Albany at Baylor

Albany comes off a 2-9 season, including 1-7 in the Colonial Athletic Association. They lost all six road games last year, lowlighted by a 62-24 loss at Syracuse, a team that went 5-7. In that game, Syracuse had the edge in yards 623 to 135, including 287 to 7 in rushing. Albany's lone bright spot is on defense with LB Jackson Ambush, who was fifth in the Colonial in tackles (8.82 per game). Albany has gone UNDER the total in four of five games in September and will struggle to move the football and score on a Baylor run defense that was No. 17 in the country surrendering just 118.4 yards per game. Baylor returns QB Blake Shapen and four senior offensive linemen on a unit that averaged 203 yards passing, 219.3 yards passing. They won the Big 12 Championship Game and are the preseason favorites. Baylor ran it up on another team that won just two games last year in Texas Southern, a 66-7 wipeout, plus beat UTSA, 63-14, three seasons ago in a cupcake September mismatch. Play Baylor + UNDER the total.