7 games played, by sport.
MLB The marquee game tonight is the New York Yankees hosting the Colorado Rockies at Yankee Stadium, where the heavy -305 favorites just need to keep grinding toward their 84th win while Colorado's bullpen tries to avoid another rough getaway-day type outing. Don't sleep on Milwaukee hosting Cincinnati, where the Brewers, sitting at 91-56, are chasing a big number and a starter going seven would be huge with a lead this good. Also keep an eye on Tampa Bay welcoming Houston, a sneaky good OBP-heavy lineup matchup even without posted odds.
NCAA Football The marquee game is Missouri Tigers at Kansas Jayhawks, a rare Thursday night showcase pitting two 1-0 teams against each other with early conference bragging rights on the line, Missouri favored by five and a half. Boston College hosting Rutgers is the closer game to watch, just a field goal spread with the over sitting at fifty-four and a half, so don't be shocked if this one comes down to who's got the ball last in the red zone. Everything else on the slate is a smashmouth mismatch on paper, with Miami favored by nearly sixty over Florida A&M and Virginia expected to cover easily against Norfolk State without needing garbage-time stats to pad the score.
NFL The marquee game is the San Francisco 49ers heading to the Los Angeles Rams in a rare international showcase at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with the Rams favored by three and a half points and the total sitting at 47.5. It's an early measuring-stick game for both teams before the division race heats up, and expect a physical, smashmouth battle in the trenches with time of possession swinging the outcome as much as the scoreboard. Watch how each team handles third-and-long situations near midfield, since bogging down there usually decides whether a team is covering the spread or bailing out its defense in the fourth quarter. Wait, that has too many sentences and drifts into speculation not in the data. Let me redo this properly.} {