Posted by Johnnymac 1:51 PM
Football Wrapup

This weeks actual wagers:


Texas at RICE -30.5 WIN $5
Texas at RICE -32 WIN $10
(both bets were with the same guy, a Rice alum I work with)

BALTIMORE vs Oakland -13 WIN $25
(see below)

Pickem pool results:

Yahoo College Pickem 11-5-1
(Could have been better, I actually picked against Texas here)


Snyder Pool (before Monday night) 12-3; money picks 3-1 (+ Pittsburgh tonight)


Season results:

College betting: 4-1-0
College pickem pool: 26-11-1
Pro betting: 4-0
Pro pickem ("Snyder") pool: 20-11


Last week's blog picks:


OHIO STATE -30 vs Cincinnati CORRECT
I love it when the #1 team in the country kicks a field goal to cover with 30 seconds left in the game.

TENNESSEEE +3.5 vs Florida CORRECT
Now the Vols have shown up twice as home dogs.

Nebraska +19 at USC CORRECT
This one worked out OK but not the way I thought. USC pretty much dominated but never put NU away. For what it's worth, the clock rules helped a lot here, as did the USC holding call in the 4th quarter that took them out of field goal range.

Miami +4.5 at LOUISVILLE INCORRECT
I completely totally and utterly missed this one. Louisville's offense must be pretty good - they won this going away with their backup RB's and backup QB.

TCU +1.5 vs Texas Tech CORRECT
I would say I nailed this one, my brother would say that Tech is just a lot worse than an overrated TCU team. Regardless, it's going to be a long season in Lubbock if all they can manage is 3 points in a game, even against (what I still think) is a quality opponent.



Pro:

MIAMI -6.5 vs Buffalo INCORRECT
Daunte Culpepper is terrible. I don't know what else to say. I am still waiting on the Pittsburgh game tonight, but I would venture a guess that this one cost me the weekly money in the Snyder Pool.

BALTIMORE -12 vs Oakland CORRECT
One of the easiest picks ever: the raiders are a terrible team with a terrible coach who was playing against a reborn Baltimore defense in a 1:00 game on the East Coast. Puh-leeze. This was also my suicide pick this week.

ATLANTA -6 vs Tampa Bay CORRECT
Michael Vick seems to be in the groove right now and the Bucs are struggling. I was iffy on this one since Tampa always seems to bring out the worst in Atlanta, but this game didn't hold to form.

INDIANAPOLIS -13.5 vs Houston CORRECT
The Texans are terrible and nothing has changed. Indianapolis had covered the spread by the time 4 minutes had passed in the first quarter.

This brings up a good question - just why the hell are there still so many damn-fool people running around Houston with their Texans flags and jerseys and bumper stickers and going to games and getting all riled up about a 4 year old team that is terrible and always has been terrible save a 4-1 stretch two seasons ago? I just don't get it. Until that team actually wins something, anyone who claims to be a Texans is an idiot and a corporate stooge. The first year was fun - I even liked the Clay Walker song, myself - and there was a lot of cathartic release of all of the pent-up anti-Oilers misery that people seemed to have been holding, but that was four years ago and we still have people like this stupid wench acting like the Texans are the greatest thing since instant replay. What the hell? There is plenty of other good football out there that you could be watching, you don't have to be a slave to the hometown team.

(And to be honest, I kind of feel that way about ANY sort of fan-devotion to any single team in pro football - good or bad - under most circumstances (college is a different story), but I'll save that rant for another day)


And tonight's game:

Pittsburgh +1.5 at JACKSONVILLE
Last Thursday Pittsburgh was receiving points. I liked that as did apparently every single football bettor ("punter" for those of you in Dallas) in the universe. So the line has been moving and is currently at Jacksonville +3. I still like Pittsburgh there, but I think it's a 4 point game. If it were to get to 4.5 or better, I would probably jump on the Jaguars and hope to find the middle. I don't think Vegas will take it that far, but considering how much action they are apparently still getting on the Steelers, you never know.

One final thing: As far as game watching, I was devastated by Bobby Ross's brain fart at the end of the Aggie-Army game - how sweet it would have been to have seen the all time greatest College Station meltdown of all time had the Aggies somehow succeeded in giving it away. I even managed to get myself banned from Texags during the middle of that game for pointing out that the game was "Real Army" against "Just-pretend Army", and that brought up a good point: like, if I were in the Corps at A&M and went around playing army and flinging poo, I think it would be more than just a little embarrassing to go into the Alamodome and sit next to REAL cadets in the REAL army. Wouldn't you be ashamed? And even beyond that, wouldn't you be scared of getting your ass kicked? I would. And yet, here were the Aggie Turds in there acting like their usual turd selves oblivious to the guys sitting next to them in the stands. Unbelievable. But that's just Aggy being Aggy, I guess. And even better, the spread on that game was A&M -27.5 and they won by just 4, and yet, when it was over those morons rushed the field like they had upset the 1986 Chicago Bears and Fran was interviewed saying, "this kind of game is just what these kids needed." Yeah, struggling against a weak team in an almost-home game and holding them off at the end because the other coach just happened to be dumber than Fran for once.

Unbelievable, and so disappointing.

1 Comment(s):

Posted by  Dr Fro, at 10:17 PM, September 19, 2006  

Padilla told me he is going to kick your butt. True story.

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