5 college football bets to take to the bank in Week 2

1. LSU vs. Texas (+6)

As highly anticipated as the matchup between Texas A&M and Clemson is, the best game in Week 2 of college football is the No. 6 ranked LSU Tigers travel to Austin to take on the No. 9 ranked Texas Longhorns. Despite this being a contest between two top-10 teams, though, the Tigers opened up as three-point favorites on the road and the line has since grown to six points for Saturday night’s game.

You can see why people are buying into LSU. Ed Orgeron’s team was dominant against Georgia Southern last week. The Grant Delpit led defense was suffocating against inferior competition, as expected. However, the most important factor in the victory was quarterback Joe Burrow enjoying the best game of his college career, tossing just four incompletions in a massive five-touchdown passing effort.

Having said that, it’s still baffling that the Longhorns aren’t at least even odds playing at home against LSU. Texas was dominant in their own right last week against Louisiana Tech with Sam Ehlinger starting his Heisman campaign. More than that, however, the Longhorns seem to present the right matchup to give the Tigers trouble on Saturday night.

Against Georgia Southern, LSU showed a clear departure from their run-heavy offense as they rushed for just 122 yards as a team. That potentially means a focus on the passing attack, which plays right into the hands of Texas, a team with one of the best overall secondaries in the country.

On top of that, Tom Herman’s offense with Ehlinger at the helm is anything but conventional, which can give even the most talented defenses in college football fits. The Longhorns may not win but if you’re giving a top-10 team six points at home, you’re crazy not to take them.