The College Football season has reached Week 11, and another #1 team has fallen. Granted, Miami was the underdog even as the #1 team; it highlights what an up-and-down season it’s been even for the top teams. It’s time for this week’s trip to The Upset Factory; let’s cook up the Week 11 College Football Upset Parlay.
Last week, the Illinois Illini were easy cash on Friday night as +170 dogs. They throttled the Nebraska Cornhuskers in a Big Ten battle under the lights. Unfortunately, both SEC teams, the Missouri Tigers and Kentucky Wildcats, let us down. So it’s back to the drawing board for Week 11.
North Carolina Tar Heels (+155)
Same song, different verse. We played them as underdogs against TCU in Ireland Week 0. Against Pittsburgh, against Duke. They cashed in all three games. We played them again two weeks ago against #1 Miami and came oh-so-close to cashing a big moneyline bet. Once again, they are underdogs. At home at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, nonetheless.
Bill Belichick has his team dialed in. The defense is ferocious, the offense is clicking. They’ve played the underdog role all season long and keep coming up as the winner. Louisville has some big wins, but mostly over inferior opponents. They lost games to Wake Forest at home and North Carolina State on the road. In Belichick we trust.
Rutgers Scarlet Knights (+425)
From one Coach I trust, Belichick, to another I simply can’t trust, Matt Rhule. The Nebraska Football program should be studied for their inability to win games when it matters. They’ve blown late-game leads against Indiana, Oregon, and Washington. Watching them last Friday night as we had the Illinois moneyline, you can tell the team just doesn’t have it in them, and the coaching is terrible. Offensive coordinator Dana Holgerson was fired as Matt Rhule’s scapegoat this week, but we all know he wasn’t the real problem. Now the Huskers have to travel across the country to New Jersey.
SHI Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey, that is. A place where the Rutgers Scarlet Knights have been good this season. They hung with the USC Trojans into the fourth quarter, losing by just a touchdown. It was the same story with the Michigan Wolverines. Rutgers was down by one point at halftime and only lost by a single touchdown in that one. The wins aren’t there for this Rutgers team, but this is a great get-up spot for them against a bad football team who is looking ahead and dreading having Ohio State and Iowa on the schedule to close out the year. Scarlet Knights +14 is a lock, and they win this game as big dogs.
USC Trojans (+240)
Staying in the Big Ten, the USC Trojans head to Bloomington, Indiana this week to take on Indiana Hoosiers. Indiana is 8-1 overall and 5-1 in the conference, second to only UCLA currently. That great record, however, doesn’t tell the whole story. It took overtime for the Hoosiers to beat Minnesota last week. It took overtime for them to defeat Michigan two weeks ago. They almost lost to the bad Nebraska team we highlighted above; Indiana was trailing a majority of that game. Northwestern kept them on the ropes earlier this season. All props to Indiana for pulling out all those wins, with Ohio State their only loss.
If you keep playing with fire, eventually it’s going to burn you. This feels like that week finally. The Trojans haven’t been flawless by any means; they’ve had their own share of close games. But they stepped up against a good Ohio State team last week and took care of business. This is their big chance to prove themselves. Give me the Trojans to round out this big parlay.
North Carolina + Rutgers + USC Parlay (+4452)
