Moral of the story- Fan Duel is horrible at putting out opening lines. It opened as a pickem in Vegas, bettors fixed the line for them."... According to FanDuel, Illinois is a 1.5-point betting favorite. However, throughout Sunday, that line changed to Rutgers being a 1.5-betting favorite on Fanduel and a 2-point favorite on other sites. The over/under has been set at 50.5 points. ..."
Rutgers bumped up as favorite against Illinois
The betting lines are out for Rutgers' next game.247sports.com
Illinois football opens as a rare road favorite over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Illinois football opens as a rare road favorite over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights
The point spread is out for Illinois at Rutgers.The Illini are slight 1.5 point favorite over the Scarlet Knights.This would be just the fifth time in six seasonewschannel20.com
i guess they were impressed with RU's improved passing game.Wow.. surprise indeed.
While I'd love a win here, I would not bet on it. Vegas set a spread to balance bet amounts.. why is the money coming in on Rutgers to flip the small spread? No bye week leading into this one... injuries still an issue.
Kansas just beat previously unbeaten BYU.Illinois entry into the top 25 was on the back on a win vs Kansas and one vs Nebraska both who were ranked in preseason polls based ln hype. As the season progressed they proved to be highly over rated
A few weeks ago they barely beat Purdue.... Illinois is a good team but over rated
Illinois lost to Minny recently while we obviously beat them.
Illinois beat Nebraska at Memorial Stadium.Minnesota won at Illinois
Sagarin is not well-received at this board. It’s the Lance Leipold of ratings systems.BTW -sagarin has us favored by 1.7.
Yes fair point. Kansas has come alive after a mid season swoon. That said and IMHO BYU has benefitted from having been 9 - 0 off a relatively easy scheculeKansas just beat previously unbeaten BYU.