Why Wyoming Will Win The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Wyoming likes to play low-scoring games in grinding battles, but it also has no problem mixing it up.
This isn’t a consistent offensive team by any stretch, but it’s been able to throw well from time-to-time, it ran over Utah State for 362 yards, it rumbled through Colorado State for 385 rushing yards, and it’s been able to hit the 400-yard mark of total offense in three of its last five games.
Now it gets to have fun against the Kent State defense.
The Golden Flashes are all about offense, offense, offense, but the defense gives up yards and points in chunks, allowing 466 yards per game with equal parts stopping the run and pass.
The D allowed over 500 yards seven times this year.
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Why Kent State Will Win The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Wyoming is going try opening it up and make this a shootout? Kent State would be more than happy to mix it up.
The Golden Flashes have big problems with teams that can grind games down and go on long, tough marches. They have no problems when teams strike quickly, but when teams slow things down to a crawl – like Northern Illinois did in the MAC Championship – it throws everything off.
Wyoming doesn’t do a whole lot when it comes to time of possession. It can run, and it can control games with its great pass defense, but it controls the ball for fewer than 30 minutes per game.
Kent State is far better and far more deadly and cranking up the production however needed.
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