{"id":318895,"date":"2025-01-03T16:26:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T21:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=318895"},"modified":"2025-01-03T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T21:26:40","slug":"buffalo-vs-liberty-best-bets-bahamas-bowl-ncaaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/buffalo-vs-liberty-best-bets-bahamas-bowl-ncaaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo vs. Liberty Bahamas Bowl best bets and odds: Without Kaidon Salter, expect Flames to burn out against Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From Nassau, Bahamas, the Buffalo Bulls battle the Liberty Flames in the final non-playoff bowl game of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The pregame narrative:<\/strong> Liberty underwhelmed this year, while Buffalo outperformed most people&#8217;s expectations \u2014 and now it&#8217;s the Bulls who are favoured in this paradisal showdown. I&#8217;ll lay the points with Buffalo, a team that should also clear its point total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my Buffalo vs. Liberty best bets for the Bahamas Bowl on Jan. 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Buffalo vs. Liberty best bets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Go to full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/sports\/american_football\/competitions\/11489\">college football betting markets<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best Bet: Buffalo -3 (-110)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaidon Salter was supposed to lead Liberty back to the Conference USA mountaintop, but that didn&#8217;t happen. And after an 8-3 season (with one game postponed due to weather), Salter has sauntered off to Colorado via the transfer portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The redshirt junior QB is far from Liberty&#8217;s only absence in the Bahamas Bowl. Other notable players include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>RB1 Quinton Cooley (1,254 rush yards)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Starting LB Jerome Jolly Jr. (55 tackles)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two starting offensive linemen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Appalachian State transfer Ryan Burger steps in at quarterback, and he&#8217;ll be a complete unknown after attempting just 24 passes over three seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing we do know is that Burger doesn&#8217;t possess Salter&#8217;s talent as a runner. Salter scampered for 579 yards and seven TDs on 5.1 yards\/carry this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buffalo probably had less talent to begin with compared to Liberty, but the Bulls have also had much less of a talent drain via opt-outs and transfer portal moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of Buffalo&#8217;s starters are expected to miss Saturday&#8217;s game. And the Bulls will have the best player on either side, linebacker Shaun Dolac, who landed AP first-team All-American honours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buffalo (8-4) won by at least a field goal in each of its victories. And all four of its losses came against teams that have since won a bowl game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key stat:<\/strong> Liberty went 3-8 ATS this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick pick<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Buffalo over 26.5 points (-118):<\/strong> Buffalo had a pretty terrible offence this year, at least from an efficiency standpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of 134 schools, the Bulls ranked 113th in success rate and 130th in yards per play, according to gameonpaper.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a full-strength Liberty squad let Kennesaw State put up 27 points this year, and the Owls had arguably the worst offence in the country: 132nd in success rate, 134th in yards per play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven of Liberty&#8217;s 11 opponents scored 24-plus points, so the Flames are familiar with allowing a point total that&#8217;s at least in this range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for Buffalo, the team has gone over 26.5 points in six of its past seven games. The Bulls played a lot of feeble Mid-American Conference schools in that stretch, mind you, but that&#8217;s still nice to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With at least three key contributors out on defence for Liberty, this is an attainable number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Picks made at 4:00 p.m. ET 01\/03\/2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Nassau, Bahamas, the Buffalo Bulls battle the Liberty Flames in the final non-playoff bowl game of the season. The pregame narrative: Liberty underwhelmed this year, while Buffalo outperformed most people&#8217;s expectations \u2014 and now it&#8217;s the Bulls who are favoured in this paradisal showdown. I&#8217;ll lay the points with Buffalo, a team that should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":318889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[452,77],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-318895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-com","category-college-football","tag-college-football-betting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Buffalo vs. Liberty best bets: Bahamas Bowl | NorthStar Bets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Buffalo vs. Liberty best bets for the Bahamas Bowl. 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