Courtesy of the Westgate SuperBook via ESPN's Kyle Bonagura:
http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/...onal-title
Stanford has the fourth-best odds among Pac-12 teams to win the national championship (40-1) behind favorite U-S-C (15-1), Oregon (20-1) and UCLA (20-1). Of course, as Kyle Bonagura points out--and folks tend to forget--these odds are created so that people will spend their hard-earned money on sports bets. The Vegas odds should not be viewed as "honest" predictions of how likely it is that these teams will win the NC.
I don't really have much to add, except that Oregon is not winning the NC, because Stanford is taking the Pac-12 North in 2015.
http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/...onal-title
Stanford has the fourth-best odds among Pac-12 teams to win the national championship (40-1) behind favorite U-S-C (15-1), Oregon (20-1) and UCLA (20-1). Of course, as Kyle Bonagura points out--and folks tend to forget--these odds are created so that people will spend their hard-earned money on sports bets. The Vegas odds should not be viewed as "honest" predictions of how likely it is that these teams will win the NC.
I don't really have much to add, except that Oregon is not winning the NC, because Stanford is taking the Pac-12 North in 2015.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)