Larry Ness' Sunday Night Delight (New Orleans Bowl)
My Sunday Night Delight is on southern Miss in the New Orleans Bowl at 8:30 ET. Southern Miss is not known as a football power but the team has posted a winning season in each of the last 16 years. This year's New Orleans Bowl appearance makes it 12 bowl games in the last 13 years (mostly under Jeff Bower, who is now coaching the New Orleans Hornets, how about that for a transition?), including seven wins in its previous 11 bowl games. This marks the Golden Eagles fourth New Orleans Bowl in the last six years, with the school going 3-0 SU and 2-1 ATS in the previous three. MTSU has a much more modest FB history (moved to FBS in 1999) with just one previous bowl appearance to its credit, a 31-14 loss to Central Michigan in the 2006 Motor City Bowl. The Blue Raiders finished 7-6 that season but dropped to 5-7 last year, while averaging 22.8 PPG and 348.6 yards. However, MTSU hired offensive guru Tony Franklin, who had a short an unspectacular stint as Auburn's OC in 2008. The Blue Raiders hopes for a second bowl game didn't look good after the team's 3-3 start but the Blue Raiders ended the 2009 regular season with six straight victories SU and ATS. It took awhile but the Blue Raiders caught on to Franklin's system, averaging 41.2 PPG and 466.8 YPG during their strong finish. Franklin may have called the plays but QB Dasher executed them. Dasher has a team-high 953 YR (4.8 YPC / 11 TDs) while passing for 2,627 yards with 21 TDs. Quite amazingly, 10 different players caught a TD pass and nine receivers reached at least 100 yards. DD Kyles added 822 yards rushing (6.5 YPC / 3 TDs) at RB, replacing Phillip Tanner (813 yards LY), who was lost to a knee injury in the season's second game. MTSU has a decent defense, ranking first nationally in tackles for loss per game (8.83) and fourth in sacks (3.17). Sun Belt Conference co-defensive player of the year Chris McCoy DE), accounted for 22 tackles for losses and seven sacks. As for Southern Miss, QB Martevious Young played very well after replacing Davis, who was lost to an injury in Week 5. Young would post a 13-1 TD-to-INT ratio in his seven starts and he'll be joined by two very dangerous offensive performers. Senior RB Damion Fletcher needs just 63 yards to become the ninth player to reach 1,000 in all four seasons. Fletcher has 5,224 career yards and expect him to surpass Herschel Walker (5,259) and LaDainian Tomlinson (5,263) for eighth on the NCAA's all-time rushing list in this game. WR DeAndre Brown caught 43 balls (16.7 YPC / 7 TDs) and will be the most dangerous receiver in the game. While MTSU finished with that six-game winning streak, note that the Blue Raiders lost in "step-up games" vs SBC champ Troy (31-7) and Clemson (37-14) plus also lost to the SEC's Miss St (27-6). The Blue Raiders were held to just 81.0 YPG on the ground in those contests, which made them a one-dimensional team. This kind of game is "old hat" for Southern Miss and as mentioned, the venue is very familiar. Sunday Night Delight 15* Southern Miss.
My Sunday Night Delight is on southern Miss in the New Orleans Bowl at 8:30 ET. Southern Miss is not known as a football power but the team has posted a winning season in each of the last 16 years. This year's New Orleans Bowl appearance makes it 12 bowl games in the last 13 years (mostly under Jeff Bower, who is now coaching the New Orleans Hornets, how about that for a transition?), including seven wins in its previous 11 bowl games. This marks the Golden Eagles fourth New Orleans Bowl in the last six years, with the school going 3-0 SU and 2-1 ATS in the previous three. MTSU has a much more modest FB history (moved to FBS in 1999) with just one previous bowl appearance to its credit, a 31-14 loss to Central Michigan in the 2006 Motor City Bowl. The Blue Raiders finished 7-6 that season but dropped to 5-7 last year, while averaging 22.8 PPG and 348.6 yards. However, MTSU hired offensive guru Tony Franklin, who had a short an unspectacular stint as Auburn's OC in 2008. The Blue Raiders hopes for a second bowl game didn't look good after the team's 3-3 start but the Blue Raiders ended the 2009 regular season with six straight victories SU and ATS. It took awhile but the Blue Raiders caught on to Franklin's system, averaging 41.2 PPG and 466.8 YPG during their strong finish. Franklin may have called the plays but QB Dasher executed them. Dasher has a team-high 953 YR (4.8 YPC / 11 TDs) while passing for 2,627 yards with 21 TDs. Quite amazingly, 10 different players caught a TD pass and nine receivers reached at least 100 yards. DD Kyles added 822 yards rushing (6.5 YPC / 3 TDs) at RB, replacing Phillip Tanner (813 yards LY), who was lost to a knee injury in the season's second game. MTSU has a decent defense, ranking first nationally in tackles for loss per game (8.83) and fourth in sacks (3.17). Sun Belt Conference co-defensive player of the year Chris McCoy DE), accounted for 22 tackles for losses and seven sacks. As for Southern Miss, QB Martevious Young played very well after replacing Davis, who was lost to an injury in Week 5. Young would post a 13-1 TD-to-INT ratio in his seven starts and he'll be joined by two very dangerous offensive performers. Senior RB Damion Fletcher needs just 63 yards to become the ninth player to reach 1,000 in all four seasons. Fletcher has 5,224 career yards and expect him to surpass Herschel Walker (5,259) and LaDainian Tomlinson (5,263) for eighth on the NCAA's all-time rushing list in this game. WR DeAndre Brown caught 43 balls (16.7 YPC / 7 TDs) and will be the most dangerous receiver in the game. While MTSU finished with that six-game winning streak, note that the Blue Raiders lost in "step-up games" vs SBC champ Troy (31-7) and Clemson (37-14) plus also lost to the SEC's Miss St (27-6). The Blue Raiders were held to just 81.0 YPG on the ground in those contests, which made them a one-dimensional team. This kind of game is "old hat" for Southern Miss and as mentioned, the venue is very familiar. Sunday Night Delight 15* Southern Miss.
vegas-runner | NFL Total Sun, 12/20/09 - 8:20 PM Ñ‹
double-dime bet 329 MIN / 330 CAR Over 42.5 betus
Analysis: ** NFL SNF 2* PRIME-TIME "LATE STEAÇM" **
vegas-runner | CFB Side Sun, 12/20/09 - 8:30 PM Ñ‹
double-dime bet 205 Middle Tenn. St. 4.0 (-110) bodog vs 206 Southern Miss.
Analysis: É** NCAAFB 2* BOWL PRIME-TIME "LATE STEAM" **
double-dime bet 329 MIN / 330 CAR Over 42.5 betus
Analysis: ** NFL SNF 2* PRIME-TIME "LATE STEAÇM" **
vegas-runner | CFB Side Sun, 12/20/09 - 8:30 PM Ñ‹
double-dime bet 205 Middle Tenn. St. 4.0 (-110) bodog vs 206 Southern Miss.
Analysis: É** NCAAFB 2* BOWL PRIME-TIME "LATE STEAM" **
Three straight Slick Bet losers if you believe VR's posts inside his packages. Bookie Bill will not give out any more free slick bets because he allows VR to put them in as a 3* play as part of his pay service. Simply bullshit, but that is what he does now thanks to some people who e-mailed threats and other nice comments to VR several weeks ago after he had a bad day.
:think2:It never ceases to amaze that Pheel Steele can come up with multiple levels of "opinions" on a game. What does he think the difference is between a "major" opinion, a "top" opinion, and a "regular" opinion? Unbelievable. I have ALL of his picks recorded from this forum for the year, and I'll bet any MF on here that he hasn't hit more than 51 or 52% MAX. What a waste of time....
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