While the NFL exhibition/preseason wraps up this weekend, we finally get “real football” with Week 0 in college football.
While we know most of our followers and VSiN subscribers are excited about betting these early-season games, there are still some skeptics who say “I'm not comfortable betting on these teams without the benefit of preseason games.”
At this time of year, I always reminisce about when I played high school football (has it really been 40 years this fall?) and how we didn't have preseason games and we had to be ready right out of the gate. It's the same thing with college football, and a team can make or break its season in the opener.
We trust that all our readers have been preparing for the season with the VSiN College Football Betting Guide and the daily updates on our shows and website and are as ready as the players.
With the short seven-game CFB card on Saturday, I have just two underdogs that I like as I'm mostly relying on the “pass” part of my “dog-or-pass” approach. I also considered Navy +20.5 vs. Notre Dame in Dublin and San Jose State +31 at USC, but I almost always avoid games with really huge spreads like these as the favorite usually gets a big lead anyway and it comes down to a coin-flip as to whether the dog is able to get in the back door. In these particular cases, even though I'm usually love backing the military academies in the underdog role, I don't trust Navy to have the air attack needed to keep up with Notre Dame, plus I'm not so sure we should be fading the Irish on a “neutral site” in the home of the Irish. Meanwhile, I don't see how defending Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams and the USC offense doesn't put up 40-50 points before benching the starters.