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The Utah Utes and the Washington Huskies meet for the second time this season with the stakes much higher. These teams faced off in Week 3 with the Huskies prevailing 21-7. Nine weeks later, both teams stand at 9-3 and playing for the Pac-12 title at the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on Friday, 11/30/18.
Huntley Could be Back on Friday
Utah closed out their regular season with their third straight win, defeating BYU in this year’s version of the Holy War. The Utes closed out the season strong, winning seven of their last eight games to enter the Pac-12 title game.
Tyler Huntley leads the Utes in passing with 1,788 yards on the season with 12 touchdowns and 6 interceptions on 64.1% completion. But the 6-1 junior has missed the last 3 games with a collarbone injury although the Utes have gone 3-0 during that period with freshman Jason Shelley throwing for 624 total yards with 3 touchdowns and zero interceptions in three games. Huntley is listed as “out” but a report from KSL.com says he has a good chance of returning for the title game on Friday. Whether that’s just a ploy from Utah or not remains to be seen but it certainly is good news to the Utes.
Utah vs Washington 11/30/18
Moneyline Odds: Utah +185, Washington -215
Odds from Betonline.ag as of 11/27/18
Myles Gaskin Makes History
Like the Utes, the Washington Huskies also closed out their regular season play with three straight wins. The Huskies have now won four out of their last five games after an impressive victory over #8 Washington State last Friday. With the win, Washington gets the chance to defend its Pac-12 title against the Utah Utes.
Running back Myles Gaskin made history by becoming the first Pac-12 FBS player to rush for 1,000 yards in four consecutive seasons. He is only the 10th played in NCAA Football history to accomplish the feat. For the current season, Gaskin leads the Huskies with 1,076 rushing yards and 212 carries with 10 rushing touchdowns scored. Salvon Ahmed, Kamari Pleasant and Sean McGrew have also provided ground support with a combined TD touchdowns on the ground. Gaskin had his way with 143 yards during these teams’ Week 3 meeting. Expect him to play a prominent role again on Friday.
Who Wins?
Utah is 7-1 SU in their last 8 games played and are 4-2 SU in their 6 road games played this season. Washington is 9-2 SU in their last 11 games played and are a perfect 6-0 SU at home this season. Head to head, the Huskies are 5-1 SU in the last six games played between these two teams, including 3-0 SU in their last 3 meetings. The Huskies are also 2-1 in the three home meetings between these teams .
With both defenses set to offset each other, this game could go down to which team can make it happen on the offensive end. Having said that, the key to this came should be Washington running back Myles Gaskin who ran for 170 yards last Friday .Gaskin ran for 143 yards, his third highest total of the season, on 30 carries with 1 touchdown against the Utes in Week 3. Expect him to have his way again with the nation’s 5th best rush defense.
With Gaskin doing his thing, I think that the Huskies are going to pull this one off and win the Pac-12 title. However, since this is expected to be decided on the ground and with defense, this should be a low scoring and close contest.
I think Washington wins by a field goal here. We’re picking the Washington Huskies to beat the Utah Utes on 11/30/18.
Other Bets To Make
The Utes are 6-2 ATS in their last 8 games played and are 3-3 ATS in six road games played this season. The Huskies are 1-6 ATS in their last seven games played and are 1-5 ATS in six home games this season. Head to head, Utah is 2-1 ATS in their last 3 games played and both teams are an even 3-3 ATS in their last six meetings.
Utah vs Washington 11/30/18
Spread Odds: Utah +5 (-110), Washington -5 (-110)
Odds from Betonline.ag as of 11/27/18
Washington has struggled against the spread all season long, going 3-9 in their 12 games this year. They are 1-7 ATS in their last 8 conference games and 1-6 ATS overall in their last 7 games played. On the other hand, Utah is 6-1 ATS in their last 7 conference games and 4-1 ATS in their last six games in a neutral venue. I’m going with the trends here and go with the Utes who have played well ATS this year. I t like the Huskies to win by a field goal but the Utes are going to cover. Give me my plus points here.
Prediction: Utah +5
The total has gone over in four out of the last six games played by Utah. On the other hand, the total has gone under in 9 of Washington’s last dozen games played. Head to head, the total has gone over in four of the last five games played between these two teams and the over is 3-0 in the three meetings between these teams in Washington
Utah vs Washington 11/30/18
Over/Under Odds: Over 44 -115, Under 44 -105
Odds from Betonline.ag as of 11/27/18
Many trends point to the over and 44 is such a low total for a college football game. But both these teams have run-heavy offenses and both teams have two of the top run defenses in the nation. These teams have made the Pac-12 championship game by running the football and most likely, that won’t change on Friday night. These teams combined for only 28 points in Week 3 with Washington winning 21-7.
Prediction: Under 44
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