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<blockquote data-quote="Cuyahoga Falls Eers_rivals" data-source="post: 131111030" data-attributes="member: 1759980">You do know that the Vegas line has NOTHING to do with how many points a team is favored by? They pick a number that will get HALF the money on each side of the line. So it's a number that fans of each team will put their money down on. LSU will beat Oklahoma by more than 10 points, but that 10 gets half the money on each side of the line so that Vegas is guaranteed to make money no matter who wins. Oklahoma's pass defense will get shredded by Joe Burrow, just as every LSU opponents' pass defenses have been shredded. I'm not happy about it because I would be delighted if a Big 12 team can win the national title because that would help WVU. But the eyeball test rarely lies although in college football, where the only predictable thing is unpredictability, who knows? As for Ohio State being an underdog to Clemson, again that's only to get HALF the money on each side of the line, not that Vegas thinks Clemson will win by 2 points. I think Ohio State, after a first half struggle, will pull away from Clemson. But that's why they play to games, to prove the experts wrong. It should be fun. </blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cuyahoga Falls Eers_rivals, post: 131111030, member: 1759980"] [SIZE=5][COLOR=#ff0000][B]You do know that the Vegas line has NOTHING to do with how many points a team is favored by? They pick a number that will get HALF the money on each side of the line. So it's a number that fans of each team will put their money down on. LSU will beat Oklahoma by more than 10 points, but that 10 gets half the money on each side of the line so that Vegas is guaranteed to make money no matter who wins. Oklahoma's pass defense will get shredded by Joe Burrow, just as every LSU opponents' pass defenses have been shredded. I'm not happy about it because I would be delighted if a Big 12 team can win the national title because that would help WVU. But the eyeball test rarely lies although in college football, where the only predictable thing is unpredictability, who knows? As for Ohio State being an underdog to Clemson, again that's only to get HALF the money on each side of the line, not that Vegas thinks Clemson will win by 2 points. I think Ohio State, after a first half struggle, will pull away from Clemson. But that's why they play to games, to prove the experts wrong. It should be fun. [/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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