PEACH BOWL (Atlanta) -- The image of UCF running up numbers at a video-game pace has vaulted this total by 4.5 points into shootout territory. The Knights have cleared the Over in their past four games with an offense superior to its predecessors. Yet history shows that it gets contained against SEC opposition. The Under is on a 7-0-1 track for UCF versus the SEC. Bowls trend to bring out the defense in Auburn, which is 3-0-1 Under in its recent postseason gigs. Similarly, the Tigers have not tasted an Over in a half-dozen recent non-league encounters. Will thus Auburn D follow suit? You decide: It ranks 10th in the country with a measly 17.3 points yielded per game.

PEACH BOWL (Atlanta) -- With running back Kerryon Johnson healthy, a stout offensive line, versatile defensive line and motivation after UCF gave Auburn bulletin board material saying that the Tigers weren't ready for the speed of the Knights, the Tigers will come out fired up in the Peach Bowl. Games are won and lost in the trenches, and the Tigers will make this a fist fight from the beginning, pull away in the second half and make it sting a little bit for a UCF squad that will suffer through some issues with former coach Scott Frost hanging around to coach despite pulling double duty with his new gig with Nebraska.

PEACH BOWL (Atlanta) -- The worst thing that could happen to a team like Auburn is to play a ticked off Group of 5 team in a major bowl game. UCF’s playbook will be completely open and it will use this platform to show the CFP committee that it made a bad choice in leaving the Knights out.