College Football Playoff predictions, odds: Picks for Ohio State-Oregon, Georgia-Notre Dame in quarterfinals

The first round of the College Football Playoff was a dud. It doesn’t matter if you think they put the wrong teams in or if you blame the format of the tournament and the way it’s seeded, there’s no arguing the first four games all stunk.

When the most dramatic moment of the four games was Clemson making it a one-score game for 55 seconds in the fourth quarter of its loss to Texas, you know it was a rough watch.

While it was a disappointment, let’s look on the bright side. The odds are the quarterfinals can’t be worse. According to the point spreads, we’re in for a feast-or-famine kind of round. We have two games with spreads within three points and two with spreads in the double digits. And, thankfully, while we can’t guarantee excitement across the board, we can entertain ourselves with bets on each game.

Boise State as an underdog in the Fiesta Bowl? What could go wrong? Seriously, there is some irony here in the fact Boise has been a giant killer in the Fiesta Bowl and is 3-0 all-time in the game, but it’s going up against a Penn State team that’s 7-0 in the game. No program has won this game more often than Penn State, and I’m pretty confident the Nittany Lions will improve to 8-0 after this one.

Ashton Jeanty is one of the best players in the country, and he is not a byproduct of Boise…

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Author : Tom Fornelli

Publish date : 2024-12-27 16:19:00

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