Kentucky

The combination of a big bowl underdog from the SEC is too much to pass up when Kentucky tackles Clemson in the Music City Bowl at Nashville’s LP Field December 27. Note that bowl dogs receiving between 7 and 131⁄2 points stand a sparkling 58-28 vs. the number this decade. And SEC teams recorded 6-2 spread marks in bowls each of the last two years, and now 18-7 since 2006, with UK not suffering a spread loss its last three bowls over that span (one of those a 28-20 win over the same Tigers in this very bowl three years ago). The Cats have also covered 6 straight games away from Lexington and are 7-2 vs. the line their last 9 as a dog away from home, qualifying them as a featured bowl Power Underdog as well. On the other hand, note Clemson’s 2-6 spread mark its last 8 as chalk away from Death Valley.