We are going to trust O'Connell to lead the game-winning drive. Maryland is an improved team around Taulia Tagovailoa, but with these offenses, it can become a coin-flip game in the fourth quarter. Bill Bender, lead college football writerĪidan O'Connell was shaky in his return last week, but the Boilermakers still upset Minnesota. Tyler Van Dyke will get the start after being benched against MTSU. The Canes have really not shown anything yet. Shouldn’t this line be flipped? Sure, Miami had an off week to regroup from that embarrassing loss to Middle Tennessee, but North Carolina is the better team at this point. Colleague Bill Bender says he doesn’t see any unbeatens in the College Football Playoff this year. One of my usual keys in shooting for a big upset (Northwestern aside) is making sure there is a quarterback in place capable of pulling it off. Georgia Tech banded together after Geoff Collins was let go, but this was more shocking and there seems to be more chaos in Madison. Odds courtesy Caesars Sportsbook Bill Trocchi, Senior editorīanking on the dysfunction at Wisconsin, which shockingly fired three-time Big Ten West winner Paul Chryst after a 2-3 start. Where will the upsets come from this week? As a reminder of how the contest works, if the upsets predicted below hit, the expert gets as many points as the team was an underdog. MORE: Betting trends for Alabama-Texas A&M | Kansas-TCU FIU won as a 16-point underdog at New Mexico State. Other notable shockers from Week 5? UConn was a 19.5-point dog against Fresno State and picked up the win, its first home victory over an FBS team since beating Tulsa in 2017. MORE: Picks against the spread for Week 6 Top 25 games | Bowl projectionsĪnd Wake Forest, a seven-point dog at Florida State, a place where it had not won since 2008, gave the ACC a trio of significant upsets with a 31-21 win. It was a 15.5-point underdog, but thanks in part to a fourth-quarter injury to Louisville quarterback Malik Cunningham, BC slipped away with a 34-33 upset. Tech took home a 26-21 win.īoston College limped into a home matchup with Louisville at 1-3 off a 30-point loss to Florida State. 24 Pitt as 21.5-point underdogs on Saturday and pulled off the stunner absolutely no one saw coming. Georgia Tech fired Geoff Collins on Monday, then went to No. And last week, the upsets were coming out of the ACC. We look for upsets here at the Underdog Challenge.
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