Why Old Dominion Will Win The Myrtle Beach Bowl
The passing game picked it up and the team started winning.
The offense was okay over the first half of the season, but it started to roll over the final month, the consistency was there with Hayden Wolff stepping in and being more accurate than DJ Mack, and now it all has to keep working against a mediocre Tulsa secondary.
For this work, the formula is simple. Hit the midrange passes, the defense has to come up with takeaways, and the offense has to hit more midrange passes to convert off of the mistakes.
Controlling the clock would be nice, and bouncing back from the Tulsa downfield big plays is a must, but the D has to come up with at least three takeaways.
Tulsa has turned it over 24 times on the year with 18 in the last eight games. The Old Dominion defense has forced two or more takeaways in each of the last four games, but …
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To keep harping on the turnovers, Old Dominion has give it up multiple times in eight of the last nine games. If it does that and doesn’t win the turnover battle, it’s in trouble.
Tulsa would like to bomb away and hit the deep shots here and there – it’s not afraid to take a whole lot of downfield chances – but this is the game to start running and keep running against a Monarch defense that hasn’t seen a whole lot of good ground games.
Old Dominion faced good teams like Wake Forest, Liberty, Marshall, and WKU. All of them have a rushing element – certainly Liberty does – but they’d all rather throw if they can. Tulsa has the combination of backs to come at the Monarchs in waves – the offense doesn’t have to take any chances.
The offense that got to 200 yards on the ground in five of its last nine games – with almost 300 against Cincinnati – should be able to handle things on the line from the start. If not, the No. 2 offense in the American Athletic Conference will adjust on the fly.
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