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A Look at the Best Bets for College Football Week 6
By Joe Tansey
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All you need to know about Week 6 in college football is where College GameDay decided to post up.
GameDay is off to Berkeley for the first time for Miami/California, which 12 months ago wasn’t even a conference matchup.
There aren’t many marquee games to pick from, but there are plenty of intriguing lines to take advantage of if you’re betting the weekend slate.
Game of the Week: No. 9 Missouri at No. 25 Texas A&M (-2.5) (Saturday, Noon ET)
Look. it’s the only Top 25 game of the week, okay.
Missouri is higher-ranked, but listed as the underdog because they needed two overtimes to beat Vanderbilt two weeks ago.
So this is a chance for Mizzou to prove that they’re for real in the College Football Playoff discussion (one week after Ole Miss proved it was fraudulent in the SEC).
Texas A&M reeled off four straight wins since its Week 1 home defeat to Notre Dame, but no one is sure what that means since the best wins are against Arkansas and Florida, two mid-tier (at best) SEC programs.
Your friends will tell you that the line is begging you to take A&M at home, and while that may end up to be true, Mizzou does have the two best players in the matchup in wide receivers Luther Burden and Theo Wease.
Favorite to Trust: NC State (-5) vs. Wake Forest (Saturday, Noon ET)
Wake Forest is simply not a good team.
The Demon Deacons just lost at home to the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns and have allowed at least 30 points to all four of their FBS opponents.
NC State hasn’t been great either, but the Wolfpack are far closer to competent than Wake with two wins in their last three games.
I wouldn’t say this should be the game on your primary TV in the noon window, but if you want a good bet, NC State fits the billing because of how disgustingly bad Wake has been.
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Underdog to Back: Duke (+9.5) at Georgia Tech (Saturday, 8 p.m. ET)
Duke is 5-0 and is coming off a big rivalry win over North Carolina.
So why are the Blue Devils close to a double-digit underdog? I don’t know, but I’d advise falling into that trap.
Sure, Georgia Tech beat Florida State, but it turns out that win wasn’t really convincing at all given the Seminoles’ poor season.
The Yellow Jackets lost both ACC games after the FSU win and conceded over 30 points in each of those losses.
Georgia Tech might be a good team, but I don’t know if they’re 10 points better than Duke at this juncture of the season.
Points! Points! Points! Texas Tech at Arizona (Over 64) (Saturday, 11 p.m. ET)
It’s 11 p.m. on Saturday, and if you’re still up, all you want to do is watch a high-scoring football game.
Well, good news!
Texas Tech is back to the Texas Tech of old and playing in games with bonkers score lines.
The Red Raiders won games by scores of 52-51, 66-21, 30-22 and 44-41.
Arizona is more on the mild side of offense, but can hit big plays too, mainly through wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan, a potential first-round draft pick in April.
Plus we’re due for a Big 12 game on national television that just goes off the rails from the beginning.
Joe Tansey writes sports betting posts for Crossing Broad and also covers the Philadelphia Union for his Substack site, Union Soccer Blog.