4. UCF at Florida Atlantic
LINES UCF -8
ATS PICK UCF
This is what we call a puzzle piece game.
Florida Atlantic has some playmakers. QB N’Kosi Perry is ripping it up, and the running game has been great, but don’t get too carried away.
The Owls looked great in the blowout win over Charlotte to start the season, but as it tuned out, Charlotte is awful.
Just when it seemed like Willie Taggart’s club had something, it couldn’t come close to stopping Ohio’s offense in a 41-38 Bobcat win. Last week, beating SE Louisiana was easy.
Yes, it’s a road game for UCF, and no, you don’t just walk onto Howard Schnellenberger Field at FAU Stadium and assume anything.
UCF lost to Louisville, but the running game worked, the defense was solid in the 20-14 battle, and overall the team has the parts there to get through this without a problem.
So to put together the pieces, FAU a tad overrated by the lines because of good performances against bad teams, and UCF is a tad underrated because it lost at home to a team that got trucked by Syracuse.
No player on either team knows or cares what happened a few years ago, but for what it’s worth, UCF 56, Florida Atlantic 36 in 2018, and UCF 48, Florida Atlantic 14 in 2019.