Miami destroyed Florida A&M 77-7 as a 59.5-point home favorite in Thursday’s lone college football game.
Duke transfer quarterback Darian Mensah completed 14-of-15 passes for 252 yards and three touchdowns without an interception. Sophomore wide receiver Malachi Toney had four receptions for 96 yards, and he added a 22-yard punt return on his only other touch of the night.
Through two games, Mensah has connected on 41-of-45 throws (91.1%) for 653 yards with an 8/0 touchdown-to-interception ratio. He has 26 rushing yards on three attempts, while Toney has 16 catches for 330 yards and four TDs.
DraftKings has the Hurricanes listed as 20.5-point road favorites (at a -108 price) for next Friday’s ACC showdown at Wake Forest. The total is 53.5 points (‘under’ -112, ‘over’ -108), and the Demon Deacons are +800 on the money line.
FanDuel’s updated odds to win the Heisman Trophy have Mensah as the +500 favorite. The next-shortest odds belong to Texas QB Arch Manning (+1000 or 10/1). Toney and four others – Ohio St. WR Jeremiah Smith, Ohio St. QB Julian Sayin, Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss and Notre Dame QB CJ Carr – share 12/1 odds.
Manning, Smith and Sayin will share the same field tomorrow night in Austin, where Texas will try to avenge last year’s 14-7 loss at Ohio St.
LSU QB Sam Leavitt and Oregon QB Dante Moore are both listed at 15/1, and USC QB Jayden Maiava and Indiana QB Josh Hoover are 22/1. Leavitt and Chambliss can bolster their respective cases when LSU comes to Oxford for a primetime showdown in Week 3.
Oklahoma QB John Mateer and Alabama QB Keelon Russell both have 30/1 odds. Mateer will lead the Sooners into the Big House to face the Wolverines tomorrow, while Russell will make his first career road start at Kentucky.
Texas A&M QB Marcel Reed (35/1) has a home game tomorrow vs. Arizona St.
The rest of FanDuel’s Heisman board looks like this:
South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers 40/1
UGA’s Stockton, PSU’s Becht, UF’s Philo, BYU’s Bachmeier and Louisville’s Kienholz 55/1
Mississippi St.’s Taylor and Houston Weigman 65/1
SMU’s Jennings, Cal’s JKS, UM’s Underwood, Texas Tech’s Hammond and Tennessee’s Brandon 70/1
Utah’s Dampier, AU’s Brown, UW’s Williams, UCLA’s Iamaleava, K-St.’s Johnson and UT’s Coleman 80/1
OSU’s Jackson, UVA’s Pribula, UA’s Fifita, Mizzou’s Simmons and Oklahoma St.’s Mestemaker 100/1
Ole Miss’s Lacy, UK’s Minchey, IU’s Marsh and Nebraska’s Colandrea 125/1
UF’s Baugh, Baylor’s Lagway, NC St.’s Bailey and Clemson’s Vizzina 150/1
If somebody at the sports book handed me a $100 bill and asked me to buy him or her five different $20 Heisman tickets, who would I take?
1-Baugh 150/1
2-Hoover 22/1
3-Chambliss 12/1
4-Stockton 55/1
5-Leavitt 15/1
I’m only holding one Heisman ticket for now: Toney at 41/1.