5. Colorado at Oregon
LINE Oregon -24
ATS PICK Oregon
You’re not wrong to ever assume Oregon will underwhelm, but this team is way too overdue to bust out with an explosive day where everything starts to click.
Oh, and Colorado really, really, really can’t score.
The only time the Buffs scored this year against an FBS team was the 34-0 win over a winless Arizona. Even then the offense only gained 365 yards and was helped by two takeaways from the D – the only time all year Colorado won the turnover battle.
They haven’t been able to get past 14 points in any of the other five games against the FBSers, and they’re dead last in the nation in total offense by a relative mile.
New Mexico is averaging just 254 yards per game. Southern Miss is averaging 258 and UConn 280. Those three are 2019 LSU offensively compared to Colorado, who’s averaging 238 yards per game whether it needs them or not.
To put this into perspective, if the season were to end right now, that would be the third-lowest yardage average by any team since 2014 – that’s out of over 700 teams.
Oregon has yet to beat anyone this season by more than 22, and it’s already working in our favor with the line starting at 26 and coming down. This might be at 23 by the time the game starts.
Speaking of great teams that should blow up …