Brandon Lang
20 DIME - UTEP MINERS - Dangerous home dog tonight.
UTEP has perhaps one of the more impressive wins of the year in college football and the general sports fan probably knows nothing about it.
Playing at home, which is where they are tonight, they shredded a Houston team 58-41 as a 14 1/2 point home underdog.
A Houston team that was coming off a huge win at Oklahoma State out of the Big 12.
Now I also understand this UTEP team lost at home to Kansas, and went on the road and lost to Memphis but is Tulsa really that good to be laying more than a touchdown here?
I look at Tulsa on the road at Rice, a game they won 27-10 against a Rice team that gave up 63 at home to Navy and just had a 49-spot put on them by East Carolina.
It was an inspired effort by Tulsa at home last Wednesday against Boise State but if weren't for Boise head coach Chris Petersen kicking a field goal on 4th and goal from the 1 yard line instead of punching it in with 3 minutes to go 3rd quarter, they don't cover that game.
UTEP can play folks, and like I said, you don't start hanging a 58-spot on Houston at home unless you have some talent to get it done in this spot here.
I will gladly grab the touchdown and a hook with UTEP and just like Tulsa last week, look for this home dog to hunt and figure out a way to stay within the number.
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Tulsa should light up the scoreboard like Tulsa of last year.
