Football 
Tennis 
Horse Racing NCAA Football Week 7 Parlay Picks: Another Round of Totals Betting
Our resident college football guru Ej Garr has belted out two consecutive weekends without a loss to be found, and he’s been doing it with his masterful approach to betting on totals. As only he can do, Ej has another pair of totals going on the board for this Saturday’s NCAA football action, so you have arrived at the right place if you like making that cash!
Starting with a play on the total for the Florida State vs Syracuse affair from the ACC, Ej then turns his attention out west to discuss the Washington State vs Arizona game from the Pac 12. The lines are set, and Ej is ready so let’s take it to the field and watch them go, go, go!
- Florida State Seminoles vs Syracuse Orange Over 55 Points
- Washington State vs Arizona Wildcats Over 59.5 Points
NCAA Football Week 7 Parlay Odds: 3.60
Odds via Bet365 as of 8:00 am on October 13, 2023. Odds may now differ.
FLORIDA STATE SEMINOLES vs SYRACUSE ORANGE: AN ACC CLASH THAT WILL BREAK THE SCOREBOARD
Another Florida State game, another reason to bet on the Over! The Seminoles have played five football games, and four of those affairs have toppled the total. The line setters are only asking for 55 points to be scored on Saturday in Tallahassee, and I suggest that you drag your mouse to the Over side of the total and submit that bet!
I have given you all the Florida State Over this season here at Bettingexpect a couple of times now, including last weekend against Virginia Tech. In case you didn’t read my week 6 NCAA football article, I gave you three bets to cash from the Virginia Tech vs. Florida State game, and all three came to fruition.
Being a Syracuse fan as I am, I just had to sit through watching the Tarheels light us up for 40 points this past weekend, and as potent as the North Carolina offense is, the Noles offense is even more dynamic than they are.
The Florida State team total is listed at 36.5 over at Pinnacle featuring odds at 1.91. Yes, please! I do not think that the Noles are going to struggle to reach the 40-point mark as the Heels did to Syracuse last weekend. If the straight total is only 55 for this game, we only need about 17 from the Cuse, even though their team total is 19.5. I don’t think that either team will struggle to get to their team totals, because the Florida State defense will be tested this weekend.
Anyone can see that the Orange has had issues scoring over their last two games, as they’ve only combined to score 21 total points against North Carolina and Clemson. Hey now, Clemson is no picnic to deal with defensively even though they are not quite as intimidating as they have been over the last couple of campaigns. The Tigers’ defense made quite a difference in their recent runs to the FBS Playoff, and I don’t think the Noles’ defense compares to them at all.
As bad as Virginia Tech has been this year, I still had no problem offering those props last weekend, and I believe Garrett Shrader will have a big game with his arm and his legs against the Florida State defense on Saturday.
Shrader is second on the team with 368 rushing yards to his credit but he needs to stop throwing the ball to the wrong damn team this year! With 5 interceptions already on his ledger, Shrader could reach his personal worst 6 INT from last year, and we’re only halfway through the season.
I am concerned a bit, of course, that he might be trying to do too much this weekend, and I hope he is prepared to take a lot of hits and still stay in the game long enough to make a difference.
I will just put it out there that I expect a 42 – 20 game to transpire in Tallahassee on Saturday, so play it accordingly.
WASHINGTON STATE COUGARS AND ARIZONA WILDCATS: EXPECT A SHOOTOUT IN PULLMAN
If I am being honest here, I spoke a lot about this game on my weekly YouTube NCAA football shows that I put up every Thursday. I offered a same-game parlay for this affair that features the Arizona +8.5 handicap and the Over 59.5 on the total to get some value at 3.30.
Since no one cares about Arizona’s first game of the campaign against Northern Arizona which is an FCS program, other than that we have constantly seen Arizona playing tight games with every opponent they have faced. Last weekend’s game against USC was an absolute thriller that needed 3 overtime periods to decide the winner.
USC escaped with a 43 – 41 win over Arizona, and this Wildcats team also managed to keep Washington at bay the game previous, only losing by a TD, 31 – 24. I don’t think that anyone will argue that both USC and Washington have QBs in the Heisman race, and yet Arizona wasn’t intimidated in the least.
Arizona’s offense is no picnic either for opposing defenders, as they rank 33rd in the Nation putting up over 440 yards per game, and Noah Fifita has taken the reigns at QB since Jatden de Laura went down to injury a couple of weeks ago.
Fifita was used sparingly in the first three games of the campaign, but he has started the last two games against Washington and USC and given both of them all they can handle. With 8 TD and only 2 picks against him, Fifita threw 5 TD against the Trojans last weekend, and he almost pulled off a major upset as they were +21.5 underdogs against USC. The line setters may have been acting like Arizona had no chance to be competitive with Fifita starting in de Laura’s place, but all he has proven is that he deserves to be the starter whether de Laura gets back to health or not.
I love what I am seeing out of this kid, and I see no reason to think he is going to be flustered by the Washington State defense either. The Cougars allow just over 400 yards per game, and that leaves them ranked back at 101st in the country in that category.
The Cougars offense ranks 18th in the country tallying over 470 yards of offense per game, and I don’t even remotely think that we will see less than 75 points in this game. All we need is 60 of those points to hit the scoreboard to cash this total, so if you don’t play the SGP, at least play this total to fly over whatever number you get on Saturday.
SAFER GAMBLING
At bettingexpert, we always take a safe approach to gambling. We’ll never bet more than we can afford or chase losses. For more advice, head to our Safer Gambling hub.
