College Football Picks Against The Spread For September 17/18

For those of you that don’t know, I pick every FBS vs. FBS game each weekend. Sounds easy, right? Not really. I do it against the spread!

There were a total of 51 FBS vs. FBS games last weekend. How did the new point system do? Let’s check that out first!

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1: 1-1

2: 7-8

3: 7-8

4: 11-5

5: 0-3

That netted me a total of four points. Missing all three of my five pointers hurt my week. The moral of the story is to pay more attention to by four pointers! I stayed away from very few last week. Maybe I shouldn’t have been so confident.

My total against the spread was still above water at 26-25, bringing my season total to 46-43. Not quite my goal, but going .500 in opening weeks is no easy task. There are a lot of uncertains this early in the year.

In case you missed my point system last week, it goes like this:

The point scale will go like this:

5. A lock. I am comfortable making a sizable wager on this game.

4. Very confident. Not quite a lock, but I am comfortable making a decent sized wager on it.

3. Middle of the road. Good enough that I would make a small wager on it.

2. Could go either way. So much so that I wouldn’t bet on it.

1. Stay away from these.

Take note that any games that involve 1-AA teams will NOT be picked. There simply is not enough information to get an accurate spread.

Here are my college football picks against the spread September 17 and 18:

There are only three games between Thursday and Friday this week with the NFL kicking off and taking some of the action. Most of the games are on Saturday. My picks for the Saturday games will be up tomorrow for those of you that are parlayers.

(11)Clemson(-6.5) at Louisville(4): Louisville’s quarterback situation is what tips this in Clemson’s favor for me. Of course, I would have much rather picked this game straight up which is where the line opened. Still, Clemson has too many horses on offense to not win by a touchdown.

(9)Florida State(-8.5) at Boston College(2): On paper, the Seminoles win running away. Still, the Seminoles always seem to struggle on Chestnut Hill. And with the way the passing game looked last week, it’s hard to be confident in the FSU offense. I still think this line is a touch too low. Give me Florida State, though I will probably regret it.

New Mexico at Arizona State(-27.5)(2): This is a tough one. The Lobos are really bad on defense, but Arizona State is being pushed around in the run game, which is all New Mexico does. I have to think the Lobos find the end zone a couple of times on the ground. Give me UNM, I guess.

We have much more to come on Fantasy CPR as we get you ready for a weekend full of sport! I have all of the rest of the picks against the spread and FanDuel lineups for your college football Saturday, and we also have our NFL FanDuel roundtable on tap as well!