College Football Bets for 10/17
We had a great 3–0 Saturday last week in college football! For anyone new to the blog I like to start with a review of how the previous week’s bets went, the good and the bad, and then move forward with the upcoming week. I track everything week to week to keep an honest log of how things are going. We’re currently 7–1 in college football. If you were to wager $100 per game you’d currently be up $590 (winning $700 but losing $110). I’m hoping to help you win another $300 this weekend so let’s get to it!
What Happened?
What happened was that we went 3–0 last weekend. I was relying on the defense of North Carolina to carry them over Virginia Tech. The NC Tarheels gave up a lot of points but their offense managed to score a lot of points as well. Enough to take us over the 5 point spread and give us our first win of the weekend. We took Georgia to cover the 12.5 point spread against Tennessee. They’ve been getting sizeable wins this season and thankfully they did it again last week. Our final bet last Saturday was hoping the #1 ranked Clemson Tigers could cover the 2 touchdown spread vs Miami. They finished the game winning by 25 to give us our 3rd win of the day.
College Football Bets
The Pittsburgh Panthers and the Miami Hurricanes are both coming off of a loss. The difference is that Pittsburgh’s loss is their second in a row and comes at the hands of Boston College. Miami’s only loss this season is from the #1 ranked Clemson Tigers. Miami was embarrassed losing by 25 points and I’m sure will break out the turnover chain as much as possible this weekend. If Pittsburgh’s quarterback Kenny Pickett is ruled out it’ll be even easier for them. And if that happens the line will shoot up so I’m jumping on Miami now while they’re still favored by less than 14.
A game that might go overlooked by a lot of bettors is between the North Texas Mean Green and the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders. The total on this game is 72! This incredibly high total caught my attention and I had to look into this game a bit. Neither team is particularly good at defense. Both teams have had trouble getting many turnovers to go their way so far this season. But on the offensive side of the ball I think North Texas is a bit stronger. I don’t dare bet an under, and I’m not about to bet over 72 in any game, but I do like the idea of North Texas winning this matchup or at least getting within 6.5 points.
I first looked over the lines on Tuesday and saw Alabama was a -6 favorite over Georgia. Since then it’s been confirmed that Alabama head coach Nick Saban has tested positive for Covid. Now the line has moved to -4 and I couldn’t be happier about it. Although Nick Saban won’t be on the sidelines for Saturday night’s game it would be crazy to believe that it will lead the team to be unprepared. Coach Saban has a great coaching staff, offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian in particular, that will take over the reins. Alabama has possibly the top offense and they’ll be put to the test against Georgia’s strong defense. Something’s got to give and, although betting Georgia has helped us out a lot this year against ranked opponents, they haven’t faced an offense like Alabama. The entire team will give it all they got for their coach. Along with the 2 point line shift in our favor I’m confident taking Alabama here.
The Kris Bets This…
NCAAF (7–1) (87.5%) (+5.9 units)
Miami -13 North Texas +6.5 Alabama -4
Just going with these 3 college football bets for this weekend with the postponement of LSU and Florida. The lines have been taken from the Draftkings sportsbook but I always encourage everyone to line shop with Fanduel and anywhere else that lines are made available to you. I’ll be back tomorrow with my NFL Week 6 thoughts. Good luck everyone!
Originally published at https://thekrisbets.com on October 15, 2020.