The University of New Mexico Lobos are poised to begin the 2010 football season on the road against the Mighty Ducks of the University of Oregon. The current line? Oregon is favored by 34.5 points.
For the betting-challenged folks out there, that means if you were to go to Las Vegas with the intent of betting on Oregon beating New Mexico, the Ducks would have to win by 35 points (!) in order for you to make some money. That's a five-touchdown difference!
My take? Oregon is the odds-on favorite to win the Pac-10 with nearly its entire roster (sans Heisman-contender and laptop-swiper Jeremiah Masoli) returning from a 10-3 season in which they played in the Rose Bowl. New Mexico is the odds-on favorite to finish last in the Mountain West Conference and won exactly one game all of last season. Not to mention the Lobos were outscored by an average margin of nearly 20 points last year, losing by 35 to Texas A&M, 34 to Tulsa, 31 to Utah and 41 to TCU. Oregon is much better than all of those schools with the possible exception of TCU.
I'm as big of a Lobo fan as you're going to find, but if I were a betting man my money would be on Oregon on September 4.
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