Pittsburgh vs Cincinnati | College Football Predictions, Picks and Best Bets

[Music] and you know we we need more Big 12 ACC matchups now luckily for us these two oblig the pit Panthers travel to the Cincinnati Bearcats at noon Eastern Time on ESPN 2 and uh this is old Big East matchup right uh Cincy a two-point home favorite here uh the pit money line is plus 110 so not big uh in the total at bet us currently 59 A5 on this uh Cincy beat pit 27 to 21 last season but before that game they were four and four straight up and against the spread against each other from 2005 through 2012 not that any of that matters uh pit is 0 and8 straight up and against the spread in their last eight as a road dog that includes 0 and three against that number last season but never fear of course Cincinnati is almost as bad 1 and seven against the spread in their last eight as a home favorite that includes 0 and four against the spread in their last four just last season Parker tell me what what are your numbers showing here these are two teams that uh that the trend certainly don't like but uh but I'm curious what your numers show why is Cincinnati faved here is it just the pit offense that they don't that they don't like I think it's still preseason priers yeah I mean that's that's just really hard for me to figure out um for Cincinnati obviously Deontay corleon healthy but maybe not back for this game probably not back for this game given that he just practiced for the first time but that's great that he was out there um I'm trying to find something to be excited about for for Cincinnati and and it's just hard I mean pit is not spectacular on the offensive side of the ball and like we know what they're going to be uh generally but but Cincinnati too it just feels like they're they're not they don't even have the Personnel right now to be where they want to be um you know they last season were as bad as 118th in EPA per dropback allowed so even with pits kind of struggling offense I think they'll have a lot of leeway there to um to work with uh overall I feel like Cincinnati is just really far away from where they want to be and pit is kind of who they are normally so yeah I don't love this I don't love this game at all I don't know I I I think I could be honest here I'm I'm not sure I'm gonna watch this game um I don't think I want to I'm a so I'll tell you I'm a ciny maybe partially why they're favored it was announced this morning that the ciny defensive tackle Dante Corleone has been cleared to return to play yeah but there's there's no way he's playing this weekend he's he was cleared to practice yeah yeah yeah so I I don't think he's going to play but I wonder if the team rallies around him and and all that I mean does it do anything for emotion does it do I mean who knows who knows uh Kyle look pit looks completely different from last season and I I've got no idea what to think about Cincinnati like how how difficult is it to handicap these two teams I thought I thought Julius was back in the chat for a second because fox said P my a 6 and a half and I'm looking at the screen like wait a second P 6 and a half Al line maybe all line yeah all line there we go um Pittsburgh had 22 plays of 10 yards or more last week against Kent State I know it's Kent State but 22 plays of 10 yards or more is still really impressive um Holstein put up big numbers in that game he played very well um sometimes guys before the season uh teams lie about wanting to play faster you know everybody says Tempo we're going to play with Tempo pit was telling the truth so far uh 20 67 seconds between snaps seventh quickest tempo of any FBS team so far this season that's why you've seen Shar money taking the over again in this one I think that makes sense uh Cincinnati put up 658 yards on Talen would have scored a lot more than 38 points if it weren't for three fumbles uh they did give up 5.9 yards per play to Talen which concerns me about their defense against a pit offense that looks quite a bit improved um eight different guys had carries for Cincinnati in week one I think they'll run it quite a bit explosive plays from both sides fast paac from pit I kind of like the over here in this one I could uh I could certainly see that I see that and that's that's part of why I like pit here right I mean 55 points last week it was the most since they beat Austin P 55 to nothing in 20120 uh Holstein I mean you mentioned him Kyle transfer from Alabama he was 30 out of 40 three touchdowns one pick 336 yards passing that is Bonkers but the running back Desmond Reed you know 14 carries 145 yards I mean fantastic FC stuff out of a pit offense that we haven't seen do that kind of stuff since they had Kenny picket um like I I think this new off Cade Bell who came over from Western Carolina if if nard do is going to let him do his thing I mean this is going to be fantastic uh the talent differential is minimal and if you're asking me to choose between Nardi and saterfield even after last year I'm going with Nardi especially if he's letting the OC do his thing so let me go ahead and lock this one up hail to pit I'm going to take the two points with the Panthers I think they win the game outright so kind of like that plus 110 but we'll we'll take the points uh on the show here you know for the show record and whatnot [Music] a