Listen, we’ve a lot going on so we don’t have time for commentary, but we’re providing our picks. Pay attention to them.
Florida International +7 casual
UConn -3 casual
Rutgers +14 casual
Colorado State +17 casual
UTEP +11′ casual
Marshall +28 casual
UCLA +3′ casual
Hey! We’ve been traveling over the past week and had connectivity issues while we were out. Here are tonight’s and tomorrow’s games. We’ll update our standings later.
Good luck!
Thursday
7:30pm Georgia Tech +10′ nominal
8:25pm Patriots +1 nominal
Friday
7:30pm Eastern Michigan +3 solid
8:00pm TCU -20 casual
9:00pm Southern Cal +3 nominal
We felt good about Ole Miss until they went on a turnover binge. Not sure if FSU just got them that flustered, if it manifested itself among the team. All in all a solid week. We felt good about a few more games than we had the courage to move into the Solid category, but this early in the season we’re still feeling things out.
The NFL Season kicks off Thursday. This is shaping up to one of those rare instances our own football opinion will go against our betting opinion. We’ve been quite good about being objective in our analysis, but we feel strongly that Carolina is a better team than Denver. Unfortunately so doesn’t much of the public. The line is currently Carolina -3 and it may go further. We’ve not taken an official stance yet, though, so time to come to our senses.
The way we’re leaning on NFL Sunday’s picks, readers are likely to roll their eyes, so our Thursday pick is important in keeping our credibility. We hope to make our Thursday pick by tomorrow night. Stay tuned!
We’ve a slew of games over the next few days. We’ve plenty of leanings in games from a casual perspective, but only a couple we feel strongly about. In analyzing ourselves over the past year, we’ve refined out techniques to operate on quality rather than quantity.
We showed this in only choosing five NFL games Sunday and winning four of them. We also said to load up on Baylor and were vindicated.
Here is what we suggest coming up:
Thursday 4pm Oklahoma Sooners -3′ (moderate bet)
Saturday 6:45pm Texas Christian Horned Frogs PK (moderate bet)
We actually would lean heavier on TCU than Oklahoma.
We understand there are a bunch of games begging to have some action, so here is a list of our casual leanings – for entertainment purposes only.
Notre Dame +6′, Oklahoma State +7, Kansas State +13
Happy new year!
*******UPDATE****** 8:20am EST on 12/31
Trevone Boykin, QB TCU, was arrested last night. If he doesn’t play in the game, that changes everything. If you’ve already bet on TCU, you may still have time to hedge before there is a line change. You could bet Oregon now while it is still a pick and if Boykin doesn’t play, you can wait until TCU is getting about 2′ points and then take them. You might hit in the middle and hit both ways. We do think TCU can still win this game without Boykin, but we can’t predict the psychological impact his loss would have on the team. Of course, TCU could do the “innocent until proven guilty” and allow him to play.
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