College football odds: Nebraska-Northwestern best bets
By Sam Panayotovich
FOX Sports activities Betting Analyst
Lastly, school soccer is again.
The season kicks off Saturday in Dublin, Eire, with the Nebraska Cornhuskers taking up the Northwestern Wildcats at Aviva Stadium on FOX. Nebraska opened as a 10-point favourite at most sportsbooks, and FOX Bet is at the moment dealing The Corn -12 with a complete of O/U 50.5.
It’s straightforward to take a look at final season’s assembly [56-7 Nebraska] and suppose the Huskers will steamroll the Purple Cats once more. “Not so quick,” as Lee Corso would say.
Northwestern’s protection was uncharacteristically mushy within the trenches, however head coach Pat Fitzgerald shored that up by including three transfers upfront. 4 seniors will begin on the line of defense, making final 12 months’s out-manned and overmatched unit a factor of the previous.
On offense, Northwestern returns 1,000-yard rusher Evan Hull and Cam Porter, who led the Cats on the bottom two years in the past. Porter missed final season with a knee harm, however reports from Evanston sound great. You may see a gradual food plan of each backs on Saturday.
The Cats will purpose to run the rock and management the clock behind an offensive line that brings again 4 starters, together with All-Massive Ten left sort out Peter Skoronski. If NU will get its operating sport going early, they’ll be in all of it sport lengthy.
Laying virtually two touchdowns with a Nebraska staff that’ll be working by way of the rising pains of a brand new offense with a brand new coordinator and new quarterback isn’t my cup of tea. And Huskers’ head Scott Frost has not made you cash on this function with a 9-15 ATS document when laying factors.
Frost has been a colossal catastrophe (15-29 over 4 years), and I wouldn’t be shocked if this finally ends up being his final rodeo in Lincoln. The boosters are completely fed up, and there are rising considerations about his means to steer this system.
You additionally should perceive that Nebraska is perennially overrated and Northwestern is perennially underrated, which makes this level unfold bigger than it ought to be. And don’t suppose for one second that the Cats haven’t had this sport circled on the calendar for the reason that Huskers ran up the rating.
Eight of the final 11 conferences between these two groups have been determined by one rating and I count on a lot of the identical throughout the pond.
I am taking the factors within the first half and full sport.
Meow.
PICK: Northwestern +6.5 1st half at FOX Bet
PICK: Northwestern +12 (-110 at FOX Bet) to lose by fewer than 12 points (or win outright)
Sam Panayotovich is a sports activities betting analyst for FOX Sports activities and NESN. He beforehand labored for WGN Radio, NBC Sports activities and VSiN. He’ll most likely decide in opposition to your favourite staff. Comply with him on Twitter @spshoot.
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