College football Week 10 spread: Michigan, Rutgers and Clemson

The college football Week 10 point spread and betting preview of the games Michigan vs. Michigan State, Rutgers vs. Connecticut and Clemson vs. Duke.

College football Week 10 spread: Michigan, Rutgers and Clemson We start this edition of the Week 10 college football spread and odds with the big game in the Wolverine State - No.12 Michigan (7-2) vs. Michigan State (5-4). At Bookmaker the Wolverines are favorite to win the game with odds -175 and the Spartans are underdog +155. The point spread for the Michigan vs. Michigan State game is currently sitting at -4 points chalk the Wolverines with expected total of 52.5 points. Betting trends show that Michigan is 5-2 against the spread in its last 7 games and Michigan State is 4-2 against the spread in its last 6 games. At the Spartans, CB Chris Rucker is out for the season, but Wolverines quarterback Chad Henne is still day-to-day and so is running back Mike Hart. Questionable for Michigan remains RB Avery Horn and another running back, Kevin Grady, is out indefinitely with knee injury. TE Mike Massey is out for the season.

Moving to Rentschler Field where No.13 Connecticut Huskies (7-1) will welcome Rutgers Scarlet Knights (5-3) in Week 10. Favorite in this game at Bookmaker is naturally Connecticut with betting odds -130, but Rutgers is a though opponent with +110 payout on winning this college football matchup. The point spread on the Rutgers vs. Connecticut game is favoring the Huskies -2 points and the total is posted at 46 points. Rutgers is 4-1 against the spread in its last 5 games on the road, but 0-4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Connecticut, beating the Huskies 24-13 last year. Connecticut is 5-0 against the spread in its last 5 games and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of Connecticut's last 6 games. Connecticut LBs Jarrell Miller and Corey Stringer are out, Rutgers will play without LB Edmond Laryea and RB Kordell Young, DB Ron Girault and OT Corey Hyman remain questionable for Week 10.

And the last game we'll look at here has much less uncertainty around it - No.25 Clemson (6-2) against Duke (7-1). The Tigers are the ultimate favorite with odds -900 at Bookmaker and the Blue Devils are once again an underdog, this time with long odds +650. The point spread on the Clemson vs. Duke game is sitting at -16 points chalk Clemson with total at 53.5 points. As most bettors will take on the spread, trends show that Duke is 5-2 against the spread in its last 7 games and Clemson is 0-5 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Duke. The total has gone OVER in 5 of Duke's last 5 games at home.

Long list of injuries at Clemson - QB Willy Korn is out indefinitely with shoulder injury and so is DB Chris Wade (arm); out for the season are RB Ray Ray McElrathbey, CB Haydrian Lewis, WR Jacoby Ford and FB Chad Diehl, questionable at Clemson remain DT Rashard Jackson and WR Rendrick Taylor. At Duke out indefinitely are defensive ends Patrick Bailey and Ryan Radloff, wide receiver Raphael Chestnut and linebacker Charles Robinson.

Published on 10/31/2007