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USC at Rutgers: our pick

We called USC at 91%, locked Sep 17, 10:41 PM ET, 40 hours before kickoff.

Final: USC 42–35 Rutgers. Right.

Why this pick?

Our 91% is the betting market's own price for USC: 6 sportsbooks' prices, averaged, with their margin taken out. It is not a secret model.

Since we locked it the market moved 0.1 points away from USC.

We have no graded calls on USC yet.

At 91%, a pick like this still loses about 9 times in 100.

What we add is timing: we watch this game live and email members when the pick pulls well ahead, so they can check the cash-out at their own sportsbook.

No cash-out alert fired on this game.

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Entry #355 in the chain, backfilled when fingerprinting began. Check this call yourself →

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