@GoldenNuggetLV Games of the Year: Oregon Favored vs USC
The 2015 College Football season is inching ever closer and on Friday the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas released the point spreads for their 2015 College Football ‘Game of the Year’ lines. The entire 2015 College Football season, mainly they key games on the road to the National Championship are listed and the Oregon Ducks are favored in every game, but two, which can, of course change throughout the course of the season.
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Oregon opens the season against Eastern Washington, a game that is not even listed. Oregon makes the list starting in week two against Michigan State and the Spartans are favored at home by one point over the visiting Ducks. Oregon then returns home to face Georgia State, a game also not listed. However Stanford meets USC in week three and the Trojans are favored by three to begin the season.
Mark Helfrich and Company open the Pac-12 schedule favored in a game the following week hosting Utah(-14) on September 26th starting a string of games the Ducks are favored in with a trip to Colorado(-16), on Saturday, October 3rd. Oregon’s next appearance on the ‘Games of the Year’ list is on October 17th with a trip to Washington, which is another double digit spread (-15). Following a bye week, the Ducks enter into their toughest stretch of the season starting on the road.
Oregon visits Arizona State on Thursday, October 29th and are favored on the road(-5). Two weeks later, Oregon faces Stanford on the road, a game which is listed as a Pick. I expect there to be a line on this by gametime. The following week, the Ducks face USC at home in what will likely be the biggest game of the year in the Pac-12 against the Trojans on Saturday, November 21st.
The home team is favored over USC(-6.5) to start the season. The season finale against Oregon State, will see a Civil War that has Oregon favored by their biggest margin all year on Friday, November 27th.(-22.5)