Montana (-4) over James Madison
Battle of two (1A) QB's. Craig Ochs was once considered the future a Colorado. While Justin Rascati was getting some playing time at Louisville. Looking at these teams JMU has the rushing game and Montana the passing attack. JMU has eliminated the tournament?s No. 2 and No. 3 seeds during the last two weeks while Montana has outscored its three post-opponents by a 137-37 margin. The tournament?s No. 1 and No. 4 seeds were on Montana?s side of the post-season bracket, but both suffered first-round home losses.
Both teams have the ability to put up points. Looking at the last game JMU got a TON of help from turn-overs. In the first half 2 of 3 JMU scores came of turnovers. However Montana also has a defense capable of creating turn-overs forcing 4 against Sam Houston. The passing game of Montana might cause problems for JMU because they spread the field and like to run crossing patterns. What hurts the Griz, they are a turf team and they are playing on natural grass something will will favor the dukes. Close calls for the Duke (21 point come back against Delaware and close game with W&M) lead me to think Montana might just have more in the tank for this game. If the grizzlies can avoid turnovers they should be able to move the ball efficiently all game.
ALSO
Montana/JMU OVER 51.5
Cheers
Irish
Battle of two (1A) QB's. Craig Ochs was once considered the future a Colorado. While Justin Rascati was getting some playing time at Louisville. Looking at these teams JMU has the rushing game and Montana the passing attack. JMU has eliminated the tournament?s No. 2 and No. 3 seeds during the last two weeks while Montana has outscored its three post-opponents by a 137-37 margin. The tournament?s No. 1 and No. 4 seeds were on Montana?s side of the post-season bracket, but both suffered first-round home losses.
Both teams have the ability to put up points. Looking at the last game JMU got a TON of help from turn-overs. In the first half 2 of 3 JMU scores came of turnovers. However Montana also has a defense capable of creating turn-overs forcing 4 against Sam Houston. The passing game of Montana might cause problems for JMU because they spread the field and like to run crossing patterns. What hurts the Griz, they are a turf team and they are playing on natural grass something will will favor the dukes. Close calls for the Duke (21 point come back against Delaware and close game with W&M) lead me to think Montana might just have more in the tank for this game. If the grizzlies can avoid turnovers they should be able to move the ball efficiently all game.
ALSO
Montana/JMU OVER 51.5
Cheers
Irish
