What the analytics predict for Notre Dame vs. Indiana in this first round College Football Playoff game.
Notre Dame and Indiana face off in the first-ever expanded College Football Playoff game on a campus site. Here is the latest prediction for the matchup from an expert football analytical model that projects scores and picks winners.
Indiana is right behind, sitting third nationally in that category, coming out nearly 25 points better than its competition, with the exception of an ugly loss at Ohio State, the only blemish on the record of a team that is second in FBS with over 43 points per game. For that, let’s turn to the SP+ prediction model to get a preview of how Notre Dame and Indiana compare in this first round College Football Playoff game.As expected, the models are siding with the Fighting Irish over the Hoosiers, but by a narrow margin.
How good is it this season? So far, the SP+ model is 384-352-9 against the spread with a 52.1 win percentage.Notre Dame is a 7.5 point favorite against Indiana, according to the lines posted to FanDuel Sportsbook for the matchup.And it lists the moneyline odds for Notre Dame at -280 and for Indiana at +225 to win outright.Notre Dame to win -280That runs in line with where most of the money is going, according to the latest spread consensus picks for the game.
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