College football best bets for Week 2
All of the haters who wanted to see Deion Sanders suffer through a humbling experience in his Colorado coaching debut got the opposite. “Coach Prime” had something big to celebrate and was ready to talk about it. He never will stop talking.
Sanders will get humbled eventually, but Texas Christian was not the team to do it. The bettors who were laying 20.5 points with the home favorite failed to recognize the Horned Frogs have a much different and worse team than last year. The Buffaloes, who won a 45-42 shootout, are far more talented than almost everyone thought. Even the oddsmakers were dead wrong.
Still, the move from Week 1 to Week 2 on the schedule — college and NFL — is always a time for adjustments and overreactions. Some teams are not as good or as bad as they appeared, and handicappers can capitalize on numbers that get adjusted too much.
A month ago, South Point sportsbook director Chris Andrews opened Nebraska as a 9-point favorite at Colorado, and Andrews said he took little action on the Buffaloes. One game into the season for each team, the line for Saturday’s game is now Colorado -3 to -3.5.