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The Eternal City Tip-Off brings an ACC-Big East meeting to a neutral floor, where Notre Dame and Villanova arrive with very different readings from the model and the market. The betting line makes Villanova a 7.5-point favorite, but GameSim sees a much tighter contest: its 200 simulations give the Wildcats a 52% win probability and project a 65.4–64.0 result.
Read MoreHalloween falls on a Saturday, and the sports calendar showed up in costume. The Brewers finished the World Series in five games on Wednesday, so the 8 p.m. FOX window is empty. In its place: the first Game 7 in WNBA Finals history, a full Week 9 college football slate, seven NBA games, and the busiest NHL Halloween schedule since 2015. All times below are Eastern. Every matchup links to its MyGameSim prediction.
Read MoreSaturday is a college football Saturday, all 103 games of it, and the nightcap is the one everyone will be watching. Ohio State at USC, 7:30 PM ET: the GameSim projection has the top-ranked Buckeyes 32.8, the Trojans 27.2, a 5.6-point road call across 740 simulations. The No. 1 team in the country, on the road, in prime time, in the Coliseum.
Read MoreThe Big East coaches picked the team that reached the national championship game, then the team that just won the league twice. UConn took eight first-place votes and 98 points. St. John's took two first-place votes and 90. Coaches cannot vote for their own team. Villanova was third at 81, Marquette fourth at 73 with the other first-place vote. After that the poll thins out: Providence 59, Xavier 54, Creighton 47 under new coach Alan Huss.
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