Memphis vs. West Virginia Prediction: Frisco Bowl Faculty Soccer Choose

Memphis vs. West Virginia:

The traits of a bowl season are on full show within the Frisco Bowl between Memphis and West Virginia. The standalone bowl recreation on Tuesday, December 17 within the Lone Star State options some radical linear motion and is a recreation with some critical motivational questions for one of many taking part groups.

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Frisco Bowl: Memphis Tigers (-5, 58.5) vs. West Virginia Mountaineers

Tuesday, December 17, at 9 p.m. ET

The primary domino to fall earlier than this bowl recreation was the capturing of Neil Brown. West Virginia has already employed Wealthy Rodriguez, who held a really vigorous and trustworthy press convention final Friday when he was launched as head coach for the second time in his profession.

Chad Scott is the interim head coach for West Virginia this time round and that is his first time as a head coach. He has been with West Virginia since 2019 teaching linebackers and has been the offensive coordinator the previous two seasons. He and DC Jeff Koonz have a tricky job right here. They should preserve the Mountaineers’ gamers invested sufficient to organize for a really sturdy and skilled Memphis offense, and accomplish that with out high defenseman Josiah Trotter, who’s within the switch portal.

It’s also potential to make a couple of opt-outs. Depth turns into a problem at that time and Memphis is the workforce ranked twentieth in offensive performs with 871. The Tigers averaged greater than six yards per play in the course of the common season, one among 51 groups to take action. West Virginia wasn’t one among them, because the Mountaineers had 5.7 yards per play.

Memphis is 3-1 in bowls underneath Ryan Silverfield, however the loss was to Penn State within the Cotton Bowl, so it was a a lot grander stage. They have been winless in three bowl video games underneath Mike Norvell and likewise misplaced the one recreation with Darryl Dickey after Justin Fuente took the Virginia Tech job. Silverfield has carried out effectively, together with a 10-point win over Huge 12 member Iowa State final season, though the Cyclones had loads of opt-outs in that recreation.

The Tigers’ protection has given up plenty of factors this season, however West Virginia would not have the tempo or firepower of an AAC offense. QB Garrett Greene had a TD/INT ratio of 13/11 and the Tigers tied for ninth with 24 factors. They’re additionally an opportunistic protection with 14 fumble recoveries. WVU misplaced solely 4 instances in the course of the season. However, as a protection, they solely had 11 takeaways, so Memphis could have the sting within the turnover division.

Memphis’ offense is a balanced crew. This would be the closing school recreation with the Tigers for Seth Henigan, who racked up practically 14,000 yards and 102 TD passes over 4 seasons as a starter. Rock Taylor (61-834-2) and Mario Anderson Jr. (219-1292-17) are each potential NFL abilities on the ability positions. Anderson rushed for slightly below 2,000 yards in two Division I seasons.

With a win, Memphis ought to end the season within the high 25 within the CFP rankings and high 25 within the AP, a feat it hasn’t achieved since 2019. Ending the season with a quantity subsequent to your title and sending your large QB the winner has loads of motivation and Silverfield has been nice in ballgames .

Choose: Memphis -5