First of all I bet on FIU, and it was one of my 2 losses on the 8-2-1 ATS week 1 in college football. We were somewhat unlucky when you consider their 3rd year QB threw thee interceptions and two of them went back for TDâs. This was a 13-12 game in the 4th quarter before Indiana scored 22 straight points. I have Maryland below Indiana as they only return 12 starters compared to Indiana who had 16 guys coming back. Maryland also lost at home to Indiana 28-47 last year.
Maryland has a lot of high hopes as they typically do year in and year out, but I see this as a tough spot going down to Miami to play on a Friday night. Yes, they beat Howard 52-13 to open the season, but Howard was a 1-10 team last year and got beat by Boston College 76-0. BC could not score points at all last year. Maryland brings in DJ Durkin to take over and of course he has a ton of good coaching pedigree having coached under Urban Meyer at Bowling Green, and Jim Harbough at Michigan and Stanford, but Iâm not sold on some of his decisions which include bringing in 3 former head coaches to help him out. I much rather see a young head coach bring in other young hungry guys who are going to work hard to move up than 3 former head coaches. One of the guys is Mike London, who got fired from Virginia. A lot of egos and Iâm not so sure this is going to be very good for Maryland.
I think Florida International gets the offense clicking more on Friday night against this defense, and their defense should look better too. I just see too much line value to pass on this game.
