This Week's ARGH Game Predictions

These are the ARGH system predictions for the weekend of October 21, 2017. IMPORTANT: These are predictions, not betting lines! If you are looking for betting lines, please go to www.vegasinsider.com!

Revised 10-19-17

10/19

ARKANSAS STATE 12 over Louisiana-Lafayette; total 73
Memphis pick 'em over HOUSTON; total 58

10/20

Air Force 10 over NEVADA; total 66
Colorado State 6 over NEW MEXICO; total 57
Marshall 6 over MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE; total 42
Western Kentucky 6 over OLD DOMINION; total 46

10/21

TOLEDO 9 over Akron; total 55
Alabama-Birmingham 19 over CHARLOTTE; total 52
CALIFORNIA 3 over Arizona; total 62
UTAH 4 over Arizona State; total 55
Auburn 10 over ARKANSAS; total 56
VIRGINIA 8 over Boston College; total 48
Brigham Young 3 over EAST CAROLINA; total 55
Buffalo 5 over MIAMI, OHIO; total 52
Central Florida 4 over NAVY; total 66
Central Michigan 1 over BALL STATE; total 51
APPALACHIAN STATE 28 over Coastal Carolina; total 56
WASHINGTON STATE 14 over Colorado; total 53
SAN DIEGO STATE 9 over Fresno State; total 48
MASSACHUSETTS 1 over Georgia Southern; total 57
MISSOURI 8 over Idaho; total 61
MINNESOTA 14 over Illinois; total 46
MICHIGAN STATE 10 over Indiana; total 46
Iowa 5 over NORTHWESTERN; total 48
TEXAS TECH 2 over Iowa State; total 69
TEXAS CHRISTIAN 41 over Kansas; total 64
OHIO 16 over Kent; total 55
MISSISSIPPI STATE 3 over Kentucky; total 50
Louisiana State 7 over MISSISSIPPI; total 59
SOUTH ALABAMA 3 over Louisiana-Monroe; total 65
FLORIDA STATE 8 over Louisville; total 57
WISCONSIN 26 over Maryland; total 60
PENN STATE 10 over Michigan; total 42
VIRGINIA TECH 20 over North Carolina; total 50
FLORIDA ATLANTIC pick 'em over North Texas; total 69
Northern Illinois 15 over BOWLING GREEN STATE; total 48
Oklahoma 12 over KANSAS STATE; total 59
Oklahoma State 6 over TEXAS; total 67
Oregon 1 over UCLA; total 79
DUKE 12 over Pittsburgh; total 50
Purdue 8 over RUTGERS; total 46
TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO 17 over Rice; total 46
South Florida 10 over TULANE; total 57
NOTRE DAME 2 over Southern California; total 59
Southern Methodist 13 over CINCINNATI; total 65
Southern Mississippi 1 over LOUISIANA TECH; total 50
MIAMI, FLORIDA 17 over Syracuse; total 56
ARMY 12 over Temple; total 43
ALABAMA 27 over Tennessee; total 47
Troy 6 over GEORGIA STATE; total 41
Tulsa 7 over CONNECTICUT; total 75
Utah State 2 over NEVADA-LAS VEGAS; total 65
Wake Forest 3 over GEORGIA TECH; total 50
West Virginia 22 over BAYLOR; total 71
Western Michigan 5 over EASTERN MICHIGAN; total 56
BOISE STATE 10 over Wyoming; total 45


ATS picks for all games are evaluated against the first available spread, with my pick'em games treated as a one point spread for this purpose only because there are no ties in college football.

ARGH Picks this week are:


More picks may be added later as lines change. Very late picks may be posted on the ARGH Power Ratings Facebook page. Picks found to be against incorrectly posted lines will be removed.

2017 Results (includes late picks posted on Facebook):

Last WeekOverall
Straight-up37-22.627273-94.744
Against the spread33-25-1.568184-175-7.512
Over-under26-33.441168-196-2.462
ARGH Picks3-1.75034-32-1.515

Retrodictive standings measure how the ratings explain the games that have already happened.

ARGH Retrodictive standings
Record308-59
Percentage.83924
Bias toward home team0.73161
Mean error10.0218
Mean square error160.980

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