PowerS’ pickS $15 Volume 8 Issue 4 July Issue © 2020 BP Sports, LLC Powers’ Picks #1 Newsletter Last 5 Years!!! 66 College Football Team Previews in this Issue! Will there be a football season? We are currently living in times of great uncertainty. First and foremost, our thoughts are BP Sports 1st Annual CFB Preview with all of you as we hope you stay safe and healthy in the coming weeks and months. (Released August 12th) With regards to our industry, right now we’re not sure if football is going to be played or not this season. If you asked us a month ago on whether there would be a football season in -Team-by-team previews 2020, we would have said yes. However, the last few weeks have not trended in the right -Final preseason power ratings for all 130 teams direction and those chances of having a season are probably 50/50. -Updated win/loss projections for all 130 teams One thing we do know is that unlike a lot of our competitors you won’t see us hand- icapping Korean baseball, Russian table tennis, golf, UFC, European soccer or Na- -Projected lines for every game scar just to earn some quick money and pass the time away. We’re not experts on -Conference Predictions those sports! We never have been and we’re not going to pretend like we have an edge just to take your money. BP Sports is a football service first and foremost! We also -Best Bets handicap basketball in the football off-season. Therefore, we might dive into a little -Strength of schedule ratings of the NBA that is scheduled to start later this month, but that is it! -Up/Downs for every position on every team What we have been working on the last three months is football prep. Two months ago, we got you covered with the CFB preview in our spring issue and last month we previewed -Updated Group of 5 information from this issue the NFL season. We gave you several best bets, power ratings, projected lines on every -ATS Records and Stats single game and more. If you didn’t see these issues yet, check your email or just go to bradpowerssports.com and download them. Quite frankly, we don’t think there is a single -5-year ATS logs service or handicapper that has put in more time and effort this off-season. -Game-by-game 2019 recaps In this issue, we are proud to include all of our Group of 5 conference team previews (66 pages for 66 teams). 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Powers’ Picks #1 Newsletter Last 5 Years!! 2015-19 Combined Nationwide Football Newsletter Contest (Regular Season Only) We are happy to provide you with the records, standings and plays used from the Power Sweep (3H, 4H & Underdog), Gold Sheet (Key Releases), Power Plays (4.5H), Sports Reporter (Best & Super Bets), Winning Points (Best Bets & Preferred), Playbook (3-5H’s), Pointwise (Ratings 1-4) and Powers’ Picks (1-4H’s) College NFL College/NFL Combined Newsletter W L T % Net Newsletter W L T % Net Newsletter W L T % Net Sports Reporter 136 115 8 54.18% 21 Powers’ Picks 147 99 7 59.76% 48 Powers’ Picks 322 259 14 55.42% 63 Powers’ Picks 175 160 7 52.24% 15 Sports Reporter 92 77 3 54.44% 15 Sports Reporter 228 192 11 54.29% 36 Power Sweep 137 127 4 51.89% 10 Gold Sheet 133 113 9 54.07% 20 Power Sweep 223 203 11 52.35% 20 Playbook 96 93 11 50.79% 3 Power Sweep 86 76 7 53.09% 10 Gold Sheet 257 257 14 50.00% 0 Winning Points 202 201 8 50.12% 1 Pointwise 124 124 9 50.00% 0 Pointwise 321 321 21 50.00% 0 Pointwise 197 197 12 50.00% 0 Winning Points 165 166 9 49.85% -1 Winning Points 367 367 17 50.00% 0 Power Plays 104 109 10 48.83% -5 Power Plays 43 47 0 47.78% -4 Playbook 214 224 17 48.86% -10 Gold Sheet 124 144 5 46.27% -20 Playbook 118 131 6 47.39% -13 Power Plays 147 156 10 48.51% -9 Combined 1171 1146 65 50.54% 25 Combined 908 833 50 52.15% 75 Combined 2079 1979 115 51.23% 100 2020 UCF Football Preview Team Profile # Rk 2019 Stats 2019 Game-By-Game Recap 2020 Team Power Rating 81.2 17 Rushing UCF Rk Opp Rk Teams Open Close Score ATS Florida A&M 64.5 65.5 0 Under: 3.5 Power Ratings Diff vs Last Year 0.9 58 YPC 5.2 17 3.5 20 UCF -45.5 -45 62 Cover: 17 2020 Strength of Schedule 66.2 75 YPG 223.8 19 146.6 53 -UCF dominated just as the final would indicate with 42-8 first Passing UCF Rk Opp Rk down and 694-96 yard edges including 338-4 on the ground. 2020 Season Win Projection 10.0 6 Comp % 59.3% 77 52.4% 8 -UCF QB Brandon Wimbush was 12 of 23 for 168 yards & 2 Returning Starters (OFF/DEF) 16 (8/8) 20 YPA 9.0 11 5.9 4 TD’s & backup Dillon Gabriel threw for 127 yards and 3 TD’s. Head Coach (Yr) UCF -7.5 -12.5 48 Cover: 21.5 Josh Heupel (3) Return Starting QB (YES/NO) YES YPG 316.7 8 199.5 26 Florida Atlantic 69 68 14 Under: 6 Offensive Coord. Returning Production % 71% 38 TD-INT 36-8 17-13 -UCF had a 574-314 yard edge including 312-137 rushing. Alex Golesh (1) Total UCF Rk Opp Rk -Dillon Gabriel got the start for UCF and while he was only 7 of Anthony Tucker (1) Returning Offense Production 67% 61 YPP 6.9 8 4.6 5 19, he threw for 245 yards and 2 TD’s. Defensive Coord. Returning Defense Production 75% 35 -Florida Atlantic disappointed a home crowd of 30,811, largest Randy Shannon (3) YPG 540.5 2 346.1 32 in the program’s history. Conference/Div 2020 Recruiting (Signees) 20 71 Scoring UCF Rk Opp Rk Stanford 55.5 59.5 27 Over: 12.5 American 2020 Roster Talent Rank 63 PPG 43.4 5 23.0 41 UCF -7 -9.5 45 Cover: 8.5 3rd Down UCF Rk Opp Rk -UCF had a 545-349 yard edge. -UCF led 38-7 at HT and Stanford got a late fumble return TD 2020 Offense/Defense Analysis % 40.5% 60 29.3% 5 that made the final look better than what it actually was.