College Football Picks Week 0

College football season kicks off this weekend with a small appetizer of games. The most notable game is Nebraska facing off against Northwestern in Ireland, but there’s a handful of other teams in action as well. Week 1 is over Labor Day weekend and features a full 80+ FBS games.

Vanderbilt @ Hawai’i (Saturday, 9:30 PM Central)

Hawai’i is an incredibly difficult team to forecast this year. HC Todd Graham resigned after a flurry of scrutiny, headlined by his own son transferring out of the program. They return staggeringly little production from last year’s team. However, I am going to be betting on them here as I think people don’t understand how poor the talent on Vanderbilt’s roster is. The Commodores were dreadful last year, winning two games by a combined five points against two of the sport’s worst teams. I would’ve made this game Hawai’i -12 at the end of last year, and while there’s no doubt this Rainbow Warriors team is much worse, the line shouldn’t be moving 3 touchdowns.

Hawaii +8 -110 (1 unit)

Hawaii ML +260 (0.5 units)