Week 4 college football best bets and predictions
The college football season is officially under way and VSiN is pumping out more content for it than ever. All of our college football stories and resources are available on this one page, where you'll also get best bets from all of my incredibly talented colleagues. But you'll have to keep reading this one to get my college football best bets every week. I have six plays that I'm jumping on early this week, with one of them being on the highly anticipated meeting between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Notre Dame Fighting Irish. And I might add some more picks later on. If I do, they'll be thrown in at the bottom of this story, so definitely make sure to come back and look for more Week 4 college football best bets throughout the day on Saturday, September 23.
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Boise State Broncos at San Diego State Aztecs – Friday
After having played back-to-back Pac-12 opponents, San Diego State should be excited about facing Boise State. Sure, the Broncos entered this season as one of the favorites to win the Mountain West, but they suffered a 56-19 loss to Washington in Week 1. San Diego State looked much better in its meetings with Pac-12 competition, especially on the defensive side of the ball. And that’s where I believe the Aztecs will make a mark in this game. This Broncos team scored only 35 total points over the first two weeks of the year. Those games were against Washington and UCF, and the team then scored 42 against North Dakota. That shows that the offense is largely unproven against good competition. And San Diego State’s defense is excellent.
Taylen Green entered the season with a lot of excitement, but he has hardly lived up to the hype. Green is completing only 52.9% of his passes this year, and that number was helped out a lot by his meeting with North Dakota. But on the season, Green has thrown just three touchdowns to four interceptions. And he hasn’t quite been able to get things going on the ground in the way many expected. Defensive coordinators are doing a good job of staying ready for him, and I don’t think we’ll see anything different here. Kurt Mattix knows what he’s doing.