College Football Week 3 Early Odds, Picks & Prediction: Texas A&M vs. Miami (2022)
Let’s take a look at the College Football Week 3 odds, picks, and predictions for this week’s game: Texas A&M vs. Miami.
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- Rutgers at Temple
- Ohio State vs. Toledo
- Kentucky vs. Youngstown State
- UCLA vs. South Alabama
- Notre Dame vs. California
- Kansas State vs. Tulane
- UNLV vs. North Texas
- Washington vs. Michigan State
- Western Kentucky at Indiana
- New Mexico State at Wisconsin
- Marshall at Bowling Green
- Charlotte at Georgia State
- Oklahoma at Nebraska
- Florida State vs. Louisville
- Air Force vs. Wyoming
- Georgia v. South Carolina
- UConn v. Michigan
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College Football Week 3 Early Odds, Picks & Prediction: Texas A&M vs. Miami
The market isn't penalizing A&M at all for last week's home upset loss to Appalachian State. On the one hand, I sort of understand. Appy State finished with just a 22.6% postgame win expectancy... it was slightly fluky that they won.
On the other, I don't. A&M is a rare exception the market has granted in terms of not penalizing a team that no-showed a loss the previous week to an inferior opponent. The Aggies didn't take Appalachian State seriously - Aggie players were openly and enthusiastically mocking Appy in pregame pep rallies - and paid the price. Now we're supposed to expect A&M to flip the light switch back on the next week because Miami... is a bigger name?
Miami has destroyed an FCS team and Southern Miss the first two weeks. We haven't yet seen Mario Cristobal's team play a quality opponent. But this Miami team is more dangerous than recent incarnations.
The Hurricanes have an NFL prospect at QB (Tyler Van Dyke), they solved their running game by finding a gem in the portal (Henry Parrish Jr.), they're strong along both lines, they can get after the quarterback, and they have multiple future NFL players in the secondary.
This line is giving A&M too much respect while seemingly overlooking the Hurricanes.
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