BetIQ Daily: 4 College Football Picks, 1 NCAAB Total, NFL Passing Props Data (Friday 11/19)

Picks for Friday November 19 include weekend college football plays for Wisconsin-Nebraska and more, plus an NCAAB game total for today.

November 19, 2021 - by Jason Lisk

Kenny Pickett will try to get Pitt to 8-2 ATS (Michael Longo/Icon Sportswire)

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Friday, November 19 (#2)

It’s the week before most rivalry games in college football, and we’ve got some college football spread picks for your weekend, plus a college basketball play for today as a bonus.

5 Picks For Today and Saturday

1) Pittsburgh -14.5 (vs. Virginia) — NCAAF Spread Pick

• Saturday 3:30 PM ET.
• Our Decision Tree Model gives Pitt 54.4% cover odds.
• Also rated as a playable pick by our Ensemble Forecast Model.
• Virginia QB Brennan Armstrong is questionable to play.
• Virginia scored three points without him vs. Notre Dame.
• Virginia is 2-4 SU and ATS vs. teams in our power ratings Top 50.
• They failed to cover the spread by double digits in each of those losses.
• Pitt is No. 15 in our power ratings, 7-2 SU and 7-2 ATS for the season.

2) New Mexico State +36 (at Kentucky) — NCAAF Spread Pick

• Saturday 12 PM ET.
• 1 of 4 playable NCAAF Ensemble Model picks with over 55% cover odds this weekend.
• Since 2011, Nov/Dec home favorites of 28+ in a non-conference matchup are 8-18 ATS.

3) Wisconsin -8 (vs. Nebraska) — NCAAF Spread Pick

• Saturday 3:30 PM ET.
• After 1-3 start both SU and ATS, Wisconsin has gone 6-0 SU and 5-1 ATS.
• Freshman RB Braelon Allen had only 12 carries and 49 yards in first 4 games. In 6 games since, he’s gone for 785 yards and 8 TD’s.
• Wisconsin’s defense is allowing only 7.3 points per game over the last six wins.

4) UCLA/USC Under 65.5 — NCAAF Over/Under Pick 

• Saturday 4 PM ET (at USC).
• Our highest-rated college football over/under play this week.
• One of 6 games with 55% or higher pick confidence from our Ensemble Forecast Model.
• Over last 3 seasons, NCAAF O/U picks with 55%+ confidence are 95-75-5 (57.7%).

5) West Virginia -5.5 (vs. Marquette) — NCAAB Spread Pick

• Friday 5:30 PM ET (at Charleston, SC neutral court).
• One of our six playable college basketball spread picks on Friday.
• Marquette had a good week, winning at Illinois and beating Ole Miss in Charleston. Now they play with short preparation vs. a different-style West Virginia pressure defense.
• In first season with coach Shaka Smart, Marquette starts 3 freshmen, including at PG.
• So far Marquette has not rebounded well, typically an area where teams succeed vs. WV.

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Daily Musings

NFL Week 11 Passing Props

This NFL season we started posting player props picks, mostly for QB passing yards, in a weekly article. We went 6-2 last week and finished 47-36 after ten weeks.

Our passing yards projection model is largely based on:

• The spread and over/under lines for the game in question
• Situation-adjusted pass-run rates for the team in question

Here is the Week 11 data where available:

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