Friday, May 25th, 2012
The UNLV Rebels will look to inch closer to bowl eligibility when they face the Air Force Falcons in a Mountain West conference college football game on Saturday afternoon. Kick off time at the Air Force is scheduled for 6PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by The Mountain. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the Air Force Falcons opened as a 17-point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has not moved the point spread off the opening number as the current point spread reveals the Air Force Falcons as a 17 point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 47. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Air Force Falcons at –800 with the road underdog UNLV Rebels bringing back +600 to pull off the upset victory.
When these two teams met it was Air Force winning 29-28 at UNLV as a 3-½ point road favorite. The Rebels were able to rush for 153 yards rushing and 251 through the air in a very competitive effort by the Rebels. UNLV enters this game needing two wins to finish the season bowl eligible and 6-6 on the year. Head coach Mike Sanford in his 5 years at UNLV has never qualified his Rebels team to a bowl game. Sanford finally got his first road win against a Mountain West opponent by winning at New Mexico 34-17 back on October 24th. The team is coming off a 35-16 home victory last week against a struggling Colorado St team. Starting Rebels quarterback Omar Clayton is hitting on 60% of his passes with 11 touchdowns and 9 interceptions on the season. Clayton has not thrown a pick over his past three games. Junior running back Channing Trotter is the lead Rebels ball carrier with a 4.6 yards a carry average. The Rebels were able to gain 174 yards on the ground last week on the Rams. The Rebels run defense has been poor all season and allowed over 200 yards rushing on Colorado St last week. UNLV allows its opponents an average of 447 yards per game with 236 coming on the ground and ranking 9th and last in the Mountain West Conference. Air Force is 6-3 this season and bowl eligible this season. The team is coming off a 35-7 home victory against Army. Air Force has played their opponents very tough in their losses by losing by 3 at Navy, 3 home to TCU and by 6 at Utah. Air Force runs the option and averages 264 yards per game on the ground. The Falcons average 4.2 yards per attempt this season and will be running against a very weak UNLV run defense. Air Force doesn’t pass very much as they run 6 times for every 1 passing attempt. Jared Tew the junior running back is the leading ball carrier for Air Force with a 3.6 yards a carry average. He is coming off a 102 yards rushing game against Army last week. Asher Clark averages 5.1 yards a carry on 107 attempts for the Falcons. Air Force has been very good on defense this season allowing their opponents just 12.9 points per game. The Falcons are 2nd in the Mountain West in total defense allowing just 263 yards per game.
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CFB Trend: Air Force Falcons are 12-4 ATS in their past 16 roles as a favorite
The Wagerline consensus has 62.7% of the CFB bettors on Air Force -17
The Wagerline consensus has 54.9% of the CFB bettors playing over 47
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