College Football Week 8 Odds, Picks & Predictions: Rutgers vs. Indiana (2022)

Let’s take a look at the College Football Week 8 odds, picks, and predictions for: Rutgers vs. Indiana.

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• Tulsa vs. Temple
• UAB vs. Western Kentucky
• Syracuse vs. Clemson
• UNLV vs. Notre Dame
• Texas vs. Oklahoma State
• Ole Miss vs. LSU
• Purdue vs. Wisconsin
• Mississippi State vs. Alabama
• Minnesota vs. Penn State
• Washington vs. California
• UCLA vs. Oregon
• New Mexico vs. Fresno State
• Louisiana-Monroe vs. Army
• Navy vs. Houston
• East Carolina vs. UCF
• Ohio vs. Northern Illinois
• Vanderbilt vs. Missouri
• Hawaii vs. Colorado State
• Duke vs. Miami
• FIU vs. Charlotte
• Wake Forest vs. Boston College
• Ohio State vs. Iowa
• Georgia Southern vs. Old Dominion

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College Football Week 8 Odds, Picks & Prediction: Rutgers vs. Indiana

Rutgers was banged-up earlier this season but comes in off a bye week that it used to get healthier. For the first time this season, Rutgers may have their top-two QBs - Noah Vedral and Gavin Wimsatt - healthy. Good timing with Indiana's horrific pass defense coming to town.

Rutgers also used that bye to transition between offensive play-callers. OC Sean Gleeson was fired after the last game, with TE coach Nunzio Campanile promoted to replace him. It can only help. Rutgers' attack had grown stale and predictable, unfortunate bugaboos when you're also outmanned in talent.

The latter won't be the case on Saturday. Indiana's 3-4 record is fool's gold. The Hoosiers' two wins against FBS teams were both come-from-behind flukes in games they were soundly outplayed (combined 36% win expectancy between the games). In the win against the FCS team, Idaho, Indiana trailed 10-0 at halftime.

The Hoosiers' second-order win total of 1.5 (-1.5) is more indicative of the team's quality. As is Rutgers' 3.2 (+0.2). Both teams have played a top-25 SOS.

Indiana's defense is bad. It has played above its head because opponents have been unsustainably unlucky when deep in IU's territory (No. 34 in points per scoring opportunity allowed).

Indiana likely used its season-allotment of luck up in those first three games, and Rutgers HC Greg Schiano is typically money in this spot, going a career 10-3 ATS (76.9%) on 11-plus days of rest.

The pick: Rutgers -3

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