The hype may be about two top-five teams meeting, led by two new starting quarterbacks. But the Texas Longhorns need to stick to basics to beat the Ohio State Buckeyes today.
Read on for my Texas vs. Ohio State predictions and college football picks for Saturday, August 30.
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I am not Steve Sarkisian. I have no want to be. My life is stressful enough.
But if I were the Texas Longhorns' head coach, my message to Arch Manning is to trust this Longhorns defense against a first-time starting quarterback in Julian Sayin with a first-time offensive coordinator in Brian Hartline. Tuck and run whenever in doubt. Trust the skill position players around you.
Do not put the Longhorns' defense in a compromised position, and it should, on its own, win this game.
Those might not be inspiring words to Arch in the pregame, but that does not mean they would not be winning words.
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Douglas Farmer spends his days thinking about college football and his nights thinking about the NBA. His betting habits and coverage follow that same pattern. He covered Notre Dame football for various outlets from 2008 to 2024, most notably spending eight seasons as NBC Sports’ beat writer on the Irish. That was also when his gambling focus took off. Knowing there were veteran beat writers with three decades more experience than he had, Douglas found his niche by best recognizing Notre Dame’s standing in each year’s national landscape, a complex tapestry most easily understood and remembered via betting odds.
In 2021, that interest created a freelance opportunity with Covers, a role that eventually led to Douglas joining the company full-time in 2023. In the fall, Douglas will place five or six dozen bets each week, a disproportionate amount via BetRivers because the operator tends to have lines slightly different than the rest of the market. The same can be said of Circa Sports’ futures markets.
While Douglas is an avid NBA fan and covers the league throughout the year, the vast majority of his bets are on college football, because that is the biggest key to sports betting: Know what you do not know.
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