| Savvy Index | 2024 | ||||
| predictions | week | 3 | |||
| Savvy prediction accuracy this season | 09/08/24 | ||||
| top 25 | 144 – 32 | wins | losses | game value | comments |
| 9 | Oregon | 2 | 0 | 34 | Another opportunity for Oregon to |
| Oregon St. | 2 | 0 | 17 | fool around and risk being upset. | |
| Washington St. | 2 | 0 | 24 | I’m not sure which WSU team to | |
| 20 | Washington | 2 | 0 | 37 | expect this week. |
| FCS | Colgate | 0 | 0 | 19 | This is Colgate’s first |
| Akron | 0 | 2 | 37 | game this season. | |
| UAB | 1 | 1 | 19 | Boise transfer Taylen Green has | |
| Arkansas | 1 | 1 | 38 | really helped Arkansas. | |
| New Mexico | 0 | 2 | 20 | 12% of Auburn qb Payton Thorne’s | |
| Auburn | 1 | 1 | 43 | passes have been intercepted. | |
| Air Force | 1 | 1 | 26 | Vegas favors | |
| Baylor | 1 | 1 | 16 | Baylor by 15. | |
| Massachusetts | 0 | 2 | 22 | Watch out because Umass | |
| Buffalo | 1 | 1 | 28 | has some trends that say upset. | |
| San Diego St. | 1 | 1 | 16 | ||
| California | 2 | 0 | 30 | ||
| FCS | Gardner-Webb | 0 | 2 | 14 | |
| Charlotte | 0 | 2 | 33 | ||
| Colorado | 1 | 1 | 28 | ||
| Colorado St. | 1 | 1 | 26 | ||
| Connecticut | 1 | 1 | 10 | ||
| Duke | 2 | 0 | 40 | ||
| App State | 1 | 1 | 33 | ||
| E Carolina | 2 | 0 | 19 | ||
| Jacksonville St. | 0 | 2 | 29 | Upset by JSU. | |
| E Michigan | 1 | 1 | 25 | ||
| Texas A&M | 1 | 1 | 35 | ||
| Florida | 1 | 1 | 19 | ||
| Florida Intl. | 1 | 1 | 22 | Experts and Savvy favor FAU but | |
| Florida Atl. | 0 | 2 | 24 | FIU’s Kenjone Jenkins is reason to think otherwise. | |
| 22 | Memphis | 2 | 0 | 29 | FSU might lose three in a row after |
| Florida St. | 0 | 2 | 24 | winning 13 in a row last season. | |
| New Mexico St. | 1 | 1 | 14 | ||
| Fresno St. | 1 | 1 | 39 | ||
| FCS | S Carolina St | 1 | 1 | 14 | SCSU has a terrific quarterback in Eric |
| Georgia So. | 1 | 1 | 42 | Phoenix who might reduce this spread. | |
| Vanderbilt | 2 | 0 | 28 | ||
| Georgia St. | 1 | 1 | 27 | ||
| FCS | VMI | 0 | 2 | 8 | VMI tickets vs Ga Tech start at $9. |
| Georgia Tech | 2 | 1 | 50 | Next week vs Norfolk, they start at $31.50. | |
| Rice | 1 | 1 | 13 | ||
| Houston | 0 | 2 | 39 | ||
| C Michigan | 1 | 1 | 8 | Betting line is 18.5. Illinois | |
| Illinois | 2 | 0 | 44 | will crush that. | |
| Troy | 0 | 2 | 10 | Iowa collapsed last week. | |
| 21 | Iowa | 1 | 1 | 31 | Can the Hawkeyes regroup? |
| UNLV | 2 | 0 | 26 | ||
| Kansas | 1 | 1 | 31 | ||
| Arizona | 2 | 0 | 14 | Vegas thinks this will be | |
| 8 | Kansas St. | 2 | 0 | 43 | a one-possession game. |
| 1 | Georgia | 2 | 0 | 37 | |
| Kentucky | 1 | 1 | 10 | ||
| UTEP | 0 | 2 | 10 | Vegas set the spread at 22.5 but | |
| Liberty | 2 | 0 | 45 | UTEP can’t get that close. | |
| Ball St. | 1 | 0 | 10 | Miami Fl is AP ranked in the | |
| Miami Fl | 2 | 0 | 47 | top ten. I don’t see that at all. | |
| Cincinnati | 1 | 1 | 18 | I tend to agree with bettors | |
| Miami Oh | 0 | 1 | 26 | that Cincinnati will win. | |
| Arkansas St. | 2 | 0 | 6 | The betting line is 24 pts. | |
| 11 | Michigan | 1 | 1 | 45 | The final will be much more. |
| FCS | Prairie Vw A&M | 1 | 1 | 0 | Except for wr Shemar Savage, PVAM has |
| Michigan St. | 2 | 0 | 45 | no one who can leverage MSU. | |
| W Kentucky | 1 | 1 | 36 | ||
| Middle Tenn | 1 | 1 | 17 | ||
| Nevada | 1 | 2 | 16 | ||
| Minnesota | 1 | 1 | 31 | ||
| Toledo | 2 | 0 | 31 | ||
| Mississippi St. | 1 | 1 | 25 | ||
| 19 | Boston Col | 2 | 0 | 25 | These two have identical trends and |
| 18 | Missouri | 2 | 0 | 26 | resume’s. Mizz wins at home. |
| FCS | N Iowa | 2 | 0 | 7 | Two teams with lots of |
| Nebraska | 2 | 0 | 34 | positive trends. | |
| FCS | NC Central | 1 | 1 | 13 | |
| N Carolina | 2 | 0 | 42 | ||
| LA Tech | 1 | 0 | 10 | NCSU is one of the worst | |
| N Carolina St. | 1 | 1 | 44 | trending teams on Savvy. | |
| FCS | E Illinois | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| Northwestern | 1 | 1 | 36 | ||
| FCS | Morgan St. | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| Ohio | 1 | 1 | 40 | ||
| Tulane | 1 | 1 | 23 | The margin here will be compressed | |
| 10 | Oklahoma | 2 | 0 | 30 | by Tulane’s control of the ball. |
| Virginia Tech | 1 | 1 | 31 | ||
| Old Dominion | 0 | 2 | 14 | ||
| W Virginia | 1 | 1 | 35 | This is going to be | |
| Pittsburgh | 2 | 0 | 21 | a great game. | |
| 17 | Notre Dame | 1 | 1 | 34 | Some teams can’t win the big games. |
| Purdue | 1 | 0 | 13 | N Dame needs to win the little ones. | |
| Hawai’i | 1 | 1 | 25 | Bookies favor Sam | |
| Sam Houston | 1 | 1 | 23 | Houston for some odd reason. | |
| Kennesaw St. | 0 | 2 | 14 | ||
| San Jose St. | 2 | 0 | 33 | ||
| FCS | N’western St. | 0 | 2 | 17 | NWSU running back Kennieth Lacy averages 8.9 ypc. |
| S Alabama | 0 | 2 | 49 | That’s nice to know but not enough to win. | |
| 23 | LSU | 1 | 1 | 30 | Savvy rates this a very |
| 25 | S Carolina | 2 | 0 | 24 | strong prediction. |
| USF | 1 | 1 | 31 | USF is playing really | |
| S Miss | 1 | 1 | 22 | well right now. | |
| UCF | 2 | 0 | 31 | Bookies say TCU will win | |
| TCU | 2 | 0 | 26 | but I agree with Savvy… UCF by at least five. | |
| Coastal Car | 2 | 0 | 45 | CCU is hot. | |
| Temple | 0 | 2 | 10 | Temple is not. | |
| Kent St. | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 6 | Tennessee | 2 | 0 | 57 | |
| UTSA | 1 | 1 | 13 | I doubt UTSA gets to | |
| 2 | Texas | 2 | 0 | 38 | 13 points. |
| Arizona St. | 2 | 0 | 24 | Oddsmakers like Arizona | |
| Texas St. | 1 | 0 | 34 | State by two points. | |
| N Texas | 2 | 0 | 31 | Texas Tech has been | |
| Texas Tech | 1 | 1 | 38 | awful. | |
| 14 | Oklahoma St. | 2 | 0 | 52 | I personally think the margin will |
| Tulsa | 1 | 1 | 12 | be closer to 30 than 40. | |
| Indiana | 2 | 0 | 17 | UCLA has a problem: QB Ethan Garbers | |
| UCLA | 1 | 0 | 31 | leads both passing and rushing. | |
| 13 | Utah | 2 | 0 | 43 | Cam Rising will play for |
| Utah St. | 1 | 1 | 7 | Utah this week. | |
| Maryland | 1 | 1 | 37 | ||
| Virginia | 2 | 0 | 17 | ||
| 3 | Mississippi | 2 | 0 | 47 | Ol’ Miss hasn’t allowed a |
| Wake Forest | 1 | 1 | 10 | touchdown this season. | |
| 5 | Alabama | 2 | 0 | 35 | UW is gaining ground but |
| Wisconsin | 2 | 0 | 15 | Alabama is — well — Alabama. | |
| FCS | Bethune-Cookman | 0 | 2 | 6 | Bethune hasn’t scored more |
| W Michigan | 0 | 2 | 32 | than three points in any game this year. | |
| BYU | 2 | 0 | 42 | Wyoming lost to FCS | |
| Wyoming | 0 | 2 | 7 | Idaho last week, which Savvy predicted. | |