MAC Championship Preview & Best Bets: Miami of Ohio vs. Ohio

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00:00All right, what are we going back to now?

00:04Let's fly through it then.

00:05We got the MAAC championship Miami of Ohio against Ohio, two and a half is pretty much

00:09anywhere you look between 44 and 44 and a half on the total.

00:13So that number coming up today in Detroit, I'm taking a chance personally on Parker Navarro,

00:18the quarterback for Ohio over 65 and a half rush yards.

00:21I just think this is a chance where some would say, oh, we're paying top of market.

00:26Maybe they just don't catch up all season long.

00:27He's averaging 96 rush yards per game in MAAC play with 100 plus in three straight games.

00:33One of the games he did miss against just two of them in MAAC play came against Miami

00:37of Ohio.

00:38So perhaps Parker Navarro knows, okay, I got to step it up on the ground, continue to throw

00:41different looks at this team.

00:43That's on play.

00:44It's a good look because it's a contrarian look.

00:46And I like that in terms of these championship games, you have Ohio that has won five straight

00:49by 27 points per game, defensively, Ohio only given up 97 yards on the ground.

00:54You look at the flip side for Miami of Ohio.

00:57They're giving up 128 yards in terms of opposing offenses.

01:01Last eight games though, last eight games, they have held opposing offenses to 92.6 points

01:06per game in terms of the rushing attack.

01:08I like Gabbard.

01:09I like Martin in terms of this spot.

01:11They're battle tested.

01:12They're blue collar play.

01:14Very good defense.

01:15I'm going to lay it with Miami of Ohio, but I'm going to take the over.

01:17Brent Gabbard is a very experienced quarterback for this Red Hawks team under Chuck Martin,

01:23who won the MAAC championship a year ago.

01:26These two programs, staples of consistency within the Mid-American Conference.

01:31Miami of Ohio played three games in their non-conference against Power Four competition.

01:36Northwestern, the rivalry game against Cincinnati and Notre Dame.

01:40They only were a three-point underdog to both the Cats and the Bearcats, and they covered

01:45against the Irish.

01:46Notre Dame hates to see a MAAC team coming.

01:49Miami of Ohio-Temegio, the defense being the difference why in their final seven games,

01:55they won seven in a row, only allowing fewer than 13 points per game.