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[BSLMikeLowe]

Here's a sample of some Week 1 matchups next season if you need motivation:

 

Auburn vs Washington (Atlanta)

Miami vs LSU (Arlington)

Michigan at Notre Dame

Alabama vs Louisville (Orlando)

[RShack]

Here's a sample of some Week 1 matchups next season if you need motivation:

 

Auburn vs Washington (Atlanta)

Miami vs LSU (Arlington)

Michigan at Notre Dame

Alabama vs Louisville (Orlando)

 

How come 3 of those 4 games are in the wrong place?   They'd have bigger crowds if they had them in the right place, wouldn't they?

[BSLSteveBirrer]

How come 3 of those 4 games are in the wrong place?   They'd have bigger crowds if they had them in the right place, wouldn't they?

Not necessarily. Plus this way it doesn't count as a home game. So the winner gets more credit than winning at home and the loser doesn't risk a home loss. 

[SportsGuy]

1) Alabama
2-12). Who cares

[RShack]

Not necessarily. Plus this way it doesn't count as a home game. So the winner gets more credit than winning at home and the loser doesn't risk a home loss. 

 

A stadium that holds 70-some thousand in the wrong place can't accommodate the 100+ thousand that would show up in the right place...

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[BSLMikeLowe]

Odds at Westgate Las Vegas:

 

• Alabama: 5/2
• Clemson: 6/1
• Georgia, Ohio State: 8/1
• Michigan: 10/1
• Penn State: 12/1
• Oklahoma: 18/1
• Auburn, Miami, Michigan State, Texas, Wisconsin: 25/1
• LSU, Washington: 30/1
• Florida State, Notre Dame, Stanford, USC, Virginia Tech, West Virginia: 40/1
• Texas A&M: 50/1
• Florida, Oregon, TCU: 60/1
• Arizona, Boise State, Kansas State, Mississippi State, Missouri, NC State, Oklahoma State, UCLA, Utah, Wake Forest: 100/1
• Iowa, Iowa State, Louisville, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, South Carolina, UCF, Washington State: 200/1
• Colorado, Memphis, Syracuse: 300/1
• Arkansas, Arizona State, Baylor, Boston College, BYU, Cal, Colorado State, Duke, FAU, Georgia Tech, Houston, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ole Miss, Pitt, San Diego State, Tennessee, Texas Tech, USF, Vanderbilt, Virginia: 500/1
• Fresno State, Kansas, Illinois, Oregon State, Rutgers: 1000/1
• Appalachian State, Nevada, UNLV: 9999/1

[Pedro Cerrano]

Forget the Big 10 East, those teams will beat up on each other again.  Michigan at 10/1 is laughable.  It will be Alabama vs Clemson I think.  

[Pedro Cerrano]

USC at 40/1 and Washington at 30/1 aren't bad bets.  The PAC 12 was bad this year, but I think one of those teams will win the conference and if they can get into the playoff, at that point you can hedge.

[BSLMikeLowe]

Forget the Big 10 East, those teams will beat up on each other again.  Michigan at 10/1 is laughable.  It will be Alabama vs Clemson I think.  

 

Michigan has road games next season at Notre Dame, plus at MSU and OSU, who have both owned them in recent years. Then they face Wisconsin, at Northwestern and Nebraska in the West Division. Oh, and PSU will still be tough. No way they get through all that with one loss or less. But that doesn't stop the Harbaugh Hype train from rolling right along.

[You Play to Win the Game]

Yeah that's brutal. They need to beat Ohio St at least or said hype train is going to derail.

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