Wakeforest22890
Snowpom
Minnesota is -23 against NMSU (who played like absolute trash last week admittedly) but S&P has Minnesota at -9. I've never seen such a wide discrepancy between the two.
All of the marquee games are mentioned above, there are few other games that will give an early indication about potential surprise teams:
- Ole Miss/Texas Tech = This is Kliff Kingsbury's last shot to prove that he can rebuild the Texas Tech program. KK needs to win at least 7 games to keep his job. Losing to Ole Miss would make that next to impossible.
- WV v. Tennessee = WV supposedly has the best offensive team in Dana's Holgerson's run in Morgantown. Will Grier is getting some Heisman hype; TN cleaned house; we shall see if the former Bama DC can bring them a spark.
- Texas v. MD = Maryland has had a catastrophic off-season; a lot is expected out of Texas in year 2 for Tom Herman. MD did hang 50+ on Texas last year, and they do have their QBs back.
- Keep this in mind: earlier this week, William Hill (the leading sports book in LV) accepted a $130K parlay with tOSU laying 37.5 to Oregon State and Wisconsin laying 35.5 to W. Kentucky. This was way above the typical sports book limit, but they accepted the wager, which was a very square play (huge favorites a considered sucker's bets).
The tOSU bet seems really chancy.
Minnesota won 48-10.Minnesota is -23 against NMSU (who played like absolute trash last week admittedly) but S&P has Minnesota at -9. I've never seen such a wide discrepancy between the two.
Yeah NMSU is substantially worse than their preseason rank would suggest. Wonder what’s going on there. I don’t really care but they looked like dogshit the first two weeks.
Love taking in a full slate of Saturday games when we’ve already notched a Thursday W.
New Mexico State got kicked out of the Sun Belt Conference (you know things are bad when the Sun Belt conference doesn't want you). So, NMSU is now an independent. Without a conference affiliation, NMSU could not find enough FBS teams to schedule them, so NMSU plays Liberty (who moved up to FBS this year) twice. Cannot remember that ever happening before.
New Mexico State got kicked out of the Sun Belt Conference (you know things are bad when the Sun Belt conference doesn't want you). So, NMSU is now an independent. Without a conference affiliation, NMSU could not find enough FBS teams to schedule them, so NMSU plays Liberty (who moved up to FBS this year) twice. Cannot remember that ever happening before.