The Marshall Thundering Herd and the Florida International Golden Panthers will descend on Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, tonight.
Why does this bowl exist? Do we really need to know if the fifth place Conference USA team is better than the fourth best Sun Belt team? Marshall needed over time to beat ECU just to be eligible to play in this game. I give Marshall credit for playing three ranked teams this year, but they got blown-out in all of them.
Marshall doesn't rank in the top half of the NCAA in anything. FIU ranks pretty well in points-against, but that has a lot to do with playing in the Sun Belt.
FIU has the only quality win between them, in an early season victory against co-Big East Champion Louisville. That's a 7-5 Louisville team that played a lot better as the season went on.
Went 1-2 on the first set of bowl games to snap my winning streak. I now stand 19-14 overall.
I'm gonna go with FIU (-4). I don't have much of a reason for picking FIU, but Marshall is just bad.
Be back tomorrow with some decent bowl games, containing TCU and Boise St. among others.
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