The College Football Playoff is finally here. And first-round action gets underway on Friday with a rematch between SEC teams.
With the most consequential games of the season finally upon us, the DFS market is robust. Here are 4 picks to make for the weekend.
CFP First Round DFS predictions
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Oklahoma QB John Mateer lower than 210.5 passing yards vs. Alabama
A 318-yard day for John Mateer in Oklahoma’s win over LSU broke a string of 4 consecutive outings with less than 200 yards through the air. Mateer threw a season-high-tying 38 passes against the Tigers. He also ran just 8 times, snapping a string of 4 consecutive games with at least 10 rushing attempts. Something worth considering: A tunnel screen to Deion Burks and a deep pass to a wide-open Isaiah Sategna III on a busted play by the LSU secondary produced a third of Mateer’s passing yards that day.
The Sooners’ quarterback returned from a broken hand in OU’s Oct. 11 loss to Texas and he simply hasn’t looked the same since. Including the Texas outing, Mateer has 7 picks in 7 games since his return, 6 touchdown passes, and 3 games with a completion rate under 60%.
In the first meeting with Alabama on Nov. 15, Mateer completed 15 passes for 138 yards. He dropped back to pass a season-low 27 times because Oklahoma knew the way to attack the Crimson Tide wasn’t by asking Mateer, whose decision making and timing have been suspect for long stretches of the season, to dissect the secondary with his arm.
That won’t change in the rematch. Alabama ranks 41st nationally in EPA per rushing attempt allowed and 26th in EPA per dropback allowed, according to Game on Paper. Alabama’s secondary has held teams to 6.1 yards per pass while facing the seventh-fewest pass attempts per game of any FBS team.
Aside from the LSU outing, the only other time Mateer has cleared 210.5 passing yards in a game since his return was Oct. 25 against Ole Miss, when he had a 76-yard touchdown to Sategna and finished with 223 yards through the air. Alabama has given up the second-fewest completions of 20-plus yards this season (19), trailing only Ohio State.
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Credit to Ole Miss for reaching the College Football Playoff this season. The noise surrounding the team over the last month was nauseating. But, maybe more impressive, last year’s team was better. Specifically, the Ole Miss run defense ranked sixth nationally in allowed success rate. This year, the Rebels rank 130th out of 136 FBS teams in allowed rushing success rate.
Ole Miss hasn’t been eaten up by chunk gains on the ground; instead, it has been slashed hundreds of times by little cuts. A year ago, Ole Miss led the nation in tackles for loss, creating more than 9 a game. This year, the defense averaged 5.3 TFLs per contest to rank 84th. The Rebels rank in the 13th percentile for stuff rate and the 16th percentile for line yards per carry allowed.
That their inability to corral opposing ground games wasn’t detrimental to their CFP push is a sign of just how good everything else has been. The Rebels have been excellent on offense and strong defending against the pass.
Tulane matches up well enough to exploit the one weakness, though. Tulane has a run rate of 55.4% this season. The backfield is complete with a quarterback who is a threat to run on any given down and 2 freshmen tailbacks who have shared the spotlight.
Jamauri McClure is the hotter hand. Over his last 4 games, McClure has averaged 101.5 yards per game and 6.8 yards per carry. He had just 8 rushing attempts through the first 9 games of the season, citing too many mistakes in fall camp as a reason for his lack of early-season opportunities. He has made the most of his chances over the last month, and that should continue against the Rebels.
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