- Kam Davis is priced at -110 to score anytime despite just one touchdown in three games this season.
- Colton Hinton and Clayton Coppock each have three receiving touchdowns, yet both carry longer odds than Liberty’s scoreless lead back.
- Liberty’s Makai Jackson has caught three touchdowns on nine catches this season, tied for the most of any player in the game.
- Coastal Carolina running back Dominic Lee-Knicely scored twice against Fordham this season and returns as a change-of-pace option.
CONWAY, S.C. – Liberty running back Kam Davis carries the shortest anytime-touchdown price for Thursday night’s game at Coastal Carolina, even though he has reached the end zone only once through three games this season.
Backs Get The Short Money
Davis has 29 carries for 144 yards and a single score for the Flames (2-1), who blew out Ball State 51-15 last week. His backfield partner, Peyton Jones, has taken on more of the workload, 31 carries for 136 yards, without finding the end zone at all, yet Jones is still priced as short as any Liberty player besides Davis.
Jaylon Coleman has scored on far fewer touches, one touchdown on just 10 carries, and still checks in longer than both. The board is reading early-down and goal-line role for this game, not who has actually scored through three weeks.
Coastal Carolina’s Jevon Edwards fits the same pattern. He leads the Chanticleers (1-2) with 33 carries and 120 yards but has yet to score, and his legal sports betting price still sits inside the shortest tier on the entire board.
Two Young Quarterbacks, No Rushing Scores Yet
Liberty’s Deshawn Purdie, a Wake Forest transfer in his first season with the Flames, has thrown five touchdown passes this season and completed 13 of 20 attempts for 211 yards and three scores in the Ball State win alone. He has 19 carries and zero rushing touchdowns of his own.
Coastal Carolina’s Deuce Bailey, a redshirt freshman playing just his fourth career start, has thrown for eight touchdowns and 826 yards; the Sun Belt named him its Offensive Player of the Week after his Chanticleers debut. Bailey also has 26 carries with no rushing scores of his own.
Both quarterbacks are priced ahead of receivers who have already found the end zone multiple times, a sign the board expects a scramble or a sneak before it expects another touchdown throw.
| Player | Team | Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Kam Davis | Liberty | -110 |
| Deshawn Purdie | Liberty | +110 |
| Jevon Edwards | Coastal Carolina | +110 |
| Peyton Jones | Liberty | +110 |
| Dominic Lee-Knicely | Coastal Carolina | +115 |
| Jaylon Coleman | Liberty | +140 |
| Deuce Bailey | Coastal Carolina | +145 |
| Makai Jackson | Liberty | +200 |
| Clayton Coppock | Coastal Carolina | +270 |
| Colton Hinton | Coastal Carolina | +275 |
Coastal Carolina’s Scorers Go Overlooked
Hinton and Coppock have combined for six touchdown catches on 17 receptions this season, matching or beating every running back on this board, and both still sit at the two longest prices anyway. Makai Jackson, Liberty’s clear top target with 230 yards on his nine grabs, is priced shorter than either of them at +200 but still trails every non-scoring back and both quarterbacks.
Lee-Knicely, meanwhile, is Coastal Carolina’s most proven scorer relative to touches, with two rushing touchdowns already this month in a 45-7 rout of Fordham, and he still sits shorter than either of his own team’s touchdown-scoring receivers. For a college football betting board built around a single game, role is outweighing the box score at almost every position.
Coastal Carolina has lost both of its road games, 22-14 at Delaware last week and 31-24 at West Virginia in the opener, and needs touchdowns against a Liberty defense that ranks 54th nationally, allowing 19.3 points a game. Liberty sits as a 3.0-point favorite ahead of Thursday night’s kickoff.
