Entering the third full week of college football, the drama is flowing from a faucet. Deion Sanders has taken over the sport, and Nick Saban got thumped at home. The blue bloods are shaking as new life breathes into the game. This week’s CFB parlay features three different legs, each one being a dog. There are no outright winners here — check this week’s upset pick for that — but there is plenty of value for a +611 parlay. Here are the three legs for this week’s CFB parlay!
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Week 3 Parlay Pick: Kansas State-Missouri
Kansas State comes riding into town as a shorter road favorite but still laying points, nonetheless. Everyone will see the records, last year’s game at Manhattan and, of course, the heat coming off Missouri coach Elia Drinkwitz’s seat. This is a public bet if there ever was one to ride Kansas State despite it being just 1-6 straight up and 2-5 against the spread in its last seven games at SEC homes. The Tigers are in full revenge mode after being torched last year in Kansas. They are 6-1 against the spread over their last seven as out of conference home dogs. With all the focus on the Wildcats and Drinkwitz on the hot seat, most bettors will overlook Missouri’s coach standing strong 15-8 against the spread, including winning his last five against teams coming off a win. Expect the Tigers to be extra focused with a little more motivation behind both player and coach.
CFB Parlay Pick: Missouri +4.5
Week 3 Parlay Pick: Syracuse-Purdue
Here is another home dog on the wrong side of the line as the Boilermakers play host to the Orange. Syracuse torched a couple of nobodies, including Colgate, so public bettors will be all over the Orangemen and their big, shiny 2-0 record. They may get even more giddy when seeing the point differential so far. That’s where Purdue comes in, an actual opponent playing at home against Syracuse. Purdue is just 1-1, but the .500 record puts it in a good category of trend to win this game. Syracuse coach Dino Babers has lost 11 straight games versus teams below a .667 winning percentage seeking revenge. If you really want to get crazy with a trend — just don’t tell Ben Rasa where you got it — any team playing at home in the third game of the season that was in a bowl last year and coming off a road win after a loss to open the season is 6-0 straight up and 5-1 against the spread since 2017. The thing about trends and systems is finding teams that actually meet all the specific criteria instead of just an overall against-the-spread record. The new coaching staff at Purdue, combined with revenge, should put enough pressure on the visiting Orangemen. Don’t be floored when Purdue wins this outright, but for now just take the points.
Week 3 Parlay Pick: Syracuse-Purdue
Wyoming takes on the fourth-ranked team in the country at Texas and is just a four-touchdown underdog. Some of that is a 2-0 start for the Cowboys, including a thriller against Texas Tech. Even with the Longhorns as a national powerhouse, the line sitting at 28.5 and a clear gap in talent — this actually makes a ton of sense to ride Wyoming inside 28 points. There’s no shot the Cowboys walk out victorious, but covering a spread and only losing by 14 to 17 points is highly doable. They enter this game 7-1 in road openers when undefeated, and head coach Craig Bohl is 19-11-1 against the spread in non-conference games. Not all of those are against top-4 teams in the country, but this team is competing with a bunch of starters that returned from last year. Baylor is next up for the Longhorns following this game, so expect a little look ahead type letdown. If you still need to win this argument at the bar or barbershop, there have been 11 occurrences over the past 43 years where a team upset Alabama then laid 16-plus points the following week — they are 2-9 against the spread. It actually drops to 0-4 against the spread if the team was a dog of 7 or more points — Alabama was a steady 7.5-point favorite last week.
CFB Parlay Pick: Wyoming +28.5
CFB Week 3 Parlay Final Odds
Missouri +4.5
Purdue +2.5
Wyoming +28.5
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