Rice At Southern Miss Who will win? ESPN

On to tonight’s game:

Line: Eagles -20.5 / 54.5
First Half: Eagles -11.5 / 27.5O20

Rice at Southern Miss, 8:00 EST ESPN2Rice: 10-0 Over off a non-conference gameSouthern Miss: 19-5 ATS off a loss by 17+ points

Southern Miss will dominate this game, I hate to take two favorites in back to back games, but a good friend of mine once said that if you take bad teams you can expect bad things, and the 20 points look tempting, but Rice is that bad.

If Rice is going to compete in conference they will need All-America wide receiver Jarett Dillard, who was on the sidelines for most of the Texas game with a strained left hamstring. Quarterback Chase Clement has been under heavy pressure all season, since the opposing team has no fear of a running game that is averaging 88 yards per game at 2.4 yards per carry. The Rice pass defense would scare most owls away, as they have given up an average of 412.3 YPG the last three contests, yielding 53 PPG in the process. The Owls are 3-13 ATS in road games after allowing 325 or more passing yards in their last game.
Southern Mississippi has a short week of preparation after being bounced 38-16 at Boise State last Thursday. The Golden Eagles will try go back to work in conference play off recent important win over East Carolina in attempt to win the East Division. Senior quarterback Jeremy Young was the weak link in the offense in prior years, yet this season has stepped up his game, meaning USM is better equipped to play in higher scoring games than in the past. Coach Jeff Bower in his 17th season in Hattiesburg will always want to run the ball effectively and has running back Damion Fletcher to do so. Fletcher is averaging five yards a carry on a team gaining 172 yards per game on the ground in 41 attempts. That figure is less impressive when considering the teams they have played have allowed 188 YPG on the ground. Young will be looking towards his primary outlet is Chris Johnson, who has 21 pass catches this season.
The defense has contained weak offensive teams like Rice and been taken apart by clubs better equipped to move the ball. When facing teams like Tennessee-Martin and East Carolina, they held them to under 300 total yards offense. While on the other hand Boise State and Tennessee both surpassed the 470 total yards mark. The Golden Eagles are 19-5 ATS after a loss by 17 or more points

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When Rice team played as a Road team - Last 4 years - Coming off a lost on artificial Rice is 5-11 ATS

When Southern Mississippi team played as a Home team - Playing on grass surface - Coming off 1 game loss they are 12-5 ATS

No Look ahead here for the Eagles as they have a game against SMU next week for homecoming. The practices leading up to this game have looked great.
The Golden Eagles, which will face Rice in a 7 p.m., kickoff at Carlisle-Faulkner Field at "The Rock," started their preparations for the Owls (0-4, 0-0) Saturday night with an hour and a half practice and returned to work Sunday night with a two-hour workout in shorts and shoulder pads at the Joe P. Park Practice Facility.
Head coach Jeff Bower liked the way his team has responded in practice over the last two days.
"It was a pretty good practice," Bower said of his team's Sunday night workout. "The energy level was where we needed to be."
I am going to keep this a small play for just ½ unit with QB issues with the Eagles.

Eagles -20.5