The 2023 RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl is on tap with the South Florida Bulls (6-6) set to take on the Syracuse Orange (6-6) at FAU Stadium in Boca Raton, Fla. on Thursday night. Kickoff is at 8 p.m. ET. USF is coming off a dominant 48-14 win over Charlotte in its regular season finale, while the Orange beat Wake Forest 35-31 to become bowl eligible in their last outing of the regular season. Syracuse head coach Dino Babers was fired and Nunzio Campanile will serve as interim head coach. 

The Orange are 3-point favorites in the latest South Florida vs. Syracuse odds via SportsLine consensus, while the over/under for total points scored is 55.5. Syracuse is a -159 (risk $159 to win $100) favorite on the money line, with USF listed as a +133 underdog (see up-to-date odds for every game this week on our college football odds page). 

Before you make any USF vs. Syracuse picks or any other college football predictions, you NEED to see which side proven SportsLine expert Jimmie Kaylor is on. 

Kaylor is a NFL, college football, and DFS expert for SportsLine, who has covered the NFL and college football for close to a decade as a member of the Pro Football Writers of America. His background as a former college football All-American and NFL player gives him a unique perspective when building his fantasy lineups and locking in his betting picks. He has his finger on the pulse of the college football landscape and has been cashing in big for the last two years. 

Kaylor has been red-hot all season, going 81-32-2 overall on his college football best bets for SportsLine this season so far. He is up over 49.65 units, returning a profit of $4,965 for $100 bettors. Anyone who has followed his picks this season is WAY UP!

Now, Kaylor has locked in a confident against-the-spread pick for USF vs. Syracuse in the 2023 Boca Raton Bowl. We can tell you he's going Under on the point total, but he knows a crucial X-factor makes one side of the spread a MUST-BACK! You ABSOLUTELY need to see what it is before locking in any picks of your own.

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Who wins Syracuse vs. South Florida in the 2023 Boca Raton Bowl on Thursday night, and what critical X-factor makes one side of the spread a must-back? ... Join SportsLine right now to see which side of the spread to jump on, all from the expert who is on a 78-32 roll betting on college football this season, and find out!