College Football Betting - Week One
Sep 3, 2010 NCAA Football, Sports Betting
Starting a new regular feature this week — telling the story of my financial ruin in public.
Actually the goal this year is to replicate last season’s success. In limited betting 2/3 games per weekend I actually had a successful gambling season for the first time in my life. The only thing I enjoy doing more than placing the bets is talking about them, so let’s get this thing started.
Oklahoma (-33.5) over Utah State
In 2009, OU had two home games scheduled for September that they won by a combined score of 109-0. The results have been similar in 2007 and 2008. Utah State is terrible and has been for some time and will be completely overwhelmed. Take the Sooners.
Cincinatti at Fresno State OVER 58
Neither of these defenses can handle a decent offense, and both of them have enough firepower to light up a scoreboard. Expect this game to be in the high thirties or forties.
Virginia Tech vs Boise State UNDER 50
The line here keeps going up, and you should keep letting it go up and take the under. Virginia Tech failed pretty miserably (the yards per play splits tell the story) against good defenses last season and Boise State’s defense is outstanding. BSU has a good offense, but they’re not going to light up VT. This game is staying under.
Thoughts on the Weekend
Dec 8, 2008 Eagles Rumors, NCAA Football
I’m obviously not breaking any ground here, but the BCS is such an abomination I can’t even get excited for Oklahoma/Florida like the rest of the country seems to be. The notion that Florida and Oklahoma are somehow more deserving than USC, Penn State, Texas, or Texas Tech is based on concepts that are so grossly unfair it makes my head spin to hear someone try to rationalize it.
It may be a good National Championship game, but how great would an eight team playoff look right now? How excited would you be for that? It could have started this weekend, you know, instead of having these hypocritical and unfair conference championship games. It’s a joke.
Getting to the NFL, obviously an awesome weekend for the Iggles. The complete beat-down of the Giants was both unexpected and immensely gratifying. A few non-Westbrook gameballs:
Trent Cole: He looked like he took the first game personally. He was a beast against the run — when he wasn’t penetrating and completely disrupting the play he was stringing the play out, waiting for help. Excellent game for the Eagles best defensive player. Oh, and that field goal block was unreal.
LJ Smith: The franchise player actually looked like he deserved that connotation for once. Excellent game, picking up important first downs while making guys miss. I have one question — he’s been here, what… six years? Have the coaches not spoken with him this entire time about how he carries the ball? I don’t get it.
Stewart Bradley: Solid tackling, the guy was making the right reads against the run and getting to the ball carrier. He continues to impress.
The rest of the NFL after the jump…
