AF-ARMY
Time: 11:30 PM ET
Spread: AF -2.5
Total: 57
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A 2-5 Independent Army team takes on Mountain West conference team Air Force in a game college football oddsmakers are favoring the Air Force by 7.5 points.
Air Force has split its four conference games, but still has won four of its last five games. Last week, the Falcons took down New Mexico in a close game, winning 35-31. The team is predicated on its rush offense, which ranks 12th in the NCAA. The pass game, comparatively, is nearly non existent, with the team averaging just 152 yards per game in the air.
Falcons QB Kale Pearson is effective throwing the ball, when he has to. He’s completed 57 percent of his passes, but has done just as mud damage with his 370 rushing yards and four rushing TDs on the season. His QB rating is sky high at 152.8, but that’s easy to do when every pass play catches the opposition by surprise. He’s thrown just one INT while having seven TDs.
Air Force’s leading rusher is Jacobi Owens, who has 735 yards on the season and four TDs. The Falcons have scored 18 rushing TDs this season to just eight passing TDs. Five of those eight have come in the hands of Garrett Brown, who is No. 2 on the team in receiving yardage. Jalen Robinette has amassed a team leading 475 yards on 25 receptions. Air Force kicker Will Conant has missed just one field goal out of 11 attempts and has a long-kick of 50 yards already this season.
Army ranks even higher than Air Force in rushing yardage with 319.4 yards per game, but the Black Knights are riding a two-game losing streak, having fallen by large margins to Rice and Kent State in the last two weeks.
Angel Santiago is the key to the offense. He has just 342 passing yards on the season, but has rushed for 543 yards on 107 attempts, while scoring a team-leading six TDs. Leading yardage rusher Larry Dixon has rushed for 683 yards with a 5.7 yard per carry average and also has five TDs. Army has 21 rushing TDs to just three in the air, and its leading receiver has just seven catches for 168 yards and a TD. Xavier Moss has just six catches, but accounts for the other two TDs.
