Saturday’s bowl schedule features multiple ranked teams, one of the best matchups of bowl season
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Bowl Season is starting to heat up as we have three games to enjoy the day after Christmas.
The action begins with the First Responder Bowl, featuring Billy Napier’s Louisiana team and UTSA. This bowl game is played in Dallas.
Louisiana enters the game on a six-game winning streak and an overall record of 9-1 on the season, with the only loss coming to undefeated Coastal Carolina. UTSA enters the game having won four of its final five games.
Louisiana is favored by 14 points in the bowl game.
SERVPRO First Responder Bowl
#19 Louisiana vs. UTSA at 3:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. CT on ABC
Next up is the LendingTree Bowl, featuring the Sun Belt’s Georgia State vs. Conference USA team Western Kentucky. Both of these teams went 3-2 during the final five games of the season.
Georgia State is favored by 3.5 in this Mobile-based bowl game.
LendingTree Bowl
Western Kentucky vs. Georgia State at 3:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. CT on ESPN
Finally, the best game of the day has been reserved for the evening as 11-0 Coastal Carolina is set to take on 9-1 Liberty, coached by Hugh Freeze.
This game was supposed to take place during the season, with ESPN College GameDay set to broadcast from Coastal Carolina, but Liberty had to pull out of the game due to COVID. In the place of Liberty, Coastal quickly scheduled BYU on Dec. 5. Coastal won that matchup 22-17, handing 11-1 BYU its only loss of the season.
Coastal Carolina is a seven-point favorite in this Orlando-based bowl game.
FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl
#12 Coastal Carolina vs. Liberty at 7:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. CT on ESPN
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com
