BYU vs UCF Prediction & Picks: College Football Week 8

Every letdown alarm the guys own went off on this one. BYU is fresh off a huge win and has to turn around and travel across the country to play UCF on Saturday, October 24 at 12:30 PM PT / 3:30 PM ET in Orlando, FL. BYU was a 6.5-point favorite with a total of 43.5 when the guys taped on October 20, and all three of them took UCF +6.5. The full breakdown is on the College Football Picks Week 8 episode.

BYU vs UCF Odds

BYU was a 6.5-point road favorite over UCF with a total of 43.5 when the guys taped on October 20. Ryan read UCF at +210 on the money line.

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Ryan flagged it the moment he introduced the game: BYU coming off a big win, now in Orlando, laying the same kind of number he called a trap line on Iowa a few minutes earlier. He did allow that a lot of BYU fans live in the area and the Cougars could have a good crowd behind them. It did not move him. “I hope you don’t think I’m gonna take BYU,” he said.

Sean saw it as a different situation from Iowa, which was coming off a bye. BYU just pulled off one of the biggest wins of its coaching staff’s tenure and now has to fly to the East Coast to face a UCF team that, in Sean’s words, just doesn’t care. He noted UCF had just lost to Oklahoma State but called them a decent rush defense. Sean was on BYU last week when they beat Notre Dame outright as double-digit dogs, so he has nothing against the Cougars. He just called this the situation spot of all situation spots.

Colby piled on with the BYU postgame talk about Notre Dame and the recruiting trail, then pointed out that UCF had a bye and two weeks to prepare for this game. That sealed it for all three. The rest of the segment wanders into BYU dating customs, and you will want the audio for that part.

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