Bahamas Bowl, Cure Bowl parlay picks for December 16th: Model and expert plays include potential 12-1 payout

College football bowl season kicks off on Friday, December 16th as the Miami (OH) RedHawks and UAB Blazers face off in the HomeTown Lenders Bahamas Bowl. One the same day, a pair of conference champions, the No. 25 UTSA Roadrunners (Conference USA) and No. 24 Troy Trojans (Sun Belt), meet in the Duluth Trading Cure Bowl.

Miami (OH) and UAB both enter play at matching 6-6 records, with Caesars Sportsbook installing UAB as an 11 point favorite and the total at 44.5. UTSA and Troy are both 11-2 and enter the game on ten-game winning streaks. Caesars favors the Trojans by 1.5 points with the total set at 54.5.

Before you submit your parlays for these games, check out what the SportsLine Projection Model and SportsLine college football analyst Eric Cohen recommend for this Friday's games.

The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every FBS college football game 10,000 times. Over the past six-plus years, the proprietary computer model has generated a stunning profit of almost $2,500 for $100 players on its top-rated college football picks against the spread. Anyone who has followed it has seen HUGE returns.

Cohen finished one game above .500 with his picks on the season, including an impressive 17-8 run over the final two weeks of the season. His SEC conference parlays generated more than 11 units of profit for bettors who followed his selections.

One of the bowl picks the model is high on: UTSA +1 in the Cure Bowl. The Roadrunners are scorching hot and have lost only twice this season, to Houston in triple overtime and to No. 20 Texas.

Another prediction: Cohen is taking the over 44.5 in the Bahamas Bowl, siding with the model. He cites historical perspective in the only bowl game not played in the U.S.: "In six of the seven times this bowl has been played, the winning team has scored at least 31 points."

You ABSOLUTELY need to see their Friday bowl parlays before locking in any of your own. 

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