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Cover 3 College Football

College football best bets: Tennessee-Florida, Georgia-South Carolina, Pitt-WVU and more Week 3 LOCKS (09/14)

Cover 3 College Football

CBS Sports

Football, Sports

4.54.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The Cover 3 crew talks favorite against the spread and over-under plays for Week 3. First, after a brief review of Week 2 results (3:50) the LOCKS card gets picks from Thursday-Friday action (11:26) before turning to Saturday's biggest games with previews, breakdowns and picks for Penn State-Illinois (23:45), Kansas State-Missouri (25:15), Mississippi State-LSU (28:25), Tennessee-Florida (36:58) and Pitt-WVU (39:18). Then, the board opens up and the crew has picks for Michigan-Bowling Green (45:55), Alabama-USF (48:20), Colorado-Colorado State (49:30), North Carolina-Minnesota (53:11), Ole Miss-Georgia Tech (55:51), UConn-FIU (57:38), Arizona-UTEP (59:30), UMass-Eastern Michigan (1:02:36), Ohio-Iowa State (1:03:34), Nebraska-Northern Illinois (1:06:05) and more. Finally, it's the underdogs to take straight up in MoneyLine Sprinkles (1:14:00).


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1:23.5

of these locks. Yes, it is Thursday 11 a.m. Eastern time the very best time of the week all throughout college football season. We gather together. We share and we compete our best bets for the week ahead.

1:38.5

Lots to get to. I mean, we've got, you know, bangers on bangers, best slate ever, but like to be sure, and this has been mentioned often, it is weeks like this where someone's going to get got.

1:50.5

Lot of road favorites expected to win. I expect it will not be all chalk, but before we look ahead time to look back, let's review.

2:00.5

I push back on that. Sure. Cause that just gets said every time there's a week like this. And I think that that's just people started saying it's everybody followed suit. I don't think this week is different than any other week.

2:13.5

We had a bunch of upsets too. It's just you weren't paying as much attention to them because there were more bigger games in your feed this week since there's no big games. I think everybody just kind of lowers their standards for what qualifies as crazy, but I'll remind you last week.

2:26.5

Miami was at nine point underdog at home. If he texted said Texas was a 70 to 100 dog. It was under a touchdown. That was not an upset. That was a four and a half points bread.

2:38.5

Nine. No, no, it was four and a half. There were plenty of upsets. That's my only point. There's a lot of three touchdown top 25 favorites. That's what people want to see when they say upsets. They, I don't I'm more with chip.

2:52.5

I think that it is. It's the, you know, you expect everything's going to be chalk and you just don't have that much chalk. Like the probability is just not there with college football.

3:03.5

And so you just don't want to be the one last one. When musical chairs, when the music stops, somebody's going to get got. It's not going to be a whole wave of upsets. That's not what I'm suggesting. I'm just saying it looks a little bit too as expected.

3:15.5

What would be the most kind of wild got got. So like Texas loses. Washington Washington going to East Lansing and losing to Michigan State, given everything that the Spartans have going on.

3:28.5

Yeah, like just some wild is an emergency episode. I'm thinking more than that. Like nine to 20 point underdog range.

3:38.5

Oh, there are none of those. But like every spread is either 21 plus or under nine Washington is 16. What am I looking at the wrong odds?

3:46.5

Washington, Washington, Washington would be a good one. Yeah.

3:51.5

And on peacock too, because that means that everyone scrambling to get lockins.

3:57.5

Oh, right. Peacock, not the Russian stream.

3:59.5

Try to figure out like, oh, no, is Washington going to lose as Michael Pindex's husband campaign going to crash and burn against an interim coach.

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