The USF Bulls and Howard Bison do battle Saturday in a week 2 college football contest from Raymond James Stadium.
The Howard Bison will look to rebound from an 0-2 start after their 31-28 loss to Hampton last time out. Quinton Williams has thrown for 339 yards, 4 touchdowns and an interception on 67.7% passing while Kasey Hawthorne has a team-high 64 rushing yards. Antoine Murray leads the Bison with 157 receiving yards and Nah’Shawn Hezekiah has 110 receiving yards while Richie Ilarraza has a team-high 9 receptions for 60 yards. On defense, Terrance Holton has a team-high 14 total tackles and a pair of interceptions while Christian Brown has 2 TFLs this season.
The USF Bulls will look to bounce back from a 50-21 loss to BYU last time out. Gerry Bohanon has thrown for 172 yards and an interception on 56.7% passing while Jaren Mangham has rushed for a team-high 39 yards and a touchdown. Xavier Weaver leads the Bulls in receiving with 113 receiving yards on 5 catches. On defense, Mekhi LaPointe has a team-high 10 total tackles as well as a team-high 8 solo tackles and an interception. Jatorian Hansford also has a sack for USF up to this point in the year.
Howard is 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games overall and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 road games while the over is 7-0 in their last 7 games in September. USF is 14-2 ATS in their last 16 games following an ATS loss and 4-1 ATS in their last 5 home games while the over is 7-0 in their last 7 games following a double-digit loss at home.
I get that Howard isn’t necessarily a world-beater, but I’m still having problems laying this many points with USF mainly because South Florid ahas never been a program to blow lesser teams away even when they’ve had the chance to do so. Sure, the Bulls upgraded at QB, but I’m still not about to lay this kind of number with the Bulls. It’s wasn’t that long ago that Howard upset UNLV and I’m not saying that’ll happen here, but it’s a lot to as of USF here. Give me Howard plus the points.