UTEP at Rice

The Owls have become a pretty decent mid-major team at 5-2, and should find themselves in a Bowl game come season's end for the second straight year. The Owls, outside of a pair of BCS Conference games and one loss Houston, have held opponents to less than 20 ppg. UTEP has allowed 38 or less points in all but one game, not counting overtime, so the numbers here come up shy of this posted total. UTEP has had trouble scoring on the road vs. a winning home team leading to four of their last five falling shy of the total. Rice has been good defensively at home, and they have played each of their last four here to the UNDER. This one should be a lower scoring team than expected.