Arizona Bowl: Georgia State vs. Wyoming odds, picks and best bets

Previewing Tuesday’s Arizona Bowl between the Georgia State Panthers and Wyoming Cowboys, with NCAA football betting odds, picks and tips.

The Georgia State Panthers (7-5) and Wyoming Cowboys (7-5) tangle in the NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl, played at Arizona Stadium in Tucson. Kickoff is set for 4:30 p.m. ET Tuesday (CBS Sports Network). We analyze the Georgia State-Wyoming odds and betting lines, while providing college football betting tips and advice on this matchup.

Georgia State vs. Wyoming: Three things you need to know

1. Wyoming was rolling right along before redshirt freshman QB Sean Chambers (knee) suffered a season-ending injury, knocking things off the rails. QB Tyler Vander Waal led the team to one win in his absence. Vander Waal is nursing an ankle injury but is expected to play. Both he and dual-threat option Levi Williams will likely see time under center.

2. Cowboys RB Xazavian Valladay rushed for a team-high 1,061 yards and 4.8 yards per carry with five touchdowns, and he is the player to watch. Wyoming also has a familiar name, WR Raghib Ismail Jr., as the ‘Baby Rocket’ posted 20 grabs for a team-high 305 yards and two scores.

3. Georgia State was a bit one-dimensional, ranking 93rd in the nation in passing (201.8 yards per game) while ranking 14th in rushing yards (245.2). RB Tra Barnett is the star, rushing for 1,389 yards and 12 scores.


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Georgia State vs. Wyoming: Odds, betting lines and picks

Odds via BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Monday at 9:55 a.m. ET.

Prediction

Wyoming 25, Georgia State 16

Moneyline (ML)

Wyoming (-264) is expected to win this one, but it will cost you nearly three times your potential return. PASS and look to the spread instead.

Against the Spread (ATS)

WYOMING (-6.5, -121) has a star in Valladay, and he’ll be the difference. The Cowboys are a little more balanced offensively, too, and head coach Craig Bohl gives Wyoming the coaching edge, too.

Over/Under (O/U)

UNDER 47.5 (-106) is the play. This game won’t be a 10-7 battle like last season’s Cal-TCU battle in the Arizona Bowl, mainly because each team has a tailback that can house it every time he touches the ball, but the lack of crisp passing attacks on each side will keep the score down.

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Notre Dame Football: The Rocket Takes Off for Hall

I don’t know the rules of getting into the hall like I said, all I know is that Ismail is a guy you let in on the first day he’s eligible. 

I’ll start by saying getting into the College Football Hall of Fame is weird.

Need proof?

Raghib Ismail, “The Rocket”, perhaps the most exciting player to wear Notre Dame’s blue and gold since WWII was not officially a member until Tuesday night.

There are rules dependent on what you accomplish in college, what you retire from professional football and whatever else. The fact of the matter is you don’t have a College Football Hall of Fame if “The Rocket” isn’t in his first day of eligibility.

A member of the 1988 national championship team, a 1990 All American and the runner-up to Ty Detmer in the Heisman Trophy voting, Ismail went in with 14 other new members Tuesday night.

For the life of me I still don’t understand how a system quarterback in Ty Detmer beat out a legend but so-be-it. I guess that’s just like how Jason White beat out Larry Fitzgerald 13 years later.

I don’t know the rules of getting into the hall like I said, all I know is that Ismail is a guy you let in on the first day he’s eligible. If not your voters or rules, or both, stink.

Whatever the case – I’m glad he’s finally in a place he deserves.

Now enjoy some of his insane highlights from his three years at Notre Dame:

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