Down goes No. 2. And No. 3. And No. 4.
And now, we have chaos on our hands.
It's tough to tell just how much the College Football Playoff will be shaken up by what happened in Week 11 of the season with Clemson, Michigan and Washington all be handed their first losses, but the one lesson that bettors all learned is that there's no such thing as a sure thing for the teams at the top in college football. Is more havoc on the horizon? We know that the answer to that is surely yes, but who will be the next team to get picked off by a relative unknown? The Week 12 college football betting lines might be giving us some of those answers.
College Football Week 12 Opening Odds at BookMaker.eu
Kent State ( -2.5 ) at Bowling Green
Ohio ( -1 ) at Central Michigan
Ball State at Toledo ( -21 )
Northern Illinois ( -4 ) at Eastern Michigan
Louisville at Houston ( N/A )
Arkansas State at Troy ( -8 )
Memphis ( -7 ) at Cincinnati
UNLV at Boise State ( -26 )
Connecticut at Boston College ( -7 )
Louisiana Monroe at Appalachian State ( -25.5 )
UTEP at Rice ( -1.5 )
Miami ( -3 ) at N.C. State
Texas Tech ( -3 ) at Iowa State
Iowa ( -11.5 ) at Illinois
Northwestern ( -1 ) at Minnesota
Wisconsin ( -27 ) at Purdue
Duke at Pittsburgh ( -8 )
UTSA at Texas A&M ( -26 )
Maryland at Nebraska ( -14.5 )
Oklahoma ( -3 ) at West Virginia
Middle Tennessee State ( -4.5 ) at Charlotte
Massachusetts at BYU ( -31 )
Louisiana Lafayette at Georgia ( -21.5 )
San Diego State ( -7.5 ) at Wyoming
New Mexico at Colorado State ( -4.5 )
Indiana at Michigan ( -25.5 )
Virginia Tech at Notre Dame ( -1 )
Kansas State ( -2.5 ) at Baylor
Virginia at Georgia Tech ( -10.5 )
Florida State ( -20.5 ) at Syracuse
Ole Miss ( -9.5 ) at Vanderbilt
Texas State at New Mexico State ( -9 )
Arizona at Oregon State ( -7 )
Arizona State at Washington ( -25 )
Washington State at Colorado ( -3.5 )
Stanford ( -11.5 ) at California
Southern Miss at North Texas ( N/A )
Old Dominion ( -8 ) at Florida Atlantic
Buffalo at Western Michigan ( -35 )
Marshall ( -2 ) at Florida International
Arkansas at Mississippi State ( PK )
Hawaii ( -1.5 ) at Fresno State
South Florida ( -14 ) at SMU
Tulsa ( -2.5 ) at UCF
Temple ( -15.5 ) at Tulane
Ohio State ( -21.5 ) at Michigan State
Texas ( -22.5 ) at Kansas
Clemson ( -21.5 ) at Wake Forest
Missouri at Tennessee ( -14.5 )
Georgia Southern ( -3 ) at Georgia State
USC ( -10.5 ) at UCLA
Oklahoma State at TCU ( -4 )
Penn State ( -27 ) at Rutgers
Oregon at Utah ( -12 )
Air Force ( -11 ) at San Jose State
Utah State ( -4 ) at Nevada
Navy ( -7 ) at East Carolina
Florida at LSU ( -14 )
Games of the Week
Washington State at Colorado – Saturday 3:30 p.m. ET
The one thing that Washington loss did last week was really open the door for both Washington State and Colorado just a bit. These two teams are still definite outsiders in the chase for the College Football Playoff, but both could make a case to still get there by winning out.
The Cougs are off to their best start in conference play in their history at 7-0, and they know at worst, they're going to be playing next week against Washington with a spot in the Pac-12 title game on the line. Colorado also knows that destiny is going to be in its hands against Utah next week. This game though, is a CFP eliminator for both.
Points are surely going to be on the board as well, though this is a good mix-up between Colorado's strong pass defense and Washington State's elite offense. The Buffs are allowing under 200 yards per game this season at home; Luke Falk is averaging over 400 passing yards per game on the road. Something has to give, and whichever side does is likely to handed a season-crippling loss.
Oklahoma at West Virginia – Saturday 8 p.m. ET
Oklahoma had to think that its season was over with at 1-2, but the team has rallied in tremendous fashion and now has 14 wins in a row in Big XII play. The Sooners could win the Big XII this week with a win and an Oklahoma State loss, but the fact of the matter is that they're probably in better shape if the Pokes pull off a mild upset at TCU earlier in the day. West Virginia meanwhile, has snuck back into the CFP conversation as well thanks to the fact that it's merely a one-loss team standing in a power conference. Its schedule is still weak though, and even winning out guarantees nothing without having a conference title game to fall back on.
On the field, this should be a good one. It's one of the biggest games we've seen in Morgantown in quite some time, but we're not sure how Dana Holgorsen's defense is going to react going against one of the truly elite offenses in the nation. Baker Mayfield is still rallying for his Heisman Trophy campaign, though the best he can probably do is second best to Lamar Jackson at this point. He'll need to put on a real show here in what could be a barnburner in Morgantown.
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