Dirty's Online Gambling Headlines: DXL Frisco Bowl: SMU and Louisiana Tech Square Off

Inaugural DXL Frisco Bowl Could be High-Scoring

The LA Tech Bulldogs and the SMU Mustangs will meet in the Inaugural DXL Frisco Bowl on Wednesday night. Toyota Stadium, the home of Dallas FC, will host the event and kick-off will be at 8 pm EST. ESPN will have the coverage.

Oddsmakers opened the Mustangs as -5-point favorites versus the Bulldogs, while the game's total opened at 68. SMU is now a 4-point favorite. The total has climbed to 71.

SMU has had a stressful time going on lately. The Mustangs are preparing for their first bowl game since 2012. With a change of head coaches since the end of the regular season, they have had more than just the normal game week prep.

Sonny Dykes, the Mustangs new head coach, will be leading his team against his former squad. Dykes coached LaTech from 2010-12.

This will be the fifth ever meeting between the two schools. Louisiana Tech has won three times. The Bulldogs won the most recent meeting 41-10 in Dallas.

DXL Frisco Bowl is Chance to get Used to New System

SMU won its last outing, a 41-38 result against the Tulane Green Wave on November 25. SMU failed to cover in that game as a -7.5-point favorite, while the 79 combined points took the game OVER the total.

The Mustangs finished the 2017 regular season 7-5. The seven wins are the most for SMU since 2012. It is the most in a regular season since 2011.

Only nine days will have passed between Dykes' hiring and the playing of the Frisco Bowl. Dykes takes over the surging Mustangs' program from Chad Morris. He left the school to become coach at Arkansas.

That's not nearly enough time for Dykes to install his Air Raid offense. In this game he will just sit back and let some of the team's remaining assistants call the game.

SMU is one of only two teams in the country with a 3,000-yard passer, in Ben Hicks, a 1,000-yard rusher, in Xavier Jones and two 1,000 yard receivers in Courtland Sutton and Trey Quinn. Quinn leads the nation in receptions per game at 8.8.

LaTech Became Eligible for DXL Frisco Bowl in Season Finale

LA Tech was a 20-6 winner in their most recent outing at home against UTSA Roadrunners. They covered the +1-point spread as underdogs, while the total score (26) made winners of UNDER bettors.

Louisiana Tech is 6-6 and didn't become bowl eligible until the regular-season finale versus Texas-San Antonio. There were 81 teams eligible to earn a bowl game invitation. That was three more than the 78 total spots. The Bulldogs ended up one of the fortunate 6-6 teams to be extended an invitation to the postseason game.

Quarterback J'Mar Smith threw for 2,758 yards and 13 touchdowns this season. That includes five scores to Conference USA co-newcomer of the year Teddy Veal. Veal had 69 catches and 832 yards.

Defensively, defensive end Jaylon Ferguson has 26.5 career sacks. He had a team-high six sacks while senior safety Secdrick Cooper had 63 tackles and two interceptions. Cornerback Amik Robertson led the team with four interceptions to go with 58 tackles and two sacks.

Name	Record	ATS	Offense	Defense	Diff	ATS Home	ATS Away	OU Record	OU Home	OU Away
Louisiana Tech	6-6	6-6	28.75	26.67	2.08	2-5	4-1	6-6	4-3	2-3
Southern Methodist	7-5	6-6	40.17	35.50	4.67	5-2	1-4	7-5	4-3	3-2

Yards Per Point

Name	Offense	Defense	Differential
LATECH	14.15	14.82	-0.67
SMU	12.3	13.71	-1.41

Yards Per Pass

Name	Offense	Defense	Differential
LATECH	12.82	11.91	0.91
SMU	14.00	14.20	-0.2

Yards Per Rush

Name	Offense	Defense	Differential
LATECH	4.60	4.77	-0.17
SMU	5.02	5.04	-0.02

LA Tech Bulldogs

Name	Record	Home	Away	ATS	ATS Home	ATS Away	Offense	Defense	Diff
Overall	6-6	3-4	3-2	6-6	2-5	4-1	28.75	26.67	2.08
vs Conf	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Last 3	2-1	1-1	1-0	2-1	1-1	1-0	28.33	25.00	3.33

SMU Mustangs

Name	Record	Home	Away	ATS	ATS Home	ATS Away	Offense	Defense	Diff
Overall	7-5	6-1	1-4	6-6	5-2	1-4	40.17	35.50	4.67
vs Conf	4-4	3-1	1-3	2-6	2-2	0-4	36.25	37.88	-1.63
Last 3	1-2	1-0	0-2	0-3	0-1	0-2	42.00	49.00	-7.00

Title	Stat	Rank	Stat	Rank
Away Team Overall Scoring vs Home Team Overall Defense	28.75	64	35.50	112
Home Team Overall Scoring vs Away Team Overall Defense	40.17	8	26.67	67

Name	Record	ATS	OU	Score	Rush	YPR	PA	CP	PY	TY	TO +/-
Louisiana Tech	3-1	3-1	1-1	38.00	165.00	5.50	29.75	55.46	242.50	407.50	1.00
Southern Methodist	1-3	1-3	1-1	14.75	114.00	2.78	39.25	52.23	220.00	334.00	3.00

Date	Away	Home	Score	Line	Total	OU Result	ARY	APY	ATY	ATT	HRY
Oct 16, 2004	LATECH	SMU	41-10	277	313	590	1	62	288	350	5
Nov 8, 2003	SMU	LATECH	6-41	162	80	242	2	192	209	401	1
Oct 19, 2002	LATECH	SMU	34-37	135	259	394	1	162	296	458	2
Sep 1, 2001	SMU	LATECH	6-36	70	216	286	3	56	189	245	1

LA Tech Bulldogs
The total has gone OVER in 17 of Louisiana Tech's last 25 games

SMU Mustangs
Southern Methodist is 1-6 ATS in its last 7 games

LA Tech Bulldogs

Date	Opponent	score	Result	line	ATS Result	offensive rush yards	offensive passing yards	offensive total yards	defensive rush yards	defensive passing yards	defensive total yards	turnovers	Location
Nov 25, 2017	UTSA	20-6	W	1/52	W/U	193	101	294	110	91	201	0	H
Nov 18, 2017	UTEP	42-21	W	-17/48.5	W/O	343	203	546	163	261	424	-1	A
Nov 11, 2017	FLAATL	23-48	L	3.5/68	L/O	186	326	512	194	221	415	-1	H
Nov 4, 2017	NTEXAS	23-24	L	0/67	L/U	147	168	315	212	203	415	-1	H
Oct 28, 2017	RICE	42-28	W	-11.5/51.5	W/O	180	237	417	247	187	434	-4	A

SMU Mustangs

Date	Opponent	score	Result	line	ATS Result	offensive rush yards	offensive passing yards	offensive total yards	defensive rush yards	defensive passing yards	defensive total yards	turnovers	Location
Nov 25, 2017	TULANE	41-38	W	-7.5/66	L/O	103	375	478	171	314	485	2	H
Nov 18, 2017	MEMPHS	45-66	L	11/70	L/O	259	218	477	333	331	664	0	A
Nov 11, 2017	NAVY	40-43	L	1.5/66	L/O	165	261	426	559	0	559	0	A
Nov 4, 2017	UCF	24-31	L	14/75	W/U	206	283	489	203	412	615	-2	H
Oct 27, 2017	TULSA	38-34	W	-12/77	L/U	215	366	581	246	212	458	-1	H