Chris 'The Bear' Fallica's 2024 College Football Week 5 'Bear Bytes'

College football Week 5 is here, and I couldn't be more pumped. 

This means the next few days will be exciting for fans who love football and for bettors looking for fun ways to wager a few bucks.

I've already given you my best bets for Week 5 games, but now it's time to have a little fun with my "Bear Bytes."

These little "bytes," as I call them, are just nuggets that give you some entertaining talking points to pull from as you watch the football festivities with friends and family or banter with your coworkers at the water cooler.

Here are the biggest nuggets that stuck out to me while doing my research.

Saturday, Sept. 28

(All times ET)

Northern Illinois @ NC State (noon, CW Network)

In its last 12 games as an underdog, Northern Illinois is 10-2 against the spread (ATS) with six outright wins, including outright wins in each of the last three games. 

Nebraska @ Purdue (noon, Peacock)

This is only the second time in the last 10 years Nebraska has been a double-digit road favorite. The other instance came in 2019 when the Huskers beat Illinois 42-38 as 13.5-point favorites. 

No. 22 BYU @ Baylor (noon, FS1)

Since 2016, there have been 26 regular-season games involving unranked favorites that did not have a winning record over a team that was ranked. The unranked team won 19 of the 26 games. In the last nine such games, the only ranked team to win such a game was Iowa (twice over Nebraska). So, in the last seven such games not involving Iowa, the unranked team won outright, covering six of them. 

Wisconsin @ No. 13 USC (3:30 p.m., CBS)

This is the first time since 2018 that Wisconsin is an underdog in consecutive games. Dating back to last year, Wisconsin has been an underdog in four of