In what could be a chance to solidify their status as College Football Playoff national title contenders or a true “Welcome to the SEC” moment, the No. 1 Texas Longhorns will host the No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday. Texas steamrolled Oklahoma with a 34-3 beatdown in the Red River Rivalry game last week and has won by an average of 36.9 points during a 6-0 start. Meanwhile, the Bulldogs lost a 41-34 thriller to Alabama earlier in the year but rebounded with wins over Mississippi State and Auburn.
The latest Week 8 college football odds via the SportsLine consensus list Texas as 5-point home favorites in a contest with massive postseason implications. Elsewhere in the Week 8 college football lines, No. 7 Alabama is favored by 3 on the road over No. 11 Tennessee and No. 24 Michigan is favored by 3.5 on the road over No. 22 Illinois in a 3:30 p.m. ET kickoff on CBS. Before locking in any Week 8 college football picks on those games or others, be sure to see the latest college football predictions from SportsLine’s proven model.
The model simulates every FBS college football game 10,000 times. Since its inception, it has generated a betting profit of well over $2,000 for $100 players on its top-rated college spread football picks, and it is a sizzling 12-5 on all top-rated picks over the past three weeks of this season. Anyone who has followed it has seen strong returns on their sports betting apps.
Now, it has turned its attention to the latest college football odds and Week 8 college football betting lines. Head here to see every pick.
Top college football predictions for Week 8
One of the college picks the model is high on during Week 8: No. 8 LSU (-2.5) notches a road win over Arkansas in a 7 p.m. ET matchup on Saturday. The model predicts that the Tigers cover well over 60% of the time. The Tigers have won seven of the last eight head-to-head matchups with the Razorbacks and LSU is coming off a massive win over Ole Miss in a battle between top-15 teams last week.
Garrett Nussmeier threw for 337 yards and three touchdowns and hit on several big plays to help the Tigers overcome a double-digit deficit. Kyren Lacy had five catches for 111 yards and a touchdown in the win and now has 30 catches for 463 yards and an SEC-leading six touchdowns on the season. See the rest of its Week 8 college football picks here.
Another prediction: No. 21 SMU (-16.5) cruises to a blowout win at Stanford in an 8 p.m. ET kickoff on Saturday. Rhett Lashlee’s squad tied a program record with 11 wins last season and the Mustangs were ranked in the final AP Top 25 poll of the season for the first time since 1984. Now SMU has moved up a weight class after joining the ACC this offseason and is looking like a serious conference title contender.
Brashard Smith has accounted for 699 scrimmage yards and eight total touchdowns during a 5-1 start and he’ll pose problems for a Stanford defense that gave up 229 yards and four touchdowns on the ground against Notre Dame last week. SMU has covered the spread in its last three games while Stanford has failed to cover in its last three. Those are big reasons why the model has the Mustangs covering in nearly 70% of simulations. See picks for every other game in Week 8 here.
How to make college football picks for Week 8
The model has also made the call on who wins and covers in every FBS matchup in Week 8, and it’s calling for five underdogs to win outright. You can only get every pick for every game at SportsLine.
So what college football picks can you make with confidence, and which five underdogs win outright in Week 8? Check out the latest college football odds below, then visit SportsLine to see which teams win and cover the spread, all from a proven computer model that has returned well over $2,000 in profit since its inception, and find out.
College football odds for Week 8
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Saturday, Oct. 19
Virginia at Clemson (-21, 57.5)
Miami at Louisville (+5.5, 60.5)
Notre Dame at Georgia Tech (+14, 49.5)
Alabama at Tennessee (+3, 57.5)
Michigan at Illinois (+3.5, 44.5)
Colorado at Arizona (-2.5, 58)
LSU at Arkansas (+2.5, 57.5)
Georgia at Texas (-5, 57.5)
SMU at Stanford (+16.5, 54)
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