Birmingham Bowl: Duke Vs. Troy - Can Blue Devils match pace?
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00 the game. Joe, one of the
00:05 stories of this game. Of
00:06 course, of course, the coaching
00:07 turnover for both teams. Troy's
00:09 John Sumrall, now the head
00:11 coach at Tulane. Mike Elko at
00:13 Duke where he spent the
00:14 previous two seasons. Now, the
00:16 head man at Texas A and M. How
00:18 do you incorporate that into
00:19 your breakdown of the
00:20 Birmingham Bowl? Well, you look
00:21 at some of the players for Duke
00:22 there. Leading receiver,
00:24 Calhoun is out. Jordan Waters,
00:25 one of their starting
00:26 running backs is out. That's
00:28 going to put a lot of pressure
00:29 on Duke to go toe to toe with a
00:31 team that had won ten straight
00:33 games. Let's not forget, even
00:34 though the coach isn't there,
00:36 Troy had a heater. Won ten
00:37 straight by an average margin of
00:39 victory of nineteen and a half
00:41 points per game. Gunner Watson,
00:43 their starting quarterback,
00:44 will play in this ballgame. He's
00:46 a competent quarterback that has
00:47 completed well over 60 percent
00:49 of his passes. And again, this
00:51 defense is very opportunistic
00:53 for Troy. Here's the matchup.
00:55 Can Duke run the football on
00:57 that front seven? If they can,
00:58 it will be in the ballgame. I
00:59 don't care who starts at
01:01 quarterback. It will be loft
01:03 this for Duke. Yeah. It is ACC
01:05 talent going up against Sunbelt
01:07 talent and that's why I'm going
01:09 to take, Troy might win, but I'm
01:11 going to take Duke plus the
01:12 seven and a half points. I think
01:13 they have way too much speed,
01:15 Gav. I think they keep it well
01:16 within the number today.
01:19 (upbeat music)