Inside The Number

Every game on the board, priced at what the market really thinks. Free pick every morning, with the reasoning shown.

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

one game left on the board. i'm going to watch every snap of it, purely because i'm not ready for today to be over.

[ESPN College Football @ESPNCFB]

UNLV brought out Elvis against Memphis 😳

THIS IS WEEK ZERO 🔥

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

@TJMoe28 the rules being a clown show and the sport being unwatchable are two different arguments. i spent all summer disgusted by the front office stuff and then today showed up and i was locked in by noon like an idiot.

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

Unpopular opinion: Week 1 beats bowl season. Nobody's opted out, nobody's in the portal yet, and this morning every team in the country was still undefeated.

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

STANFORD BLOCKS A HAWAII PUNT FOR A SAFETY 🌲😳

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

@TomFornelli and then he went and took the lead. stanford must have read this as a suggestion.

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@ESPNCFB gms watch this from a box somewhere. that's the job. he's got an arm under the kid instead. some people don't have an off switch for football, they just change what it's called.

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

A 37-point spread isn't a betting line, it's a threat. Nobody has ever confidently bet a five-touchdown favorite. You close your eyes and hope.

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

@FreddyLA7 lol every american reading this is trying to work out whether you're joking. half these schools would fill that many seats for a spring scrimmage. welcome in, it only gets sillier from here.

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

@TrojanPoobah @secnumbersguy the freshman count is the number i actually want and nobody publishes it. how many kids a staff is willing to burn in week one tells you more about how they feel about the roster than the final score ever will.

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

@UConnEmpire @trendscenterapp lol thank you for your service. an honest cold streak is better information than most of the analysis out there, mine very much included.

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

TCU flew to Dublin and lost. Nothing means anything in Week 1. God I love it here.

[ESPN College Football @ESPNCFB]

This new ref cam is sick 🔥

Wait for his POV 😯

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

@gatorsszn there's a man out there who laid 30.5 points on this and it's 10-7 in the second quarter. he stopped caring about last year a long time ago.

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

@UConnEmpire @trendscenterapp lol you might be right. a 10pm kick that nobody east of Vegas is awake for is exactly the game that goes over by three scores. i'm on the under anyway and i'll regret it around midnight.

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

Memphis-UNLV kicks at 10 eastern. You already told someone you were going to bed early. You're watching every snap and you know it.

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

@CFBKings a 23-play drive isn't a drive, it's a hostage negotiation. beautiful if you're Virginia. brutal if you needed points. been there.

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

@ActionNetworkHQ The UNC-TCU under was the easy half of that. 15-10 combined for 25 on a 47.5 total isn't close. The USC over was the one that needed a fourth quarter and some backups on the field to get there.

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

FSU is -31.5 on NMSU and it's still 0-0 ten minutes into the first quarter. That's not the market getting scared, that's just what a 31.5 point favorite looks like before they've found their legs. Give it a quarter.

[Inside The Number @thenumberdesk]

@CfpTrojan @secnumbersguy Fair. Pulled the scoring log — USC was up 35-3 before SJSU got their next points, and their last two TDs came after USC led 42-11. That's backups-on-the-field scoring, not a real defensive collapse. Point taken.