College Football Picks – #16 Oregon Ducks vs. #14 Boise State Broncos

Kick-off: 10:15 pm EST

Football is finally here and bettors are no worse for wear! Hopefully, most BetOnline online sportsbook gamblers have been able to build their bankrolls during the NBA and MLB seasons because as any gambler knows, football is where the real money and fun is!

Who said gambling had to be boring, right? Case in point, Thursday’s night’s headlining game between the Oregon Ducks and the Boise State Broncos. The Broncos, as most football fans know, play on a blue field. It’s done wonders for them in the past as Boise State has become one of the best teams in college football against the spread. The Oregon Ducks will try to change that when they go into Idaho as the #16 th ranked team in the nation.

Here is the Sportsbook betting line for this early season key game.

#16 Oregon Ducks +3 -110 +140 O 64 -110

#14 Boise State Broncos -3 -110 -160 U 64 -110

Here are a few online betting trends for this game.

• The Oregon Ducks are 14 and 6 in their last 20 games on turf.
• The Oregon Ducks are 4 and 1 in their last 5 games versus teams from the WAC.
• The Boise State Broncos are 5-1-1 ATS in their last 7 games overall.
• The Boise State Broncos are 40-17-2 ATS in their last 59 games at home.

What’s amazing about the sport of college football is that even though teams change players from year to year, and sometimes coaches, it doesn’t seem to matter all that much. Powerful trends stay powerful.

The most powerful trend in this game is that the Boise State Broncos are almost unbeatable against the spread on that blue turf. Boise State is as creative offensively as any team in college football. They have been for a few years now.

The Oregon Ducks, however, are no slouch. Oregon is a solid football team. BetOnline wagering fans understand this as they have already bet the Ducks down to -3 underdogs in the sportsbook even though the line opened at -4.

Oregon’s offense should be just as powerful this year as last year when they averaged over 41 points a game because their head coach, Chip Kelly, was the architect of the offense while serving as offensive coordinator at Oregon for the past two seasons. That makes the Ducks extremely capable of taking down the Broncos in this game.

But why mess around? The last time these two teams met, in 2008, Boise State upset the Ducks by a score of 37 to 32. That’s 69 points. Will there be a drop off in scoring in 2009. I doubt it.

Both teams should light up the scoreboard as they both return their quarterbacks and both are exceptionally fast on turf. I see this game going over and that’s the way I’m going top bet it.

I’m going to make a bet that the game between the Oregon Ducks and the Boise State Broncos goes over the total of 64 at -110.