NCAA Football Early opening Lines Week 1

[Carpet]

I expect these to move a bit. Will comment on these lines a bit later

North Texas at FIU (-12)

UNLV at Wisconsin (-31.5)

Mississippi State at Memphis (+24)

Wake Forest at Syracuse (-6)

Bowling Green at Idaho (-8.5)

Kentucky Western at Kentucky (+18)

TCU at Baylor (+9.5)

Northwestern at Boston College (-7)

Utah State at Auburn (-27.5)

Akron at Ohio State (-34)

Miami Ohio at Missouri (-17.5)

UCLA at Houston (-4)

Middle Tennessee at Purdue (-15)

Kent State at Alabama (-33)

Minnesota at USC (-17.5)

South Florida at Notre Dame (-8.5)

Arkansas State at Illinois (-14.5)

Louisiana Monroe at Florida State (-28)

Troy at Clemson (-12.5)

Brigham Young at Mississippi (+1)

San Jose State at Stanford (-28)

Colorado State at New Mexico (+3.5)

Buffalo at Pittsburgh (-26)

South Carolina at East Carolina (+14.5)

Fresno State at California (-5.5)

Army Northern at Illinois (-13.5)

Rice at Texas (-22)

Indiana at Ball State (+6)

Florida Atlantic at Florida (-30.5)

Louisiana Lafayette at Oklahoma State (-34)

Tulsa at Oklahoma (-23)

Ohio at New Mexico State (+11.5)

Boise State at Georgia (+2.5)

Oregon at LSU (-3)

Louisiana Tech at Southern Miss (-11)

Colorado at Hawaii (-9.5)

Marshall at West Virginia (-18.5)

Southern Methodist at Texas A&M (-14)

Miami Florida at Maryland (+4)

[Krichinsky]

I'm going with Army Northern plus the points!

[Krichinsky]

but seriously....thanks for posting this Carpet.
Based on these lines, I like a lot of the dogs.

[Carpet]

A Few games are jumping off the Carpet to look at......

USC -17.5 vs Minnesota Gophers.....In a rebuilding year the gophers are, no way they keep up with the speed of USC. This is one of my top games.

Houston- 4 vs UCLA , why not speed matches speed in a field goal battle.

More to follow

[Carpet]

I'm going with Army Northern plus the points!

It's Army vs Northern Illinois

[Carpet]

Kent State (yes they have a football team) vs Alabama

Bama is favored by 33 points. Could the crimson tide found a softer opponent to beat on...... The only question is will Kent State score a point in this game and I think they will not.

42-0

[Krichinsky]

Add Akron to the easy prey. I'm guessing at least a 28 point lead for
Ohio State by half time. Question is the same, will Akron score?

I like Baylor +, TCU has quite a few new faces.
Also, Maryland may pull the upset.

[red raider 84]

Utah st +24 Really don't know much about Utah st but Auburn losses are huge so saying line inflated somewhat.

[red raider 84]

oops +27.5

[Carpet]

Illinois -14.5 vs Arkansas State opening game

State shouldnt be expected to win...they do expect to be competitive. State runs a no huddle and run a lot of options out of the same formations. The big question mark is the O-Line..everyone is new except the center who is a 6th year senior. D Line and secondary should be improved after being abysmal last year. Offense set multiple school records last year under the new system installed by then OC Hugh Freeze who is now the HC.

Illinois is in day 3 training camp, just got back from rantoul to watch the Illini, here is what I see....

The running game of Illinois is going to be solid, Donovan Young frosh brings a complete package and has caught on quickly, Ford is a great power back and we hope to avoid injury to this stud, all in all the run game is solid for Illinois.

On defense what impressed me most was the secondary of Illinois, they are fast to the ball and love to hit should be fun to watch this progress.

Ark State beat Indiana last year and Iowa the year before if my memory serves me correctly, so not a team to take with a grain of salt. Illinois is loaded with talent and should win this game by 21

[Carpet]

The line move to Illinois-20 vs AK State