New Year’s Eve begins early for gamblers betting college football as South Florida faces Clemson in the Meineke Car Care Bowl.
It is a matchup in college football betting online between a 6-6 Clemson team and a 7-5 South Florida squad.
Clemson -4.5, total 40.5 at SBG
The Tigers are favored in this contest even though it was not a banner season for Clemson. The Tigers actually were a disappointment in the ACC but they are still considered a better team than South Florida. The key for Clemson will be getting a motivated Kyle Parker to play well. Parker was benched in the regular season finale and was very upset with head coach Dabo Swinney. Supposedly things have been smoothed over and Parker is going to get the start in the bowl game. Parker considered leaving the team and beginning his baseball career but decided to stay for the bowl game. It appeared that his decision was based on how leaving would affect his reputation. He definitely doesn’t like his head coach and how motivated he is for this game is a huge question mark.
South Florida 7-5 SU, 5-7 ATS
The Bulls were a very good defensive team this season but they couldn’t score many points. When South Florida won it was almost always due to their defense.
Take the Under
Clemson is going with a quarterback in Parker who doesn’t want to be there and South Florida has a very good defense and no offense. The game sure looks like a low scoring one and one to take under when betting college football. Clemson has a solid defense as well and they have the best defensive player in the nation in defensive end Da’Quan Bowers who won the Bronko Nagurski Trophy. He led the nation with 15.5 sacks and was second with 25 tackles for a loss. The total on this game is 40.5 and should stay under that number.
Game Trends
The Bulls are 5-1 in college football betting online in their last 6 vs. the ACC. The Bulls are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games on grass. The Tigers are 5-11 ATS in their last 16 non-conference games. The Tigers are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 bowl games. The Tigers are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 vs. the Big East. Trends for the total indicate that the Under is 4-0 in the Bulls last 4 games overall and the Under is 8-0 in the Tigers last 8 games overall.