Thursday night college football and we will see the Marshall Thundering Herd travel to Murfreesboro, Tennessee to take on the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders. The game has a start time of 7:00 PM (Eastern) and will be televised on Fox Sports 1. Current odds for the game have Marshall listed as 7.5 point favorites, while the total sits at 57.

Analysis: The Marshal Thundering Herd come into this game off a bye week and prior to the bye they took a 1 point victory at Florida Atlantic, which gave them a 4-2 mark overall and a 2-0 mark inside of Conference USA. Marshall is led on offense by Rakeem Cato, who has thrown for 1572 yards with 12 Tds and 5 INTs on the year. His favorite target is Tommy Shule, who has 43 catches for 456 yards, while Gator Hoskins leads the team with 5 TD catches. Essray Taliaferro leads an average ground attack with 368 yards thus far. Overall this is a solid offense that is 27^th in the nation in coring at 36.7 ppg. Defensively this is a very tout group, a they come in ranked 10^th in total defense (298.2 ypg), 10^th vs the pass (q180.3 ypg) and 14^th in points allowed (18.3 ppg).

The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders enter the game at 3-4 on the year and 1-2 in conference play. MTSU is usually know for having an explosive offense, but that is not the case this years, as they come in 107th in total offense and 108^th n passing offense, while scoring just 22.6 ppg, which is 99^th in the country. QB Logan Kilgore leads this group and has struggled this year, throwing for 1086 yards with 6 Tds and 8 INTs. Logan did go 8 for 8 in his last game vs North Texas (a MTSU 34-7 loss), but he threw for just for just 30 yards in the game. Just not a very good offense and their defense hasn't been all that better either. The Blue raiders come in 102^nd in the nation in total defense, allowing 449.7 ypg, while also giving up 29.9 ppg, which is 86^th in the nation.

Pick: I will be going with the Under in this game. I know that MTSU has a bad defense and that Marshall can score allot, but really that's were the bulk of the points will come from. The Thundering Herd come in with a top tot 10 defense, both overall and vs the pass, while they have allowed just 18.3 ppg, which is 14^th nationally. Just one team here has a chance to put up any real points in this game and that is Marshall, but still it won't be enough to put this game over the total. Marshall 28-20.

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