Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
The Tulsa Golden Hurricane (8-4) will meet up with the Brigham Young Cougars (9-3) in the 2011 Armed Forces Bowl, and this is one of the toughest postseason games to make predictions on a potential winner.
The Cougars are 2-point favorites but have been bet down from an opener of Brigham Young -2.5 despite getting close to 60% of the point spread action according to college football bet-tracking websites.
The total has also seen its fair share of movement and has been bet down to 55 after opening up at 58 earlier in the week.
Brigham Young and Tulsa met up most recently in 2007 when the Golden Hurricane won 55-47 at home as 6.5-point underdogs.
The Cougars were 49-24 winners in 2006 as 5-point home favorites, and Brigham Young was a winner in 4 straight games against Tulsa since 1995 before the most recent loss.
All 5 games played between these teams since 1995 have gone over the total.
Tulsa had won 6 straight games before coming up empty in a humiliating 16-48 loss against the Houston Cougars in their last contest.
The Golden Hurricane didn’t cover the spread in that one but they had done so in 5 previous games and 7 of their 12 on the season.
Tulsa is a high-scoring team but has managed to go under the total in 5 of their last 7.
Brigham Young has won 8 of their last 9 overall games and they’ve now covered the point spread in 6 straight heading into the Alamo Bowl.
The lone loss during that span was a 10-point road defeat against the TCU Horned Frogs, and the Cougars have really gotten things going on offense lately.
Brigham Young has gone over the total in 5 of their last 6 games and have averaged nearly 42 points scored over their last 3.
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