Utah has had 10 straight winning seasons and has opened this year at 2-0. Often-injured Utah QB Cam Rising was talked about after a hand injury last week, and coach Whittingham said it was not serious. Rising is one of the top QBs in the country, and he is also a very good runner. The Utah defense came up big vs, Baylor limiting them to 13 points, after allowing none vs. an FCS team in their opener. Utah St. had a test drive at USC last week to see here they are at and lost 48-0. Utah St. is going to struggle again offensively, as Utah is better defensively than USC. I like Utah in this one.
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Who was the public on? 59% of the public bets were on Utah Utes on the -19.5 ATS. And, 57% of the bets were on the game to go OVER the total.
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My computer prediction for this game was that Utah would win by a score of 33.9 to 14.0 with Utah winning on the moneyline and on the spread and the game going OVER the total.
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Utah at Utah State
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Who was the public on? 73% of the public bets were on Utah Utes on the -11.5 ATS. 75% of the public money was on Utah Utes to win on the moneyline. And, 57% of the bets were on the game to go OVER the total.
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My computer prediction for this game was that Utah would win by a score of 24.3 to 20.7 with Utah winning on the moneyline, Utah State winning on the spread and the game going OVER the total.
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Who was the public on? 53% of the public bets were on Utah State Aggies on the +1 ATS. 59% of the public money was on Utah State Aggies to win on the moneyline. And, 59% of the bets were on the game to go UNDER the total.
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My computer prediction for this game was that Utah would win by a score of 25.5 to 25.4, Utah State winning on the spread and the game going UNDER the total.
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Who was the public on? 63% of the public bets were on Utah Utes on the -7 ATS. 74% of the public money was on Utah Utes to win on the moneyline. And, 66% of the bets were on the game to go OVER the total.
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My computer prediction for this game was that Utah would win by a score of 28.0 to 22.8 with Utah winning on the moneyline, Utah State winning on the spread and the game going OVER the total.
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Who was the public on? 70% of the public bets were on Utah Utes on the -20.5 ATS. 82% of the public money was on Utah State Aggies to win on the moneyline. And, 60% of the bets were on the game to go OVER the total.
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My computer prediction for this game was that Utah would win by a score of 40.5 to 13.9 with Utah winning on the moneyline and on the spread and the game going OVER the total.
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Utah State at Utah
Utah was a perfect 13-0 a year ago. Despite losing a lot of talent to graduation, this is a team with a lot of depth and excellent recruiting every year. So the drop is not a huge one. They have to replace the best QB in school history but there are three viable candidates, and the offense returns many talented skill players at RB and WR. The defense is good and loaded with talent, especially at linebacker. It will be the defense that carries the team this time around. We go from one of the Mountain West's annual powers, to one of the WAC's annual losers, and the weak sister in the state. The Aggies finished just 3-9 a year ago and have a lot of returning players, but the problem is that the talent level here vs. the Utes is a very wide gap. That disparity is quite big as evidenced by the fact that the last five years these teams have met, the scores add up to 219-41 for Utah, or an average win of 34 points per game. There have been three games decided by 40+ points in the last five years. Utah is the choice in this one.