The Composite's really gonna get an interesting workout this week.
Picking underdogs is nothing rare here, but picking them to win outright in the way that it is this week is interesting because it's not just 2.5-point underdogs—something explained by simple home-field advantage projections baked in the books.
Indiana (+5), Virginia Tech (+4), Hawaii (+5.5) and Boston College (+5.5) are all favored to win straight-up (SU). Whether they’ll do so, however, remains to be seen.
Only one of those teams is better than 37.5% Against The Spread (ATS) this season (BC, 57.1%). Indiana, one of the most disappointing teams SU, has only covered once.