Draft Kings Sets Week One Line For Tennessee vs. Virginia

The Tennessee Volunteers open up the college football season against the Virginia Cavaliers, and the Vols open as massive favorites in the neutral site showdown.

ESPN recently ranked Tennessee's strength of schedule as the No. 8 most difficult in all of college football. They have several in-conference road tests that will make or break their season, but at least they are opening up as substantial week-one favorites to kick things off. The Vols play the Virginia Cavaliers on September 2 in a neutral-site contest at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee.

Though the game is technically a neutral site, Nissan Stadium is less than a three-hour drive from Neyland Stadium. Furthermore, Nashville is an epicenter for Tennessee football, so there should be a lot of orange and white lining the crowd. Draft Kings recently set the week one line and factored all this plus the talent discrepancy into account and has Tennessee as a 27-point favorite. The sports book hasn't posted any other odds for the games, and the money is even at -110 on both sides.

Tennessee is 2-0 in week one games in head coach Josh Heupel's tenure. They actually have beaten Bowling Green twice in those games, and both times the Vols won 38-6. They get a new challenger this season in Virginia, a Power-5 opponent that Tennessee still should have its way with. Again, the schedule only gets harder after week one, so the Vols must come out firing. It will be a big test for new starting quarterback Joe Milton III, and there's also a chance that we will see true freshman quarterback Nico Iamaleava get his first live reps late in the game.

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