College Football Betting: Air Force at Colorado State

Mountain West Conference action on Saturday as the Air Force Falcons make the short trip from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins to take on the Rams of Colorado State University. Colorado State is coming off a rough outing at Utah State-their defense did a decent job of holding the Aggies in check but they couldn’t get anything going offensively. Air Force was last in action last Thursday losing at home to UNLV.

Colorado State finished 4-8 in Jim McElwain’s first year as head coach but they’ve turned things around in 2013 and have the opportunity to secure a winning record with a victory in this matchup. Heading into the 2013 season there was a concern that whatever improvement that took place last season was more of a function of favorable scheduling than anything else. Those fears turned out to be unjustified as the Rams have improved upon last year’s performance despite a markedly tougher schedule. In particular, Colorado State has developed a very potent rushing attack. Despite not putting up impressive numbers in Logan against Utah State last week they should find the going much easier against a defensively weak Falcons.

This may be one of the worst Air Force teams in recent memory. They’re down to their third string quarterback and rank #111 in team defense. Their only SU victories this season have come against an overmatched FCS opponent (Colgate) and lowly Army. They’ve been a horrible pointspread team not only this year (3-8 ATS) but are on a brutal ATS run of 12-25 ATS since 2011. Aside from their victory over Army their only covers of the year came in a decent effort at Nevada and a backdoor job at Boise State-a game they still lost by 21 points. Colorado State has a lot to play for here and getting over .500 in a game against an in state rival only makes it better. For this year at least, there will be little that the banged up Falcons can do about it. The number on this game is large but there’s little to suggest that Air Force will be able to do anything to contain Colorado State’s punishing ground attack with their statistically awful defense.

BET COLORADO STATE -15′ OVER AIR FORCE