It’s ESPN college football with Cincinnati versus Rutgers. BetUs Sportsbook has the Scarlet Knights -5 with a total of 47. Here is the official betting preview.

Handicapping notes: The Bearcats lost 10 starters on defense. The transition is made even tougher as they are switching from a 4-3 front to a 3-4.

However Rutgers lost QB Mike Teel and WRs Kenny Britt and Tiquan Underwood, three big cogs of their offense. They may use three signal callers today. Nevertheless, freshman Tom Savage is the likely heir apparent to eventually capture the starting nod.

The Scarlet Knights will depend on an offensive line that brings back all five starters.

Rutgers coach Greg Shiano has expressed concerns about such a tough game to open the year as last year they lost to Fresno State on Labor Day en route to a 1-5 straight up start.  

Rutgers will have plenty of fan support as all 52,454 seats have been sold in their expanded Rutgers Stadium.

Greg Schiano is 5-3 straight up in openers as Rutgers head coach, but three wins came against Buffalo, which was one of the worst teams in Division I.

Against the spread records: The Bearcats are 9-1 as an underdog and 20-6 their last 26 as underdogs of 3.5-10. The Scarlet Knights are on a 5-0 grass run.

Top expert pick on this game: Well the top football handicapper ever has his biggest bet of the entire football season. One can’t bet that. Where to start? Those who use multiple handicappers, other than oh, just about every month here, name me the cappers who have huge underdogs as their Game of the Month? Name me how many handicappers win as often as us. We rest our case.

Huge underdog the Reds yet another Wise Guy Game of the Month huge pup barking. Oh our other Wise Guy was another Dandy Dog on Houston. Dandy dogs are moneyline dogs of 140 or more (includes runline getting back 140 or more).

But now our first Wise Guy of the college football season on the side of Cincinnati-Rutgers. We are already 11 games over .500 in football. MLB coming. Click now to purchase