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College Football Odds: Picking The Rivalry Week Games

The computers are predicting high scores for LSU-Arkansas, Michigan-Ohio State and Houston-Tulsa. Will the underdogs spoil the day?All content comes courtesy of OddsShark.com

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If the OddsShark.com college football scores engine is right, there will be 100 points scored in Friday’s Houston vs Tulsa matchup in the C-USA.

And since the scores predictor got off to a 2-0 ATS start Tuesday and Thursday, maybe it’s calibrated correctly to pick lots of Rivalry Week winners this weekend.

Nebraska could lose outright against Iowa and LSU will beat Arkansas, but not cover the spread against them. This again assumes the machine is correct based on opening college football odds gathered by Odds Shark.

Michigan will beat Ohio State 41-28 and cover the point spread in that historical Big Ten clash. And Georgia will beat Georgia Tech, but won’t cover the spread in a 45-40 result.

“The prediction tool wasn’t great last week at 25-31 ATS but it seems to be clicking so far and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it hit 65% on Rivalry Weekend,” said Mike Pickett.

“Interesting to see it has Iowa State pulling another upset, this time against Oklahoma. But it is predicting an ATS win, not an outright one like last week against Oklahoma State.”

See the projected NCAA football scores for the weekend as generated by the OddsShark scores formula and get current live college football lines on each game (most have changed during the week).

Road

Score

Home

Score

Spread

ATS

Total

OU

Miami (Ohio)

24.1

Ohio

35.4

-6.5

OHIO

53

O

Texas

38.6

Texas A&M

42

-7.5

TEXAS

54.5

O

Eastern Mich

27.8

Northern Ill

38.3

-19.5

E.MICH

63

O

Louisville

24.4

South Florida

31.7

-3

S.FLA

43.5

O

Houston

65.7

Tulsa

44

3

HOUSTO

74.5

O

Bowl Green

22.2

Buffalo

19.3

-1

BGREEN

53.5

U

Iowa

34.6

Nebraska

34.7

-9

IOWA

54

O

Kent State

14.8

Temple

37.1

-17.5

TEMPLE

38.5

O

Akron

5.7

Western Mich

31.6

-28

AKRON

60

U

Toledo

43.8

Ball State

24.4

13.5

TOLEDO

71

U

Arkansas

45.2

LSU

55

-14

ARK

52

O

Colorado

7.6

Utah

31.6

-19.5

UTAH

48.5

U

Boston Coll

15.7

Miami

29.8

-14

MIAMI

44

O

Texas El Paso

23.3

UFC

33.9

-10

UCF

51.5

O

Pittsburgh

30.8

West Virginia

38

-8

PITT

56

O

California

32.5

Arizona State

36.5

-4

PUSH

53.5

O

Michigan St

40.5

Nwestern

29.5

7

MICHST

51.5

O

Georgia

44.9

Georgia Tech

39.7

6

GATECH

54.5

O

Rutgers

32.3

Connecticut

21.3

3

RUTGER

40

O

Rice

16.2

SMU

27.8

-14

RICE

54.5

U

Ohio State

28.4

Michigan

41.1

-7.5

MICH

45

O

Cincinnati

40.5

Syracuse

24.6

3

CINCIN

50.5

O

Iowa State

26

Oklahoma

53

-28

IOWAST

61.5

O

Tennessee

19.8

Kentucky

12.1

9

KENTUC

41.5

U

Maryland

14.8

NC State

27.8

-13

PUSH

49.5

U

Troy

17.5

W Kentucky

21.4

-7

TROY

50.5

U

Nevada

36.1

Utah State

38.6

-1.5

UTAHST

64

O

Wyoming

31.9

Boise State

53.3

-31

WYOMNG

61

O

Virginia Tech

35.5

Virginia

27.5

6

VTECH

44.5

O

Missouri

39.8

Kansas

9.6

24.5

MIZZOU

61

U

Illinois

28.6

Minnesota

7.5

10.5

ILLINO

44

U

Oregon St

22.7

Oregon

52.4

-28

OREG

63

O

Purdue

26.6

Indiana

11.1

7.5

PURDUE

56

U

Duke

18.1

UNC

30

-13

DUKE

54

U

East Carolina

21.5

Marshall

17.9

3

E.CAR

53.5

U

Florida Int

32.4

Middle Tenn

15.3

9

FLAINT

53.5

U

Penn State

31.6

Wisconsin

52.6

-16

WISCSN

48

O

Alabama

51.4

Auburn

21.3

21.5

ALAB

45

O

Vanderbilt

29.2

Wake Forest

27.7

1

VANDY

49

O

NewMex St

19.4

La Tech

34.4

-19

NMEXST

58

U

UL-Lafayette

34.7

Arizona

25.5

-13.5

UL.LAF

61.5

U

Memphis

10.2

South Miss

41.9

-36

MEMPHS

56

U

UAB

7.8

Florida Atl

1.9

5

UAB

50

U

Air Force

34.1

Colorado St

19.3

10

AIRFOR

54.5

U

Mississippi

9.1

Mississippi St

27.5

-17.5

MIS.ST

46.5

U

Texas Tech

33

Baylor

41.3

-12

TXTECH

77.5

U

Florida St

40.8

Florida

30.8

2

FLAST

44.5

O

Wash State

31.2

Washington

28.2

-9.5

WSHST

65.5

U

Clemson

36

S Carolina

38.1

-3

CLEM

50.5

O

Notre Dame

41.3

Stanford

53.6

-6.5

STANFO

58

O

San Jose Sta

23.4

Fresno State

23.1

-6.5

SJ.ST

62.5

U

San Diego St

32.1

UNLV

6.7

14

SD.ST

54.5

U

UCLA

24.8

Southern Cal

37.4

-15.5

UCLA

58.5

O

Tulane

13.1

Hawaii

33.5

-17.5

HAWAII

55

U

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