It's a
blue-skyed, 65-degrees-at-noon Saturday.
Straight
to the guessing.
CALL THE BOOKIE REVIEW
Auburn
giving 9.5 to Arkansas: OK, Arkansas has a pulse and Auburn doesn't. Lesson
learned from here on out.
0-1
Virginia
Tech getting 6.5 at North Carolina: Dang, what the hell's going on in
Blackburg?
UNC is a
touchdown favorite in football against a non-North Carolina school and runs
away from covering?
0-2
Houston
giving 12 to North Texas: Coogs had it covered by halftime.
1-2.
Clemson
giving 11 to Georgia Tech: We knew Al Groh didn't have many weekends left at
Tech, we just didn't know this would be the last one.
Clemson
covered. Yay.
2-2-
Oregon
giving 24 to Washington: Went on straight gamblin' numbers: Washington is 0-7-1
against the line in the last eight meetings, and the favorite it 10-1-1.
Twas a
wise move. Ducks won by 31.
3-2
Don't
touch: WVU plus 7, won by 3; USCE minus one, hammered Georgia; Florida gave a
couple to LSU, won
Texas giving 7 to WVU (don't worry the line, just enjoy
the game); USCE giving 1 to Georgia (again, you know the rule with Georgia and
lines; and again, just enjoy the game); Florida giving a couple to LSU, won by
eight.
Record
is 12-13. Sniffing .500 is good.
CALL THE BOOKIE THIS WEEK
Virginia
Tech getting 11 at Clemson: Tech is trying to regroup and needs a statement
win. Clemson is thinking it's a matter of time before Florida State l - oops,
that's right, Maryland leads the division.
And Tech
is also 2-1 in ACC play. Still, Clemson is the better team and at home.
Take the
Tigers. Barely.
Auburn
getting 6.5 at Vandy: Some competent organization and clock management would
have given Vandy a chance to maybe beat Florida, but it wasn't there.
Yo,
Jimmy Franklin, you still need a two-minute offense if you're a run-oriented
team.
And
Auburn aspires to reach the level of dumpster fire.
Take the
Dores, and maybe big.
Boston
College getting 14.5 at Georgia Tech: Neither team is very good, but Boston
College is just bad.
BC to
ACC: another example of eyes being bigger than brains. The Eagles are 20-25 in
the last 3.5 years and going backwards.
That
continues today as Tech bows up and covers, thanks to a strong fourth quarter.
N.C.
State giving 4 at Maryland: Pure gamblin' info says Maryland is 0-9 against the
spread in last nine home games.
Yeah,
the Terps are doing better than expected, and that will stop at some point.
Today seems good.
State
covers, and probably by double digits.
Kansas
State getting 3 at West Virginia: This is one of the day's marquee games.
WVU is
at home, has been smacked awake to be more versatile on offense and remotely
competent on defense. As good as K-State is, WVU at home at night is just what
the doctor ordered.
Mountaineers
cover midway through the fourth quarter.
Don't
touch: LSU giving 3 at Texas A&M (still not sold on A&M, and LSU has
clarified nothing, but I lean hard toward A&M); USCE getting 3.5 at Florida
(very much not sold on UF, and picked the Gators, but I think the Cockadoodles
pull it off); Pittsburgh giving 9.5 at Buffalo (that's just kinda sad); UGA
giving 25.5 at Kentucky (yeah, that's tempting for some, cuz UK is sucking, but
the Dogs are always confusing).
LOUGHDMOUTHINGS
Twitter
equals big mouth, no brains, misplaced ego attention deficit.
From
Ohio State backup QB Cardale Jones;
"Why
should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain't come
to play SCHOOL, classes are pointless."
A) Jones
is an idiot, regardless of how "young" he is; B) may fit in well with
the new boss; C) Jones is thirrrrd-string, so maybe he ain't come to play that
much after all; D) decision-making like that can lead to a loss to Michigan.
If he
gets in. ...
From
Brian Manzullo of the Detroit Free Press:
"Georgia
State football, at 0-5, needs a way to bring students to its home games.
"Dropping
cash from the rafters might do the trick.
"During
halftime of today's game against New Hampshire, students will be brought onto
the Georgia Dome field for a $10,000 "cash drop" sponsored by
Georgia's Own Credit Union."
The
flyer for the event also mentioned it is "family weekend" at the
game. Well, nothing screams "family" quite like a pile of students
scrumming for money.
Announced
attendance for the Oct. 6 game: 9,531. ...
I'm
tellin' ya, don't be surprised if Tennessee does a little somethin-somethin
against Alabama tonight. Alabama is the nation's best team, but the Tide isn't
as good as they have been. And UT might be the best 3-3 team around. ...
And
really, Twitter is about as good a way to avoid being taken seriously as you
can get. It's still ahead of TMZ. ...
Note to
schools with young football programs or soon-to-be young football programs:
it's not automatic.
Georgia
State made a mistake and will not stop paying for it. It blew the
organizational plan and is moving up to I-A before doing anything even respectable
in I-AA.
Nothing's
automatic. Not being in a big market - which is irrelevant in college sports -
or playing in an NFL stadium or hiring a name coach.
Now
they're "name" head coach is retiring, and will likely do so with a
10-23 record at Georgia State.
The
Panthers won't get back to .500 record in my lifetime. ...
A
giggle, courtesy of Reggie Hayes of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel:
"Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard
Sherman gave Patriots quarterback Tom Brady an earful as they were leaving the
field after the Seahawks' upset win on Sunday. His brashness prompted two quick
questions:
"1. Could anyone really
criticize the Seahawks for a little bragging, given their storied tradition of
wins and championships?
"2. Who's Richard
Sherman?"
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