First week lines

CFN has the betting lines for the first week of the season.  Here are a few numbers of interest:

• Georgia is a 25.5 point favorite over ULaLa (by the way, when did they start referring to themselves simply as “Louisiana”?).
• Vegas thinks it’ll be a fun week for the SEC, as every team in the conference but one is favored in its opener, from ‘Bama getting 39 against San Jose State to LSU’s -1.5 against North Carolina.  Vandy is the only underdog, against Northwestern.
• Favored in a runaway to win the Big East, Pitt is a three-point underdog at Utah.  Hmmm…
• Rice is only getting 28 points against Texas?  Unless the Owls’ defense is much, much better, they could be down by 28 at halftime.
• I’m not sure I want to touch Oregon State getting thirteen at TCU.
• Or Boise State giving three against Virginia Tech.