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Birmingham Bowl: Boston College vs. Cincinnati odds, picks and best bets

Previewing Thursday’s TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl betting odds and lines between the Boston College Eagles and Cincinnati Bearcats with betting picks, tips and bets.

The Boston College Eagles (6-6) and Cincinnati Bearcats (10-3) square off at the TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl, played at Legion Field in Birmingham. Kickoff is set for Thursday at 3 p.m. ET (on ESPN). We analyze the Boston College-Cincinnati odds and betting lines, while providing college football betting tips and advice on this matchup.

Boston College vs. Cincinnati: Three things you need to know

1. Boston College enters this game just 1-6 SU across its past seven games. The Eagles actually held a 7-0 lead in the first half last season in the SERVPRO First Responder Bowl in Dallas, but severe weather wiped out the rest of the game and it was not rescheduled.

2. Cincinnati is facing an ACC foe in a bowl game for the second straight year. UC topped Virginia Tech 35-31 in the Military Bowl last season, but the Bearcats are just 3-5 SU across the past eight postseason games.

3. Something’s gotta give, as Boston College is 2-7 ATS in the past nine bowl games, and Cincinnati is 0-4 ATS in its past four bowl outings.

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Boston College vs. Cincinnati: Odds, betting lines and picks

Odds via BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Wednesday at 9:15 a.m. ET.

Prediction

Cincinnati 34, Boston College 17

Moneyline (ML)

Cincinnati (-264) is just too expensive at nearly three times the risk of the reward. PASS and look to the spread instead.

Against the Spread (ATS)

CINCINNATI (-7.5, +100) is a good play, even with the hook. My personal preference is to buy that extra point and go Cincinnati (-6.5, -139), and even going down to (-5.5, -154) isn’t terribly costly.

Still, I expect BC to be a bit of a mess with head coach Steve Addazio fired and Richie Gunnell serving as the interim coach. Star RB AJ Dillon, who led the team with an ACC-best 1,685 rushing yards, is also sitting to protect his draft status. Oh yeah, offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian left the team to take the OC job at Northwestern, so he won’t be in Birmingham, either.

Over/Under (O/U)

UNDER 55.5 (-106) is worth a look. Cincinnati’s offense is pretty strong, but I expect BC to be a bit of a mess. This could be a blowout early on, with UC calling off the dogs with a lower-scoring second half.

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PODCAST: Grading UNLV, Colorado State’s Coaching Hire

Taking a look at the Colorado State and UNLV coaching hires.

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PODCAST: Grading UNLV, Colorado State’s Coaching Hire

Talking about coaching hires.

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Grading the silly season.

Matt and Jeremy are back to go over some of the big news from the Mountain West. It starts with discussing Utah State QB Jordan Love declaring for the NFL Draft and if he made the right choice. Plus, how will he fit in the NFL and what team could be a good fit.

Next, they go over and pick apart and grade UNLV hiring Marcus Arroyo who comes to UNLV from Oregon where he was the offensive coordinator. The other coaching change saw Colorado State bring in recently fired Steve Addazio which is not being perceived as a great move for the Rams football program.

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Notre Dame Rival Report: Boston College Fires Steve Addazio

Addazio finishes with a 44-44 record in his seven seasons while his Eagles teams went to bowl games in five of his seven seasons and at 6-6 qualified for a sixth this season.

As we await word if the Sports Illustrated report from earlier today plays out to be a true about Clay Helton and his future at USC, another rival of Notre Dame has made their coaches firing official.

After seven seasons of perfectly average football, Steve Addazio is out as Boston College’s head coach.

Addazio finishes with a 44-44 record in his seven seasons while his Eagles teams went to bowl games in five of his seven seasons and at 6-6 qualified for a sixth this season.

But the lack of growth in the program is likely the main reason he’s out at Boston College.

The former Temple head coach began his run at BC with a 7-6 mark in 2013 that ended in an Independence Bowl appearance where the Eagles fell to Arizona.

He would win seven games four more times as Boston College’s head coach, but never more.

His worst year came in 2015 when the Eagles went just 3-9 and 0-8 in ACC play.

Addazio lost all three games to Notre Dame while at Boston College:  19-16 in the 2015 Shamrock Series Game at Fenway Park, 49-20 at Boston College in 2017 and just a couple of weeks ago in South Bend, a 40-7 Notre Dame victory on Senior Day.

Addazio will probably be best remembered (by me at least) for his “What’s Better Than This” video that took over the college football section of the internet a few short years ago…

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