College Football Week 7 Betting Picks: Michigan State, Kansas State, ASU

The seventh-ranked Michigan State Spartans (6-0) have yet to lose a game this season, but they find themselves as consensus eight-point underdogs visiting the 12th-ranked Michigan Wolverines (5-1) at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark.

Call it the Jim Harbaugh factor, since the former San Francisco 49ers head coach has already seemingly turned his alma mater into a legitimate Big Ten title contender in his first season there. Michigan's lone loss this year took place in the season opener on the road 24-17 to the fourth-ranked Utah Utes, who are also unbeaten at 5-0.

But don't believe the hype just yet. While it's too early to give the Wolverines too much credit, Harbaugh definitely deserves some. Michigan has blanked each of its last three opponents, but Michigan State should present a much different challenge as the school's intrastate rival.

The Spartans are 0-6 against the spread this season, although they have covered the last seven meetings with the Wolverines, according to the Odds Shark College Football Database. Michigan State has also won 11 straight conference road games to go along with a 9-2 mark ATS.

In the Big 12, the Kansas State Wildcats (3-2) have suffered back-to-back tough losses at the 16th-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys and at home versus the third-ranked TCU Horned Frogs by a combined nine points.

The third time will be a charm to earn a victory while playing a ranked opponent, as the 19th-ranked Oklahoma Sooners (4-1) visit Manhattan.

The Sooners are coming off a terrible 24-17 loss to the Texas Longhorns in the annual Red River Rivalry game at a neutral site in Dallas, but they have won five of their last six conference road games.

However, the Wildcats are 19-6 ATS in their past 25 games as underdogs under head coach Bill Snyder and 7-1 versus the line in their last eight as home dogs. Oklahoma will lose two in a row as a favorite.

One more team with a shot to pull off an upset in Week 7 is the Arizona State Sun Devils (4-2), who visit the Utes as 6.5-point road underdogs. Arizona State has won the previous four meetings with Utah, which is just 1-5 ATS in its past six Pac-12 home games.

The Utes edged the California Golden Bears 30-24 last week but fell short of covering the spread as 7.5-point home favorites. The Sun Devils are riding an eight-game winning streak both straight up and ATS during the month of October.