Best Lines on College Football Weekend

How much action will there be in week 5 of college football? Plenty of action for you to join in with some betting activity. There are three matchups involving top 10 teams facing each other, another involving Top 25 teams and enough conference title intrigue to fill Death Valley where third-ranked Louisville will visit No. 5 Clemson in a battle for front-runner status in the ACC Atlantic Division.

What else will happen this weekend? Let’s look at some interesting facts that may help you when looking for the best lines on college football weekend.

Quarterbacks are shining in the ACC, struggling in the SEC. Five of the top 16 players in quarterback are from the ACC: Jerod Evans (Virginia Tech), Mitch Trubisky (North Carolina), Jackson (Louisville), Ryan Finley (NC State) and Brad Kaaya (Miami). No other Power Five conference has more than two in the top 16. The MAC has three.

Even with the early-season struggles of Clemson’s Deshaun Watson and Florida State’s Deondre Francois not among the stat leaders the ACC is showing its depth. Still, the Big 12 leads the country in the NCAA pass efficiency rating (150.45), and the Pac-12 leads in completion percentage (65.1).

The SEC is last among the Power Five in pass efficiency rating (136.8) and completion percentage (58.9). Five SEC teams are 100th or worst in yards per throw (Mississippi State, Georgia, South Carolina, LSU and Vanderbilt). Six SEC teams are 90th or worse in completion percentage (Tennessee, LSU, Georgia, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Texas A&M). SEC scoring in September 2016 was down 21 percent compared to September 2014.

An interesting factor that has been identified is that games are getting longer: the average game in September lasted 3 hours, 25 minutes, up from 3:20 for the first four weeks of 2015. The final average last year was 3:17.This year’s games are on pace to be the longest since the NCAA began tracking the stat in 2008, when games took 14 fewer minutes to play.

More plays, scoring, replay reviews and commercial breaks can factor into longer games. Several long weather delays contributed to this September’s increase. Many people are fine with longer games. Some wonder what kind of burden longer games might place on fans, players and TV networks with overlapping timeslots.

Before the season, an NCAA survey found 72 percent of coaches think the current game lengths are appropriate. Only 51 percent of conference commissioners agreed. There was no consensus among coaches, commissioners, officials and officiating coordinators about switching to a running clock after first downs. What if the clock didn’t stop for a first down except in the last two minutes of the half? Ninety-two percent of the surveyed members support the idea while 71 percent of coaches oppose it.

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