2010 Meineke Car Care Bowl Lines: South Florida vs Clemson Odds
Written by Jason Viscosi Friday, 31 December 2010 10:24
2010 Meineke Car Care Bowl Lines
Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC will be the venue for the 2010 Meineke Car Care Bowl lines between the South Florida Bulls and Clemson Tigers. ESPN will air the game with a scheduled start time of noon EST. Online sportsbooks have opened with Clemson as a 6-point favorite in college football odds vs USF with an over/under total of 41. The money line at sportsbooks has listed Clemson as a -230 favorite in 2010 Meineke Car Care Bowl lines with South Florida as a +190 underdog. After playing in the ACC Championship Game last year Clemson slipped back to a mediocre record this season
The Tigers went 6-6 straight up and 5-7 against the spread in college football odds with 10 of their games going UNDER the total. Clemson is only bowling because of loading up on non conference cream puffs North Texas and Presbyterian at home for easy wins. Coach Dabo Swinney is now facing more doubts and criticism and a loss in 2010 Meineke Car Care Bowl lines as favorites would not help his long term cause and would make for a bad off season in which the heat is already up high. Clemson does have a tough defense that ranked 9th for points allowed but the offense was inconsistent and at times ineffective and ranks 86th nationally.
South Florida began the Skip Holtz era with a record of 7-5 straight up and 5-7 against the spread in college football odds with 8 of their games going UNDER the total. South Florida also struggled on offense and ranked 105th in the nation while the defense was solid and ranked 15th overall. South Florida was in the weak Big East and a better finish could have been expected had the offense not struggled so badly. Clemson has failed to pay out in 4 of their last 5 bowl games while USF has gone UNDER the total in 8 of their last 9 non conference games. The other three bowl games on the Friday schedule include Notre Dame vs Miami in the Hyundai Sun Bowl, Georgia vs UCF in the Liberty Bowl and South Carolina vs Florida State in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
2010 Meineke Car Care Bowl Picks: Clemson Tigers -6