| Thursday night will start the week 1 schedule with | | | | Team Sun Belt Conference honors. |
| Middle Tennessee St will host Minnesota on ESPNU | | | | Also back heading into college football odds for |
| with kick-off set for 7:35pm EST. Online | | | | week 1 will be junior DD Kyles who was 2nd in |
| sportsbooks have opened with Minnesota as | | | | rushing on the team last year with 879 yards and |
| 1.5-point favorites in college football week 1 picks | | | | a 6.2 YPC average. The Blue Raiders seem to be |
| with an over/under total of 48.5. The Middle | | | | a certainty to improve upon their 32 points per |
| Tennessee Blue Raiders are one of the favorites | | | | game of 2009. Randall McCray arrived from |
| at sportsbooks in college football betting odds to | | | | Wisconsin to coordinate the defense that allowed |
| win the Sun Belt Conference and are coming off | | | | 24 PPG in 2009. Middle has gone 6-3 against the |
| a 10-3 season in which they won the New Orleans | | | | spread in college football odds as a home favorite |
| Bowl over Southern Miss 42-32. The Blue Raiders | | | | since 2007 and 10-4 against the spread in Vegas |
| have 8 starters back on offense and 6 on | | | | odds for non conference action during that same |
| defense. Leading the offensive returnees is senior | | | | time span. |
| QB Dwight Dasher who led the MTSU attack in | | | | The Minnesota Golden Gophers are coming off a |
| rushing with 1,391 yards and 13 TD's along with | | | | 6-7 season that ended with an Insight Bowl loss |
| 2,789 yards passing with 23 TD's to earn 2nd | | | | to Iowa State. |
