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Week 1 NCAA Football Betting Recap | Week 2 Preview

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Where did all the points go?

Some crazy stuff happened during Week 1 of the college football season. From a handicapping standpoint, the most intriguing was the under going 22-15-1 at the end of Sunday’s action. Even the one overtime game (Minnesota 23, Syracuse 20, with the Orange cashing in as 7-point home dogs) sailed below the posted total of 48.5. The under went 21-19-1 during Week 1 of the 2008 season and 27-19-1 in 2007, so it’s not unusual for offenses across the nation to get off to a rough start.

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Nobody got off to a worse start than the Oklahoma Sooners. They lost Heisman Trophy-winning QB Sam Bradford for 2-4 weeks with a sprained right shoulder, and then the No. 3 Sooners lost 14-13 to the No. 20 Brigham Young Cougars. BYU was a 23-point underdog at the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Tex. This is exactly what football Cassandras were warning OU supporters about: The Sooners’ offensive line is not what it was last year, and Bradford didn’t even survive the first half of the first game. His back-up, redshirt freshman Landry Jones, couldn’t quite get the job done behind an O-line that committed nine penalties on the day.

Oklahoma’s Week 2 matchup is against the Idaho State Bengals of the Big Sky Conference – that’s an FCS team, so there won’t be any betting action for a game that otherwise would have been in our crosshairs. BYU, on the other hand, may still have some betting value left versus the Tulane Green Wave in Week 2 (Saturday, 3:30 p.m. Eastern, ESPN2). The Cougars held together quite nicely against OU on both sides of the ball, and QB Max Hall went 26-of-38 for 329 yards, a pair of touchdowns, and a pair of interceptions.

The Sooners were officially (and unofficially) the home team in front of a partisan crowd at Cowboys Stadium, making them one of the few home favorites to go bust in Week 1. Home faves were 21-9 SU (15-15 ATS), while home dogs were 1-7 SU and 3-5 ATS – the Bowling Green Falcons (+7) being the only straight-up winners in that group, downing the Troy Trojans 31-14 and easily slipping under the posted total of 55.5 points. Those low scores also made it more difficult than usual for the bigger-name programs to cover the spread in non-conference competition. Favorites of 20 points or more went 4-5 ATS; the No. 6 Ohio State Buckeyes (-22) barely beat the Navy Midshipmen 31-27, returning a 2-point conversion attempt to the Navy end zone to avoid overtime.

The biggest upset of the week happened off the board, but it was a whopper: The FCS William & Mary Tribe (Continental Athletic Association) beat the Virginia Cavaliers (ACC) 24-17, forcing seven turnovers in the process. That’s the first FCS victory over a BCS conference since 2007, when the Michigan Wolverines famously fell to Appalachian State and the Iowa State Cyclones lost to Northern Iowa. The Panthers (Missouri Valley) almost did it again this year, dropping a 17-16 decision to the No. 22 Iowa Hawkeyes.

Virginia has a very tough Week 2 matchup in Charlottesville against the No. 17 Texas Christian University Horned Frogs, who were idle in Week 1. We expected the Cavs to be mediocre at best this year, but there was enough preseason hype on the Hawkeyes program to put them in the AP rankings to start the year. Iowa’s Week 2 opponents are the aforementioned Cyclones in what should now be a very interesting tilt on ISU’s home soil, Jack Trice Stadium (Saturday, 12:05 p.m. ET). The home team has won each of the last five Cy-Hawk Trophies, with Iowa State cashing in every time. The Cyclones are 10-1 ATS in their last 11 meetings.

We started the year looking at four strong contenders for the BCS championship, and we’ll wrap up this week’s column with the same four teams. The No. 3 Sooners we already know about; the No. 1 Florida Gators crushed the FCS Charleston Southern Buccaneers (Big South) 62-3, the No. 2 Texas Longhorns (-41.5) didn’t quite cover in a 59-20 romp over the UL-Monroe Warhawks, and the No. 4 USC Trojans (-35) had no problems overcoming the chalk in a 56-3 pasting of the San Jose State Spartans.

The Trojans will face Ohio State this week in Columbus (Saturday, 8:00 p.m. ET, ESPN) with live betting available right here at Bodog Sports. Watch for USC tailback Joe McKnight to do some major damage after Navy racked up 4.2 yards per carry against the Buckeyes. McKnight torched San Jose State for 145 yards on just 14 rushing attempts.

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