Early Shark Odds

[Hooked on Huskers]

Huskers by 35 points. Opening odds, 32
https://www.oddsshark.com/ncaaf/odds

My pick: Huskers 56, Jaguars 17
http://schersdd.tripod.com/sig2019.html

B1G odds ....

Tulsa at Michigan State: MSU by 21.5 points
Wisconsin at USF: Badgers by 10 points
UMass at Rutgers: Knights by 15 points
Purdue at Nevada: Boilers by 9 points
Akron at Illinois: Illini by 16 points
Ball St. at Indiana: Hoosiers by 16.5 points
Florida Atlantic at tOSU: Buckeyes by 27 points
NW at Stanford: Trees by 6.5 points
Miami-OH at Iowa: Birds by 21.5 points
Middle Tenn. at Michigan: Meechickens by 32 points

..... all favored except NW at Stanford

[Nebfanatic]

USA is really bad. Should be a good warm up scrimmage. You can usually pick out the smaller schools that could potentially give a team trouble. USA is not one of those teams. 

[Moiraine]

Wisconsin and Iowa both seem to have a history of coming out poorly against mediocre opponents in the first few weeks, even in years when they end up with a good record. Wouldn't be surprised at all to see USF beat Wisconsin.

[I AM FOOT FOOT]

24 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

Wisconsin and Iowa both seem to have a history of coming out poorly against mediocre opponents in the first few weeks, even in years when they end up with a good record. Wouldn't be surprised at all to see USF beat Wisconsin.

Totally agree, USF isn't a slouch to begin with. 

[brophog]

9 minutes ago, man eating mastodon said:

Totally agree, USF isn't a slouch to begin with. 

 

They had a rough second half last year after their QB got hurt, and they weren’t exactly the light em up USF offense before that. They’re hoping to get back to that with a new offensive coordinator. And they’ll need to with that defense.

 

Given all that’s going to take time, I’d heavily favor Wisconsin to win. They should be able to just grind this out if necessary. 

[knapplc]

1 hour ago, Moiraine said:

Wisconsin and Iowa both seem to have a history of coming out poorly against mediocre opponents in the first few weeks, even in years when they end up with a good record. Wouldn't be surprised at all to see USF beat Wisconsin.

 

Eh. They played LSU tough a couple times early on a few years ago.

[Moiraine]

21 minutes ago, knapplc said:

Eh. They played LSU tough a couple times early on a few years ago.

 

 

I haven't actually looked the scores up but it just seems like every year a medicore or bad team Wisconsin plays in the first 3 weeks plays them tough. 

 

Edit: Ok I looked.

 

BYU beat them last year

 

2017: Beat FAU 31-14 (ok, FAU won 11 games that year)

2016: Beat Georgia State 23-17 (13-10 after 3 quarters)

2015: anomaly

2014: Beat South Florida 27-10

2013: Lost 32-30 ASU

 

2012: This was the year they won the B1G championship and went 8-6:

 

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 1	2:30 p.m.	No. 9 (FCS) Northern Iowa*	No. 12	Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	BTN	W 26–21	79,568
September 8	3:00 p.m.	at Oregon State*	No. 13	Reser Stadium Corvallis, OR	FX	L 7–10	42,189
September 15	7:00 p.m.	Utah State*		Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	BTN[2]	W 16–14	79,332

[teachercd]

8 hours ago, man eating mastodon said:

Totally agree, USF isn't a slouch to begin with. 

About 4 weeks ago I was hammered and took Wisconsin to cover the 10.5 vs USF.

[Redux]

Definitely going to bet on USF for the upset

[teachercd]

4 minutes ago, Redux said:

Definitely going to bet on USF for the upset

Dick!  Ha

[Redux]

50 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Dick!  Ha

 

I've learned to hedge my bets against your early picks

[teachercd]

10 minutes ago, Redux said:

 

I've learned to hedge my bets against your early picks

If you are doing that...you are a smart man!

[brophog]

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

About 4 weeks ago I was hammered and took Wisconsin to cover the 10.5 vs USF.

 

For some reason I’m second guessing my analysis.

[Toe]

12 hours ago, Hooked on Huskers said:

http://schersdd.tripod.com/sig2019.html

 

Whoa, Tripod is still around?!

[Hooked on Huskers]

3 hours ago, Toe said:

 

Whoa, Tripod is still around?!

 

Still in business. Tripod web builder was a crisis years, about 2015 thru 2017.  Lots of down time in crisis times but apparently fully recovered (cross my fingers).  I picked Tripod because free and Tripod's file editor to write and upload HTML/CSS file types for my custom-built website .... easy-peasy.  (myself, somewhat HTML/CSS code knowledge .... novice)

 

I believe U.K. company.

 

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/