Originally Posted by
gregmav1
This saturday Mizzou plays SEMO, one of the small universities in the state. We played them in 2008 when we were a very good team and beat them 52-3, but that was 7 years ago, little relevance.
The spread is 41.5 and o/u is 54.
Spread is a crapshoot but I would lean towards taking the +41.5. I won't be doing it, but Mizzou is always kind of slow out of the gate, and our 1st four games against smaller teams are closer than they should be. It could be a blowout, but I think Mizzou will win by something closer to 30 or 35, something like 41-10.
I also lean towards the Under 54, and I think I might play that. Our defense will be great this year, not as good as last year but still very good and enough to stop SEMO to 10 or 14 points at maximum, very likely it could just be 6 or 7. Our offense still has question marks, we lost our three biggest receivers last year. So we have a good running back and O-line, but we have no idea how our receivers will be. I think we play decent, but no amazing offense (at least in relation to how we should play vs. a small school), and Mizzou puts up 35 or 40 or so.
Favorite play on this game is to take the Under.