Florida Atlantic Owls vs Memphis Tigers Point Spread Picks

Florida Atlantic had won four in a row before losing its last two games, but coach Willie Taggart overall has had a successful season in his first year there finishing the regular season with a 5-3 record. The Owls have a stellar linebacker in Leighton McCarthy, who has 40 tackles, 12.5 for loss and nine sacks. Quarterback Nick Tronti has thrown for 759 yards and five touchdowns with two picks for the Owls, who have covered five of their last six as underdogs. Also, FAU is 6-0 ATS its last six games at neutral-site games and the Owls have gotten the money their last four bowl games, including a 52-28 blowout victory against SMU in last year's Boca Raton Bowl. Memphis is 0-5 ATS its last five bowl games and the Tigers lost 53-39 to Penn State in the 2019 Cotton Bowl. Also, Memphis is 3-13 ATS its last 16 December games and 3-10 ATS its last 13 games overall. The UNDER is 15-7 in the Tigers' last 22 games versus Conference USA. Florida Atlantic allows only 16.5 points per game, which is #9 in the country. Take Florida Atlantic as a Max Play, and also take the UNDER in the Montgomery Bowl.

The New Orleans Bowl will feature the Florida Atlantic Owls making their Bowl debut vs the Memphis Tigers. This one has the potential to be the highest scoring Bowl game of the season. Memphis put the ball in the air over 500 times this season and during the second half of the season the offense clicked to the tune of 36 ppg. The problem was they couldn't stop anyone either, allowing 34 ppg. Their last six games produced 70 ppg, and on the season their games averaged nearly 900 total yards. Florida Atlantic is a mirror image of Memphis. They also put the ball in the air nearly 500 times and saw their last six games average over 70 points per game, and all going OVER the total. The combined yards in their games was 830! We have two teams that love to throw the ball long distance, and often, with neither team having shown the capacity to stop what the other does. Just to give you an idea, Florida Atlantic games have seen 20 TD's scored this season from 30 yards or longer, not to mention three special team gaffs that resulted in three TD's. Memphis has seen its games produce 30 TD's from outside the red-zone! They have also produced five TD's with special team gaffs or turnovers. Overall these teams have produced 58 TD's from outside the red-zone, and eight more from turnovers or special teams, for a total of 66 scores from anywhere on the field TD'S. We like the OVER here.