Category: Georgia State

Georgia State vs ULM Prediction, Game Preview

Georgia State Panthers vs ULM Warhawks prediction and game preview.

Georgia State vs ULM prediction and game preview.

Georgia State vs ULM Broadcast

Date: Saturday, November 7th
Game Time: 12:00 ET
Venue: Center Parc Stadium, Atlanta, GA
Network: ESPN3

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Georgia State (2-3) vs ULM (0-7) Game Preview

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Why ULM Will Win

All of a sudden, the Georgia State offense stopped working. Coastal Carolina does that to teams, but the Panthers only managed 106 yards in last week’s blowout loss.

ULM would need to come up with something amazing and special to make this a fight, but it’s doing a decent job of coming up with takeaways, the offensive line isn’t allowing a ton of plays behind the line, and the offense should be a whole lot better than it has been.

It’s way overdue to explode. But …

– CFN Experts Picks: College Football

Why Georgia State Will Win

The ULM offense just isn’t working.

The passing attack has had a few moments, but it hasn’t been consistent. The ground game hasn’t even been close to good enough, failing to hit 100 yards in any of the seven games for an O that put up more than 17 points just once.

Yeah, Georgia State struggled – to be nice – in the loss to Coastal Carolina, but this is an explosive, balanced team with the ability to put this away fast.

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What’s Going To Happen

Georgia State will score 17 points in the first quarter and breath easily the rest of the way. A whole lot of anger from that 51-0 loss will be taken out on of the worst teams in college football.

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Georgia State vs ULM Prediction, Line

Georgia State 47, ULM 20
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Georgia State -19, o/u: 58.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 3.5

Must See Rating: 1.5

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Coastal Carolina Is The Sun Belt Sheriff Now

As Sun Belt normal powers struggle in 2020, the Chanticleers are expanding our universe.

As Sun Belt normal powers struggle in 2020, the Chanticleers are expanding our universe.

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Have you ever seen a promo for a television show and thought, “How is Blue Bloods still on?” Or, “Who the heck is watching Bull?” Somewhere out there lives a fan waiting patiently for the next episode of “Man With A Plan.”

See, there are infinite universes out there. And in one of those universes (which happens to be ours), Coastal Carolina is the AP #15 program in the land.

Don’t look at me. I haven’t a clue as to how it happened, except that the Chants have quietly improved their play each year since entering the Sun Belt in 2017, the autumn following Coastal’s magic national baseball championship. That should have been a big bucket of foreshadowing, of course. But we’re as clueless as the characters in Bob Hearts Abishola, am I right? (Honestly, I don’t know.)

When Coastal Carolina entered the league, they were coached by some kind of venture capitalist named Joe Moglia, better known for being the CEO of Ameritrade than his X’s and O’s. But Moglia’s Chants paid dividends, and when he sold to Jamey Chadwell, the stock got even stronger.

We should have seen it coming. Coastal won only five games last year, but only lost to the Arkansas State Red Wolves by a point. This year, Chadwell’s cocks pounded A-State 52-23. To show they meant business, Coastal obliterated an improved Georgia State squad fifty-one TO ZERO! Coastal Carolina, we beg for the mercy you will not give!

Coastal Carolina is a perfect 6-0, which includes a pimp-slapping of Kansas. They’re led by a freshman QB, Grayson McCall, whose skills are legit and will haunt the Sun Belt for years. The only serious threats to a perfect season are a game with Appalachian State and a season closer with #25 Liberty. How is this happening? Why is this happening? What is happening?

As the Panthers’ can attest, it’s not just McCall and RB C.J. Marable crushing opponent’s spirits. The front four lead the #14 ranked defense with 20 sacks. C.J. Brewer is unstoppable and should be secured in a steel vault between games. The Chants are so well-rounded, the math department is using the team to calibrate their instruments to pi.

As a Sun Belt original gangster, I view the Chanticleer’s success with gritted teeth. A team so recently removed from FCS should have to pay their dues with winless seasons and years of chagrin. We did! But here we are, eyes blazing from taking in that ridiculous teal field, watching what was once a guaranteed body bag delivering death punch after death punch to cringing opponents. It’s not fair!

But they’re a whole lot more fun to watch than a season of Young Sheldon. 

A former notary public, Jeremy Harper is a professional writer and Chief Instigator for Storm the Castle Creative. He spends much of his free time staring blankly into space.  

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Sun Belt Predictions, Schedule, Game Previews, Lines, TV: Week 9

Sun Belt college football predictions, schedule, game previews, lines and TV listings for Week 9 of the season.

Sun Belt college football predictions, schedule, game previews, lines and TV listings for Week 9 of the season.

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Results So Far
SU: 29-9, ATS: 16-18, Point Total: 22-12

Thursday, October 29

South Alabama at Georgia Southern

Line: Georgia Southern -3.5, o/u: 52
Prediction: Georgia Southern 30, South Alabama 24
Final Score: Georgia Southern 24, South Alabama 17

Saturday, October 31

Coastal Carolina at Georgia State

12:00 ESPNU
Line: Coastal Carolina -3, o/u: 59.5

Troy at Arkansas State

3:00 ESPN3
Line: Arkansas State -2.5, o/u: 71.5

Appalachian State at ULM

4:00 ESPNU
Line: Appalachian State -31, o/u: 55.5

Louisiana at Texas State

8:00 ESPNU
Line: Louisiana -16.5, o/u: 56

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Coastal Carolina vs Georgia State Prediction, Game Preview

Coastal Carolina vs Georgia State prediction and game preview.

Coastal Carolina vs Georgia State prediction and game preview.

Coastal Carolina vs Georgia State Broadcast

Date: Saturday, October 31
Game Time: 12:00 ET
Venue: Center Parc Stadium, Atlanta, GA
Network: ESPNU

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– All of the CFN Fearless Predictions

Coastal Carolina (5-0) vs Georgia State (2-2) Game Preview

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Why Coastal Carolina Will Win

How is Coastal Carolina doing this? How has it turned into the darling of the Group of Five crowd?

QB Grayson McCall has been ultra-efficient – more on this in a moment – the team doesn’t make a whole lot of mistakes, and the offensive line has been wonderful.

The running game might have been stuffed by Georgia Southern last week, but the offensive balance is there to keep Georgia State on its heels, especially its shaky secondary. The Panthers might statistically have a good run defense, but that’s because everyone keeps bombing away – they’ve allowed close 1,000 passing yards over the last two games.

However …

Why Georgia State Will Win

How healthy is McCall? He’s questionable at best with what’s being called an upper body injury. He’s likely out, but his potential to play hasn’t been totally squashed.

Fred Payton is a decent veteran quarterback, but McCall is the star freshman who has been a catalyst for the Chanticleers to go from potentially good to outstanding.

Georgia State has the Sun Belt’s best pass rush and the league’s highest-scoring offense. The running game is consistently magnificent hitting 210 yards or more in every game, with an efficient enough passing attack to balance it out.

Coastal Carolina’s linebackers are strong, and the team has enough quickness up front to get be a bother, but the Panthers play with a good enough tempo to make this a shootout. So …

What’s Going To Happen

Can Payton keep up and take advantage of the Panther secondary that can get bombed on? He’s accurate enough and experienced enough to be just fine in the offense, but he doesn’t add the spark of McCall.

Georgia State’s offense is going to start scoring and keep scoring, but this is a tough Coastal Carolina team that will hold up against the run well enough to hold serve.

College GameDay is rolling into Atlanta, and the afternoon game will be worth it.

– Week 9 College Football Schedule, Predictions

Coastal Carolina vs Georgia State Prediction, Line

Coastal Carolina 41, Georgia State 34
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Coastal Carolina -3, o/u: 59.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 2

Must See Rating: 3.5

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Georgia State vs Troy Prediction, Game Preview

Georgia State Panthers vs Troy Trojans prediction and game preview.

Georgia State vs Troy prediction and game preview.

Georgia State vs Troy Broadcast

Date: Saturday, October 24
Game Time: 4:00 ET
Venue: Veterans Memorial Stadium, Troy, AL
Network: ESPNU

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Georgia State (1-2) vs Troy (3-1) Game Preview

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Why Georgia State Will Win

The offense has been absolutely devastating.

You want balance? The Panthers have rushed for 739 yards and thrown for 748, and best of all, it has been consistent.

They were able to throw all over the place in last week’s loss to Arkansas State, and they ran for over 220 yards in each of the three games. Now they get to crank it all up against a Troy defense that was destroyed by BYU and last week couldn’t handle Eastern Kentucky.

The Panther defense hasn’t been a rock, but it’s among the best in the nation on third downs coming from an active line that’s outstanding at getting into the backfield, but …

Why Troy Will Win

The Troy offense has been explosive, too.

It couldn’t get going against BYU, but the passing game has been great over the last two weeks and not it gets to take target practice on the Georgia State D.

Yeah, the Panthers do a whole lot of things right defensively, but its secondary can’t seem to slow anyone down. The numbers are skewed thanks to last week’s firefight with Arkansas State, but allowing 355 yards a game through the air isn’t an aberration.

Troy might not be consistent, but when it’s on, it can bomb away with anyone in the Sun Belt.

What’s Going To Happen

Can Troy do anything against a good team? It’s 3-1, but Middle Tennessee, Texas State and Eastern Kentucky doesn’t mean this is anything to get too fired up over.

Georgia State hasn’t had a whole lot of luck, but the offense is too dangerous and too good. It’ll be a fun and wild offensive show – Georgia State doesn’t know how to do anything different – with the Panthers better equipped to keep things moving no matter how it needs to.

Georgia State vs Troy Prediction, Line

Georgia State 38, Troy 31
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Troy -2.5, o/u: 68.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 3.5

Must See Rating: 3

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Sun Belt Blesses ESPN With More (Potentially) Great Mid-Week Football Content

The Appalachian State Mountaineers take on the Arkansas State Red Wolves on Thursday night, as if we deserve it. Contact @astatefanrules This paragraph was going to be a charmingly clever introduction to the meaty football feast that is the …

The Appalachian State Mountaineers take on the Arkansas State Red Wolves on Thursday night, as if we deserve it. 

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This paragraph was going to be a charmingly clever introduction to the meaty football feast that is the Mountaineers versus the Red Wolves tonight on ESPN, but my colleague Rex Steele summed it up best:

Coming in Hot: The Red Wolves

Arkansas State is coming off two offensively volcanic wins, totaling 109 points and 1,124 total yards. The Red Wolves also implemented a bit of “momentum by subtraction” in firing defensive coordinator David Duggan, whose defense schemes were simply yielding too many points. Look for the defense to receive an adrenaline injection in support of interim DC Nick Paremski.

Coming in Chilly: The Mountaineers

Appalachian State hasn’t played a snap of competitive football since September 26, when they conducted some business against Campbell (52-21). The Mountaineers have a victory over Charlotte in addition to Campbell, but those programs are a combined 1-6. In a loss to Marshall, Appalachian State managed a mere seven points – albeit against a very tough Herd defense. It’s difficult to measure the Mountaineers under new head coach Shawn Clark. Thursday will reveal much.

Dumb Observation

This will be the third game for the Red Wolves facing a team that, at some point this season, boasted an AP Top 25 ranking – Kansas State, Coastal Carolina and Appalachian State.

Zack Thomas vs “Logan Hatcher”

Mountaineers QB Zack Thomas was named preseason Sun Belt Offensive POY after a massively huge 2019 campaign (2,700 yards, 28 TDs), but he has yet to fully unload in 2020. Over in Jonesboro, the law firm of Logan Bonner & Layne Hatcher is tearing apart opposing secondaries, combining for 1,834 yards and 21 TDs in just five games. NOTE: the Mountaineers’ defense is only allowing 167 yards per contest.

Crystal Balls

The Mountaineers make my crystal balls murky. They’re like a science experiment: what effect does a month of football inertia have on the human body? Appalachian State could bounce into Kidd Brewer will rested and fully prepared for sixty minutes of pigskin. But experience tells me they are more likely to struggle with atrophy early on. If the Red Wolves can strike early and often, look for an upset in Boone.

 

A former notary public, Jeremy Harper is a professional writer and Chief Instigator for Storm the Castle Creative. He spends much of his free time staring blankly into space. 

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The Sun Belt is Winning the ESPN Football Game

The Sun Belt is Winning the ESPN Football Game Contact @astatefanrules When presented with a national TV opportunity, as the Sun Belt has this year with an abundance of slots on ESPN, the pressure to entertain is a very real thing. After all, …

The Sun Belt is Winning the ESPN Football Game

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When presented with a national TV opportunity, as the Sun Belt has this year with an abundance of slots on ESPN, the pressure to entertain is a very real thing. After all, college programs are also television programs. Bad ratings will get you canceled quicker than the last season of ALF. Your choices are 1) amuse the masses, or 2) stagger through the Phantom Zone of ESPN Plus.

This stupid COVID season, the Sun Belt has delivered the goods, starting will national televised gridiron dramas against Kansas State, Kansas and Iowa State, and continuing with this week’s mid-season offering of in-conference donnybrooks.

Wednesday’s battle on ESPN2 between undefeated Coastal Carolina and #21 Louisiana lived up to its billing – two top tier Sun Belt teams throwing hands! The result? An excellent, well-played 30-27 football game won on a last-second field goal from the conference’s exciting up-and-comer, Chanticleers.

The next night, ESPN aired Arkansas State vs. Georgia State, a pair of programs that piles on points. Again, ESPN audiences were treated to a spectacle – a hootenanny of offense that pushed ESPN into the realm of delivering fake news.

Though not even the final score – 59-52 – was a Sun Belt record for highest scoring game, it was still some damn fine TV, culminating in a classic Blake Anderson trick play to seal the winning score for Arkansas State.

The point is, Sun Belt football is a brand whose stock is rising. While COVID-19 has disrupted our lives – with shockingly deadly consequences – the Sun Belt has made the most of an awful situation by providing quality content for a nation starving for quality content.

Except for ULM, that is. What the hell, Warhawks?

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Arkansas State Out-Slugs Georgia State 59-52

Defense wasn’t even optional on Thursday night in the Arkansas State win over Georgia State.

Defense wasn’t even optional on Thursday night.

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In a game that was mostly without defensive stops, the Red Wolves only needed one. Georgia State, who needed five yards on fourth down, opted for a deep pass only to be thwarted by Samy Johnson at the goal line.

Turnover on downs, and Arkansas State emerged victory in a game that saw 13 total touchdowns

The Panthers, without RB Destin Coates RB and WR Cornelius McCoy, still had plenty of firepower, totaling 583 yards and 52 points. It was not enough. Layne Hatcher, Logan Bonner and special guest star Rashauud Paul passed for 551 yards and 8 TDs and the Red Wolves won 59-52.

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Sun Belt Predictions, Schedule, Game Previews, Lines, TV: Week 7

Sun Belt college football predictions, schedule, game previews, lines and TV listings for Week 7 of the season.

Sun Belt college football predictions, schedule, game previews, lines and TV listings for Week 7 of the season.

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Results So Far
SU: 21-7, ATS: 11-14, Point Total: 18-7

Click on each game for game preview & prediction

Wednesday, October 14

Coastal Carolina at Louisiana

Line: Louisiana -9.5, o/u: 58.5
Prediction: Louisiana 30, Coastal Carolina 23
Final Score: Coastal Carolina 30, Louisiana 27

Thursday, October 15

Georgia State at Arkansas State

7:30 ESPN
Line: Arkansas State -3, o/u: 72
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Saturday, October 17

Texas State at South Alabama

12:00 ESPNU
Line: South Alabama -2.5, o/u: 58
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UMass at Georgia Southern

4:00 ESPNU
Line: Georgia Southern -31, o/u: 63
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Eastern Kentucky at Troy

7:00 ESPN3
Line: Troy -28, o/u: 60.5
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Georgia State vs Arkansas State Prediction, Game Preview

Georgia State Panthers vs Arkansas State Red Wolves prediction and game preview.

Georgia State vs Arkansas State prediction and game preview.

Georgia State vs Arkansas State Broadcast

Date: Thursday, October 15
Game Time: 7:30 ET
Venue: Centennial Bank Stadium, Jonesboro, AR
Network: ESPN

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– All of the CFN Fearless Predictions

Georgia State (1-1) vs Arkansas State (2-2) Game Preview

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Why Georgia State Will Win

The ground game has been fantastic so far.

It was hot early on last year – running for 200 yards or more in eight of the first nine games – but failed to hit 200 the rest of the way, not giving it up with 199 in the bowl loss to Wyoming. It’s 2-for-2 so far at getting to two bills this year.

Destin Coates has been great with two straight 100-yard games as the workhorse, and Cornelious Brown is settling into the starting quarterback gig. The offense has been fun, but the defense has stepped it up, at least on third downs.

The Panthers are only allowing teams to hit 26% of their third down chances, and Arkansas State hasn’t been automatic at moving the chains.

– CFN Experts Picks: NFL

Why Arkansas State Will Win

The Red Wolves are still cranking up the offense – they’re second in the Sun Belt – but the defense isn’t holding up its end of the bargain. However, it’s taking the ball away forcing three turnovers in each of the last two games.

Georgia State’s defense is allowing too many yards through the air, and the Arkansas State quarterbacks are rolling. Logan Bonner and Layne Hatcher are each able to move the offense, and they each have an emerging superstar to throw to.

WR Jonathan Adams has been brilliant with six catches or more in every game with a 101-yard game last week against Central Arkansas and five touchdowns overall.

– CFN Experts Picks: College Football

What’s Going To Happen

Can the Arkansas State defense show up enough to pull this off? It got rolled by Memphis and Coastal Carolina, held up late against Kansas State, and now it has to deal with a dangerous Georgia State attack.

Being at home will help. This is Georgia State’s first road game, the ASU passing attack will hit 300 yards, and this should be almost as fun a game as the Coastal Carolina win over Louisiana on Wednesday night.

Georgia State vs Arkansas State Prediction, Line

Arkansas State 34, Georgia State 30
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Arkansas State -3.5, o/u: 72.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 2

Must See Rating: 3

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