Game Line: Tennessee Football Settling As Massive Favorites Against UTEP

Tennessee football is a day away from kicking off its Senior Day matchup against UTEP at Neyland Stadium. It’s the Vols final non conference game and their penultimate game of the regular season.

With kickoff 24 hours away, Tennessee football is 40.5 point favorites against the Miners according to Bet MGM. The over/under is set at 52.5. The line has just slightly moved this week with Tennessee opening as 41-point favorites over UTEP. The game total has moved down by a field goal after opening at 55.5.

Tennessee is 5-5 against the spread so far this season but is 3-0 against the spread in non conference games. The Vols enter its final home game of the season having failed to cover the point spread in each of their last three games and five of their last six games. The over and under have each hit in five Tennessee games this season with the over hitting in all three non conference games to date.

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UTEP is 4-6 against the spread so far this season but has covered just one of its last five games. The over has hit in four UTEP games this season while the under has hit six times.

Josh Heupel’s fourth Tennessee team enters its penultimate game of the regular season 8-2 (5-2 SEC) having suffered its second loss of the season on last week against rival Georgia. Tennessee now needs some help to make the College Football Playoff as they’re the first team out in this week’s rankings. If the Vols take care of business against UTEP and Vanderbilt to end the season then they’ll have a solid chance to make the playoffs.

The Miners are one of the worst teams in the FBS and enter the matchup at Neyland Stadium with a 2-10 (2-5 CUSA) record. UTEP is coming off one of its two wins of the season, having defeated Kennesaw State 43-35 on Saturday.