Live Bet Saturday | October 17, 2026 | Hour 1

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College Football Week 7 is officially underway. I'm Dustin Swedelson. This is Live Bet Saturday on VSiN, the Sports Betting Network. We got you covered in the early window of action today. We have national championship implications coming up in mere moments in Bloomington, Indiana. We're the last two national champions. Ohio State and Indiana are matching up number four at number five. And that should be the focus of our afternoon today. But that is not the only game we're going to be locked on here across the United States of God Bless America. Plenty to look at as far as the SEC is concerned. Florida taking on Texas with the Longhorns, looking to bounce back off of a loss at Red River. On top of that, looking for revenge with a loss a year ago in the swamp to the same Gator program. We've got a situation in revenge on both sides of a Big Ten battle. It is Northwestern at Michigan State where this number is all the way down to Northwestern laying seven. It was around ten at open, nine and a half. Now down to seven, where Pat Fitzgerald takes on his former program, now the head coach of Sparty and the former quarterback at Michigan State, Aiden Childs is now leading the charge for the offense for Northwestern in that matchup. Interesting matchup we have as well in the Sun Belt with Georgia State taking on James Madison. This is a game that's seen a lot of money all week long, opened around 11

It went all the way up to 12 and a half. Now at close, James Madison, only an eight point favorite against Georgia State and the Panthers coming to town there. Plenty to look at across the board. We await kickoffs across the United States. We have also the Sunflower Showdown. Kansas at Kansas State number is down to three. A lot of money coming in on the Jayhawks thinking that they could cover in this matchup with the Wildcats. But let's begin our focus here and get you ready for kickoff with Ohio State and Indiana.

Now this number was three and a half all week long. So if you wanted Indiana, the last thing you should have been doing was waiting, waiting for this thing to drop because it eventually did. And we close right now at two and a half, Ohio State laying it on the road. I threw it up on the vsin.com picks page. We can see picks from every single show here at the network early in the week. I took the Hoosiers plus the three and a hook here as they've won 22 straight, the longest streak since Georgia won 29 in 2021 to 23 All 22 wins for the boys from Bloomington came while holding their opponents to 24 points, tied for the longest run since 1993 Josh Hoover under center, a lot of talk about Josh Hoover not being Fernando Mendoza, and that is absolutely a fair assessment. But Josh Hoover's problem at TCU was turnovers. He hasn't turned the ball over yet. Will today be the day against Matt Patricia's Ohio State Buckeye defense? On the other end of the coin for Ohio State, you've got Julian Sayen, currently the highest rated passer in the country, best completion percentage of any active quarterback, and his number one target is your favorite for the Heisman Trophy, Jeremiah Smith, 152.7 yards per game, 11 touchdowns. Last time he played against Indiana, eight catches, 144 yards in the Big Ten title game. Speaking of the Big Ten title game, when they met a year ago, 13-10, the final score, Indiana with the win. The Buckeyes' last trip to Bloomington was in 2023, they won 23-3.

Ohio State, five and four against the spread in this series since 2017, Indiana, or at Indiana, three and one. Ryan Day is a road favorite, 19-10 covering the number. Kurt Signetti, first time ever at Indiana as a home underdog.

I just don't think that Kurt Signetti is going to get punked by Ryan Day in his own building. Now, there's some concern, for sure. The last two times we've seen Indiana play, they've had a couple of scares. Northwestern on a Friday night two weeks ago, at Lincoln last week, lucky to escape both of those contests with wins. I think there's a situation where Kurt Signetti may have been saving a little bit in the tank for this matchup, knowing how big it is, for implications, not just in the Big Ten, but for the National Championship. Florida at Texas, and there is big quarterback news there. As Aaron Filo is not going to start, it's going to be Tremell Jones. First career start for him, more of a passer, not as much of a runner as Filo, but at least that's what the reports are saying right now.