This is it. The 2023 college football season comes down to this last handful of football betting lines. It's conference championship time.'
Today – as I do every Wednesday throughout the college football season – I've put together a handful of my favorite college football betting predictions for you to consider this weekend.'
College Football Best Bets: Conference Championship Week
After I've handicapped the whole board each week, I will publish my best plays from the wider canon of college football odds.'
I'll provide a short explanation of why I like each college football bet, so you don't have to go on faith alone.'
If you prefer an audio version of this weekly article, you can always subscribe to The Lion's Edge, my weekly handicapping podcast for BetMGM.'
Pac-12 Championship Spread Prediction: Oregon vs. Washington
Washington is undefeated and already owns a head-to-head win over Oregon. A Pac-12 Championship will put the Huskies back in the College Football Playoff. So why are they nearly 10-point dogs in Las Vegas against the Ducks?
The answer, fair or unfair, is that Oregon has just played way better football since these two teams met in late October. Washington has played six games, and four of them were one-possession games.
That includes games against Arizona State and rival Washington State – two of the worst teams in the conference. The biggest margin of victory was 10, against USC.
Over that same time frame, Oregon's average margin of victory has been 26 points.
I feel pretty strongly that the Ducks will win this rematch, so the only question is whether or not I want to lay nearly 10 points against an undefeated team.'
That's a harder puzzle to solve, but with 60% of tickets at BetMGM backing the square public dog, I will go ahead and buy a little bit of Oregon.'
Lean: Oregon -9.5