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Total 55.5
The script. The market has Texas Tech by 4.5 at a total of 55.5: Texas Tech 30, Arizona 25.5 on paper. Texas Tech ahead means Williams carries it late; Arizona chasing means Fifita throws, and Mizell and Spivey get the volume.
How it plays. The total of 55.5 is ordinary for college. Conference play.
What changed. No injury report or depth chart for college yet; the names above are the last ones we saw carrying it.
Texas Tech is favored by 4.5 at home against Arizona, and the total is 55.5. Texas Tech has covered 9 of 12 coming off a loss, 2023-2026, better than the 17-13 they are everywhere else.
Our number vs the market
No lean here. Our number and the market are close enough that there is nothing to say, and we do not manufacture one.
The card
Nothing on the college card for this game yet.
Two registered rules, graded in public after each game: a player under when his line sits 50% or more above his last-10 average, and a total when our Sunday number sits 3 or more points off the opener. The kinds grade beside each pick counts the different kinds of evidence that agree: a rule, his history, the matchup, the script, the weather.
Bets is the share of tickets; money is the share of dollars. When the money runs well ahead of the bets, fewer people are betting bigger on that side, the move bettors call sharp money.
Spread
Arizona+4.5-4.5Texas TechArizona: 50% of the bets, 99% of the money. Fewer people, betting bigger.
Since 2018: when the money ran 20 or more points ahead of the bets on a side, the money side covered 50.4% (532-524-14, 1,070 games). No better than a coin flip.
Moneyline
Arizona+145-175Texas Tech60% of the bets are on Texas Tech, but 77% of the money is on Arizona.
Bets and money splits via DraftKings, as of Sun 6:50 PM ET. One book's customers, not the whole market.
Arizona- QB Noah Fifita 290 passing yards a game in 6 games, 231 last season
- RB Kedrick Reescano 46 rushing yards a game in 6 games, 37 last season
- RB Quincy Craig 31 rushing yards a game in 6 games, 34 last season
- WR Isaiah Mizell 72 receiving yards a game in 5 games, 8 last season
- WR Tre Spivey 63 receiving yards a game in 5 games, 30 last season
- WR Brandon Phelps 38 receiving yards a game in 6 games, 23 last season
Texas Tech- QB Will Hammond 220 passing yards a game in 5 games, 94 last season
- RB J'Koby Williams 75 rushing yards a game in 5 games, 56 last season
- RB Cameron Dickey 47 rushing yards a game in 5 games, 80 last season
- WR Kenny Johnson 60 receiving yards a game in 5 games
- WR Coy Eakin 39 receiving yards a game in 5 games, 49 last season
- WR Malcolm Simmons 30 receiving yards a game in 3 games
Arizona with the ballWhat they like to do. Arizona are middle of the country in how they play.
Where they win and lose. Middle of the country on both sides of the ledger.
What the Texas Tech defense brings. They shut offenses down (5th), keep it in front (6th) and take the ball away (17th).
What works against them. Nothing on the ledger stands out.
Where the two meet. No strength meets a weakness here; it comes down to talent, and the power gap says who has it.
Texas Tech with the ballWhat they like to do. Texas Tech play fast (7th).
Where they win and lose. They break explosive runs (23rd) and hit explosive passes (25th).
What the Arizona defense brings. They take the ball away (1st) and shut the pass down (3rd) and they cannot get a sack (24th-worst).
What works against them. Nothing on the ledger stands out.
Where the two meet. No strength meets a weakness here; it comes down to talent, and the power gap says who has it.
How each team covers in this spot
ArizonaTexas TechAgainst the spread and the total, the last three seasons plus this one, pushes left out. Only the conditions that are true of this game, only where the team has at least 8 games in the spot, and only where the team beats the whole league in that spot. The second bar is the same team everywhere else.
Player trends that apply to this game
Kedrick ReescanoRB has 8 of his last 10 games in conference play with a rushing touchdown.The second number is the point. Everyone posts the first one. Game logs through last season; this season joins the file as it is played.
Texas Tech 28 at Arizona 22Texas Tech covered, Arizona -6Texas Tech 14 at Arizona 28Arizona covered, Arizona +1.5