Predictions for all FBS games in week 1

  Savvy Index   2022    
  predictions week 1    
    week of 09/03/22 rev2: 8/31/22  
top 25 week 0: 8-3 73% season: 8-3 73% wins losses game rating notes
  Arizona 0 0 14 If Burmeister falters, will we finally see
18 San Diego St. 0 0 43 SDSU take a chance on exciting Will Haskell?
           
fcs N Arizona 0 1 13 rev: 8/30/22: Most analysts are predicting
  Arizona St. 1 0 38 a much higher final spread.
           
fcs UC Davis 0 0 17 UC Davis isn’t loaded with stars
  California 0 0 31 but it is a top 20 FCS outfit.
           
  TCU 0 0 27 I agree with the betting public …
  Colorado 0 0 21 this will be TCU by 10 +
           
5 Utah 0 0 32 Florida isn’t ready for a week 1
  Florida 0 0 21 matchup with a high-ranked opponent like Utah.
           
15 Oregon 0 0 27 If Bo Nix doesn’t throw the ball away,
2 Georgia 0 0 34 Oregon may actually win this.
           
  Boise St. 0 0 31 Savvy says Oregon State will have one of
  Oregon St. 0 0 32 the 10 best offensive lines this year.
           
fcs Colgate 0 0 7  
  Stanford 0 0 49  
           
  Bowling Green 0 0 10 I think Bowling Green will surprise people
25 UCLA 0 0 50 this year – just – not this week.
           
  Rice 0 0 10 Rice is not going to put the ball in the
  USC 0 0 45 air and that will limit the margin.
           
  Kent St. 0 0 17 New coaches at UW and a room filled with
  Washington 0 0 33 interception-prone qbs. This may take some time.
           
fcs Idaho 0 0 14 WSU’s qb Cameron Ward is
  Washington St. 0 0 42 worth the price of admission.
           
fcs N Iowa 0 0 13 NIU is expecting to contend
  Air Force 0 0 40 in the FCS playoffs.
           
fcs St. Francis PA 0 1 12 SFPU ranked 106th in FCS
  Akron 1 0 40 Akron ranked 106th in FBS
           
  Utah St. 0 0 24 Oddsmakers have no spread or points
1 Alabama 0 0 41 declared as of Monday afternoon.
           
  N Carolina 0 0 20 Both of these programs have
  App State 0 0 37 a lot of negative trend lines.
           
11 Cincinnati 0 0 27 This will be exciting and many
17 Arkansas 0 0 28 will call the Arkansas win an upset.
           
fcs Grambling St. 0 0 14  
  Arkansas St. 0 0 41  
           
fcs Mercer 0 0 12  
  Auburn 0 0 44  
           
fcs Albany 0 0 6  
16 Baylor 0 0 54  
           
  Rutgers 0 0 24 Betting lines are too low and Savvy too high
  Boston Col 0 0 29 in total points. Should finish at 52.
           
fcs William & Mary 0 0 27 FCS upset prediction
  Charlotte 0 0 24  
           
  Army 0 0 17 … but Coastal Carolina is showing
14 Coastal Car 0 0 34 significant signs of erosion.
           
fcs C Conn St. 0 0 24 UConn looked so good against Utah State last week
  Connecticut 0 0 38 that I’m now wondering about Utah State.
           
  Temple 0 0 24 Oddsmakers say total points will
  Duke 0 0 32 be about 51. It will be at least 57.
           
12 N Carolina St. 0 0 35 Yup, E Carolina has come this far in the
  E Carolina 0 0 24 past 2 years to be within 7 of NCSU.
           
fcs E Kentucky 0 0 21  
  E Michigan 0 0 30  
           
fcs Bryant 0 0 20 Bryant will get on the scoreboard
  Florida Intl. 1 0 38 often but not enough to win.
           
fcs Cal Poly 0 0 0 New FSU coach Jeff Tedford
  Fresno St. 1 0 54 will have the Bulldogs ready.
           
fcs Morgan St. 0 0 3 How will Clay Helton’s program
  Georgia So. 0 0 52 renovation look in week 1?
           
6 Clemson 0 0 52 This game is a money maker for bettors because
  Georgia Tech 0 0 10 Vegas set total points at just 49.
           
  W Kentucky 0 0 32 Worst played game of the
  Hawai’i 0 0 21 week? Probably.
           
  Illinois 0 0 35 I’m amazed that betting odds
  Indiana 0 0 24 say Indiana will win.
           
fcs S Dakota St. 0 0 10 I think the Savvy spread is too high
10 Iowa 0 0 42 by two touchdowns.
           
fcs S E Missouri St. 0 0 13  
  Iowa St. 0 0 42  
           
  Middle Tenn 0 0 27 Madison’s first game as
  James Madison 0 0 30 an FBS team.
           
fcs Tenn Tech 0 0 24 Tenn Tech is pretty darned good
  Kansas 0 0 33 but KU has better pieces this year.
           
fcs S Dakota 0 0 14  
  Kansas St. 0 0 38  
           
  Miami Oh 0 0 13 I don’t think Kentucky has enough at qb
19 Kentucky 0 0 35 or returning production to stay in the rankings all year.
           
fcs S E Louisiana 0 0 17  
  Louisiana 0 0 46  
           
  Florida St. 1 0 17  
  LSU 0 0 32  
           
fcs Norfolk St. 0 0 7 Marshall will look good this week. But next week is Notre Dame
  Marshall 0 0 45 and the Herd will realize how much they miss qb Grant Wells.
           
  Buffalo 0 0 17 I don’t see any way total points get
  Maryland 0 0 41 above 61 like betting lines suggest.
           
fcs Bethune-Cookman 0 0 3  
20 Miami Fl 0 0 52  
           
  Colorado St. 0 0 10 CSU will make a game of it for
7 Michigan 0 0 45 one half but just not enough talent yet.
           
  W Michigan 0 0 17 Betting odds call for a 20+ point spread but not with Savvy
22 Michigan St. 0 0 36 because WMU carries a high history of upsets.
           
  New Mexico St. 0 2 10 You KNOW Jerry Kill of NMSU wants to beat
  Minnesota 1 0 44 his former employer after their bitter, bitter separration.
           
  Troy 0 0 17  
23 Mississippi 0 0 41  
           
  Memphis 0 0 27 I like betting odds at a 15 pt spread.
  Mississippi St. 0 0 30 Miss St. returns A LOT of production.
           
  LA Tech 0 1 24 LA Tech lost seven of it’s final
  Missouri 1 0 33 eight games last year.
           
fcs Delaware 0 0 27 Extremely high upset
  Navy 0 0 35 trend lines on this one.
           
fcs N Dakota 0 0 24 If Nebraska loses this after losing in upset
  Nebraska 0 0 33 to Northwestern, is Frost finished?
           
  Texas St. 0 0 17 Nevada is in for a long
  Nevada 0 0 33 and losing season.
           
fcs Maine 0 0 28 Maine will be one of the better
  New Mexico 0 0 33 FCS teams this year.
           
fcs E Illinois 0 1 0 Almost 100% certainty that
  N Illinois 1 0 57 NIU wins this game.
           
  SMU 0 0 37  
  N Texas 0 0 24  
           
  Florida Atl. 0 0 24 Upset
  Ohio 0 0 33  
           
  Notre Dame 0 0 24 This game will get a lot of hype
3 Ohio St. 0 0 36 but OSU is clearly better.
           
  UTEP 0 0 20 … but UTEP is still dangerous.
4 Oklahoma 0 0 47  
           
  C Michigan 0 0 20 CMU won 7 of its last 8 games in 2021
9 Oklahoma St. 1 0 37 including a bowl win over Wash St.
           
  Virginia Tech 0 0 38 High upset potential because ODU
  Old Dominion 0 0 24 has tremendous upward trends.
           
  W Virginia 0 1 24 The battle of former USC
  Pittsburgh 1 0 39 transfer quarterbacks.
           
24 Penn St. 1 0 31 Hard to believe PSU still has Sean Clifford at
  Purdue 0 1 24 qb. Doesn’t he ever graduate?
           
fcs Portland St. 0 1 10 San Jose State quarterback Chevon Cordeiro
  San Jose St. 1 0 46 will put up some big numbers here.
           
fcs Nicholls 0 0 27  
  S Alabama 0 0 33  
           
  Georgia St. 0 0 27 Expect S Carolina to get a slow start
  S Carolina 0 0 34 in 2022 but finish strong.
           
  Liberty 0 0 38 Is Charlie Brewer really the
  S Miss 0 0 17 answer at Liberty?
           
  Louisville 0 0 28  
  Syracuse 0 0 38  
           
  Ball St. 0 1 20 Both the spread and total points
  Tennessee 1 0 34 are too high in the gambling lines.
           
  LA Monroe 0 0 14 … but ULM showed some encouraging
  Texas 0 0 44 up trends to end the 2021 season.
           
fcs Sam Houston St. 0 0 14 This is a risky, risky game for Texas A&M because
  Texas A&M 0 0 43 Sam Houston is a loaded, FCS contender.
           
fcs Murray St. 0 0 14  
  Texas Tech 0 0 48  
           
fcs Long Island 0 1 6 This will be worth watching because of Toledo’s
  Toledo 1 0 59 dynamic quarterback Dequann Finn..
           
  Massachusetts 0 0 27 Don Brown is a great hire for UMass. I can’t see this
  Tulane 0 0 36 game getting to the betting spread of 28.5.
           
fcs Alabama A&M 0 1 6  
  UAB 1 0 46  
           
fcs S Carolina St 0 1 10 FCS teams struggle against
  UCF 1 0 48 UCF’s Knights.
           
fcs Idaho St. 0 0 17  
  UNLV 0 0 41  
           
8 BYU 0 0 45 How betting lines have this as a 12-point game
  USF 0 0 7 is mystifying because this is a blow out.
           
  Houston 0 0 28 I agree with the gamblers …
21 UTSA 0 0 34 Houston wins this.
           
fcs Elon 0 0 24 I know, I know— Vandy beat Hawai’i by 53 last week
  Vanderbilt 0 0 32 but it also lost to FCS last year.
           
fcs Richmond 0 0 19  
  Virginia 0 0 35  
           
fcs VMI 0 1 10  
  Wake Forest 1 0 51  
           
fcs Illinois St. 0 0 7 I know ISU can score but I doubt
13 Wisconsin 0 0 48 they get to 12 against Wisconsin.
           
  Tulsa 0 0 34 Wyoming looked awful last week,
  Wyoming 0 0 17 much worse than I expected.
         

 

 

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