College football odds, picks and prediction for Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Colorado Buffaloes. Week 2 betting free pick and game analysis.
Colorado put the nation on notice last week with an upset over TCU, moving the line against Nebraska by more than 10 points. With all the focus on Colorado, our college football picks are taking a different approach with the Cornhuskers' Jeff Sims.
Discussions about the have been on the lips of nearly everyone in college football this week, and all eyes will be on them when they welcome the Nebraska Cornhuskers to Boulder on Saturday afternoon.for this game have shifted quickly, with Deion Sanders’ team making a statement with its Week 1 upset over TCU. The Buffaloes have now gone from two-score underdogs to betting favorites and will look to show their home fans that last week’s victory was no fluke. Meanwhile, the Huskers took a loss against Minnesota, losing on the road after allowing 10 points in the final three minutes of the game. A last-second field goal from 47 yards sealed their fate, but Nebraska’s four turnovers were the real reason it lost. Now Matt Rhule’s team must find a way to clean up those mistakes and slow down Shedeur Sanders.explain why focusing on Nebraska’s offense, while everyone else is looking at Colorado’s, presents your best chance at making profit. When it comes to betting this weekend, few games are going to compete with this one. Both FanDuel and are reporting that after one or two NFL games, this has the most betting action of any football game this weekend — college or professional.stars Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter. Within a matter of hours, Hunter saw his price to score a touchdown go from near even money to -145 at best. But while all that attention on Colorado’s offense impacts the pricing for their player props, I think theAnd that opens up some great value at FanDuel, where you can get the best odds on Jeff Sims to rush for at least 65 yards on Saturday. In fact, I love this line so much that I’m making this a two-unit play. There are a few reasons I'm on this play so heavily. First, for everything Colorado did well last week, rushing the passer wasn’t one of them. Its front seven finished the game against TCU with a havoc rating of just 1.3%, failing to register a single sack. Secondly, Sims had a 49% usage rate in Nebraska’s run game against Minnesota, more than Anthony Grand and Gabe Ervin combined. He picked up 91 yards on his 19 carries — with a long of 26 — against a Minnesota defense that had a 10.9% havoc rate from its front seven and a 21.8% overall mark. TCU quarterback Chandler Morris ran for just 30 yards last week against this Colorado defense, but he only carried the ball five times with a 14% running-game usage rate. Despite the low usage, he still popped off a run of 19 yards. Finally, this is a game where Nebraska’s offensive line could cause Colorado some real problems. The Huskers saw their big guys average 4.0 line yards per rush against Minnesota, spelling disaster for a Buffaloes' defense that allowed TCU’s line to go for 3.5 line yards per rush as they conceded 262 rushing yards on just 37 carries. With Sims’ usage, facing a Colorado defense that gave up more than seven yards per attempt on the ground, I’ll happily take him at this number. I see no reason why he’d fail to come close to the rushing performance from a week ago against a lesser defense, even with this game being on the road. That said, in the time it took me to write this preview, Sims’ rushing yardage total jumped up almost 10 yards. I expect the number to continue to increase, and I’d probably play this at two units up to 69.9 yards, and one unit up to 79.5 yards. Rush over to FanDuel like you’re facing this Colorado front seven, and lock the play in right away.
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