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you to drink responsibly and go Hoosiers James 1st Rd. game how you doing So I got it. I'm going to cut you off before I even let you talk. I'm walking into the stadium yesterday, last week for the game with my family and just I, I, I guess 'cause we do some of these on video, although I don't always post on video 'cause I'm not great with that. And I'm also loud and my voice is maybe recognizable.
I'm just talking to my family. Walking up to Memorial Stadium, literally a guy across the way, just like, hey, man, hey Scott, they just put the line out for the game. It's 42 1/2. And I was like, what? He's like, I was just listening to you and James and Crimson Cash. It's like you're talking about the line. It's out. What are you going to do over under? And it's just like, I love all of this. I can and I'm probably still not going to bet because I'm scared.
And the little that I know, I you would basically cover by halftime. That's just fantastic. I love to hear it. So people are listening, people are are loving it, they're saying hi. It's awesome. I look forward to hopefully people saying hi. And when we're out in LA, you, you will not be there, but I will. I will send the love. So anybody has anything that they want to say to James, say to me and I'll pass it on to you next week. Oh, you're muted.
You're. From Indiana to Pasadena, I think we've got a movie right here. Smokey and the Bandit 4. Hold on. All right, talk again. Somehow your mic cut out there for a second. I was saying so, OK, imagine this. You get you get to Pasadena, right? And there's no game day logger to be found. So you've got to get a truck full of game day logger driven from Indiana to Pasadena in time for kickoff. We've got ourselves smoking the band at 4 right there. That's great.
Or it's like a cannonball run. Like you Dom Deloise, you get in the ambulance. It's like just James trying to make it to Pasadena in 12 hours. Let's go. I'm so happy that you made me Burt Reynolds and not Don Bellowies, so that I thank you for that, Scott. Yeah. No, no, no. Or I could make you I think. It's like, oh, you and Burt Reynolds heading to and I'm like, whoa. Or I could have put you in you Terry Bradshaw.
And the monkey wasn't like their one where like they they were in the back seat and the monkey was driving in the front seat. I think that was Cannonball Run too. Was that Cannonball Run 2? It was one or two. I mean I, I, I remember lots that was so in the days of me being way too young to have HBO at my house.
But like 8687 watching cannonball run and cannonball run 2. There is a 2 hot chicks in the Lamborghini Countache driving across there was the the Japanese guy who had like the really cool Subaru with I think Jaws from or he drove with Jaws from from James Bond. I always preferred the laugh Olympics races, the Hanna Barbera version. Of the cannon, no Cannonball Rome was solid. Both of those movies were fantastic. Well, I don't know. Fantastic. Maybe a stretch?
Then you have like the Arab guys and Telly Savalas was in one of them. It's just, it was I, I, I, I'm going to keep them the way I remember. I'm not going to go back and rewatch it because maybe I will. Maybe on the plane to LA, I'll watch it, but I'm going to be probably sorely disappointed when I start watching. Like, man, I thought this was a lot. That was a lot better. OK I'll put some money on that 5
bucks. If you rewatch it, you're going to be disappointed with it. Probably, although maybe not the girls in the Lamborghini, they're pretty hot. All right, let's get to the let's get to the lines. So we have a good number of lines. We're going to save the IU game to last. So let's go with the First off. We have 4th ranked Alabama and Kaylin De Boer going into Wisconsin. Wisconsin scheduling like they're on methadone or something. Like I'm not sure what Wisconsin
is doing scheduling this game. This is so unlike them. We have the Badgers up. They are a 16 1/2 point underdog at home to Alabama. Yeah, I'm going to take the points here, but I don't feel good about it. I I just, I mean, they're, they're tougher at home and they usually slog things up enough to keep it within a three touchdown game. I think that they probably cover this, but I'm not going to bet it. Yeah. I I think this is a a stay away.
Next up you have Arkansas State at Michigan dropping to 17th in the polls. Michigan is a 22 and sorry, 23 1/2 point favorite at home. So here's the thinking most people probably have, oh, Michigan's going to be really upset after that beat down they got and they're going to come out and they're going to put a hurting on somebody, right? And I can see why you might think that, but I think Arkansas State is going to be plucky enough to cover that three
touchdown plus spread. So give me Arkansas State plus the points. Even last year, early in the year when Michigan was rolling, they didn't cover the spread for like I think the first four or five weeks of the season. They have yet to cover a spread this year. So I think that continues this week. I'm watching the Have you watched the Untold doc on Netflix about Michigan? No, all right. Is that the Connor Stallion thing? It's the Connor Stallion way. I I.
Have no desire to watch that. Well then we I couldn't. I couldn't be less interested. It's he doesn't come off, he comes off very much like Rudy toward Notre Dame, like just just very much like he's way into Michigan, like a high level amount into Michigan. Like Galen and IU. No, like an annoying amount of of Intuit like that. I think we are. We're a good amount of Intuit.
All right. Next stop we have Central Michigan going to Illinois, Illinois 2 and O quietly and also an 18 1/2 point favorite at home. Yeah, I love the Illini here. Same. I I think they're a good football team. The chips just got boat raced. Yeah, give me Illinois. I think they cover that. I agree. All right, Next up we have is Providence. Let's see. It's Providence. The oh, Prairie View, God, they are playing nobody. I knew Michigan State was playing nobody at some point.
All right, Oh, I should have looked at the line. It's 40 1/2. All right, so Michigan is a 40 1/2 point favorite at home. The line is 50. The over under is 50.5 S They they assume like a 10 point spread there for Prairie View. This is a this has got to be a stay away, right? Yeah, don't bet this game people, but if if you have to, I would probably drop the points
there. I'm still not sure Michigan State's good like they're 2. And O. I'm not sure what, but they did win a road game at Maryland and that is that's something. And I watched that game because we had the turtles and they fucked us over. But you know, what Michigan State does is they just throw like crazy, like ball amount of balls deep down the field and they connect on a field in the game.
And so I I can get the team like Prairie View, I can't imagine they're not going to be able to connect on more than just a few so. So Next up we have Oregon at Oregon State. Oregon State is a 16 1/2 point underdog at home. I also think if you're Oregon State, do you just like you're at home, do you just like throw some Big 10 logos on the field and just try and trick everyone to think like, hey, guys, like we're good. Like, hey, we'll we can play Wisconsin next week.
Like we're good. Like we're just call us a Big 10 game. Like hey, Big 10, we're in. Like if you're Oregon State, you you want this to just be every year and just be like, hey, man, like we're we're good. Like just let us let us in or try and trick your way into the Big 10. They bring a giant inflatable Beaver to next year's Big 10 Media day. Yeah. So in the game, I like the Beavers to cover this spread rivalry game and whatnot.
Yeah. Next up we have a Nevada going into Minnesota. It feels like Minnesota never plays Rd. games in the pre season in the in the pre conference schedule. Feels like they just never play Rd. games and again they're at home. They are a 17 1/2 point favorite man, it's bad lines this week. 17 1/2 point favorite at home. Over under a 43 1/2 on this.
I'm going to take the under. I think Minnesota probably gets out to a comfortable lead and then just kind of, you know, does Minnesota stuff and and has a pretty ugly but convincing victory. But I think they probably cover too. But I think the under's the play here. Another game where you have Washington State at Washington does Washington State put the Big 10 logo on their helmet And just like, hey man, this is
great. Like we, we got rivalries like this is a great Big 10 West Coast match up. Like just let us let us stay with you guys. Washington at home is a four and a half point favorite over Washington State. Yeah, another rivalry game here. I believe this is the Apple Cup. Yes it is. I I think so. Or is is Oregon the Apple Cup? No, Washington and Michigan are the apple producing states, right? OK. You're right, you're right. Yeah. So I don't know what Oregon Oregon State is.
Is it the you you talk? I'll look it up it. Probably has something to do with a tree or a logging or something. A paper mill. It's a paper mill roller or something. Yeah, but give me the Huskies to cover here. OK civil war the Oregon Oregon State is the civil. War I'll take, yeah, I'll take them to cover. Oregon, Oregon State is the Civil War. All right, Next up, this is this is a fun game. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to want to watch this
before the IU game. You have Notre Dame, who I one of my favorite things always is a team that pays to lose. Just always love that. Notre Dame also saved Michigan a lot of Flack last weekend where Michigan just got throttled by Texas, but nobody talked about it because you have the Notre Dame law. So it's like Michigan fans are thankful for Notre Dame that their existing. Anyway, Notre Dame coming in still ranked what, 18th in the country? It's like really?
Anyway, Purdue is a 10 point underdog at home. I mean, almost any other big Big 10 team here I think has a real shot. I'm not sure Purdue can get it done, but I'm, I'm curious what you think here. Can Purdue get it done? Can they cover? Can they beat this spray? What do you think? Do we have a train noise or something? I I I have I still have a cat noise. Well, that's not going to work in this case, but what we, I think Purdue actually. We have an airplane.
This, this spread has actually gone down. It was, it came out, I think it started at 11 1/2. So we're down to 10 here. I think Purdue covers. I actually think they could maybe, maybe pull off the upset. Riley and Leonard looked so bad last week. I know. And Purdue's coach, the one thing he's known for is being a defensive backs guy, right?
So I got a feeling if Purdue can stop the Notre Dame run game or at least slow him down enough, I think Purdue has a chance to to win, but I think they will cover. Next up you have the great Man of Troy going into Iowa. Iowa is a 22 1/2 point favorite. The over under because always fun with Iowa. Over Under is 39. Yeah, I'm just going to take the under. Just because it's Iowa. Yeah, that's a safe play.
Speaking of Iowa, I have revisited college football 25 since they've done some software patching and I tried, I tried the road to glory where you're like your own player and you choose what school you want to go to or whatever. And I was a five star quarterback who chose to go to Iowa. So but I'm currently lighting it up. So I, I played them in my dynasty where I'm Indiana and I just kick the living shit out of
them. I beat them like 80 to six like and I was just like, this is this is payback for that 2021 year. Well, the thing I realized about like some of the custom like audio, I think it's so annoying. Like if I have to hear like I was hoping they could ride the wave into the end zone for another touchdown. Like it's like, oh God, I've heard it a billion times.
The audio's bad. Some of the songs they play in like the stadium when you're playing the game is like it's the same 5 songs over and over again. Like there's this one, it's like this just this thumping beat. It's I'm with you. I've I've turned the sound down many a times. Just listen to podcast it's or listen to music. It's it's the audio is not awesome. But anyways, unlike the real Iowa team, my fake Iowa team is scoring points, so we're going to take the under on this Iowa Troy game.
You have you and I at Nebraska. Nebraska now ranked 23rd after beating, I mean I guess a a Division One team in Colorado. They look like garbage. Nebraska is 27 1/2 point favorites. All right, we called that last week. We knew that was going to happen, right? Yep. And I think that they cover this large spread again this week. I think they're starting to get things cooking there. You have EIO at North Northwestern, just just a home
forever now. I guess they just continue to play because they don't have a home stadium. They just get to play at home again, another home team always. Northwestern is a 24 1/2 point favorite at home. Now to be fair, Northwestern, didn't they play in Ireland a couple years ago? To be fair, I think they do, yeah. So, but when you've got a stadium that nice, you really want to show it off, right? So, so I love Northwestern to cover this. I think they will easily easily cover this OK.
Sounds like you think Northwestern's good. No, Eastern Illinois is significantly. Bad. OK, fair enough. Illinois has already played them this year and they beat him like 40 something to nothing. Maryland beat down. Maryland going on the road to Virginia. Virginia is a three-point underdog. OK, I officially hate Maryland. Yeah, they're. They're rough to bet on. And they have a trash defense. I like the over here, even though it's a high number.
Virginia has gone over that number in both their games this year. They like to put up a lot of points. They like to give up a lot of points. So yeah, give me the Over here 57 1/2. I like that. I think that that's like your feels like that's your lock of the week. That's a good bet. I like that one. All right. What could be 6:50 or something, Yeah. Well, that's that's gambling. All right, we come to the the game of the week game that I'm going to game.
Many fans are looking forward to the second Big 10 game of the season, Indiana at UCLA. Think to everyone's surprise, Indiana on the road first time in the Rose Bowl comes in as a favorite. It was 2 1/2 I think it opened at and now it's a 3 point favorite. The sharps are all over the Hoosiers. IU 3 point favorite over under 46 1/2. What a crazy world we live in, Scott. I know. Can you, I mean, we are favored
in a big 10 Rd. game. And I mean, we haven't exactly played the toughest competition yet, but UCLA looked horrible against Hawaii. They did. They've had a week off to work on some things, but IU had a week against a weak opponent to work on some things. And I think that that is probably the preferable situation. I think Kirk Signetti, he is so looking forward to putting a beat down on UCLA. Here's my here's my thing. All right. So like their coach gets, you know, hired like with no
experience, right? He'd he'd never, you know, been a head coach at any level where somebody like Kurt Signetti has busted his ass for decades to finally get to, you know, be a head coach in the Big 10 program. I think he wants to. I think there might be a little extra juice in the tank for this one. So give me the Hoosiers here. I love the Hoosiers to win this football game. I think they win it by a touchdown. So you think we're going to win and cover? I think we can win by double
digits. You're, you're speaking my language and I, I agree, man. I go into this, I, I like everything you're saying. I, I think IU has looked really good and really crisp and I feel like they've held a lot of things back. I think you're, you're seeing glimpses of a expanded playbook last week, but I think you're going to see a lot more when needed against UCLA. But I also could see another situation.
We just run a lot of RPO's that work and it's like we're still going to hold stuff back for for future games. I'm with you. I like the Hoosiers. I like the Hoosiers to cover and watching Maryland and Michigan State basically just like self fight each other and self stab each other and try to both try to piss that game away. I'm I'm looking at a really potential four and O start.
I would not be surprised. Sorry five, sorry five and O sorry 5 and I mess it up. Five and O like I I see us beating UCLAI, we beat Charlotte, we're going to be home to Maryland. I think if all those things go correct, go the way I'm thinking that Maryland game should be a fun atmosphere and then it's like you're going in the northwestern. Why can't you win that? Like, why can't you be 6 and O going into that Nebraska game?
A Nebraska team that I think is good but always kind of feels a little paper Tiger Y. It's I saw it somewhere today that IU has a 12 1/2 percent chance to make the College Football Playoff right now. How crazy is that? It it is, I mean, but there's there's a world and it's something Galen and I have talked about and it it does feel realistic now, especially when you see our competition and you
see how we're playing. We could be 6 and O looking at back-to-back home games against Nebraska and Washington. Which wall are tough games. It's not Ohio State, Michigan, but there's a world where you're like, hey man, we got two games at home. We could be 8, no? All right, we're getting ahead of ourselves. I don't want to. I don't want to jinx anything. What would what would Coach Sig tell us to do? Shut up. We got to stop the pod.
Yeah, focus on you saying no, we and we, we need to go, we need to win that game. So, but I, I think we will, and I think we're going to, I think we're going to cover it. And I, I think that's, this is where the rubber meets the road. And I also think for a lot of, you know, IU fans, there's been some excitement, but this is another one of those kind of points, touch points that IU football has had.
And I guess where I'd say I'm concerned is every time we have one of these touch points, it's like IU screws it up or they, they failed to deliver. And if, you know, we come out and we get throttled by like 17 or 21 points, everyone's going to be like, all right, man. Like they're good against bad teams. They suck against Big 10. Like what what is different? And they would really need to
work to change that narrative. So I'm that's the only thing that worries me is feels like we've been to this point many times in IU football and they never that the Lucy always pulls the football it feels like. I don't see us losing by three touchdowns, that's for sure. Now we could lose the game and I think if we do it'll be a field goal or less, but this, this team doesn't. This seems different. I I agree. I agree this. Sounds different. It it, I think this is
different. I mean, Tom Allen, who we spent many years talking about, was never a college football head coach ever before becoming the head coach at IU. He didn't know what the hell he was doing. We have a guy who actually knows what he's doing and the players are good. I mean, these players we brought in, they're good. These aren't your average IU football players. I mean, we're all loaded.
So, you know, this is different. I'm I'm I refuse to to be all doom and gloom until proven otherwise on this. I agree, I agree with you, it just it'd be if they win this it'd be nice anyway. It does concern me, however, that you and Galen will be at the game. You know, so I know we're we're, but we're changing it. This is this is the year it changes.
This is when it changes. And to be fair, we've only we've only had one recent back football game, the Iowa game where we we didn't do well together and we didn't sit together. We're not sitting together for this one either. But he didn't bring his family. I wasn't with friends. I brought my family. So maybe that's the difference. I bring my family. He doesn't we lose by, you know, 40 points. Maybe he brings his family. I don't. And like we, we're we're going to find the alchemy here at
some. Point Well when you do, that's when we'll we'll know when to zig and zag him back. So. I'm looking at the western that's. The only thing that worries me about putting big money on the Hoosier, so I'm just letting you know that. I'm looking at the Western Michigan line. I don't see the Western Michigan, just their points line, but they are a 32 1/2 point favorite at home over BCU, which I'm assuming is Bethlehem Cookman. Yeah, Bethune Cookman Wildcats.
So, you know, is the play there you go under the 51 1/2, assuming that Walt Bell in the Western Michigan can't get 51 points. Like, like, like they need to get 51 1/2. Like what's the play here? Yeah, that's probably the play. Even when a Walt Bell offense is cooking, it's not going to get you that many points. So yeah, or maybe you just stay away from Western Michigan. This. Week, yeah, but it's like for like, can they cover 32 1/2 point line?
It's like they got to to do that they have to score 33 points. Yeah. It's like every field goal is another one they got. Like, I don't know if they can put that many points up. I don't know how bad Bethune Cookman is. I got a plead ignorant on this one. You're not you're degenerate. You're not a complete degenerate is a fair way to put it. Look, if this were college basketball, we'd be having a
different conversation. I bet the small schools in college basketball, but not usually in college football. All right, well, James, I appreciate you hopping on. I will catch you next week. Safe travels for for me and I'll pick you up some some oranges while I'm out in the Rose Bowl and I'll get some roses and I'll let you know what it looks like because it sounds like we have a 12% chance of going back there
for the College Football Playoff. 12 1/2. 12 1/2 If if we make College Football Playoff, I think you and I need to go to a game together. Absolutely. All right. Done. Book it alright, man. James, appreciate you hopping on everybody out there. I appreciate you listening if you see if you see me in. Pasadena. This week. Oh yeah. One quick thing. Yeah, we didn't do like any like special pictures. Oh, I'm.
Sorry, I'm sorry you're. Partly we're yeah, we're recording a little early this week. You are yeah. I don't have them all set and everything so make sure to follow along on X. That's at Crimson Cast 260 is the handle and there you can find all of our bets and what we're going to be looking at doing this weekend. Thank you. But we'll be on there, I can tell you that. They should be on everything, I agree.
But yes, if you see me walk around Pasadena, say hi and James and I'll be back next week giving you all the betting advice you need. And so for James, this is Scott for Crimson Cash signing off.