Florida Atlantic at Memphis

The New Orleans Bowl will feature the Florida Atlantic Owls making their Bowl debut vs the Memphis Tigers. This one has the potential to be the highest scoring Bowl game of the season. Memphis put the ball in the air over 500 times this season and during the second half of the season the offense clicked to the tune of 36 ppg. The problem was they couldn't stop anyone either, allowing 34 ppg. Their last six games produced 70 ppg, and on the season their games averaged nearly 900 total yards. Florida Atlantic is a mirror image of Memphis. They also put the ball in the air nearly 500 times and saw their last six games average over 70 points per game, and all going OVER the total. The combined yards in their games was 830! We have two teams that love to throw the ball long distance, and often, with neither team having shown the capacity to stop what the other does. Just to give you an idea, Florida Atlantic games have seen 20 TD's scored this season from 30 yards or longer, not to mention three special team gaffs that resulted in three TD's. Memphis has seen its games produce 30 TD's from outside the red-zone! They have also produced five TD's with special team gaffs or turnovers. Overall these teams have produced 58 TD's from outside the red-zone, and eight more from turnovers or special teams, for a total of 66 scores from anywhere on the field TD'S. We like the OVER here.