From rivalry games to matchups between historic programs, these are the best best in college football for Week 6 of the 2018 season.
When you look around the landscape of college football for Week 6 of the 2018 season, you might think that the big-time matchups are somewhat scarce outside of a few games. However, there are sneaky good games that will be played throughout the day, including three top-25 matchups and one of the best rivalry games in the sport, the Red River Rivalry.
Having said that, only three top-25 matchups means that there are other games throughout the country that feature ranked teams putting themselves in danger of an upset. After all, this is the time of year when teams have been taking their lumps and are getting into the thick of conference play. As such, you start to see some good teams become vulnerable to getting upset.
That’s even more so the case when you talk about some of these teams going on the road. However, we’re not trying to think about upsets entirely right now. Instead, we’re looking at the teams, games and odds that you can bank on in Week 6 of the 2018 college football season. Even with the danger that this time of the season can often bring about, there are some things that are, well, sure things.
There are some large point spreads that some top teams need to cover, but some of them are more than capable of doing that. Meanwhile, there are some lines that are just too low to not try and take advantage of that. Let’s get into it all as we look at the five best college football bets for Week 6.
All odds come courtesy of Odds Shark.
Notre Dame (-6) at Virginia Tech
Saturday night’s primetime marquee matchup features the undefeated Notre Dame Fighting Irish, currently ranked sixth in the nation, going on the road to Blacksburg to face the Virginia Tech Hokies. This is a Hokies team who suffered a horrendous upset loss to Old Dominion two weeks ago, a game in which they lost starting quarterback Josh Jackson in the process. However, they bounced back to upset a previously unbeaten Duke team in emphatic fashion on the road last week.
With the play of junior quarterback Ryan Willis last week (332 yards, three touchdowns) against a solid Blue Devils secondary, there is optimism that Virginia Tech is going to be able to salvage their season. And, if they want to make their mark, doing something big against this Notre Dame team would be the perfect way to go about it.
Having said that, there have been few teams that are as impressive as Notre Dame has been over their past two games. That time frame is significant, because the last two outings have featured Ian Book as the starting quarterback for the Fighting Irish, and it’s made all the difference in the world. They dropped 56 points on Wake Forest and then dominated Stanford last week, winning 38-17.
Put simply, the Fighting Irish aren’t getting enough love for how good and dangerous they are on both sides of the ball now that Book is at the helm. Six points is just way too low for this matchup as the Hokies, though fine with Willis, aren’t on the level of Notre Dame. Even on the road, take the Irish as favorites.