The Colorado Buffaloes (4-7, 3-5 Pac-12) travel to Salt Lake City to take on the 19th-ranked Utah Utes (8-3, 7-1) Friday at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Kickoff is set for 4 p.m. ET. Below, we look at the Colorado vs. Utah odds and lines, and make our expert college football picks, predictions and bets.
Colorado earned a 20-17 win over Washington Saturday and has won two of its last three games. The Buffaloes picked up the victory despite gaining just 183 total yards against the Huskies, and that’s nothing new for their 128th ranked total offense (267.5 yards per game).
Utah trounced then-No. 5 Oregon 38-7 Saturday, and heads into its regular-season finale having won seven of its last eight games. Utah has averaged 43.0 points per game over four straight wins.
Including a 38-21 Utes triumph last fall, Utah has won four in a row in a Utes-Buffs series that dates back to 1903.
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Colorado at Utah odds, spread and lines
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- Money line: Colorado +900 (bet $100 to win $900) | Utah -2000 (bet $2,000 to win $100)
- Against the spread (ATS): Colorado +23.5 (-107) | Utah -23.5 (-115)
- Over/Under (O/U): 51.5 (O: -115 | U: -107)
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Colorado at Utah odds, lines, picks and predictions
Prediction
Utah 38, Colorado 14
Money line
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Against the spread
Colorado is 1-5 ATS over its last six games on artificial turf and 0-5 ATS in the last five games in this series. Utah is 16-7 ATS in its last 23 Pac-12 games.
Underlying defensive analytics figures are better than the surface numbers on the Utah side, and the opposite is the case for a Colorado team that struggles mightily in creating havoc and in keeping rushing teams off schedule and behind the chains.
The spread here is substantial; tab the UTES -23.5 (-115) with just a slight lean.
Over/Under
The Over is 6-1 in the Utes’ last seven games and 3-1 in the Buffs’ last four.
Friday’s number deserves some respect, though. It’s worth shading the upside but perhaps just with a partial-unit play. BACK THE OVER 51.5 (-115).
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