Marco D'Angelo

THE PLAY: Central Michigan +18.5 (-110)

Illinois finds themselves in a Big time Sandwich Game as they are coming off of Upsetting #19 Kansas last week at Home and then go to play #23 Nebraska next week. To make this Sandwich even better the Nebraska game is on Friday making it an even bigger deal playing a stand alone game on National TV. If you dig deeper into last weeks lopsided scores you will see that Illinois benefited from 4 Kansas TO’s and has a TO advantage of 8-1 thru 2 games. We also see that C. Michigan self destructed last week with 6 TO’s against Florida International. Bottom line is Illinois isn’t as good as it may appear and C. Michigan isn’t as bad as last weeks 52-16 score might indicate. Couple that with the Sandwich Spot and an inflated line makes this a great play.

TAKE C. MICHIGAN +18.5 

THE PLAY: Missouri -16.5 (-112)

This will be Boston College third game in 13 days. Granted, last week’s game on a short week, it was nothing more than a scrimmage over Duquesne. Boston College jumped into the top 25 with its win over Florida State on Labor Day. On paper winning outright as a 15 point underdog looks impressive but the jury is still out if Florida State was really that good. Missouri has been absolutely dominating winning their two games by a combined 89–0 score but they’re two opponents were nothing to write home about beating Murray State and Buffalo. The line in those two games was -50 and -30 so basically they won by what they were supposed to. I don’t see this Boston College defense shutting down Missouri’s balanced attack that rushes for 222 and passes for 282. I also don’t see Boston College being able to trade points with Missouri  and once they fall behind and have to press the issue that’s when TO’s will occur. When you have a team with a good defense like Missouri’s and can run the ball like Missouri can I don’t have a problem laying points because this team can extend a lead when just trying to run out the clock.
 

MISSOURI 42-13