2009 NEW ORLEANS BOWL – SOUTHERN MISS GOLDEN EAGLES (7-5) vs. MIDDLE TENNESSEE BLUE RAIDERS (9-3)
Event: R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl
Date: Sunday, Dec. 20, 8:30 pm EST
Site: New Orleans, LA
MY Sportsbook.com LINE: Southern Miss -3.5
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Team records:
Middle Tennessee: 9-3 SU, 9-3 ATS
Southern Miss: 7-5 SU, 6-5 ATS
Preview:
With Brett Favre, Southern Mississippi’s most famous football alum, having an MVP-calibre season for the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, maybe some of that karma will rub off on the Eagles in a runaway win?
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Taking a slightly more calculated look at the match-up, however, shows that this could indeed be a close one.
Conference USA’s Southern Miss played in this bowl last season, edging Troy in overtime, 30-27. The Eagles will also have two potent offensive weapons to inflict on the Raiders in RB Damion Fletcher and WR DeAndre Brown. Fletcher is the NCAA’s active yardage leader and is a young man with the reputation of erupting in bowl games (this author remembers a 200 total yard effort vs. Cincy in 2007’s Papajohns.com Bowl).
Brown is a 6″6, 230 lb athletic freak and while he’s only a sophomore, when he plays well he looks like a taller Andre Johnson. If Eagles QB Martevious Young can get these two the ball mistake-free, Southern Miss will be able to throw up points on the Sun Belt conference representative.
While Middle Tennessee also has some impressive stats, they play in an inferior conference. The only really impressive wins to its name this season are a one-point win against lowly ACC opponent Maryland and a touchdown win vs. Florida Atlantic. Raiders QB Dwight Dasher is ninth in the FBS in total offense (298.3 ypg) but this is also in the fairly miserable Sun Belt.
For these reasons, I like Southern Miss in a game that shouldn’t be a blow-out, at any rate.
2009 Team Stats
Total Offense: Southern Miss 31st
Middle Tenn. 30th
Total Defense: Southern Miss 77th
Middle Tenn. 49th
Trends:
Middle Tennessee is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Middle Tennessee is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Middle Tennessee’s last 6 games
Southern Miss is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Southern Miss’s last 8 games
Southern Miss is 12-5 SU in its last 17 games
Pick: Southern Miss -7
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