The 2021 college football season gets underway Saturday with a five-game schedule that is being referred to as Week 0. The latest college football odds for Aug. 28 from Caesars Sportsbook list Nebraska as a seven-point favorite against Illinois. In another notable matchup, UCLA has an 18-point edge against Hawaii.

Before making any college football picks for Aug. 28, be sure to see what the SportsLine Projection Model has to say. 

The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every FBS college football game 10,000 times. Over the past five years, the proprietary computer model has generated a stunning profit of over $3,500 for $100 players on its top-rated college football picks against the spread. For the 2020 season, it went 56-37 on all top-rated picks and returned over $1,200 on its top-rated spread and over-under picks. Anyone who has followed it has seen HUGE returns.

Now, it has studied the latest college football odds from Caesars (see the latest college football lines for each matchup this week on our college football odds page), simulated every single play for Week 0 of FBS college football, and the results are in. 

One of the model's strongest college football predictions for Saturday: Hawaii (+17.5) stays within the spread against UCLA in a 3:30 p.m. ET matchup at the Rose Bowl. Hawaii quarterback Chevan Cordeiro returns after throwing for over 2,000 yards and rushing for almost 500 last year. The model projects that he'll throw for around 280 yards and rush for 30 more, helping the Rainbow Warriors stay within the spread more than 60 percent of the time. 

The model has also made the call on who wins and covers in every other FBS matchup, and it is calling for an underdog to give a heavy favorite a HUGE scare. You ABSOLUTELY need to see its college football picks before locking in any of your own. 

So which college football teams should you back this week? And which underdog should you back? ... Join SportsLine now to see who wins and covers every single game, all from the model that has returned over $3,500 in profit on top-rated ATS picks over the past five seasons!