Vegas projects the winner of the Michigan State football QB battle

No one knows who’s going to win the Michigan State football quarterback battle, but Vegas has an early guess.

Wednesday kicked off the annual Big Ten Media Days and that just means that any team with a quarterback battle is going to be questioned. That includes Michigan State football.

The Spartans lost Payton Thorne to Auburn which opened the door for unproven veteran passer Noah Kim and anticipated second-year gunslinger Katin Houser to battle it out. The battle has been ongoing since the spring but we’ll surely get a better grasp on the leader in the coming month as practice gets underway.

Is there a favorite to win the race? It’s hard to say, but Vegas weighed in with some odds this week.

According to BetOnline, Kim is a pretty healthy favorite.

Per BetOnline, here are the odds for #MichiganState’s Week 1 starting QB:

– Noah Kim: -200
– Katin Houser: +150

Other notables around CFB:
– Auburn: Payton Thorne (+100) is the underdog vs Robby Ashford (-140)
– UCLA: Dante Moore (+100) is the underdog vs Ethan Garbers (-140)

— Justin Thind (@JustinThind) July 25, 2023

Kim starting Week 1 is a -200 bet while Houser would win you some money if he trots out there as the starter against Central Michigan at +150. This isn’t a huge shock as Kim is the veteran in the quarterback room and he’s learned the offense for years while Houser is the unproven underclassman. Still, Houser is a former blue-chip and Elite 11 quarterback so a lot of fans are hoping he takes the field as QB1 in the opener.

If you like to bet on anything and everything and have a good hunch about the quarterback job, take a swing.

Justin Thind shared some other interesting bets from BetOnline regarding quarterback battles as Thorne is the underdog for the Auburn job and former five-star target Dante Moore is (surprisingly) projected to back up Ethan Garbers. I’d probably put money on both Thorne and Moore starting at Auburn and UCLA, respectively.

Whoever starts for Michigan State, however, faces the tough task of turning the program back in the right direction after the disaster that was 2022. Vegas thinks it’s Kim. But I do like the underdog odds.