College Football Week 9 Opening Odds

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Coming off a bye week, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are pegged as 10.5-point road favorites on the opening college football betting lines for this week against another ranked team, the Temple Owls, at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com. The Fighting Irish are at No. 9 while the Owls are at No. 21 in the AP Top 25 this week, with Notre Dame 6-1 both straight up and against the spread on the season while Temple is 7-0 SU and 5-2 ATS. Notre Dame is 19-1 ATS in its last 20 games on the road in the month of October heading into Saturday's matchup, and they're coming off a big 41-31 win over USC as a 6-point favorite in their last game on October 17.

No. 3 Clemson opened as a 9.5-point road favorite against N.C. State for Week 9, while No. 5 TCU opened as a 14.5-point home favorite against West Virginia in a Thursday night contest. The Horned Frogs are a lucrative 14-6 ATS in their last 20 games overall according to the OddsShark College Football Database, but they're just 3-4 ATS so far this season to go along with their 7-0 SU mark.

Elsewhere, Florida opened as a 2.5-point favorite for its game against Georgia on Saturday at EverBank Field in Jacksonville. USC opened as a 4-point road favorite against California, Stanford opened as a 12.5-point road favorite against Washington, and Michigan opened as a 10-point road favorite against Minnesota.

Check out the rest of the opening college football odds for the week below. For live odds and matchup reports on every game every day, head over to the OddsShark.com college football betting section.

North Carolina at Pittsburgh +2.5 (THU)

West Virginia at TCU -14.5 (THU

Western Michigan at Eastern Michigan +20.5 (THU)

Buffalo at Miami-Ohio +9.5 (THU)

Texas State at Georgia Southern -18.5 (THU)

Oregon at Arizona State EVEN (THU)

Louisville at Wake Forest +9.5 (FRI)

East Carolina at Connecticut +7 (FRI)

Louisiana Tech at Rice +10 (FRI)

Western Kentucky at Old Dominion +24

UCF at Cincinnati -20.5

South Florida at Navy -11

Illinois at Penn State -4

Nebraska at Purdue +10

Rutgers at Wisconsin -19

Ole Miss at Auburn +6

South Carolina at Texas A&M -16

Syracuse at Florida State -19.5

Virginia Tech at Boston College +1

Massachusetts at Ball State -4

Central Michigan at Akron +3.5

UTEP at Southern Mississippi -18.5

Georgia Tech at Virginia +2.5

USC at California +4

Colorado at UCLA -18.5

Clemson at NC State +9.5

Florida vs Georgia +2.5 (EverBank Field, Jacksonville)

Marshall at Charlotte +20

Florida Intl at Florida Atlantic +1

Oklahoma at Kansas +39

Oklahoma State at Texas Tech +1

Maryland at Iowa -16

Boise State at UNLV +21

San Diego State at Colorado State +2

Troy at Appalachian State -24

Tulsa at SMU +1.5

Louisiana Monroe at Louisiana Lafayette -9

Georgia State at Arkansas State -18.5

Tulane at Memphis -27.5

Oregon State at Utah -21.5

Vanderbilt at Houston -13.5

Michigan at Minnesota +10

Texas at Iowa State +9.5

Texas San Antonio at North Texas +12

Tennessee at Kentucky +7.5

Notre Dame at Temple +10.5

Idaho at New Mexico State +3

Air Force at Hawaii +7.5

Stanford at Washington State +12.5

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