Michigan has been pointing to this matchup since before the season. The Wolverines haven't looked sharp in beating Middle Tennessee and Army. They also purposely haven't shown too much. 
The Badgers have outscored their two opponents, 110-0. Those two foes, though, were Central Michigan and South Florida. Wisconsin still doesn't have a good quarterback. 
If this game would have been the season opener for both teams Michigan would have been favored. Playing option-oriented Army is a good thing for Michigan in its preparation against the ground-and-pound Badgers. Look for the Wolverines to load the box daring Wisconsin QB Jack Coan to beat them, which he can't. 
Wisconsin faced two weak defenses. The Badgers are not properly battle-tested for Michigan's elite athleticism and size. Note, too, the Badgers are 1-8 ATS following a victory.  

If USC's Clay Helton isn't the worst head football coach in a major conference than he's certainly in the discussion for that dubious distinction.
The Trojans are 7-19-1 ATS (27 percent) in their last 27 games. 
Utah defeated USC, 41-28, last year with the score not fully indicative of how much the Utes dominated. Utah built a 34-14 lead, had 17 more first downs and nearly 350 more yards than USC. 
The Utes have the two best skill position players on the field in QB Tyler Huntley and Zack Moss, one of the best running backs in the nation. The Trojans are starting freshman Kedon Slovis at quarterback due to injuries and transfers. Slovis had a passer rating of just 54 and was picked off three times in a road overtime loss to BYU this past Saturday. 
Utah met BYU in its opener and won, 30-12, on the road. The unbeaten Utes have covered 12 of their last 17 road matchups.

I'm going to take a shot on the hot Blue Jays here catching the Yankees in what could be a flat spot. The Yankees celebrated winning the AL East Division Thursday night by destroying the Angels, 9-1. The Yankees overcame a record amont of players on the injured list to win a division title for the first time in seven years. They earned the right to celebrate. So the Yankees might be a little hung over today.

They also figure to be resting players, including those who are nicked up such as Aaron Judge. Toronto has played New York tough this season going 7-9, including winning a series at home against the Yankees last weekend. The Blue Jays are 7-2 in their last nine games, including winning their last four. The Blue Jays are swinging hot bats averaging 8.3 runs in their last eight games.

They are scheduled to face J.A. Happ, who has been dealing with biceps tendinitis in his throwing arm. The Blue Jays are familiar with Happ since he pitched for them from 2016 through last season and also from 2012-14. He has a 3.78 career ERA in six starts against Toronto.

The Blue Jays are throwing rookie Jacob Waguespack, who is 3-5 with a 4.47 ERA as a starter. This will be his 12th big league start. I'm not expecting too much from Waguespack, who hasn't been in good form. But at this price - and considering the situation and how well Toronto is swinging the bats - I'll throw a peanut on the Blue Jays.

Calgary is in a very dangerous situation here. The Stampeders just nipped East Division leader Hamilton, 19-18, at home last Saturday after trailing by 11 points at halftime. They are on the road in a revenge spot against Montreal next week. 
So it could become very easy for Calgary to overlook and come out flat against the 2-9 Argonauts. The Stampeders are on short rest, while Toronto was idle last week. 
The Argonauts entered their bye bolstered by a smashing 46-17 road win against Ottawa. Toronto is 2-0-1 ATS in its last three games.
The Stampeders have injuries and a poor recent track history in this type of role. They are 1-6 ATS the past seven times laying points and 1-5 ATS the last six times they've met sub .500 opponents. 

The Stampeders defeated Toronto, 26-16, when the teams met earlier this year. That was the fourth time in the last five meetings between the two teams that the Under has won. I'm going to ride that trend in the rematch. 
Calgary is averaging 25.6 points in its last three games. The Argos have scored 26 points or fewer in eight of their 11 games this season. The Stampeders have held seven of their last nine opponents to 26 points or fewer. 
The Under has cashed in six of Calgary's past eight road games.

I'm not buying into any Tulane hype, or that the Green Wave should be a favorite against Houston. The Cougars have one of the top dual threat QB's in the nation in D'Eriq King, who accounted for 50 touchdowns last season and is getting more comfortable operating Dana Holgorsen's offense. Tulane's Justin McMillan is better than some past Tulane QB's and he has a deep group of running backs and wide receivers. But King has plenty of help, too, especially with the return of running back Patrick Carr. 
Tulane just played Missouri State this past Saturday. That was a cupcake opponent. Houston's statistics are skewed, especially defensively, by having already played high-powered fourth-ranked Oklahoma and 19th-ranked Washington State. So this is a drop in class for the Cougars, who covered against both of those Top-25 opponents. 
The Cougars rolled past Tulane, 48-17, at home last season. The Cougars were favored by seven in that game. During the previous four seasons from 2014-2017, the Cougars were favored by eight, 27, 21 and 17 points against Tulane. Houston has covered in six of its last seven trips to Tulane. 
Now the Green Wave not only is expected to beat the Cougars but cover a mid-size margin doing it. I'm not drinking that Kool-Aid. 

The teams went Under in Game 1 of their series scoring a combined 159 points in Connecticut's 84-75 victory two days ago. 
I see a higher scoring game in this Game 2. 
LA and Connecticut were a combined 20 of 32 from the free throw line in Game 1 for 62.5 percent. The Sun are not a good free throw shooting team. But they still connected on 70.4 percent of their free throws during the regular season. The Sparks hit 83.3 percent of their free throws in the regular season. 
The 3-point shooting also was off in Game 1. The teams combined to make 13 of 44 shots from 3-point range for 22.8 percent. The Sun averaged 35.6 shooting from beyond the arc during the regular season while LA made 34.1 percent of its 3-point shots in the regular season. 
The Sparks are a bad defensive team on the road. They are giving up 88.1 points in their past six away matchups. LA coach Derek Fisher is an inexperienced playoff coach. He said he's looking for more offense rather than clamping down defensively.  

Hard to believe, but there have been just 13 combined runs scored during the first three games of this series. Not surprising, all three games have gone Under. 
I see a turnaround coming in the finale of this series. The Padres are a strong offensive club on the road away from Petco Park. The Brewers rank eighth in the majors in homers.
The Over is 13-4-1 (76 percent) the past 18 times the Brewers have played Game 4 of a series. 
The pitching matchup is lefty Joey Lucchesi versus Jordan Lyles. 
Lucchesi is coming off his worst outing giving up a career-high eight runs on nine hits - six of which went for extra bases - in just 3 2/3 innings in a 10-8 road loss to the Rockies this past Friday. That was at Coors Field. Miller Park, the site of this matchup, is another hitter-friendly park. 
The Brewers can expect to start righthanded hitters Keston Hiura, Ryan Braun and Lorenzo Cain against a southpaw starter. Braun and Cain didn't start Wednesday's game because San Diego threw righthander Dinelson Lamet. 
Lyles pitched for San Diego last year. So the Padres know him. Lyles has a 5.02 ERA in 13 career appearances against San Diego, including nine starts. 
The Padres have a .434 slugging percentage on the road compared to .398 at home. They also are batting .249 away compared to .232 at Petco Park.

The Pirates are giving up an obscene 13.2 runs per game during their last four games. They have another bad starter going today with Dario Agrazal and their best relief pitcher, Felipe Vazquez, is in jail rather than in the bullpen after being arrested on Tuesday. The Mariners have scored at least five runs in five of their past six games. 
Agrazal holds a 7.08 ERA during his last eight starts. 
Safe to say the Mariners should produce their share of runs. 
But what about the shell-shocked Pirates? They aren't likely to have their two best offensive players with Josh Bell and Starling Marte both injured. It shouldn't matter because the Pirates are facing rookie Justin Dunn followed by journeyman Tommy Milone. Dunn looked completely overmatched in his big league debut this past Thursday giving up two runs while walking five in just two-thirds of an inning against the Reds. Dunn threw 37 pitches of which 23 of his throws were called balls. He clearly doesn't appear ready for the major leagues. 
Dunn isn't expected to go more than three innings before Milone comes on the scene followed by other relievers. Milone has a 4.93 ERA. 

Mitch Keller is the Pirates' top pitching prospect. He has yet to show it, though. Pressed into service due to the Pirates' multiple pitching injuries, Keller is struggling to solve big league hitters with an 8.29 ERA and 1.87 WHIP. He has a 10.97 ERA in his past three outings. 
Keller has given up at least one homer in four of his last five starts. The Mariners rank ninth in homers and expect to activate power-hitting outfielder Domingo Santana from the injured list in time for this game. Santana is second on the Mariners in RBI's. 
I'm not buying Keller as a favorite in this matchup of two bad teams. The Mariners are throwing their No. 1 pitcher, lefty Marco Gonzalez. If you discount his recent starts against the powerful Astros, Gonzaez has surrendered three or fewer runs in seven of his last eight starts. He was solid in his past start, a 5-3 home victory against the Reds this past Wednesday. Gonzalez held Cincinnati to two runs on five hits in seven innings. 
Pittsburgh is 14-25 versus lefty starters this season. 
Seattle is 4-2 in its last six games. The Pirates are home for the first time in nine days. They just were swept three games by the Cubs getting outscored by 32 runs in that series. Pittsburgh has dropped 19 of its last 27 home games.