3. Florida at Missouri
LINE Florida -9
ATS PICK Missouri
Just how much juice to Florida have in the tank?
On the plus side for the Gators. Missouri’s secondary is hammered by injuries, and while QB Connor Bazelak will play, he’s hardly going to be 100%.
A disaster on defense for most of the year, Missouri has to try finding something special in the home finale, and it’s going to need Florida to struggle.
There’s a shot, though, the Mizzou is being way undervalued here despite all the concerns. There’s a shot it could win outright.
This is what Missouri does as a program. It loses to the strong teams, beats the awful ones, and it’ll come up with the occasional win over a team that’s not 100% fully focused.
Oh sure, everything looked great against South Carolina, Vanderbilt, North Texas, and SE Missouri State, but it was a world of ugly for Mizzou against Tennessee, and Texas A&M, and Georgia, and …
Florida can’t stop the run and Missouri RB Tyler Badie is awesome.
The smallish, slippery back has four 200-yard days on the season – all Missouri wins.
The Gator D just gave up 52 points to Samford, got run over by South Carolina and LSU – and LSU isn’t running on anyone – and it’s not like anything big has changed over the last month.
One other factor for what it’s worth. It’s not going to be too bad, but when the ball is kicked off it should be about 30 degrees colder in Columbia, Missouri than it will be in Gainesville, Florida.