Jesus fucking Christ, Kennesaw State! You give up a TD on the kick-off return on the first play of the game, and then proceed to fall behind 34-0 by the half. You start the second half with a pick-6, you missed the PAT on your sole TD, and on your final drive for a redemption TD, you fumbled the ball in the red zone. Embarrassing. The final score was 41-6 and now I'm 2-4 on my picks. Damn!
Let's move on from Myrtle Beach down to Tampa, where this time every year all of America wonders, "what the hell is a Gasparilla?," and then forgets the question and moves on with their lives before learning the answer. This year's Gasparilla has the unranked NC State Wolfpack (7-5) of the ACC as 4½-point favorites over the unranked Memphis Tigers (8-4) of the AAC. ACC, AAC, at least we finally have a game without a Sun Belt or CUSA team.
For the last two years, I've won twice with picks of Memphis and lost twice with NC State. I'm no dummy (despite the 2-4 record) and can recognize a streak when I see one, so I picked Memphis here as the 4½-point underdog. NC State hasn't won a bowl game since 2017, losing in their last five appearances, although they did upset No. 8 Georgia Tech,48-36, during the regular season this year.
Memphis head coach Ryan Silverfield was hired by Arkansas and won't be coaching this game. So far, teams with interim coaches (South Florida and Misery State) have been 2-0, so that has me worried. OTOH, the Wolfpack has at least nine players either injured or opting out, as opposed to Memphis' three injuries.
To be brutally honest, though, I'm not terribly invested or interested in this game, other than what it does to my win-loss record. To me, it's just the game between Kennesaw State's fiasco and tonight's Alabama-Oklahoma game, the first game of the year that actually matters.
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