hi it's Mitch from piic dogs.com here with the free pick in the Northwestern versus Miami of Ohio college football matchup on Saturday August 31st 20124 it's my favorite day of the week during my favorite time of the year it's College Football Saturday and of course uh if you like all the free picks we do at pic dogs you'll love our Best Bets just go to pic dogs.com click on the premium picks tab got a link directly below in the description of course we also have our V or VIP packages for that you got to text the number but those are meant for people that bet a thousand or more per game Bank RS of 10,000 plus and people who are looking for long-term plans a regular premium short-term to long-term something for everyone VIP big betters who looking for long-term plans but let's get to it Northwestern taking on Miami of Ohio pretty interesting matchup because Northwestern returns a ton from last year's eight and5 team that surprised a lot of people and of course they head coach Braun was outstanding coach of the year in the Big 10 last year a lot of big surprises for North Western but can they surprise once again now that maybe the expectation is set a little bit higher meanwhile for Miami of Ohio Gabbert back at QB and the big story for Miami Ohio was losing their kicker to Alabama late in the uh spring but you know that is the day of the transfer portal and the image licensing and everything else that goes with it and a good kicker well it can make the difference between winning and losing in a lot of these tight college football games something that this one many believe figures to be Miami is picked to be the top team in the Mac this year they generally open in these tough you know spots they're not they're it's not uncommon for them to open you know on the road against a bigname opponent in fact after this game against Northwestern the Big 10 they follow it up with Cincinnati a team they beat last year and then they played Notre Dame so Miami Ohio is certainly not backing down from anyone they are seven and one against the number in their last eight on the road 11 and two against the number in the last 13 overall war north Western has not necessarily covered the spread all that well against these Mac teams two and 10 against the number in their last 12 against the Mac but the thing is is that Northwestern I believe that this is a program that certainly you know once again flies under the radar but does a lot of things right you know I was a Pat Fitzgerald guy I thought that he was one of the better coaches out there of course that all ended in a heap and really not the best situation um you know that you want to be in as a program but Northwestern fought through that and I tell you what they might have come out better on the other side especially looking at the team that they have out on the field they have guys with experience and they have guys who can make plays and the thing is you know in a conference where they're not expected to do much and I mean even looking at the point spread in this game not expected to do all that much but at the same time you know while they haven't had all that much success against the mac and you know the lines in those games have generally been a lot bigger than this game I think you know the love for Miami of Ohio makes him look a little bit public doggy for my taste I think think Miami Ohio is a good team if they pulled the outright upset I wouldn't even be all that shocked but I do believe that the better play here is to just lay the points with Northwestern in a tighter in a tighter spread that that this is um than it should be I'm going to take Northwestern and that's going to be my free pick of course while you're doing your picks putting your bets in use our free betting tools at sportschatplace.com 100% free and they'll help put you on the most favorable bets on the board today