We’ve got some top tier matchups this weekend in college football, with three of the national title contenders facing stiff competition.
Week 11 college football opening lines: Title contenders big favorites in tough games
Alabama, Oregon and Baylor face tough tests this weekend, but Vegas is predicting easy wins for each.


Top-ranked Alabama hosts LSU, and are 9.5-point favorites on College GameDay. In Thursday night action, Baylor is a touchdown favorite at home against Oklahoma, while Oregon is a 9.5-point favorite at Stanford.
Florida State is the biggest favorite of the week, at -34.5 on the road against Wake Forest.
The closest game is predicted to be Penn State and Minnesota, which currently stands at a pick ‘em with neither team favored.
For updates as the week’s games draw closer, head over to OddsShark.
- Bowling Green (-24.5) at Miami (OH)
- Ohio at Buffalo (-2.5)
- Central Michigan at Ball State (-21.5)
- Oklahoma at Baylor (-7)
- Troy at Louisiana-Lafayette (-13)
- Oregon (-9.5) at Stanford
- Louisville (-26.5) at Connecticut
- Air Force at New Mexico (-1.5)
- UAB at Marshall (-23)
- Missouri (-14) at Kentucky
- Vanderbilt at Florida (-10)
- SMU at Cincinnati (-10.5)
- Auburn (-7.5) at Tennessee
- Penn State at Minnesota (Pick ‘em)
- Iowa (-14) at Purdue
- Western Kentucky (-6) at Army
- Kansas State at Texas Tech (-4)
- TCU (-8) at Iowa State
- Arkansas at Mississippi (-17)
- Virginia at North Carolina (-14)
- Western Michigan (-3) at Eastern Michigan
- Tulane at UTSA (-7.5)
- USC (-17) at California
- BYU at Wisconsin (-9)
- UTEP at North Texas (-21)
- Illinois at Indiana (-7.5)
- Syracuse at Maryland (-3.5)
- Nebraska at Michigan (-6.5)
- Nevada at Colorado State (-8)
- Hawaii at Navy (-18)
- Boston College (-24) at New Mexico State
- Mississippi State at Texas A&M (-19)
- Florida State (-34.5) at Wake Forest
- Virginia Tech at Miami (-6.5)
- Notre Dame (-3.5) at Pittsburgh
- Tulsa at East Carolina (-14)
- Kansas at Oklahoma State (-32)
- North Carolina State at Duke (-9)
- Florida International at Middle Tennessee State (-17)
- Arizona State (-7) at Utah
- Houston at UCF (-10)
- Texas (-7.5) at West Virginia
- Arkansas State at Louisiana-Monroe (-3.5)
- Southern Miss at Louisiana Tech (-14)
- LSU at Alabama (-9.5)
- Colorado at Washington (-27)
- Utah State (-13) at UNLV
- UCLA (-2.5) at Arizona
- Fresno State (-10.5) at Wyoming
- San Diego State at San Jose State (-6.5)
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