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Maryland at Minnesota
- Maryland lost 4-of-5 after starting out 2-0 and briefly entering rankings with 63-20 rout of Syracuse
- Minnesota a soft 7-0 SU, but most impressive win at Purdue by TD
- Seven-point win over South Dakota State and three-point wins against Fresno State and Georgia Southern
- Only outscoring teams by 15 points per game
- At 7-0 face burden of high expectations
- Minnesota has won its past three games by a combined 113-31
- Minnesota in statement mode
- Maryland QB Tyrrell Pigrome has flashes, just makes mistakes
- Josh Jackson could be back this week
- Maryland starting young players on defense but baptism by fire
Pick: MARYLAND +17
Notre Dame at Michigan
- Teams off dominant rushing effort a great under play at 450-270-23 (applies to ND)
- Short road underdogs 643-477-29 (Notre Dame)
- But if teams ranked 9th or better are underdogs to a team with at least two losses, the favorite is 73-53-6 for 58.6 (Michigan)
- Michigan won four straight at home in series
- Michigan lost to two toughest foes Wisconsin and Penn State by TD or more
- Michigan holds teams to 1.4 yards per rush, 1 yards per pass, and 1.2 yards per play below their normal average
- Offense just above average
- Irish good on both sides of ball especially offense where get 1.1 more yards per rush, 1.2 yards per pass, 1.2 yards per play above normal average
- Don’t like fact it dropped was 2.5
- Irish off bye and on break, so no classes
- Early 81 percent of bets on Irish, 86 percent of money
The pick: UNDER 51.5
Washington State at Oregon (-14,64)
- Away dog off cover as home favorites are 217-139-11 (Washington State)
- 14 point or more favorites in quadruple revenge are 34-25-1 (Oregon)
- Math angle says over 856-622-28
- Only Oregon’s Justin Herbert and Ohio State’s Justin Fields have over 20 touchdowns passes and just one interception this season
- Oregon loaded on defense and six guys have led them in tackles in seven games
- Washington State averaging 42.7 points per game teams normally allowing 31.2 on 7.7 yards per play teams normally permitting 6.4
- WSU terrible on defense allowing 8.3 yards per pass to teams averaging 7.1 and 6.4 yards per play to 5.5
- Oregon gets 8.1 yards per pass to squads generally permitting 7.2
The pick: OVER 64
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