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Georgia vs UAB: 5 reasons why Blazers could keep it close

Georgia vs UAB: 5 reasons why Blazers could keep it close

Georgia is the No. 2 ranked team in America after beating Clemson 10-3 in Charlotte last weekend.

The Georgia defense looked incredible on Saturday, holding the Tigers to just two rushing yards and recording seven sacks and a defensive touchdown on the night.

Offensively, there were some struggles. But it’s important to note that Clemson has the best defense Georgia will likely face all year. It’s also important to note that Georgia was not totally incapable of moving the ball like Clemson was. But there were some concerns.

Georgia now shifts its focus to UAB, its Week 2 opponent. That game is slated for 3:30 p.m. ET on ESPN2 from Athens.

The Blazers are fresh off a 31-0 win over Jacksonville State, a game they played on Wednesday Sept. 1.

Georgia will win this game, probably by a convincing margin. But here are a few reasons UAB might actually be able to keep things close on Saturday.

UAB Football Schedule 2021, Analysis

UAB Blazers football schedule. Analysis of the 2021 slate and who they have to play – and who they miss – from the other division.

UAB Blazers football schedule. Analysis of the 2021 slate and who they have to play – and who they miss – from the other division.

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UAB Football Schedule 2021

– 2021 Conference USA Football Schedule

Sept. 4 Jacksonville State (in Montgomery)

Sept. 11 at Georgia

Sept. 18 at North Texas

Sept. 25 at Tulane

Oct. 2 Liberty

Oct. 9 Florida Atlantic

Oct. 16 at Southern Miss

Oct. 23 Rice

Oct. 30 OPEN DATE

Nov. 6 Louisiana Tech

Nov. 13 at Marshall

Nov. 20 at UTSA

Nov. 27 UTEP

Dec. 4 Conference USA Championship

Games vs. The East: Florida Atlantic, at Marshall

Missed Teams From The East: Charlotte, FIU, Middle Tennessee, Old Dominion, WKU

UAB Blazers Football Schedule Analysis: The Blazers get a warm-up against Jacksonville State, and they’re going to need it as the first part of the season is all on the road while their fabulous new stadium gets finished up for the home opener against Liberty on October 2nd.

However, that means at Georgia, at North Texas, and at Tulane will make for a rough September. Getting Florida Atlantic and Marshall from the East is a horrible break – they’re likely going to be the two best teams in the other division – but there’s a week off before facing Louisiana Tech and the date with Rice is at home.

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How to bet on Central Arkansas vs. UAB: Spread, money line, point total, best bets

Need some help betting on the Central Arkansas-UAB game? We got you covered with everything you need to know before making your picks.

If you’re looking to bet on the Central Arkansas-UAB game and need to do some last-minute research, you’re in luck! We’ve put together this handy betting guide, which includes the point spread, money line and point total, as well as the information you’ll need to make the best bet.

The game kicks off Thursday at 8 p.m. ET and can be seen on ESPN3. The weather forecast for Birmingham, Ala. tonight is calling for clear skies so weather should not be a factor.

Central Arkansas, an FCS team, comes into the game with a 1-0 record after defeating Austin Peay 24-17 last Saturday. UAB is playing its first game of the season after finishing the 2019 season 9-5, including a loss to Appalachian State in the New Orleans Bowl.

The lines, courtesy of BetMGM

  • Point spread: UAB -19.5
  • Money line: UAB -2000 / Central Arkansas +950
  • Over-under: 49.5

What you need to know

  • UAB is one of the more intriguing Group of 5 teams in the country and are the heavy favorites to win Conference-USA
  • UAB led by a stout defense that returns most of its key players
  • In 2018, UAB was a run-first team despite its issues on the ground
  • The UAB passing game has a lot of potential with QB Tyler Johnson III coming off a season where he led the nation in big-time throw rate, per Pro Football Focus
  • Johnson also led the nation in turnover-worthy play rate and was called “the Jameis Winston of college football” by PFF
  • In Central Arkansas’ Week 0 win over Austin Peay, it relied on its run game to make up for an inefficient passing attack, which will be tough to do against what was one of the nation’s best run defenses last year
  • ESPN’s matchup predictor gives UAB a 93.6% win probability
  • 78% of the public is betting on UAB, per Action Network

Advice

Taking the favorites looks like a safe bet, given the mismatch between UAB’s defense and Central Arkansas’ offense. A few big plays from Johnson and the passing game should be enough to cover. If he can avoid the mistakes that plagued him last season, things will get ugly. Also consider the under with UAB being so committed to the run, which could lead to a shorter game.

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College Football News Preview 2020: UAB Blazers

College Football News Preview 2020: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the UAB Blazers season with what you need to know.

College Football News Preview 2020: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the UAB Blazers season with what you need to know.

– Contact/Follow @ColFootballNews & @PeteFiutak

– What You Need To Know: Offense | Defense
– Top Players | Key Players, Games, Stats
– What Will Happen, Win Total Prediction
– Schedule Analysis
– UAB Previews 2019 | 2018 | 2017

2019 Record: 9-5 overall, 6-2 in C-USA
Head Coach: Bill Clark, 5th year, 34-19
2019 CFN Final Opinion Ranking: 83
2019 CFN Final Season Formula Ranking: 58
2019 CFN Preview Ranking: 100

No one knows what’s going to happen to the 2020 college football season. We’ll take a general look at where each team stands – doing it without spring ball to go by – while crossing our fingers that we’ll all have some well-deserved fun this fall. Hoping you and yours are safe and healthy.

5. College Football News Preview 2020: UAB Blazers Offense 3 Things To Know

– The offense killed some time so the defense could go out and take care of business. The Blazer O was fine against the weak and the sad, but there were painful power outages against the good teams on the schedule – it ended up scoring more than 20 points just twice in the last seven games; against UTEP and North Texas.

However, a whole slew of the key parts are back from the group that rocked and rolled on the way to the Conference USA title two years ago. If the main men stay healthy, expect a quick bounce-back.

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UAB at Miami, Sept. 17
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– Tyler Johnston might not be Joe Burrow, but he wins. The 6-2, 215-pound junior quarterback only seems like he’s been around for 15 years. He was just an okay passer in 2018, struggled at times with 15 picks last year, and he doesn’t hit 60% of his passes, but he’s a gamer.

In other words, he’s better than his stats might suggest … sort of.

Sophomore Dylan Hopkins threw for 563 yards and three scores with five picks in place of a banged up Johnston for a stretch over the second half of the season. He was fine, but this is Johnston’s offense.

The receiving corps makes the quarterbacks look good, starting with Austin Watkins and his team-high 57 grabs for 1,092 yards and six scores. Combined with senior Myron Mitchell, the Blazers have two dangerous deep threats to go along with a whole bunch of solid mid-range veteran targets.

– Spencer Brown needs a rebound year. The star of the offense over the first two years of the comeback with well over 2,500 rushing yards and 26 touchdowns was dinged last season, averaging under four yards per carry with 566 yards and five scores. The 6-0, 230-pounder is the best back in the conference when he’s 100%.

5-8, 170-pound Jermaine Brown filled in from time-to-time, hitting the 100-yard mark twice and averaging over five yards per carry. 215-pound junior Lucious Stanley also filled in, coming up with seven scores and 414 yards.

The line was fine. It wasn’t dominant, it wasn’t necessarily consistent, and it wasn’t always great for the ground game. It was and will be … again, fine.

Four of the five starters are expected back with 6-4, 330-pound the best of the bunch – he’ll play one of the tackle spots. There’s good size with the line averaging around 320 pounds per man.

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Georgia football schedules Conference USA opponent for 2023

Georgia football has scheduled a Conference USA opponent for the 2023 season.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has just added two major SEC matchups to its future schedules.

It was announced Tuesday that UAB will play in Death Valley against LSU in 2022, as well as between the hedges in Athens against UGA in 2023.

Georgia will host UAB on Saturday, September 23, 2023.

The Bulldogs open the 2023 season against Oklahoma on the road.

UAB is 0-2 all-time against Georgia. The two programs played in 2003 and 2005.

These are two of the biggest teams in college football to seek out a game against, but Blazers head coach Bill Clark, coming into his seventh year, seems determined to beef up his program’s level of play.

The Blazers have a 34-19 record under Clark, winning the Conference USA Championship two seasons ago in 2018.

Small conference teams adding Power-5 schools to their schedule has always been a theme to boost a school’s program, but these games look more like a statement scheduling for the Blazers.

UAB faced off against Tennessee last year and lost by a score of 30-7.  It lost to Texas A&M the previous year, 41-20, and to Florida the year before that, 36-7.

Clark knows the only way to get his program on the map and step into a higher division is to play better teams, and he’s done that every year.

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Greg Bryant, Jr.’s Death Still Stings Four Years Later

It’s been four years since former Notre Dame running back Greg Bryant, Jr. needlessly lost his life in a case that remains unsolved.

It was Mother’s Day weekend in 2016 when shocking news came out of West Palm Beach, Florida that former Notre Dame running back Greg Bryant, Jr. had been shot and ultimately killed.

You can discuss the what’s, how’s and why’s to this for days on end and not come up with anything that makes any sense.  It was shocking and made no sense then.

Four years later it still stings to think about and still lacks any answers.

Bryant wasn’t perfect – none of us are.

He was a young man who happened to be a really gifted football player that had teammates who adored him.

His second season at Notre Dame in 2014 he took a significant step, scoring three rushing touchdowns and at the time, recording the longest punt return of the Brian Kelly era at Notre Dame.  Notre Dame’s second leading rusher in 2014 seemed primed to take a leap in ’15.

2015 never came for Bryant at Notre Dame though as he was ruled ineligible and left campus, stopping at a junior college in Miami before announcing his commitment to the restarted UAB football program.

While home from UAB on Mother’s Day weekend Bryant was out late before the shooting took place.  Is that important to mention where he was?  Some say yes because perhaps it helps tell the story they’re hoping to tell despite knowing any exact facts.

To me Bryant went to a place that plenty of 21 years old males have attended before and plenty more continue to do.  Some people out there like to act like he was asking for trouble by doing such a thing, but was whatever went down worth taking someone’s life over?

I don’t know what happened there or after he left but I do know whatever it was, it certainly wasn’t worth a 21 year old man losing his life.

I don’t know if Greg Bryant, Jr. would have made the NFL but was on his to graduating from college, something he never wound up getting the chance to do.

Greg Bryant, Jr. never got a chance to walk down the aisle and get married.

Greg Bryant, Jr. never got to see his middle years and share nights reliving the glory days with his old high school buddies.

Greg Bryant, Jr. never got the chance to be a father and impact his child’s life as positively as his father did for him.

It stung then and still stings just as much now when you take a moment to remember Bryant.

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Final Mountain West Football Bowl Projections

Where will the Mountain West teams go bowling?

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Final Mountain West Football Bowl Projections

No New Year’s Six Bowl for the Mountain West

Contact/Follow @JeremyMauss & @MWCwire

Boise State to Las Vegas

The New Year’s Six drought continues for the Mountain West after Memphis narrowly took care of business against Cincinatti in the AAC title claim and will be going to the Cotton Bowl over Boise State.

There is no debate between the Broncos and Bearcats had the former was victorious.

Now, we go forward and make one final prediction for the Mountain West bowl games. The big intrigue is the Las Vegas Bowl. It will be Boise State but the opponent is very much up in the air. The Broncos would like to see Utah not go to the Cotton Bowl so that the bowl teams do not move up a peg which would feature teams with worse records.

The most ideal matchup would pit Boise State vs. a 7-5 Washington team with former Broncos head coach Chris Petersen in his last game as the Huskies head coach. If the Utes do go to the Cotton Bowl then a 6-6 team like Cal could be in the Las Vegas Bowl. Playing former Broncos assistant Justin Wilcox would be nice but a game vs. Coach Pete would be more fun.

ESPN can step in and make some bowl trades similarly to what they did a few years ago to have a solid San Diego State vs. Houston matchup in the Las Vegas Bowl.

A few notes about the bowl lineups. Starting with the Hawaii Bowl. The game has a vaguely worded tie-in which is a combination between BYU, Hawaii or an AAC team. The Warriors have a 13-game schedule and must have seven wins to secure a bowl berth. Technically, BYU takes the Mountain West spot but a Cougars vs. Warriors matchup would be a classic WAC rivalry renewal.

There is a new bowl this year and it’s a Power Five opponent from the Big Ten in the Armed Forces Bowl.

Overall, the league has six guaranteed bowl berths and is a backup for the Cheez-It Bowl if the Pac-12 or Big 12 does not have enough teams eligible. As always, there can be trades for the best matchups.

Finally, if the Mountain West is the highest-rated team in the College Football Playoff then a New Year’s Six Bowl game is an option at the Cotton Bowl.

1. Las Vegas vs. Pac-12

– Famous Idaho Potato Bowl vs. MAC
– Gildan New Mexico Bowl vs. Conference USA
– Hawai’i Bowl vs. BYU or American
– NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl vs. Sun Belt
– Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl vs. Big Ten
– Cheez-It Bowl Conditional for MW if bowl can’t fill a spot.

Previous projections: Preseason | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | Week 13 | Week 14

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How to Watch Alabama vs. Auburn, NCAA Football Live Stream, Schedule, TV Channel, Start Time

Watch Alabama vs. Auburn Live Online.

Roll Tide. War Eagle. Hearing those chants can only mean one thing. It’s officially the Iron Bowl game between No. 5 Alabama (10-1, 6-1) and No. 15 Auburn (8-3, 4-3). The Tigers will look to play spoiler to the Crimson Tide, who are still trying to make it into the College Football Playoff. They will have to do it on the road after dominating Auburn in a 52-21 win in Tuscaloosa last season.

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Alabama vs. Auburn

When: Saturday, November 30

Time: 3:30 p.m. ET

TV: CBS

Live Stream: fuboTV (watch for free)

It’s been an unexpected two weeks for Alabama, especially on offense. After quarterback Tua Tagovailoa sustained a season-ending injury against Mississippi State, it’s been backup QB Mac Jones who’s had to fill the shoes of the once Heisman hopeful. He’ll need to have the best performance of his young collegiate career against what many consider to be the best defensive line in the country. A dominant performance by Alabama against battle-tested Auburn on the road would make a powerful statement to the selection committee, who is unsure of how successful Alabama can be without Tagovailoa. In last week’s game against Western Carolina, Jones went 10-for-12 with 275 yards and three touchdowns. For Jones and the rest of the offense, it’s all about keeping it simple and relying on the players at the skill positions.

Don’t let Auburn’s record fool you. They may have three losses, but they have come against some of the top teams in the country, including No. 2 LSU, No. 4 Georgia and No. 8 Florida. In his weekly press conference, Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn talked about the excitement of this year’s matchup and how last year’s loss will help this year’s team. However, this is the first time true freshman quarterback Bo Nix will get to experience playing in the Iron Bowl. In seven of his last nine games – the losses to Florida and LSU the outliers – he has hit 60 percent or more of his passes. The Tigers dominated Sanford 52-0 in a warmup for this weekend’s game. Nix was a steady 15-for-23 with 150 yards and one touchdown, before being taken out so the backup quarterbacks could get some playing time.

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