College Football Bowl First Thought Predictions, Analysis For All 41 Games, National Championship – Page 4

LendingTree Bowl

Rice vs Southern Miss
Saturday, December 17, 2022
5:45, ESPN

No Research Instant Analysis: Both teams sputtered over the last part of the season. Rice had a power outage, Southern Miss was never a high-scoring team, and between the two they should play a tough low-scoring battle. Whatever the point total is, go under. It’ll end with a late field goal.

No Research Bowl Prediction: Southern Miss 23, Rice 20
Early Bowl Line Guess: Southern Miss -5.5
Actual Line: Southern Miss -5.5

SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl

Florida vs Oregon State
Saturday, December 17, 2022
7:30, ABC

No Research Instant Analysis: I’m way more excited for this than I should be. Oregon State didn’t show up in last year’s bowl loss to Utah State, it was under-the-radar terrific all year, and it should come out roaring.

Sticking with the No Research angle here, I’ll look up if this is the furthest west Florida has ever played for the actual game preview – I’m almost certain Vegas is further west than Tempe – but outside of the familiar surroundings, this is a true tone-setter for the Billy Napier offseason. Oregon State has the D, Florida doesn’t. I’m going to guess Anthony Richardson doesn’t play in this, so …

No Research Bowl Prediction: Oregon State 30, Florida 20
Early Bowl Line Guess: Oregon State -2.5
Actual Line: Oregon State -7.5

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