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College Football: 2017 Overton’s Citrus Bowl Odds And Prediction

By Mike Marteny

SOUTH BEND, IN - OCTOBER 28: Josh Adams #33 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish runs with the ball in the third quarter against the North Carolina State Wolfpack at Notre Dame Stadium on October 28, 2017 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images)
SOUTH BEND, IN - OCTOBER 28: Josh Adams #33 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish runs with the ball in the third quarter against the North Carolina State Wolfpack at Notre Dame Stadium on October 28, 2017 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images) /
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2017 Overton’s Citrus Bowl Odds And Prediction

All is quiet on New Year’s Day. Unless you are a college football fan! We still have three morning games until the two playoff games, and they are good ones! Next we have the last of the New Year’s Six before the playoffs; The Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl

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For the rest of the bowl season, you will get my picks against the spread and point wagers just like I did all season long. I had a solid regular season, but I can make it look a whole lot better with a strong bowl season!

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DXL Frisco Bowl
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Bahamas Bowl
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Birmingham Bowl
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl
Dollar General Bowl
Hawaii Bowl
Zaxby’s Heart Of Dallas Bowl
Quick Lane Bowl
Cactus Bowl
Walk On’s Independence Bowl
New Era Pinstripe Bowl
Foster Farms Bowl
Academy Sports And Outdoors Texas Bowl
Northrup Grumman Military Bowl
Camping World Bowl
Valero Alamo Bowl
San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl
Belk Bowl
Hyundai Sun Bowl
Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl
Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl
Goodyear Cotton Bowl
Taxslayer Gator Bowl
AutoZone Liberty Bowl
Playstation Fiesta Bowl
Capital One Orange Bowl
Outback Bowl
Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl

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BATON ROUGE, LA – OCTOBER 01: Derrius Guice #5 of the LSU Tigers scores a touchdown against the Missouri Tigers at Tiger Stadium on October 1, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) /

(14)Notre Dame vs. (17)LSU(-3.5) at Orlando, FL(1)

Notre Dame 9-3

Wins: vs. Temple(49-16), at Boston College(49-20), at Michigan State(38-18), vs. Miami(OH)(52-17), at North Carolina(33-10), vs. (11)USC(49-14), vs. (14)North Carolina State(35-14), vs. Wake Forest(48-37), vs. Navy(24-17)

Losses: vs. (15)Georgia(19-20), at (7)Miami(FL)(8-41), at (21)Stanford(20-38)

Record vs. bowl teams: 7-3

Notre Dame played a really tough schedule, and a win over Stanford would have put them in a New Year’s Six Bowl. Oh well, they still get to play on New Year’s Day!

The key to this team is RB Josh Adams. The junior had two solid years before this year, but really broke out this season, averaging 7.3 yards per carry for a total of 1,386 yards. When you stop Adams, you stop the Irish. He was only under 100 yards in five games this year. Georgia(53), Michigan State(56), Wake Forest(22), Miami(FL)(40), and Stanford(49). LSU is 24th in the nation against the run.

LSU 9-3, 6-2 (4th SEC):

Wins: vs. BYU(27-0), vs. Chattanooga(45-10), vs. Syracuse(35-26), at (21)Florida(17-16), vs. (10)Auburn(27-23), at Mississippi(40-24), vs. Arkansas(33-10), at Tennessee(30-10), vs. Texas A&M(45-21)

Losses: at Mississippi State(7-37), vs. Troy(21-24), at (2)Alabama(10-24)

Record vs. bowl teams: 2-3

No matter what else happens, LSU will best be known for beating an Auburn team they had no business beating and for losing to Troy in Death Valley at night while getting shut out in the first half. Ed Orgeron was lucky he wasn’t shown the door after that one game!

Purdue transfer Danny Etling gave the Tigers more of a passing attack than they usually have, but he was still not very good in the grand scheme of things. Derrius Guice is an elite runner, but you wouldn’t know it with defenses keying on him all the time. Ultimately, LSU is a team that still struggled to find an identity, but that defense is good enough to bail them out of some tough spots.

Prediction:

I see this being more of a defense oriented game that most think. Both of these teams have elite running backs. Both have good defenses. They both have big wins. They both have bad losses. This really is a tough one to pick. I tend to think that the Irish have proven more, but that LSU defense scares me. There is a reason that I’m not putting much on this game.

Pick: Notre Dame

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