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Yeah, we we did not, did not do great. We have Iowa. The Purdue game, that was the worst because Michigan had the cover and then Purdue with like 11 seconds, That was fucking heartbreaking because my entire day, I could have made-up the rest of a shitty day on that and then just became like an ultra shitty day. So we will not speak of last Saturday again and we will move on. I know you asked me right before we started. I saw Victor Wimbunyama this week. It was awesome.
Slender Man, the Slender Man, yeah, I saw him and he he did not have his best game. I was shocked that he played because he played the night before, had a really good game against it was in San Antonio for who they were playing. But he had a he had 3838 points. And I was like, well, there's no way he's playing a back-to-back like the Spurs are the ultimate like rest guys, you know, load management team. But he played like he was. We get there with my wife.
I'm like, I'm searching Twitter like I don't see any, you know, women yamas out. His name's on the scoreboard and I'm like, I'll believe it when I see it and I saw it and he's, he's a sight to behold, man. It's something else. I know on the broadcast Buckner was talking about how he looked so gas and was like the second quarter and he did look kind of gas. So Pacers scored what, 154 points in that game or something. So you got to see a lot of points, 152.
Yeah, it was. I mean, the rest of that team is pretty garbage and when Midiama was pushing, did not look great in that game. But you you saw things like he had a block of, I know Isaiah Jackson blocked him. I think he also blocked Isaiah Jackson. He had a block of a Pacer where he just like put it against the backboard and then just like pulled it back back down. Just like just unbelievable stuff in transition.
Just you know 7-4 just pulls up for a sweet 3 pointer like had it between the legs, lay up like there's just some stuff I've not seen before there. There's like glimpses like every game he does something where it's like this dude is special. He just means he's 19. He's got to bulk up like Obi
Toppin was. We have nice seats kind of down in the corner and on every three free throw like Obi Toppin just love like pushing him out of the way and like he just he's got to get some bulk in them because guys just are going at him. But it was it was fun to watch. Guy, could you imagine what Land beer would have done to that poor son of a bitch? Oh, elbow right in the face. Elbow right to everywhere. Yeah, I would have just shoved him out. Lamb beer is like it's. Lamb beer.
Charles Oakley. This guy wouldn't have lasted 10 seconds in the post in the 80s. Yeah, I it's it's a fairpoint. Anthony Mason, like just him against the the 93 Knicks, would have been wild. Dale and Anthony Antonio Davis from the Pacers did a bit of a. Elbowing themselves, Yeah, Lamb Lamb Beer is 1 where it's like he's so of an era.
Like I I think, you know, like it's like it's tough to compare eras but like, you know, if George Mike can play today, it's like, yeah, he'd have a different type of game. And I'm sure Kevin Durant could go back and play in the 40s and 50s. But like, Lamb Beer is one of those where it's like, I just don't.
I don't know how his skills translate anything else but the era he played in. Oh, he had that wonderful top of the key three pointer where he'd, like, put the ball over his head with like, both hands and like, shoot from on top of his head. Like almost. It was the most bizarre looking thing, but it went in. Yeah, it's that's it does. So. All right. Well, people are here for football talk. We got another week of big 10 lines to go through. We will save the noon IU game
for last, the noon section. But of the 1st, 2 noon games, let's go with the big one first, man. We got Michigan, Spygate. It's it's spying season, everyone. Like you said, man, it's such a nothing burger now. Like every you know, Purdue gets all high and mighty and then suddenly they look like they're stealing signals like it's it's all it's a stupid rule. I could care less about it, but either way, Michigan is at Penn State. Michigan comes in as a 4 1/2
point favorite. Let us just take a moment to remember the words of the great Jerry Tarkanian 9 out of 10 guys are cheating. The other ones in last place. So I love the Michigan Wolverines to cover this 4 1/2. I actually think that's really low and generous for the betters. I've seen both these teams play multiple games and one of them looks like the best team in the country and the other looks like a middling Big 10 team. And so I'm going to take Michigan and I'll lay the four
and a half. I think they went by a touchdown. I I agree with you, man. I really do. I think this is Franklin has a just horrific record against like top ten teams. He's really good at being the best of the middle teams in the Big 10. He's just not good at those elite level. This is not a game that normally James Franklin's able to get his team to win.
Absolutely, Yeah. Now they will have, they do have a nice home field advantage there, but I don't think that's going to bother Michigan. That's a. That's a. Veteran team who's played the huge games before, they played a loud environment. I mean, they went to the horse playoffs last. Year. Yeah. I mean, so I don't think Beaver Stadium is going to scare them. I I really like Michigan in this game. All right, we have Maryland at Nebraska. I have a question for you, James.
So Maryland is a 2 1/2 point favorite going into Nebraska. I swear to God, every week I think Nebraska loses. Like, I look at the scoreboard. It's like, man, Nebraska's bad. They're five and four. How'd they get to be 5 and four? Like, I know they there's five wins in there that I haven't seen, but it feels like Nebraska loses every week. So I I want to officially put that under review with a big 10. Like, let's see if we can do some advanced scouting and see
what's wrong with that. It's just every week it feels like, man, Nebraska sucks, but they're five and four, but they're still not good enough to be a favorite at home. Maryland is a 2 1/2 point favorite. Yeah, Maryland's kind of collapsed here down the stretch. Nebraska, here's how they do it. Their defense is pretty good and they're well coached football team. Their offense is not very good, but the defense has been good enough to keep them in and and the offense just good enough to
just put up enough points. I don't think that's going to be enough against Maryland. I'm going to stay away from this, but if I were to bet it, I would like Maryland -2. All right. Last week Indiana crushed you. They not only covered, they won the game. You could have gone Indiana money line. As we both know, we are in playoff mode, my friend. It's the playoffs, Tom Allen playoff mode. But there is, you know it. It all continues to go downhill.
And what I mean is that as you look at the last four opponents, I think they kind of go in you know Wisconsin was the toughest. I think Illinois at Illinois is going to be the the 2nd toughest. And then you could debate you know Michigan State and Purdue or both of their own, they're both dumpster firing themselves to see who could be the biggest dumpster fire. But it's it's downhill.
I mean you we we joke. They get through this and there's a real path to Detroit and whatever the the the Detroit Quicken City Loans Bowl or whatever it is. But you got to get through this one first. Indiana comes in as a 6 1/2 point underdog going in to Champaign. I would just like to say I would love a bowl game in Detroit. I would actually attend that one because it's not a too far drive for me. Stay at the casino, do some gambling. That'd be a good little bowl game right there.
So don't knock a Detroit bowl game I would go to. It's the day after Christmas like it's it's AI. Honestly, if they yeah. If they win. If Indiana wins out and goes close to, I think it's the Quicken Loans Bowl or if they go to that one in Detroit, I'd probably be going. OK. Well, we'll make a pack then. We'll do that. If they, if they make the bowl game, we'll head there. However, I don't think they're going to win, I guess Illinois, which they kind of have to do, right.
So I mean, I don't think that's going to happen. Now will they cover the six and a half? I think they might do that. But I don't think they're going to win this game. How about we let's do this, James, let's put it right now on on the pod. If if Indiana makes it, we we we have hope. That's all we have now is we have hope ahead of us.
If Indiana gets there and wins the next three and goes to Detroit, you know, assuming that the Rose Bowl and the Peach Bowl don't want Indiana, they they pass on us as a six and six team. If we go to Detroit the day after Christmas, I I think you and I should go and we should have a live taping of Crimson cash and then we just do the rest of the bowl picks for the rest of that season. We we pick up spot like a pick a spot in Detroit.
We'll go to a casino somewhere, just do a live show and anybody wants to join can come see us. I love, love, love that idea. We'll make it happen. But the Hoosiers have to do their part. Yes, they do nothing. Nothing could be more sad than two podcasters and a couple of other degenerate gamblers in Detroit the day after Christmas to watch a six and six IU football team probably lose. So that would maybe be the saddest live podcast event.
But we have to pick a like it almost has to be like in a Waffle House, where we have to fix somewhere really sad and depressing. We'll just go to the blackjack tables that'll that'll cure all our woes, yeah, yeah. Luke Altmire may not play for Illinois in this game and he's he's battling some stuff so that could kind of affect things. But Illinois has been kind of plucky. They went up to Minnesota and won that game. Now they were like I think A2 point dog, but they went up
there and won outright. The over under on this thing's at 44. I like the over. I used been averaging 22 points a game the last two contests and Illinois. Has not been awful offensively the last couple weeks as well, so I think the over is in play here and I think that's probably the best bet on this game. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the over and I'm going to root for points so that I don't have to root against my Hoosiers. That's fair.
I don't know why this team I've not. Felt crappy last week. I just want to go on record. It felt real crappy last week. Like I felt I felt good that they won. I felt bad about losing the money. But I felt shitty, you know? I'm like, oh man, so you don't don't bet against your team. It's tough. I feel like a bad fan. Yeah. And a bad better like two of the worst thing. Yeah and a bad better. I've not bet IU football mostly this season just because I
can't. I can't get a handle on this team and the handles that I have where I'm not sure they're good. I I did bet the Maryland one. But I just. I don't. I'm like you. I don't like Betty against my team. I I would say that the the vibes this team gives me, I don't know which way it's going to go, but I would say you either bet Indiana money line or you bet Illinois to cover it. Just for some reason it doesn't feel like if we're going to lose, it feels like we lose by 14 or not going.
To be a field goal game, it just doesn't feel like I I don't feel like we lose those games this year. We either lose and we lose by a lot or we're going to win. They just that's that's my feel like if we're close it just doesn't feel like we're going to I don't know it feels like if we're going to lose we're just going to fall apart.
So I just that that that would be my take is depending on how you feel on IUI would just go straight money line or go with Illinois in the points or to cover? Or take the over or take the over. That's fair. One, one note about their remaining three games. If you were to go through and pick the three Big 10 teams you wanted to play the most, we've got two of them probably on that list.
Yeah, maybe. I would say we probably swap out Illinois with Northwestern. But I I would think Michigan State and Purdue would be on the list. However, I would conversely say if any of those teams were looking at a three-game stretch and could pick any team, IU is probably also on their list. So just something to think
about. That's something Galen has said to me. Multiple times this year is like Michigan State also gets to play Indiana like that's there was a reverse of it and and I would also say this is just you know every year is different. Every team is different, but there are kind of, you know, threads that go through just you and I have both been IU fans for quite a while. We both went to IU games. We both went to IU. When's the last time you remember?
We had a four-game stretch where it's like, Oh well, two of those are gimmies and then we do what we're supposed to do. Like we actually run the table and win. All of the five went out to do that. It just hasn't happened very much at all in IU. Like I was talking to Galen last night and we, I think it was the the Wilson year. We went to the Pinstripe Bowl in like 2016 or 2015. Like we we won out the last
couple games of that season. But there's been very few times where it's like, oh, like you know it now it gets easy and all we got to do is win. The games are supposed to like we just we don't. We don't historically do that. Yeah, and we're not supposed to win these games either. I mean, we're almost a touchdown. So, you know, I mean, you're that's a great point. It's not like this is a Gimme. It's like I just got to get through champagne and it's super easy.
It's like we are a 6 1/2 point underdog in the game. All right, man, I'm God, I'm almost ready to take the handcuffs off. Because last week if you would have bet the under on the Iowa game you would have won and Vegas saw and they went lower again. You have Rutgers at Iowa. Iowa somehow has the the lowest over unders in the in the world. They're ranked 22nd in the country. They're seven and two.
They're a. They're also a one point favorite at home to Rutgers but they're ranked 22nd and but the over under for this game is 28 1/2. Like I I want to know your your pick for this game. But I also want to know like is is Iowa trying to see if they can get Vegas? Like can you get a game under 20? Like can we do an over under at 19 1/2 for a like Division One college football game? This is now the new lowest total in the history of college. Until next. Week.
I know we said that. Who do they play next? I know we said that last week about Iowa. I know we said that the week before about Iowa. So three weeks in row, they've set the lowest line in the history of college football. You know what they did the previous two times they have, they have Illinois at home next week they could do it again. Sorry, go ahead. They've gone under every single one of those times.
They against Northwestern last week, they scored less points than the Cubs and Reds did in a game earlier this year. OK, so I'm begging you, Scott, please let me take the under here. Take it. You know what? It's it's too much fun. Do it. Let's let's go under here. I I'm even going to bet it. It's too much fun. All right, so under 28 1/2, I'm going to bet that too. We'll both be miserable next week when Iowa goes wild. By the way, look at the rest of their games.
So next week they have Illinois and then they have hold on Week 13 they have Nebraska and then that's it. I mean, those are not powerhouse offenses either. Like this could continue to. If they play another 10-7 game, this would continue to go down. Oh yeah, which is just bananas, like 20 1/2 for a team that's ranked. They're ranked. It's what they do though. I mean, that's what they want to do. No, it really is. All right. Northwestern at the reeling. Wisconsin Badgers.
Wisconsin is a 10 point favorite at home. Boy, they look bad, didn't they? They did not. They were missing. Braylon Allen. I think Braylon Allen would have made a huge difference, but what I didn't understand is why the hell did they get so pass happy. I know the guy. They can't pass. I think they could. I think they could have ran all over us. So I mean. They're going to continue to do that. I don't have a lot of faith in them to cover a double digit
spread. I mean, Northwestern is not great by any stretch of the imagination, but they've won a couple conference games already, you know. So I'll take the Wildcats plus 10. OK Next up we have Minnesota going to Purdue. Purdue. There you go, boys. Purdue's a favorite at 2:00 and 7:00. They're a one point favorite at home. Good job boilers. It had to have been that touchdown with 11 seconds left that pushed them from being underdogs at home to favorites. Sons are bitches.
Give me the Gophers to win out right here, OK? I like it. Finally. What would you say the line was? One I got one Purdue. One point favorite. Nice. Yeah, that's a that's like a that's Vegas being. Like, I just got to have a favorite. If you can't have a pick up, I'm like, we'll give a favorite. Like who cares? Finally you have Michigan State at Ohio State. Nice to see Michigan State in
the Indiana line zone. They are a 31 1/2 point underdog going into Columbus. Wow, that seems like a huge line. We haven't seen one of these in a while in a non Indiana. Purdue game. We're not Michigan game. Really. I know. Because Ohio State hasn't had one of these this year, one of these kinds of spreads and they haven't been putting up those kinds of points either. They haven't. I'm going to take 31 1/2 here.
I it's just a lot of points I kind of agree with you all right to some of our favorite non Big 10 teams we have. Colorado is hosting Arizona. Colorado the shine is off man four and five. They are a 10 1/2 point underdog hosting the. Wildcats, yeah, I I had them at 10. I got the over under 54 1/2. I like the over here and I like the Wildcats to cover. OK, last one. We have USC Washington's off this week. We have. No, no. They're not. No, they're not. My bad.
My bad. Oh yeah, the game of the week. I would edit it out, but I don't want to. I just. I flew right by Amanda logo. I missed it. You're right. Utah is at Washington. It is the game of the week. Washington, man. They're hosting Utah and they are a nine and a half point favorite over under is 50. That looks juicy. What you got? Yes, I love, love, love, love, love The over here. Like, I can't tell you how much I love the over here at 50. I think that's a real juicy number.
And I like Utah getting almost 10 points on the road. And Utah, they're they'll give up some points, but they'll score some points, too. They got a pretty good ground attack. I think they'll stick with them. It'll be similar to that Southern Cal kind of game. But I really like the over on this one. I do, too. So you like you like Utah and the over? Yes. All right. Next like Utah to win. Utah. Yeah, Utah. Plus the points and the over you. Would you paralyze those together?
I would not be shocked if Utah wins this game. OK, last one they do. They go. They go around and spoil every PAC 12 team season. They just go from team to team, spoil their season and end up winning the PAC 12 championship. I hope not. I'm rooting for panics as I think we all are. We have AUSC going to Oregon. USC is a 15 point underdog going to Oregon. What you got There's going to be a lot, a lot of points scored in this game. The over under is at 75, that's like 3 Iowa games.
So, but I think the over probably hits 15. I mean who knows? I I think Oregon probably does cover that though, because USC has proven they cannot stop anybody at any time doing anything. Kale Williams can score, though, so, but I think they'll be stopped enough times that Oregon takes this thing. 75 over Wild, Wild over Under, Yeah, I think that one, that one's there just to tempt you into taking it because it'll probably be a, you know, a 4235 type game, you know, and then then you hit.
So that's what you're banking on. So on this one, if you're betting the total, we'll get like the teen total touchdowns numbers and just kind of see where those shake out at before you bet on this total. The spread, like I said, I think Oregon probably covers that, but I would bet it down. All right. What's your parlay of the week? OK. So we're going to tease the Washington, UT total. We're going to take that down to 44. I think that's probably a no brainer right there.
And then we're going to take Arizona and we're going to tease that down to four. And so we got Arizona -4 against Colorado. We've got Washington, UT total over 44. And then our big 10 one, we're going to take the Iowa total and we're going to bump that up to 34 1/2. And I think that we're probably going to be safe on that. That's like 2 Iowa games, so. I like everything you just be in like parlance is like how many Iowa games is this? We consider that like a 13 point
football game total. Like, I don't know. I don't know what the Iowa number is. Is it a 15 point game? That sounds like something Kirk Ference would like. Anything less than Let's keep it under 15, boys. 14 to 10, that's a good win, he said. His favorite win ever was three to two, so. That's that sounds like him. There's no line for the Indiana Army game. I was looking for that one, although we do have tonight, I think it's University of Southern Indiana. Or is that Michigan State?
USI. Michigan State plays SIU. Southern Illinois? It's. I don't know. It's showing USI on mine. Well, Southern. Indiana, Indiana. Against Michigan State. I'm just curious, just I'm throwing this at at the wall here, Michigan State, who lost their first game. I don't think USI is as good as James Madison, but they are a 31 1/2 point favorite. Do you think they get it right and win by? That's a lot for them to win by For a team 41 for 20 from 3.
Yeah, I don't think they're going to need to shoot any threes. I think they'll probably just be able to do whatever they want against this kind of team. Yeah. Is this team D1? Because they may not even be AD one team, I'm not sure, so I don't think that's too much to ask, especially after losing to James Madison. I got a feeling some players are going to show up tonight. I would agree, but 31 1/2 is a lot to a lot to figure out on. Yeah, but Can you imagine the
defense they're going to play? I'm sure Izzo was on their asses. I would agree. This is why they may put the clamps down I. Don't know. We'll see if they're actually good. I don't. Know anything about them? I need to look at it. Alright, I want to end, I want to end with this for anybody going Yeah well I just know it's a lot of, that's a lot of points to cover man. I mean it you know it's for team that just lost at home that's a lot of points to cover.
But I got to see who they're playing. I want to end with this just anybody who's going to the Empire Classic. I got my tickets through IU and they just. I can't believe this is real, the way we're actually doing things these days, but I got an e-mail. From Indiana yesterday that I will be getting my tickets. They will be being delivered to me. But I said look out for two
separate emails. This has to be the way Madison Square Garden does it because it obviously is not the way Indiana does it. Thank God my dad was not getting these tickets at 93. Thank God he's still alive, which is great, but it's like he would he would never have figured this out. You are you are going to receive this is Indiana. I'm reading the the e-mail by the end of business. On Friday the 10th you will receive 2 emails from Madison Square Garden that will include
links to accept your tickets. But these emails will not come from Madison Square Garden. The tickets for Sunday's games will come from David Salatan and Monday will come from Mike Osmusen. They will be stated as the sender. Please recognize these emails. They are legitimate and follow the directions to accept. So it's like, why is Madison Square Garden not just give me the tickets? Why is it David Salatan and Mike
Osmondson? For my time working in IT security, I would have advised you not to click on any links associated with those names. No, I know, But I I got them. Those are the people that delivered them to me. It's like I was talking to somebody last night. It's like I I think the mob just bought a bunch of tickets and like, I use like, hey, we got some donors. Like, you got any wise guys? We got tickets to get rid of. It could be like, you know, like the league ability, legal,
legal. Legality, legality of scalping tickets or ticket transfers in different States and New York, I'm guessing is different because like you always see on movies, like scalpers are always like, hey, hey, you know, like they're hidden in like an alleyway in New York and it's like, nobody cares, Just walk them and sell your damn ticket in downtown Indy, you know, it's, you know, so that could be it. They could, but these aren't scalloped. These were.
I bought these through IU like these are I US tickets to sell to their fans. Anyway it's just it's it's more of a funny thing. It's just like it's a wild I'm sure knowing I use fan base is not you know is seems to skew older. I'm sure that the number of calls the IU ticket office was high and the number of people who are going to go to Madison Square Garden without tickets or
like not having it down. There's have the e-mail and other tickets like it's it's going to be I feel bad just get your tickets on your phone people. Make sure you got it loaded. Oh, no, old people are making that trip to New York City. You don't think so? Yeah, you're probably right. No, that's a young man's trip. I'm going. I'll be there. Well, with with some exceptions I guess. Yeah, it's a man 's trip. That's fair. All right. Well, James, hey, it was
awesome. I'm looking forward to some Iowa and I'm. I'm happy we took our handcuffs off. I just we're going to ride it. And if they if it goes lower every week, we can keep betting Iowa unders. And then we'll see what our Hoosiers give to us at Illinois on Saturday. Yeah, go Hoosiers. I'm drinking the kool-aid. So I'm, you know, I'm going to try and be less pessimistic. That's what I decided. This team didn't give up. I thought they were going to give up.
I thought they were going to fold and they didn't. And good for them. So let's go. I agree. Now finish it off. So as always, thank you guys for listening. Got a couple weeks left. We're in the home stretch here. But for James, this is Scott for Crimson Cash signing off.