Coastal Carolina Chanticleers vs UTSA Roadrunners Prediction, Odds and Picks for Today, 12/23/24

The Myrtle Beach Bowl will have an early kickoff time on the East Coast. The competitors in this year’s bowl game will be the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers out of the Sun Belt and the UTSA Roadrunners out of the American Conference. UTSA was an impressive 6-0 on their home turf, but struggled when they played away from San Antonio, sporting a record of 0-6. Unfortunately for the Roadrunners, the Myrtle Beach Bowl is played at Brooks Stadium, Coastal Carolina’s home field. This game will essentially be a home game for Coastal Carolina. Coastal Carolina just became bowl eligible with their sixth win coming in the final week over Georgia State. Before that win, the Chanticleers had lost 6 of 8 games played.

The first question for bowl games is who will be missing due to the transfer portal. Coastal Carolina will be without both quarterbacks that they used this season, Noah Kim and Ethan Vasko. Likely to start for Coastal Carolina will be freshman quarterback Tad Hudson. Monday will be the first snaps Hudson takes at the college level. The Chanticleers will also be without their top cornerback, Matthew McDoom, their starting OLB Clev Lubin, and their starting tight end Kendall Karr. UTSA will only have 4 players entering the transfer portal. The main two players this team will be without are DE Ronald Triplette and DL Joseph Evans who is declaring for the NFL Draft. With both quarterbacks out for Coastal Carolina, they will need to lean on their starting running back Braydon Bennet. More unfortunate news for Coastal Carolina is their offensive line will be missing some key pieces due to injury. Starting RT Zovon Lindsay and LG Anthony Walton will both miss action in this game. Even with the home field advantage, Coastal Carolina has too many missing players and unknowns for this game. UTSA will be led by their 3000-yard passing quarterback, Owen McCown, and I expect them to cover in this contest.

UTSA +10 available at the time of publishing. Playable at that number.

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