Delaware State vs Hawaii | College Football Predictions, Picks and Best Bets

[Music] Delaware state in Hawaii I mean it's our first chasing game of the season late night on the island you got Timmy Chang and the Hawaii Warriors they're going to welcome in the Delaware State hornets and they're from the FCS ranks this one kicks off at midnight Eastern Time on Spectrum pay-per-view and if you want to watch it I believe that you can watch it on team1sports.com if I'm not mistaken so uh Saturday night gets close to midnight Eastern you might want to dive over to that website and check that one out uh this is another one that's had just insane movement Hawaii opened as a 27p point favored the market consensus has got it actually no bet us has got it up 39 A5 right now with a total of 57 A2 that's an applied score of do my math here 48 to n and a half is that right or maybe 10 it's a lot to a little we'll say that uh interesting helmet game here though Kyle we'll start with you Hawaii or Delaware State here oh man these are both really sweet helmets um I'm gonna take Hawaii I've always really liked the Hawaii helmet but that Hornet is pretty cool too it's pretty nice Parker what what you got on this one yeah I like this little murder Hornet guy but I'm gonna go with the Warriors I'm gonna I'm gon to stay true to uh to the the classic uh green and black and white do you remember the murder Hornets like during the uh the pandemic season what happened to those guys like we just no longer have murder Hornets I mean that's anyway uh I'll they're lurking they're L they're waiting waiting for the right time maybe they missed they missed their flight at JFK they couldn't make the best and so that's where the murder Hornets are I like the green helmets I like the H logo give me uh give me Hawaii on this one um look I only found eight lined games for Delaware State last year and they were two and six against the spread they were an underdog in every game they played two FBS teams they lost 62 to 20 at Miami of Ohio as a 40 and a half point dog and they lost 57 to nothing at army as a 39 and a half Point dog and if you paid attention to Army and Miami those two teams had trouble scoring against air last year Hawaii has been a favorite of more than three touchdowns four time since 2015 and they're 0 and four against the spread in those games so neither team really is trending in the right direction for us to make a number on this Kyle let's let's start with you uh don't do you miss these late night Hawaii games we don't get them that often anymore like how how do you handicap a game like this I love the late night Hawaii games they're fantastic now bankroll management real quick you know if you're down if you're 0 and2 or 0 and3 you don't just try to Triple up and win it all back on this game I have to say that I feel obligated um we are not proponents of chasing we'll say that no at least not to that degree uh Delaware State an absolute bottom feeder I'm not going to pretend to know a ton about them but they lost to a division 2 team last year not FCS division 2 they lost to Army 57 nothing we know Army's not the type of team that runs up a score and they lost uh to NC Central 55 to 14 so I think this is kind of like a men against boys matchup uh they're traveling a really long ways they missed their uh first flight this is probably kind of a vacation for Delaware State like why would you not feel like hey we get to go to Hawaii this is fantastic um you know I think it's really tough for a spot to get worse than it is here for Delaware State how many points does Hawaii want to score that's probably the the biggest question here uh I still think Braden shager is underrated a quarterback I think his wide receivers are very good deep group the people who bet Hawaii minus 27 uh they deserve a gold star because that was fantastic if Hawaii was minus 28 or lower I would absolutely be taking Hawaii here in this game um I I think Hawaii probably wins by more than what the number is here but I don't feel great about betting you know more than 10 points worse than what we could have gotten before and so the weather here speaking of weather heavy wind here 25 miles hour with gusts of 40 miles per hour uh potentially heavy rain possible during the game so everything in this one the weather report is not not a pretty one here uh love the weather report over there there's going to be lots of raining on the island um I cannot bet the under though guys uh if you guys can bet the under uh you're better than me because heavy wind might not be enough for Delaware state to stop Hawaii from scoring nearly every single time uh I don't know that the total is high enough to take that kind of a risk I think the best play here Hawaii money line no I'm just kidding of course um this is uh maybe Delaware State team total under I mean that would just be ridiculously low I have not even looked to see what it would be but uh man that' it' be under 10 I know that it'd be under 10 for sure is it above seven maybe it might be worth it but I I think I'm going to pass on this game but I think Hawaii uh rolls in this one and this feels like one of those where you would bet that uh that team total and it starts pouring rain in the middle of the game and somebody fumbles and Delaware runs it back and then of course we're just throwing everything against the wall at 2 a.m. and that I don't know that that's any way to live Parker ex I don't know if there's a to properly formulate a prediction for a matchup like this is there like what what have you got on it Parker I hope Delaware State enjoys their trip out to Hawaii even though it's already started poorly uh for them and it sounds like the weather's going to be bad which means it's probably hard to get back so a little bit rough there uh things I'll be looking for is you know Hawaii's offense just want to check that they can access that gear against a team that's that's pretty bad so in the first half want to see how many times they create a scoring opportunity they were 121st in Echo rate last season 112th in points per eeko um and so with an experienced quarterback and some some fun wide receivers although I McBride is not on the roster um with some suspension stuff as well so I don't have any information there but that you know say hey okay who's the guy then they they had got to have somebody else step up there um they were really good at success rate in uh the past but they just weren't great with um uh you know explosiveness at all and so you want to see them you know get some of those explosive passes get in structure interesting to see what they do on kickoffs they are uh you know really good and starting field position last year uh overall but um I want to see you know are they going to are they going to kneel the ball and try to get along field that's what I would do is is just take every touch back and and try to create drives and get in Rhythm there but really want to see a lot more opportunity creation out of out of Hawaii there um I don't like anything in this game at all I probably full disclosure will not do anything more than look at the play-by-play stats the next day of this game uh not because I don't love college football but because life is full of of choices so with Delaware you know I I assume you're going to get some jet lag and and feeling gross situations here um you know Hawaii's defense was pretty good against the rush relative to how they were against the pass last year and so uh that would seem to me the the best path for Delaware state to to succeed here is to to run the ball at all but I I don't know they're going to be able to do that against ha's defense uh just want to see some some fundamental games with the weather and the travel issues it's it's hard to be on anything other than negative for for Delaware State here Hawaii coach Timmy Chang admitted in multiple press conferences that they are not going to put anything on film in this game uh because they've got UCLA coming in for a Prime Time CBS game the next week right so at the same time Delaware State might be so bad that Hawaii could cover this by playing completely vanilla just running the same play over and over and over again I mean you never know like Delaware state was number 121 out of 122 FCS play or excuse me FCS teams in yards per play out they gave up 7.21 yards per play last year I mean that is and on offense they weren't much better right number 107 uh in total yards gained per game um you tossed in the fact that like they they missed their 10 and a half hour flight to Hawaii yesterday uh and they they had you know tacked on an extra day just in case something like that happened um but there's no way that I could touch this game right like Hawaii should be improved but they're they're not World beaters but their offense could absolutely torch this defense uh if this number gets up to 42 yeah I might buy back like but I'm not going to feel good about it I this is a this is a rough one to be able to mess with and and as we get later in the week and we see the weather and if it really looks like it's going to pour down and whatnot then yeah I'll be looking at Team totals under and I'll be all that kind of stuff but for right now me 39 A5 is Bonkers but it may not be enough I it might Hawaii's got a better offense than what Miami of Ohio had last year and I mean Miami of Ohio putting up 62 on somebody I mean that is like they couldn't beat some of the high school teams in Ohio that bad just terrible terrible all right [Music]