Three of the four biggest games of college football’s Week 1 ended with an outright upset.
All three of those results contributed to making the ACC race suddenly looking more intriguing. The ACC came into the season with the largest favorite among the power conferences .
That’s still the case but the margin is diminishing. Clemson went from as low as -120 (i.e. risking $120 to win $100) to win the conference to as high as +150 (i.e. risking $100 to win $150) after losing 17-10 to LSU as 5-point favorites.
Victories by Miami, 27-24 over Notre Dame as 3-point underdogs, and Florida State, 31-17 over Alabama as 14-point underdogs, accelerated the shift. The Tigers might have more top-tier competition than initially thought.
The Seminoles were the big movers, going from as high as 35-to-1