Week 1 College Football Lines, Marquee Games, and Two Early Picks
By Vik Chokshi
Even though the first kickoff of the college football season is three months away, the betting lines for week one have already been released.
The biggest week one matchups are:
Miami (Fl.) -3 vs. LSU (n)
Louisville vs. Alabama (n) -27
Virginia Tech at Florida State -5.5
Auburn -3.5 vs. Washington (n)
West Virginia -9 vs. Tennessee (n)
Michigan -1 at Notre Dame
I know it is early, but two numbers immediately caught my eye.
Northwestern at Purdue -3. QB Clayton Thorson is still recovering from his ACL injury, and RB Justin Jackson left. Those two guys were the entire offense last year. It will take Jeff Brohm some time to build out his own roster, so this is more of a fade of the Wildcats.
FAU +21 at Oklahoma. Lane Kiffin had the Owls balling last year, and their offense should be good again this year. They should put up enough points in this one to hang around and cover this inflated number.
These numbers will surely move a lot in the upcoming months, so am locking these two in now. Week one can’t get here fast enough!
BetOnline has all the odds posted, so here goes:
" Saturday, Aug 25 Wyoming -4 at New Mexico St Colorado St -14 vs. Hawaii Thursday, Aug 30 Central Florida -20.5 at Uconn Purdue -3 vs. Northwestern Minnesota -14.5 vs. New Mexico St Wake Forest -9 at Tulane Friday, Aug 31 Michigan St -27 vs. Utah State Syracuse -4.5 at Western Michigan Wisconsin -33 vs. Western Kentucky Colorado -6 vs. Colorado St Stanford -14.5 vs. San Diego St Saturday, Sep 1 Oklahoma -23 vs. Florida Atlantic Houston -21 at Rice Ohio St -38 vs. Oregon St Penn St -27 vs. Appalachian St Duke -10.5 vs. Army Nebraska -18.5 vs. Akron Boston College -20 vs. Umass Illinois -14.5 vs. Kent St Rutgers -13.5 vs. Texas St Indiana -13 at Florida International Iowa -13 vs. NIU Texas -10.5 at Maryland Boise St -10.5 at Troy Louisiana Tech -10 at South Alabama Marshall Pick’EM at Miami Ohio North Texas -1.5 vs. SMU Vanderbilt -6 vs. MTSU Arizona -14 vs. BYU Arizona State -17.5 vs. UTSA USC -27 vs. UNLV UCLA -15.5 vs. Cincinnati Auburn -3.5 vs. Washington Kentucky -20 vs. Central Michigan Mississippi -1.5 at Texas Tech South Carolina -31.5 vs. Coastal Carolina West Virginia -9 vs. Tennessee California -6 vs. North Carolina Washington St -4 at Wyoming Oregon -28.5 vs. Bowling Green Old Dominion -5.5 at Liberty Notre Dame vs. Michigan -1 Alabama -27 vs. Louisville Navy -15 at Hawaii Sunday, Sep 2 Miami Florida -3 vs. LSU Monday, Sep 3 Florida State -5.5 vs. Virginia Tech "