they get a big lead and basically just run out the clock late.

Guys, Kyle, I want to start with you first. The biggest question here will be the Georgia anxiety. People know Kirby Smart, I’m not going to say chokes in post-season games, but he’s 2-2-1 against the spread. And that’s what people are concerned about. You’ve got the better football team or at least it seems that way. And sometimes, some of the decision making from the sideline, it puts the team in precarious positions. Give me your thoughts on this ballgame before we really dive into some numbers here.

Kyle Hunter:

Yeah. I mean, this is the game that matters so much. And I think as far as which side you want to take, I think it’s which matters most to you. You want the dominant team from the past 10 years with the best coach in college football, or do you want the team that looks like they’re the best team this season laying the points here, a team that seems to have very few flaws in Georgia. I’m of the opinion that you could make a compelling argument for either side in this game.

I don’t think it would be a negative to argue either side in this one. I’m going to stay off of this game. But I do have some stats that I kind of want to break down a little bit. Georgia’s first in the SEC in yards per play margin by a wide margin, plus 2.92, Alabama plus 1.19.

Kyle Hunter:

So a big jump there. I mean Georgia’s defense, we’ve talked about them all year, guys. I mean, what else can you say about them? I know some people have said they haven’t played the toughest schedule. They haven’t played the toughest schedule of offenses in their side of the SEC but still, this defense is so fun to watch. They rank first in coverage grade at PFF. They’re fourth in run defense grade at PFF.

In fact, Alabama’s first in run defense grade. So Bama’s run defense is probably a bit underrated, but their pass defense has nearly been as good. You know, Georgia’s coaching staff has done so well too. And I think we should give them credit because so often, we see these teams that are really talented defensively and they don’t quite play up to expectations. I know some people say, “Well, you have that kind of talent like Georgia has.”

Kyle Hunter:

You have to have an excellent defense, but we’ve seen the is really talented defenses not achieve this kind of success in the past. So they’ve done a great job with the talent that they have. Georgia’s the real deal. Gary, I think, you know this as well as anybody.

Bama better hope they can run the football in this game because if they can’t run the football, Bryce Young is in trouble in this game. Bama’s allowed 29 sacks in SEC play. Georgia knows the pass is coming, there’s going to be some serious heat on Bryce Young in this game. Alabama offensive line, I would say is the weakest offensive line they’ve had in many years. Having said that, Bama’s averaging just 3.46 yards per carry in the SEC. So they haven’t ran the ball that well either.

Kyle Hunter:

Passing attack for Georgia, Stetson Bennett, I still think that he’s a bit of a question mark. I think Bennett’s played well, but could he get rattled in a big game? I wouldn’t be stunned to see something like that. He has great players around him. The question that I have too, does this game mean more to ‘Bama than it does to Georgia? I mean, in theory, it should, because Georgia’s in the playoffs if they win or lose this game.

They don’t want to lose to ‘Bama. So it’s certainly not a fact that I’m thinking that they want to pass on this game, but Georgia would in with the loss. ‘Bama needs to win this game, I think. My numbers and the matchups would point to an under in this game, guys. These two teams have scored a decent amount of points against each other. Like Gary said, 8-1 to the over. So I’m scared to take under 49.5 in a game like this, but I’m going to pass on this game, but I am super pumped to watch this one.

Gary Segars:

You mentioned needing to run the football, Brian Robinson, Jr., the starting running back, going to be hampered with a hamstring injury, might play, but he will be far from 100%. They are looking at Kennedy, the backup linebacker as a possible running back at this point. I think they’ve got four scholarship running backs that could be out for this game. And Trey Sanders, who is the only healthy running back, is coming off of two straight seasons where he had to go out for the year due to injuries.

So not an ideal situation, Slade Bolden, who Parker also loves, a wide receiver and punt returner, has also been playing a little bit in practices and scrimmage and whatnot at the running back position. So they are trying to manage the roster, figure some things out because a lot of the depth that they had to start the season is not there anymore.

Gary Segars:

So it’s, it’s definitely not an ideal situation. Alabama I think can learn from the Tennessee tape a little bit. The only real success that anybody has had against this Georgia defense that really put them on their heels was that tempo that that Josh Heupel’s team ran with. And Alabama can do that, but I don’t know that you can do it through an entire ballgame. I think you have to pick and choose where you’re going to do that. Parker, I don’t even know where to begin with this.

Georgia, and this could be a very interesting topic here. Sagarin strength of schedule, Georgia, number 51, Alabama, number 18. Georgia has only had six second half drives. This is courtesy of Bill Conley, six second half drives all season where the margin was less than 14 points. Five of them were against Clemson.

Gary Segars:

Now Alabama has the fourth, at least, and they’ve had 33 drives in that regard, but it’s two really good football teams. Net points per drive, Georgia number one, Alabama number five. I mean everything to me points to Georgia here. The penalty yards, Alabama’s number 107 in the country in penalty yards per game. Georgia is number 12. Stetson Bennett has looked really, really good. And then if he doesn’t look good, you’ve always got the JT Daniels backup option.

That would be very ironic considering the ways that Georgia has lost the last two to Alabama. Parker, jump in here. Tell me your thoughts because I just don’t see this Alabama offensive line being able to give Bryce Young enough time to move them down the field consistently.

Parker Fleming:

I agree. I mean obviously, Alabama’s offensive line is a problem. The big deal there that I think is worth noting is again, Bryce Young, Alabama’s quarterback, under pressure, for being as young as he is, is phenomenal. Struggled a little bit recently, but earlier in the season was just lights out there so I think that people have made some adjustments, some depth issues used with the offensive line, but he’s getting pressured 34% of the time and still completing almost 70% of his passes in terms of adjusted completion percent. So he’s either throwing it away, he’s not getting exact on average as often, last week’s Rivalry Game notwithstanding. And I think when you look at this game, this is a really nice example of two things.

Parker Fleming:

One, opponent adjustments. Georgia’s defense has not faced an offense as good as Alabama’s. This is not 2011. Alabama has a good offense. They have one of the better offenses. They’ve had good offenses consistently. There are some issues on the margin, you’re right. The offensive line struggles a little bit. Their red zone play calling, especially earlier in the season was bad. They were struggling to finish drives. They’re still 32nd since week five in points per quality possession. But they’re passing a whole lot. They’re only rushing on 43.8% of early downs and they’re 18th in EPA per pass, Gary.

So high passing rate, a high EPA tells me that the quality of this offense is very, very good and they’re able to sustain it. They’re not breaking off a big pass every now and then. And so I really think that they’ll be able to make some adjustments with pressure and get some pass game going and make Georgia have to play a longer game than Georgia has had to play all season.

Parker Fleming:

The issue with Tennessee, you, me or Kyle could sit down playing Madden. We were talking about Madden off air, and write down 15 plays for the first two drives. We’ll go tempo. We’re going to score a touchdown on one of those drives versus Georgia. What happens is when Kirby Smart adjusts, what Josh Heupel can’t do and what I can’t do even more, I’m not even close to what Josh Heupel can do, is adjust for that. That’s where the counter punch is where college football coaching gets really, really hard. You, me and a couple friends could sit down with a beer and call plays and score a touchdown on Georgia’s first drive. But as soon as Georgia adjusts, we’re done. And so I think that anyone in the world who can adjust to defensive adjustments is Nick Saban.

Parker Fleming:

And so that’s non quantifiable, right? But you kind of have that opponent adjustment and the fact that Saban knows how to attack the counter punch or absorb the counter punch. I do think that they’ll be able to make Georgia play a longer offense or a longer game on defense than they’ve had to play. The flip side of that is Georgia’s offense has been fine. They’re second in EPA per pass, 78th in EPA per rush. They’re rushing on 61.4% of early downs. So Georgia, again, a lot of that is game state, even if you’re filtering out for garbage time, which I am, but Georgia high volume rushing, their passing is very selective. Alabama’s defense, second against the rushing EPA. They will be able to shut that down. And they’re 37th against the pass.

Parker Fleming:

They’ve faced a pretty heavy pass slate. People have been passing a lot against Alabama’s defense and they’re still pretty good at it. So generally, I think that that matchup is almost neutral, the Georgia offense versus the Alabama defense, and then the compliments of Alabama’s high volume passing offense, plus being able to do counter punch is why I slightly lean towards Alabama being able to cover this spread.

I mean, you look at trying to find anything on the margin, field position, they’re both the same on offense and defense. Early downs EPA, Georgia has been really, really good on offense at moving the ball on early downs, second overall. Alabama’s defense is third. Georgia, when they have to face a third down, which is not often, but that means it’s in undesirable situations, 98th in third and fourth down success. Alabama’s defense is 18th.

Parker Fleming:

Georgia is going to have to string together drives and third down conversions in a way that they have not been asked to do all season. I really, really think that that’s going to be the challenge that keeps this game close. I’m certainly not flirting with an Alabama money line, but 6.5 is so many points there. That being said, Georgia’s defense has played a weak schedule and held that weak schedule to 27% of their season averages in terms of production and efficiency.

This Georgia defense is extremely special. And so a really nice test for kind of the numbers to mix with history, to mix with narratives here, to decide how are we going to interpret this game. I don’t have an official play. I’m slightly leaning towards Alabama. I don’t think we said pizza money in a few weeks. I’m going to throw some pizza money on Alabama, but no official play.

Gary Segars:

I can get with that. One thing for me that I could maybe see factoring into this ballgame, Georgia is number 50 in turnover margin, which is a little bit surprising. Alabama, number 20. Alabama does not turn the ball over all that often. Now, obviously you get somebody coming off the edge on the blind side and Bryce Young doesn’t see him. Obviously you can see turnovers happening, but Alabama has been pretty good at creating turnovers. If they can find a way to make Stetson Bennett uncomfortable, put him in position to have to make throws that he has not had to make all year, yes, there is a path where Alabama could find a way to win this game. I don’t see it. I’m going to make an official play for myself, and I am going to ride Georgia minus 6.5.

Gary Segars:

It’s under a touchdown. I think this Georgia defense is too much for this Alabama offensive line. No, Georgia has not fully been tested, but they’ve still played SEC competition much the same that Alabama has had to do, and they have stomped them in a way that Alabama has not. Now you can go in the margins if you want to and look at Alabama to Arkansas with a healthy KJ Jefferson, Georgia did not, all these different things.

I just think that Georgia in this position, this is not Alabama as an underdog and Georgia as a favorite. This is Georgia still considers themselves the underdog against Alabama until they beat them. They have not done so, like I said, since 2007. They have been hoping and praying for this specific matchup since the last season. They have been looking forward to getting back at Alabama.

Gary Segars:

I think they are going to do it. I think they will cover the 6.5. So make that an official play from me. And maybe it’s a little bit of emotional hedging. You guys that watched the show know that I have been a lifelong Alabama fan, but I’m not dumb. I can see things with my eyes and be rational about this Georgia minus 6.5 looks like the play to me. And I am going to write it.

Gary Segars:

That will take us to the AAC championship game. And we have got another massive one here, Houston sitting at 11-1 on the season, Cincinnati 12-0, and the Bearcats at home, a 10.5 favorite, total of 53 here. Last season, Cincinnati won this game 38 to 10, but this was not the same Houston team last year. This defense has significantly improved. Defense coordinator Doug Belk has been awesome.

My biggest question on this game, well, you know what, let me give you a few of the trends first. Houston, 4-2 against the spread on the road this season. They are 2-0 against the number as an underdog. Cincinnati didn’t cover in four straight games. They have now covered their last two. They kind of got the ball rolling again.

Gary Segars:

The question for me and Parker, I’m going to start with you on this one. How does Cincinnati deal with external pressures? This is the biggest game, maybe in school history for a chance to go to the College Football Playoff, to compete for a national title. They don’t have to worry about Luke Fickell. I think everybody feels good about that because word came out on Wednesday evening that Marcus Freeman will be the next head coach at Notre Dame. I don’t believe that Luke Fickell will be going to Oklahoma, et cetera. They’re good at least for this week for this game.

So I think Cincinnati feels good about that. You look at the teams that Cincinnati has played and the defenses that they have played. The Notre Dame defense that Cincinnati played back in the middle of the year was not as good as this defense that Houston is bringing into Nippert Stadium on Saturday night. I’m iffy on this one. I really like Houston here. Parker, give me your thoughts on it.

Parker Fleming:

Yeah, so again, this one’s pretty interesting in terms of how you adjust for opponents because you’re right. Cincinnati has not played a defense with a heartbeat since Notre Dame. And even at that point in time, Notre Dame’s defense, their heartbeat having this may have been in jeopardy. I think if you look at Houston’s schedule though, they haven’t played anyone. I mean-

Gary Segars:

Let me jump into strength of schedule, number 123 Sagarin for Houston, number 123 and Cincy number 87. So it’s a big difference.

Parker Fleming:

And they’ve played some common opponents, right? And I don’t put a lot of stock in common opponents because we know that in college football, the transitive property doesn’t hold. If A beats B, B beats C, that doesn’t mean that A is going to beat C. But when you look at this, Houston’s defense has been keeping them in games.

And the big thing that’s interesting for me, I wonder how much value or stock we should put in the fact that Houston got to play UConn last week, whereas Cincinnati got to play East Carolina who was coming for their behinds, and gave them a game for a little bit. Houston did mental walkthroughs for Cincinnati all week, and then just walked out and beat the heck out of UConn, and then continued to do their walkthroughs for Cincinnati and continue to practice and prepare knowing what was going on there.

Parker Fleming:

They effectively had a bye last week. That’s interesting to me in terms of this game. All that to say, Houston’s defense very, very good against the pass, ninth in EPA pass, 19th in EPA per rush. Cincinnati’s offense, not really great on passing. They’re seventh in passing success rate, but 52nd at EPA. They’re really not generating big plays through the pass game. And Houston is not really allowing huge run success.

Excuse me, Houston is not allowing big plays through the run, which Cincinnati is getting. Houston is 33rd in defensive success rate for rushing, but they are 19th in EPA per rush, which means hey, you might get success there, but they’re not letting you break out these kind of high value, big plays. The interesting matchup for me in this is really Houston’s offense versus Cincinnati’s defense, because I do believe that Houston’s offense is the worst unit on the field.

Parker Fleming:

Cincinnati’s defense is the best unit on the field, but I think Houston’s offense has been playing better than they have looked the last couple of weeks. They are 46th in EPA, in overall EPA. They’re 29th in passing, 83rd in rushing. They’re really balanced though. So 52nd in EPA per rush. I wonder if Holden is not just going to spread it out and run the air raid and kind of sling things around. So given what Houston’s defense is able to do, I think the 10.5 is way too many points here, especially because Cincinnati has not really shown us any kind of downfield passing threat and Houston’s shown us multiple times, they can keep pace and win a shootout this season.

Gary Segars:

Yeah, I tend to agree. Eric jumps in on the chat. He said, “I watched Houston play a pitiful second half at home against East Carolina, which scares me to bet on them.” That game was really weird. And I tend to throw that one away a little bit, because it was delayed like six hours due to thunderstorms in the Houston area. The game ended up, it ended late. It was supposed to be like a 2:00 p.m. game. It didn’t end until what, 10:30 or 11? I mean, it was a really weird game. So I don’t necessarily toss that one in there. Kyle, when I looked at some of these numbers, I was looking at turnover margin to see if there’s a way that Houston could create a few more opportunities for themselves. Turnover margin on the season, Cincy is number three and Houston is number six.

Gary Segars:

But if you dig into deeper a little bit, if you dig into it a little deeper, Cincy has lost nine turnovers in the last four games. They did force nine to make it even. Houston has only lost three in the past four games and they’ve gained eight. They have been able to create opportunities in the last month of the season that Cincinnati has had to really do, just to get things back to even for them. I do wonder if maybe that plays into this a little bit.

Houston, the number 15 S&P plus defense, they’re number 26 in defensive 20 plus yard plays allowed. That’s a big thing that I’ll look for with Cincinnati is can they use explosive plays to beat you? I don’t think they can do that against Houston. What are your thoughts on this one?

Kyle Hunter:

First, I mean if we want to play the transitive property game, Houston won 45 to 10 against Tulsa, and we know how Cincinnati did against Tulsa. So there we go. No, I mean it’s obviously more complicated. Let’s just stop right there. Look, Cincinnati’s in a must win spot here. We know that the Bearcats didn’t really play that amazing as the final score would indicate in their win over East Carolina.

I think that game was probably closer than what the final score looks like because East Carolina had the ball deep in Cincinnati territory multiple times there. They did look great against SMU, but shaky in a lot of their other recent contests, and Houston, Parker alluded to this, I mean, they’ve rolled off 11 straight wins after a season opening loss, but it’s fair to say, I mean, who have they beaten that’s good during that period?

Kyle Hunter:

So they’re fourth in success rate allowed, 10th in yards per play allowed. Houston has given up 25 plays of 30 yards or more. So if there’s one way you can beat this Houston defense, it’s big plays. We’ll see if Cincinnati can get some of those big plays. Cincinnati’s defense has forced 32 turnovers this year. I was surprised when I looked at that. I figured Iowa was first in the nation in turnovers forced, but it’s actually Cincinnati. Bearcats defense is the real deal. It will be really important that Clayton Tune take care of the football here.

Tune has played well. I’m not fully convinced that Tune will look good against the Cincinnati defense though, so I’m not sure how that will work out in the passing attack. I would expect that Holgorsen will run a lot of really quick passes, try to take short passes to take pressure off Clayton Tune.

Kyle Hunter:

And that one, I do lean strongly toward Houston in this game, but I want to attack it a little bit differently. I want to take Cincinnati team total under in this game, reason being, I think there’s kind of an higher chance that Houston could get held to a pretty low number in this game by the Cincinnati defense, because I haven’t seen Houston’s defense against anything like this Cincinnati defense thus far.

So I lean to the under, I lean to Houston, but I’m going to take Cincinnati team total under. I could see a 28 type, 28 to 10 type game or a 24 to 14 type game in this one. Houston has faced a lot of really bad defenses this year. Cincinnati’s defense is tremendous. I’m still not totally sure that Cincinnati’s offense is really that good. Ridder’s a good quarterback, but guys, remember some of these games earlier in the season when they played Indiana, when it looked like Indiana was going to be a good opponent and they played Notre Dame, Ridder did not look good in the first half of those games. They were some really low scoring first halves.

Kyle Hunter:

Cincinnati didn’t look good against Indiana at all in the first half in that game. They were kind of fortunate to win by the margin that they did. Cincy, 10 of their 12 games this year have seen the first half go under the total. So I lean first half under the total in this game as well. Seems like Ridder has been a bit maybe too hyped up, a little bit, not as quality of play in the first half as what he has in the second half. We’ll see if that happens in a game like this. There’s a lot of pressure on Cincinnati to win this game. I lean toward Houston, but I’m going to take Cincinnati team total under here.

Gary Segars:

I like it. I like it. We all three have an official play on this one so let’s go ahead and read them off. I am riding Houston plus 10.5. Parker is riding Houston, plus 10.5. And Kyle taking Cincinnati team total believe the graphic we have is under 32.5. I believe that line is now 31.5, but Kyle, you told me earlier, you still like that one. So yeah, team total under for Cincy and then Houston plus 10.5 for myself and Parker are the official plays on that one. That one’s going to be a lot of fun. I hate that it’s at the exact same time as the SEC championship, but that’s why you have to have two TVs, my friends. Go to Walmart or wherever and buy yourself a TV. Knock that thing out.

Gary Segars:

All right, let’s jump to the Big Ten championship game. Iowa got in by the skin of their teeth last week, and they are playing against Michigan, the Hawkeyes and the Wolverines, and Michigan, an 11 point favorite in Indianapolis, the total sitting at 43.5. The last matchup between these two teams was in 2019. Michigan won 10 to 3, not a lot of points, of course, Big Ten football.

That makes perfect sense, Iowa 2-1 against the spread as a ‘dog this season. They are 4-1-1 against the number as a ‘dog in the last six that they have been in that position. That dates all the way back to November of 2019, I believe.

Gary Segars:

Michigan, 5-1 against the spread this season as a 10 plus point favorite, not typical Jim Harbaugh. It’s a little strange. Kyle, I want to start off with you on this one. Iowa, number 105 in offensive adjusted sack rate since week seven. That is not a good number against Aidan Hutchinson in that bunch. I just don’t know how Iowa stays in this ballgame. You look at some of these Iowa offensive numbers and we’ve talked about it all season.

Number 111 in offensive success rate, number 125 offensive points per scoring opportunity. That’s drives inside the 40. If you can’t put up points, you’re not going to be able to get Michigan to really turn the football over, I don’t believe, or at least they have not done so thus far this season. Kyle, what are your thoughts on the Hawkeyes and the Wolverines?

Kyle Hunter:

I mean, where do you start here? How did Iowa get into this game? I mean it’s hard to believe that Iowa got into this game with the offense that they have and at the risk of bashing Iowa too much here, I mean, Iowa was a good defense. Ferentz is a good coach. I like Ferentz quite a bit. Nebraska absolutely choked away another game, I mean to get to this game, and then Minnesota had to upset Wisconsin as well.

So Iowa being in the Big Ten title game there, negative 0.07 yards per play margin inside the Big Ten, and here they are in the title game, which is wild. Michigan just flat out bullied Ohio State last week. Obviously that was a bummer for me being a Buckeyes fan. Harbaugh’s team was really well prepared for that game. I thought he outcoached Ryan Day in that game. You have to give him a bunch of credit for being ready to go in that one.

Kyle Hunter:

Some people said the elements, the weather, it didn’t help Ohio State, but they wouldn’t have stopped him running even if it was sunny. Michigan was the better team in that game for sure. Now what for Michigan? Is this a, letdown spot? A hangover game? I could understand there being some hangover in this game and laying 11 points kind of worries me because a total of 43.5, you guys have heard me talk about this before. It’s just scary to lay this many points in a game that should be this low scoring.

And when I first saw this, I thought I have to take Iowa with double digit points, right? But then you start looking at the matchup more and I figure out, I mean, how is Iowa going to score in this game?

Kyle Hunter:

I don’t know how they’re going to score. I mean they haven’t been able to score against virtually anybody. And we talked about this a few weeks ago when Ferentz was saying he got Spencer Petras and I got Padilla. I have two good options. It’s like he really has no good options at quarterback, and that’s kind of shown itself out in recent weeks and Aidan Hutchinson, he’s earning himself some serious money right now, by the way. And he is tenacious.

This guy is very good. I think he’s going to be a big problem for Iowa because this Iowa offensive line really has not been very good. We’re used to Iowa’s offensive lines being excellent. I mentioned this stat before, but in 12 games this year, Michigan has allowed only 24 tackles for a loss, which is just unheard of, good, insane number, tremendous offensive line play.

Kyle Hunter:

As a reference, Iowa has allowed 90 tackles for loss so far this season. So they get behind the sticks. And Iowa’s not a team that is built to go on second and 15 and third and long, things like that. So I just worry about how many points Iowa could score here if you want to back Iowa. I mean this could easily be a 21 to 7 type game and it wouldn’t surprise me. And then you say, “Well, maybe you’d want to take the under. It is a fast track. We’re playing inside. This is a very low total.”

Kyle Hunter:

I can’t take the under here. This Iowa defense actually too, and you guys know this, they weren’t as good at the end of the season as they were at the start of the season. Some of these teams late in the season were moving the ball pretty good against them, including Nebraska with their backup quarterback, even Illinois moved the ball against them pretty well. So Iowa’s a good defense, not a dominant defense here of late. It’s all about the turnovers.

So would any of us be surprised if Iowa forces three or four turnovers and scores 20 some points based off that? I don’t think so. I mean they’ve done it so many times. That’s why I’m cautious to lay the points here with Michigan too. I feel like there’s quite a bit of variance here from the turnovers that I’m going to pass on this game.

Gary Segars:

It makes total, total sense on it. We did have a few questions in the chat. One asked, is it the old guy or the new guy that’s going to start at quarterback for Iowa? I believe that they’re leaning towards Spencer Petras to be the starting quarterback this week. He had to come in in support of Alex Padilla, who was the new guy that you were talking about, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see both of them play. Neither of them have been super successful. I do like Padilla’s passes better. Just the throwing motion looks better to me, but that doesn’t mean that he’s better at decision making or any of that.

So who knows what they’ll do there? And then Jerry Scruggs jumped in and said Michigan is the sexy pick, but there will be a hangover after the Ohio State game. Kyle, you brought that up. We talked about this yesterday on the show.

I just don’t, I don’t think that I buy into the hangover effect heading into a conference championship game. You play those games to get the opportunity in the conference championship game. I think Michigan’s going to be fired up because you have to win this one to get to the playoff. And I think that that is the ultimate goal for this Wolverine team, but we’ll see. I mean, you never know, you never know.

Kyle Hunter:

The only thing, only comeback I would have for that, which I could see a little bit of hangover is they are laying a lot of points here. So they don’t have to win by 12 points in this one where true, yesterday when we were talking about it, it was a 5.5 point spread. So that is a little bit of a difference, but I agree. It’s not like they’re going to look ahead and not be up for this game.

Gary Segars:

True, very, very true. Parker, on this one, the turnover margin, of course, number three for Iowa, number 27 for Michigan. But I believe that that has changed. I mean, it was so drastic early in the season for Iowa, that anything they did the rest of the year, they were still going to be ranked relatively high. Michigan has done a really good job of taking care of the football. When you look at net points per drive, things like that, Iowa’s number 41 in net points for drive. Michigan is number four. I really believe that the only hope for Iowa here is turnovers. And as Kyle said, would it surprise anybody if a Harbaugh coached Michigan team found a way to turn the ball over in a game like this? I don’t think so. What are your thoughts on this?

Parker Fleming:

One, did not think that I was going to speak in defense of Iowa’s offense ever, but I do want to just say last week, on their first six drives, they had five scoring opportunities. They were moving the ball really well against Nebraska.

Nice things about Iowa over. Nebraska’s defense is pretty bad. They have some issues as well. They’ve let up a lot of points. I think when I think about this game, when I look at the aggregate numbers and certainly recently, Iowa’s defense has not been stellar and the offense has gotten worse, which go hand in hand, because remember we talked about they had the shortest average touchdown drive of anyone in the nation by like 15 yards. And so when they were scoring, it was on average on drives that started closer than the 50 yard line early in the season.

Parker Fleming:

They hadn’t gotten that much good luck. They have played a much harder schedule. And I really point to two games here. Penn State, they were down 17-3 at the half before Sean Clifford went out and then they were able to capitalize on turnovers and everything and come back. And then Wisconsin, they lost 7 to 27. They got absolutely just mauled by Wisconsin. And I think that the physicality has not been there on Iowa’s schedule.

And I think Michigan last week showed that they are a physical team and that’s why I’m going to lean, not lean, I’m going to take an official play for Michigan to cover here. I think Michigan’s defense has been playing as well as Iowa’s defense and Michigan’s offense is leaps and bounds better than Iowa’s offense. Michigan has not been prone to mistakes. They have not been prone to the sloppy special teams that a couple, that Iowa State, Penn State have been when they’ve lost to Iowa.

Parker Fleming:

I really, really think that Michigan is going to be able to do what they want. One thing that bodes really, really well for Michigan’s offense, 35th in offensive EPA per play. Obviously, that rushing attack is fierce. I think almost 60% of Hassan Haskins’ yards come after contact. He’s really good at eluding tackles, really good in space, but they’re extremely balanced, 40th in EPA per pass, 44th in EPA per rush.

And I really think that specifically the rushing game, 14th in success rate, they’re going to be able to move the ball. And I think Iowa, when challenged with a run game that they’re going to have to focus on is going to be vulnerable in the secondary. And Michigan has the ability, has the playmakers, has the track record of creating these big explosive plays and scoring there. So I think Michigan, lot on the line. Absolutely won’t be a letdown spot. I usually keep those for in season games. I think that Michigan should cover 10.5 here.

Gary Segars:

Well, let’s make it official. Parker is the one that has the play on it, Michigan minus 11 for him. I am staying away. Both of these coaches scare me. Let’s move off of that. Let’s jump in into the ACC championship game.

This one is in Charlotte, Pitt against Wake Forest and the Panthers favored by three, and it is juiced at minus 115. The total sits at 71.5. The last meeting between these two was in 2018, and Pat Narduzzi’s bunch, the Pitt Panthers won 34 to 13. Dave Clawson, the Wake Forest head coach just won ACC Coach of the Year, so congrats to him, but Pitt, 7-2 against the spread their last nine this season, all of those as a favorite. Wake Forest, 4-2 against the spread in their last six games. They are 0-2 in that span as a ‘dog.

Gary Segars:

That is certainly not good considering they are a ‘dog in this matchup. You look at some of these numbers here and Parker, I’m going to start with you on it. Pitt, number four in defensive adjusted sack rate since week seven. Wake Forest is number 44. If Pitt can cause Sam Hartman to be uncomfortable, and of course that is easier said than done, I think Pitt has a chance to run away with this game. I mean, there is obviously a reason why they are favored here. What are your thoughts on the Panthers and the Demon Deacons?

Parker Fleming:

I definitely liked what I saw out of Pitt’s defense. It looked a little more vintage Pitt against Syracuse, and I think their offense has been so good. Obviously there’s pace issues with like keeping up with an offense that’s scoring so much. And where they have struggled this season, you think about like the North Carolina game that was really close. They have really struggled with a quarterback who’s mobile. I mean, Sam Howell turned into Trevor Knight in that game and he was just running all over the place and Sam Hartman might have shown-

Gary Segars:

Nice, nice.

Parker Fleming:

Didn’t think you were hearing that when you woke up this morning. Subscribe to BetUS podcast where we talk about the obscure Big 12 players from 10 years ago. But anyway, Sam Hartman’s not Trevor Knight.

That’s the point I’m trying to make here, and he hasn’t been super mobile. You know, they run that slow mesh and they’ve been very efficient and they’ve been able to put up points, but I don’t think that they’re going to give Pat Narduzzi’s defense any kind of unique wrinkle that he’s not prepared for, any kind of dimension to the game that might exploit that defense. And then on the flip side, man, Wake Forest’s defense stinks. It just, it is bad and look, they have low talent ratings. They have low recruiting. I get it. They’re kind of outkicking their coverage on offense here.

Parker Fleming:

So I’m not dragging them. Their defense is a Wake Forest defense. Their offense is like a power five offense. That’s kind of the difference this year. And so I think with Pitt’s offense, they’ll be able to score at will. The one thing I look at is how well both of them will kind of match up in finishing drives because again, Pitt’s offense is 49th in points per quality possession. Wake Forest’s defense, 106th.

On the flip side, Wake Forest’s offense, third in points per quality possession. Pitt’s defense is 59th. So if Wake Forest can take advantage, pop off a few big plays, even if they’re not very successful on average, Wake has won a couple games where they have been negative success rate generally. And so if they can break off one or two big plays, maybe they can keep this close. I think Wake absolutely wants this to be a shootout.

My line is almost exactly at the spread here so I don’t love this game as an official play. I’d slightly lean towards Wake Forest just being able to kind of create a shootout situation and that Army game, they were scoring every other second, it felt like. If they can do that, which they’ve shown they can a couple of times, they can keep it close. But if Pitt’s defense is typical Narduzzi, you’re right, this could get ugly.

Gary Segars:

You mentioned big plays, et cetera. On the other side of the field, Pitt number four offense in 20 plus yard plays and Wake Forest defense, number 102 in 20 plus yard plays allowed. That is not a good matchup, not a good matchup at all. Turnover margin, this might be one of those where you could see a few more possessions. Wake is number six. They don’t turn it over much. And they do create turnovers quite a bit. Pit is number 43 in that regard.

And when you talk about discipline, Pitt number 115 in penalty yards per game. Wake Forest is number 68. So Pitt on the back end of the FBS 130, just not great there. Net points per drive, these two teams are very, very equal. Kyle, Pitt is number one, excuse me, Pitt is number 15. Wake is number 16. Give me your thoughts on this one. I mean it looks like two big time offenses and Pitt just happens to have a little bit better defense.

Kyle Hunter:

Kenny Pickett’s the guy I was most wrong about this season coming into the year, what a fantastic season for him. I did not expect him to be this good. In fact, he’s second in QB grade at PFF behind only Bryce Young. So tremendous stuff from him. I will say he has a-

Gary Segars:

By the way, he’s been there for like nine years. So at some point, he had to be pretty good, right?

Kyle Hunter:

I kept thinking every year, the people in the preseason say, “This is the year Pickett gets better. This is the year Pickett gets better.” And it just wasn’t happening, wasn’t happening. And now finally it did. And when it did it, it happened in a big way. He does have 11 turnover worthy plays in his last five games after having only zero in the previous four games, so that’s one minor concern for him.

Sam Hartman’s been great too. We can’t undersell him too much. Sixth in QB grade at PFF. In my opinion, guys, I think Wake Forest has a clear coaching advantage in this one. I’m not taking Narduzzi Uzi against Clawson in a coaching match up. Having said that, the talent advantage is clearly Pittsburgh in my opinion. So it makes the side a bit murky for me.

Kyle Hunter:

I don’t know exactly what to do with that because I hate laying points against Clawson. He’s actually 46-35 against the spread all time as an underdog. So he’s been very good as an underdog long term. Wake Forest has been a fun team this year. And I like a lot of things about this team, but this Demon Deacons defense is really bad, like Parker said, and I don’t want to hear people say, “Well, they only allowed 10 points last week against Boston College.” I did have a selection, a premium selection last week on the under in that game at the last minute because of the weather forecast.

That game was played in 30 to 35 miles per hour winds. That will help a defense a lot. You get out there in 30 miles per hour winds. It’s a lot easier to stop the other team it turns out.

Kyle Hunter:

The previous three weeks, let’s look at how those went. Wake Forest allowed 55 points against North Carolina, 42 points against what I would say is a mediocre NC State offense, and then 48 points against Clemson. And we know Clemson was a weak offense this year. So what is there to make us believe that Wake Forest could stop Pitt in this game? I don’t think there’s really anything. The weather looks good for this game. These two teams ranked 4th and 19th in tempo. There’s going to be a lot of apps in this game, for sure. I certainly lean full game over, but I like Pitt team total over a little bit better here because I just don’t see Wake Forest getting the stops against Kenny Pickett and that Pitt offense.

Gary Segars:

I really like the direction that you went with that. Pitt team total over 37 is the official play for Kyle. It is going to be really tough for Wake Forest to stop Pitt. On the same token, I mean, Wake Forest could absolutely hit some big plays like we talked about, but I do like Pitt to be able to score there. So I like the direction that you went with that one.

Gary Segars:

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Gary Segars:

Let’s dive into this one. USC is heading to Cal in a makeup game. Now this is just such a strange situation. We don’t typically have these, but obviously Cal had some issues earlier in season with COVID and whatnot. Just a few weeks ago, they did not have enough players to be able to play against USC, so they scheduled it for this weekend, knowing that both teams would not be in the conference championship game.

Cal is a four point favorite now. This line has moved quite a bit. The total is 58. USC won the last match up between these two. It was in 2019, 41 to 17. USC covered against BYU last week, but they were 0-5 against the spread before that. Now USC, I don’t know if they were rejuvenated. I don’t know what happened. They played a lot of younger guys, a lot of guys that hadn’t gotten a ton of playing time, Jaxson Dart starting at quarterback, et cetera.

Gary Segars:

Cal is 4-2 against the spread in their last six, but they are 1-2 against the spread in their last three. They make no sense. The Golden Bears make no sense. They beat Oregon State and yet they lost to Arizona. They do this all the time. Justin Wilcox can’t seem to find an offense that works for him. The defense, it’s still pretty good, still pretty good. I look at some of these numbers and it just blows my mind. Kyle, I’m going to start with you.

USC, number 127 in stuff rate. Cal is number five in offensive line opportunity rate. Cal is number 36 in yards per rush. You look on the other side, Cal number 65 in stuff rate. USC is number 18 in opportunity rate. The rushing attack for USC last week gained 210 yards against BYU. And that was without Keaontay Ingram in the game. None of this makes any kind of sense to me. Give me your thoughts on it. Do you have a feel one way or the other?

Kyle Hunter:

In this case, guys, we did not save the best for last, as far as these games. Which team cares about this game? Yeah, definitely. I mean, it’s hard for me to get too excited to talk about this game after Mark was saying in the chat that Kyle was really fired up compared to normal, I’m less fired up about this game.

I was kind of looking up, as you were talking though, Gary, Justin Wilcox, I knew he’d been good as an underdog and not good as a favorite. 21-8 against the spread as an underdog, which he’s about 500, it looks like overall, which means he’s not been good as a favorite. I don’t want to trust Cal here in this game. Like you said, they’ve been not trustworthy at all. At the same time, what kind of effort are we going to get from USC?

Kyle Hunter:

I really don’t know. I think this is one of those games where USC, with the kind of talent they have defensively, to be 113th in yards per play allowed is really just shocking to me, 117th and defensive success rate. Wilcox, I back as an underdog. As a favorite, I’m not interested. In a game where I’m not sure that either team cares a whole heck of a lot, I would lean the over just because I think that in college basketball lines, we see the same at the end of the year when the games don’t mean anything, there’s more overs than there are unders.

And when the game means a lot, there’s more unders than overs. I think that’s the same case in college football. I really don’t think that this game is as much stats based as it is. Who do you think is motivated? So if you think you have some kind of edge as to which team is motivated in this game, that’s what you would want to go with and pick this one. But I don’t pretend to know which team is more motivated here. I’ll lean to the over and totally pass on the side.

Gary Segars:

The question for me is, is Lincoln Riley going to be at the ballgame? And maybe some of these guys are playing for their position on the team. We’ll see. We’ll see what happens. Parker, you look at these two, USC usually rushes 45% of the time over the last three games or so, but last week they ran 55% against BYU. Have they found something here? Are they trying to close this out strong? They’re both 4-7. There’s no Bowl game in sight. What are your thoughts here?

Parker Fleming:

We’ve got a classic example of selection bias in aggregate stats here for Cal’s defense. 14th in EPA per pass, 114th in EPA per rush. Guess how often people are passing against Cal? Not very because you don’t have to. USC obviously has the athletes. It’s funny that Cal is favored. I mean, USC has been a disaster. It’s a little bit of a rough deal with them covering against BYU last week.

They’re 22nd in offensive success rate since week five. I do think they’ll be boring and just kind of run the ball and just I mean, I’m sure Lincoln Riley has talked to them about like, “Hey, let’s just, you know, Caleb Williams is probably coming, but let’s see what Jaxson Dart has in the tank. Let’s just experiment. See what’s going on.”

Parker Fleming:

I don’t think Cal is very good at all. I do think it’s funny. I have a friend who’s really early better, and he’s got a ticket from earlier this season with Cal 4.5 that they’re still honoring, plus 4.5. So he’s going to make some money this weekend, I think. But man, blind resume, Cal should win this big. When I start looking at who Cal actually is, I’m a little bit worried that USC should be able to run the ball pretty well against them.

I love college football and I know there will come a time soon when I long for even the most random college football game, I can confidently say guilt free. I am not devoting an ounce of attention to this game this weekend.

Gary Segars:

No, I will be, I will be, because this is the only game on in the night slot. Of course, they give us a Pac-12 after dark game on what? Like FS1, I believe it is. It’s 11:00 p.m. Eastern time. It will be the only game on in that slot. And it will be the last regular season game before we get to the Bowl games. I’ll have it on. I’ll watch something because I’ll be doing notes and getting ready for the Sunday stuff.

But yeah, I’ll watch a little bit, but as far as leaning one direction or another, I’m with you guys, there is no way that I’m going to bet on either one of these teams, because anything can happen, especially in a Pac-12 after dark game. I don’t feel good about either of them. So we won’t have an official play on that one, but that does move us into Q&A, et cetera. Here’s the first question in the Q&A. Apollo says Parker, are you growing a man bun? Would you like to answer that?

Parker Fleming:

Some might even say a half, yeah.

Gary Segars:

It’s getting there. It is getting there. Hey, how about this? I’ll start with this one. Kyle, let’s get to you first. What do you think about Marcus Freeman as the head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish?

Kyle Hunter:

I like Marcus Freeman. I’m excited for him. I hope he does well there. I’m rooting for him certainly. Really good defensive mind. I think if he can surround himself with the right people, he can do a good job there. I don’t think it would be too fair to judge him based on one or two years, but I think he’ll do well. You know, it’s not this home run hire that you’re sure is going to be amazing right away. It’s kind of surprising that they moved so quickly. So that’s kind of my biggest takeaway.

Gary Segars:

That was mine as well. They moved incredibly fast. I don’t believe that they have officially offered him yet, but within the next 72 hours or whatever, they’re going to officially offer him the gig. Tommy Rees, the offensive coordinator’s staying. The offensive and defensive line coaches are both staying. Basically nobody’s going with Brian Kelly down to LSU. Okay, Parker, what do you think about this?

Parker Fleming:

Conspiracy time, what if Notre Dame saw that the committee was going to ding them for not having a head coach in the playoff rankings? And they said that they offered Marcus Freeman so that they have a head coach, and then they’re just going to hire Luke Fickell at the end of the season anyway. That would be atrocious. There’s no way they’re actually doing that, but I just had to float one more crazy theory here.

I mean I love Marcus Freeman. I think he’s really well regarded for his schematic mind, which a lot of times like ex players, it’s oh, he understands the game. He’s a good recruiter, whatever. It’s like, no, Marcus Freeman is a defensive wizard. And so I like that a lot. I like that as a new generation for Notre Dame.

So again, I think that their defense has been very good this year. He handled the responsibility really well. Obviously they have some offensive stuff to work on, but it looked like Tommy Rees ironed that out throughout the season. So the fact that the whole staff is staying, the continuity certainly works in his favor. I like it a whole lot.

Gary Segars:

I’m with you. I don’t see a ton of questions here. Well, hold on. [inaudible 00:55:26] said bankroll question. Curious what you three think pizza money is as a percentage of one’s one unit bet, standard one unit bet? So for me, pizza money is basically half a unit, sometimes even less than that, maybe a quarter of a unit, just to have some juice on the game. Kyle, what is pizza money to you?

Kyle Hunter:

Quarter unit or maybe even two tenths or something like that. When I say pizza money, I mean pretty small. Sometimes if you want to have action on a game, you want to have pizza money. You just want to make sure that you don’t have so much on it, that it’s going to bother you afterwards if you lose. So there’s plenty of games to pick from, and there’s going to be selections you feel strongly about.

So if you’re putting pizza money on a game, just make it fun. That’s my biggest advice, not a certain dollar amount or anything. Just make sure that if you lose that, it’s not going to hurt you much.

Gary Segars:

Yes, yes. I agree 100%. Let’s take that and let’s go to our best bets for today. And Parker, we’re going to start off with you. Which games do you like the most?

Parker Fleming:

I really like Houston to keep things close against Cincinnati. 10.5 is a lot of points. And then I think Michigan puts on a pretty good showing here against Iowa and covers 11.

Gary Segars:

I am going to ride with the Georgia Bulldogs to absolutely hammer Alabama. Given the opportunity, I think they will take it. They will cover the 6.5. It’s less than a touchdown. I’m all in on it. Houston plus 10.5. I like it the same as Parker. I think that that defense is going to keep them in this game. I think it’s going to be tight, tight in Nippert Stadium. Kyle, what do you like here?

Kyle Hunter:

I’m going to take two team totals here this week. I’m going to take Cincinnati team total under and Pittsburgh team total over. And I just want to say too, that it’s nice to have a book like BetUS where they do have team totals available, because I know not all books have that. So Gary talks about how important it is to have BetUS and what a great sportsbook it is. And I just want to say, it’s nice to have team totals as an option, especially this time of the year guys where there’s not near as many games to pick from.

Gary Segars:

You have certainly got that right. Good gracious. What another fantastic show. Another fantastic weekend of college football. I am excited about it and I’m excited about, of course the four team playoff cetera. All of that’s going to be announced on Sunday after the games. It’s going to be a lot of fun. We did have somebody jump in and ask us about our predictions for that. Hit us up on Twitter. You can certainly do that.

That is in the description. Parker is @statsofwar. I am @garywce, and Kyle is @kylehunterpicks and then we’ll talk to you about it. We’ll try and figure all that out. I’m still trying to weed through this. I know we’re getting close to Saturday, but I’ll make some predictions, probably put them out on Twitter in the next 24 to 48 hours or so.

Gary Segars:

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