Nebraska is a 5 point favorite vs Minnesota

[teachercd]

Just now, Dan_F_31 said:

But it opened at -8.5. The betting trend took it all th me way to -3.5. Vegas opened pretty far off and smart money jumped all over it.

Sure...and in the end it corrected.

[Making Chimichangas]

Not gonna say it, but dang...I'm thinking it...

 

[huskerfan74]

I am not buying what Vegas is selling and I really wish that they say we are the underdog. I saw how Minnesota played Ohio state and they are not an easy team to beat. We will need to have the best game of the season, cut down the penalties to less than four and get some turnovers. We have not been able to do that all season long, what makes Vegas think, we can do it this week? Also, Minnesota is not one dimensional. They have some good running backs. We could not stop a one dimensional team in NW when our first win was on the line, can we stop an angry Minnesota team looking for its first Big ten win? Vegas needs to rethink its math.

[Mary Pats BOB]

6 minutes ago, huskerfan74 said:

I am not buying what Vegas is selling and I really wish that they say we are the underdog. I saw how Minnesota played Ohio state and they are not an easy team to beat. We will need to have the best game of the season, cut down the penalties to less than four and get some turnovers. We have not been able to do that all season long, what makes Vegas think, we can do it this week? Also, Minnesota is not one dimensional. They have some good running backs. We could not stop a one dimensional team in NW when our first win was on the line, can we stop an angry Minnesota team looking for its first Big ten win? Vegas needs to rethink its math.

 Vegas could not care less who wins they get 10% of every bet they just want lots of bets

[BigRedBuster]

The only thing Vegas knows is where to put the line to get even money on both sides. From there, they adjust to make sure that happens. 

 

Yhey couldn’t care less what team is best. They know where the gamblers are going to put their money. 

[BoSolich]

ok, having looked it over again minnesota is really bad on offense. they're starting running back is out for the year and they are only scoring 21 ppg if you don't count the New mexico st game. 

 

we should win this game, but there's no way i'd bet on it.

[Hunter94]

give me Minny and 7 points.

[Landlord]

maybe vegas actually replaced our roster with robots to purposefully sabotage the first 6 games of the season only to make tons of money by fixing everything in week 7

[NebraskaHarry]

Nebraska beats Minnesota. Score will be around 37 to 24.

[Making Chimichangas]

1 hour ago, Landlord said:

maybe vegas actually replaced our roster with robots to purposefully sabotage the first 6 games of the season only to make tons of money by fixing everything in week 7

 

That seems probable.  

[3rd and long]

7 hours ago, teachercd said:

Sure...and in the end it corrected.

Which means they really weren’t that close with the opening line.  Because the betters caused it to correct. 

[The Dude]

8 hours ago, huskerfan74 said:

I am not buying what Vegas is selling and I really wish that they say we are the underdog. I saw how Minnesota played Ohio state and they are not an easy team to beat. We will need to have the best game of the season, cut down the penalties to less than four and get some turnovers. We have not been able to do that all season long, what makes Vegas think, we can do it this week? Also, Minnesota is not one dimensional. They have some good running backs. We could not stop a one dimensional team in NW when our first win was on the line, can we stop an angry Minnesota team looking for its first Big ten win? Vegas needs to rethink its math.

 

I didn't see that but I did see how they played Maryland.  So I felt the exact opposite about Minnesota.

 

I think we beat Minnesota, but I was also pretty confident we'd beat Northwestern too, so who knows.

[Redux]

We did beat Northwestern, but we're so "Nebraska Nice" we gave them the win back because Pat Fitzgerald is a baby.

[dvdcrr]

35 minutes ago, Redux said:

We did beat Northwestern, but we're so "Nebraska Nice" we gave them the win back because Pat Fitzgerald is a baby.

There's one thing you can always count on about a Pat Fitzgerald team:   

[everybody knows my name]

9 hours ago, BoSolich said:

ok, having looked it over again minnesota is really bad on offense. they're starting running back is out for the year and they are only scoring 21 ppg if you don't count the New mexico st game. 

 

we should win this game, but there's no way i'd bet on it.

 

Explain to me why you wouldn't count a game that they played?  Because NMSU has a crummy defense?  So does Nebraska.
 

That whole "if you ignore their successes there are only failures" argument has always baffled me.  People trot it out all the time, in sports and politics and business.