The UAB Blazers will try avoid a misstep in their opener when they host FCS foe the Central Arkansas Bears at Legion Field on Thursday night. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. ET in Birmingham, Ala. UAB is an 18.5-point favorite in the latest odds, while the over-under is 48. Before betting this game, you NEED to see what SportsLine's Emory Hunt has to say.

Hunt is the founder and CEO of Football Gameplan, which has been supplying analysis of all levels of football since 2007, and a former running back at Louisiana-Lafayette. He knows the game from a playing and coaching perspective.

The football analyst was SportsLine's No. 1 college football expert last season. Hunt went 116-79 on college football against-the-spread picks in 2019, returning a HUGE profit of $2,976 to his followers. He capped off the year with LSU -5.5 over Clemson in the national championship. Anyone who has followed him is WAY UP!

Now, he has locked in on Central Arkansas vs. UAB from every angle. We can tell you Hunt is leaning Over the total, but his MUCH stronger play is on the spread. Hunt has found a critical x-factor that has him going BIG on one side of the spread! You ABSOLUTELY need to see it before locking in your own picks.

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