The Ohio State Buckeyes opened as almost two touchdown favorites for this week at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark as they prepare to play host to the Michigan State Spartans in one of the marquee college football betting matchups on the board. The Buckeyes opened as a 13-point home favorite against the Spartans as they look to run their season record to 11-0 straight up and stay in the thick of the race for a berth in the College Football Playoff. Ohio State is coming off a 28-3 win at Illinois in which it covered the 17-point spread, putting the Buckeyes at 3-1 against the spread in their last four games. The Spartans, meanwhile, are 9-1 SU on the season and looking to jump the Buckeyes in the Big Ten pecking order. Michigan State is coming off a 24-7 win over Maryland in which it covered the 14.5-point spread, but overall on the season the Spartans are just 3-7 ATS. Ohio State bounced Michigan State 49-37 as a four-point road underdog when the schools met last season, and overall the Spartans are just 2-9 SU in their last 11 games against the Buckeyes according to the Odds Shark College Football Database. The visitor is 6-1 ATS in the last seven games between Ohio State and Michigan State. Elsewhere on the Week 12 college football betting lines, top-ranked Clemson opened as a big 29-point home favorite against Wake Forest, while Michigan opened as a five-point road favorite against Penn State and Notre Dame opened as a 16-point favorite against Boston College for their matchup at Fenway Park. The game between Baylor and Oklahoma State opened as a pick’em, with the Bears coming off a 44-34 loss to Oklahoma as a 1.5-point favorite that dropped them to 8-1 SU and 4-5 ATS on the season. The Cowboys, a perfect 10-0 SU and 6-4 ATS, are 9-3 ATS in their last 12 November games, while the favored team is 12-4 ATS in the last 16 games between Oklahoma State and Baylor. Stanford opened as a 12.5-point home favorite over California, after dropping to 8-2 SU and 7-3 ATS on the season with a 38-36 loss to Oregon as a nine-point favorite…
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