The remnants of Hurricane Ian are likely to impact several college football games in the southeastern United States on Saturday. As of now, the Sun Belt matchup between Georgia Southern and unbeaten Coastal Carolina from Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Saturday afternoon is a go,'but the total has plummeted from an open of 68.5 points at Caesars Sportsbook to 58 because of the storm.
“It looks like that the Carolinas and Virginia will be impacted the most on Saturday by Hurricane Ian,” said Joey Feazel, lead college football trader at Caesars Sportsbook. “With Georgia Southern-Coastal, they've been hammering Georgia Southern Overs recently. But that tempo and passing game, if that's your gameplan, rain and wind don't mix with that. With those bigger totals, [people betting this Under] really has to do with playing style and whether they like to throw the ball or not, because how this weather affects them most is the passing game.”
According to Coastal Carolina's game notes, playing in the rain won't be very new in this series. In each of the last two games at Georgia Southern in 2019 and 2021, torrential rain poured from start to finish in Statesboro.
Georgia Southern is a good offensive team. The Eagles are averaging 39.8 points per game and scored 45 at Nebraska a few weeks ago in a big upset, which proved to be the final game of the Scott Frost era in Lincoln. Georgia Southern, coached by forme r USC coach Clay Helton, is 10th in the FBS and tops in the Sun Belt with an average of 509.5 yards of offense per game. The Eagles are averaging 322.5 passing yards per game (15th in FBS) and 187.0 rushing yards (42nd in FBS).