If there was something familiar about this game, if you had a strange sense of deja vu, it's because there was a bowl game played in this very stadium just five nights ago - the Xbox Bowl. Arkansas State won that one over Missouri State, 34-28.
Meanwhile, this game in that same stadium, the Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas, pitted the unranked Ohio Bobcats (8-4) of the MAC against the unranked UNLV Rebels (10-3) of the Mountain West. I had the Rebels as 4½-point favorite - they were favored by 6½ points at gametime (pick the favorite early in the week, etc.). I guess I was impressed by UNLV's win-loss record but in any event, I picked all favorites today.
As it turns out, UNLV had nothing. They didn't score until the third down, and that was just a field goal, and they didn't score their sole TD until the fourth. The Bobcats, who weren't exactly overpowering themselves, won the game by a touchdown, 17-10.
And with that, I fall to 6-9 on my picks. I suck at this.
Only one game tomorrow and then, mercifully, a day off for the Christmas holiday.
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