Week 8 College Football Best Bets and Betting Picks

Dave, I'm going to go to you for your card here on this Saturday. We'll reset the best bet as well. But the other options here on your week eight card. Yeah, on my card, I like Tennessee. You know, I actually bought it up to three. It's sitting at two and a half. I think that's, as you said earlier, a disrespectful line. Tennessee's a better team here. I understand the spot coming off a big game against Alabama. Now on the road at South Carolina. I'm just not buying South Carolina. And that's a South Carolina team that I watch beat Florida in Gainesville. They're just not very good. And people underestimating a top 10 defense, if not a top five defense. In Tennessee, I like Michigan Indiana under, we just went over a few minutes ago, two of the best defenses in football, Indiana has struggled this year on offense, just like Michigan who's been dreadful on offense, Michigan's 120th or worse in every single statistical category, I understand they switched quarterbacks from Underwood to Carr, I'm still not buying it, Carr looked great against Penn State, this is a step up in Indiana if Carr was playing somebody like Purdue, maybe it makes a difference for Michigan, I'm still going under the 42 and a half, we just touched on the game, the Big Game day game in Provo with Utah and Houston. I'm going over 56 and a half. That one, we have two really, really good offenses, a bad Houston defense. And then I'm going to go a little bit off the beaten path here. Most of those games that I just mentioned were all ranked games, big conferences. I like to dabble in the smaller conferences from time to time. And it's a big game, Kevin, a really big game for a group of six bid that's out there. The New Mexico Lobos right now have the shortest price of all the group six teams to make the playoffs at plus 80 at the Sportsbook. And the good reason why, 5-1 this season against the spread. They're playing North Dakota State at home. Their head coach, Jason Eck, has taken to social media this week to scream and yell and get everybody they can to come and sell out University Stadium, a stadium that I spent three years down there in Albuquerque going to those games. No, it's not the SEC. No, it's not the big house. It's not Ann Arbor. But it can be a feisty place to play. They host a bowl game every single year. Lobos 4-1 is a favorite this year. of at least four and a half points they've handled expectations they lead the nation and this is a little bit off the beaten path in terms of analytics defensive havoc for those that aren't aware of defense defensive havoc it's disruption plays it's turnovers it's sacks it's getting in there and disrupting the offense they can do that to a new North Dakota State team that has struggled at times on offense scoring just seven points against UNLV I like the Lobos they have a Very underrated defense. They've held five of their six opponents to ten points or fewer. Look at what they did with Oklahoma. They lost that game 14-10, holding the Sooners under 300 yards. New Mexico minus four and a half in Albuquerque versus North Dakota State.