Hickey: Over or under? How to bet every Big Ten team's win totals in 2023

nitramnaed · Jul 22, 2023

Hickey: Over or under? How to bet every Big Ten team's win totals in 2023

The 2023 college football season is no longer some distant vision of the future. With conference media days underway, the promise of the season’s opening kickoff is beginning to take shape on the horizon.
With that shape comes an increasing clarity over how each team will perform in the coming season.
Sportsbooks opened betting for season win totals over 2 months ago, but now feels like the right time to start placing those bets. Rosters are mostly set following the late spring/early summer transfer portal wave.
Based on the win totals at FanDuel Sportsbook, this is how we see the season playing out for each Big Ten team.

Minnesota

Total: 7.5 wins

The play: Under (-150)

Vegas has been burned by the Gophers each of the past 2 seasons, much to my own delight and profit. And now it looks like the books are terrified it will happen again, because it feels like 6.5 would be the right number here.

PJ Fleck found some gems in the transfer portal, but Minnesota is 87th in the nation in returning production. And there’s a tough nonconference matchup at North Carolina in the mix. Win that game and the Gophers could get to 8. Lose it, and the path becomes quite narrow.