Georgia Tech game tonight

Someone help me understand the 8.5 point spread. GT is 2-2 with a beat down by Cincinnati, and a close loss to UMass Lowell (who lost to AZ St). They have a close win over a bad Howard team, and the only convincing win they have is over an 0-6 Georgia Southern team who is absolutely dreadful. That was "only" a 22 point win too. Everything indicates this should be an easy win, but ESPN gives them a near 40% chance to beat us and the spread is so low. I understand it's a road game, but dang! It's making me nervous. It's one of those too obvious plays.

That is strange.

Was listening to Hadad and he brought up GATECh results. Dam they are bad. They are still going off their name.

If I had a guess, they are probably getting points solely based off their coach’s name. Which is ridiculous. But the same thing happened early on with Penny at Memphis

They are at home and we have not played a true road game.