St Petersburg Bowl

Central Florida and Rutgers square off in the St Petersburg Bowl. Rutgers star receiver Tim Brown is questionable for the game and listed as Day to Day. This is a big blow to Rutgers’ 99th ranked overall offense. Rutgers figures to struggle with the ground game against Central Florida’s above average rush defense. The potential loss of Brown will not help their cause in this game.

This will be a virtual home game for Central Florida as they have already sold their allotment of 14,000 tickets and expect to have 20,000 fans at the game. Add in the fact that being in the St Petersburg Bowl is a bit of a disappointment for Rutgers I think this gives UCF a decent adavantage in this game. I think Rutgers has the chance to come out flat in this game and play down to their competition.

I will take the points and UCF. The line opened at Rutgers -1 and had moved up to -2.5. You might want to wait and see if you can get UCF at +3 or +3.5 but the questionable status WR Brown might keep the lines where they are.

Pick: UCF +2.5

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