The UTSA Roadrunners host the South Florida Bulls on Thursday in a key American contest. Both teams come into this matchup at 4-1, and both teams expect to contend in this conference. For the Roadrunners, the story of the season has been offense. This team can score, and their only loss came on the road at Texas. For the Bulls, the season has been about scratching out close wins. The offense has not really been there so far, and they dropped a game at home to Temple on Saturday. Given their current respective forms, I am far more interested in UTSA right here, and I will take them to cover -7 at home.
South Florida began the season with a huge class of incoming transfers, and those transfers carried high rankings and high expectations. So far, the defense has been fine, but the offense has been rather lifeless. It is hard to explain, given that they have struggled to generate points or yards against teams like Temple or Bowling Green. For UTSA, the offense is the calling card. This team seems to be able to score on anybody. The defense is a liability, but that might not get exposed in this matchup. Let’s take the team that can reliably score points.
South Florida vs UTSA Prediction: UTSA -7 (-110) available at the time of publishing. Playable to -8.
