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man? How you doing? Hey, how's it going? You look great. You're wearing your IU gear. We're in your basement. This is fantastic. Crimson Cash Central up here. CCCC one. Yeah, it's our first week without IU to bet on. Yeah, and they've been doing great for us. So. But you don't worry, we'll make up for it this. Week, by the way, back to Victoria. Who's your hot streak won again? So we are now back-to-back
weeks. I think because we're doing this all kind of on the fly, I think that we take this week off on the hot streak. So I have a ticker for the hot streak. You can see who's your hot streak in the future if you're watching this on YouTube. We're going to put the picks down here on the bottom. But this week, we don't have a Hoosier game to pick, so you're going to still do, we'll call it a, a hot streak. What? What we're going to call it? Hold on. I have it here. You. You asked.
You asked for it, you you have somebody who asked for something specific. So we're going to have a, an off week choice. Do you have any thoughts on, we're not going to be able to talk about IU because there's no games to pick from. Do you have any thoughts on them going 6 and O and what you saw against Northwestern? Well, we already paid out on our over under bet for the. Season, I know. We got plus odds on that, so that was fantastic. And Fanduel's not making me wait
till the end of the season. They've already paid that out. So nice. Yeah. So really good news there. I took some of the winnings from that and you'll never believe where I put it in Zach Edie, Rookie of the Year. I love that bet. Actually, I like that bet. Yeah. So, so we put a little, we had to wait a while on that one, but it's always nice to have some futures bets in reserve when you've won, you know, especially where I think you're getting really good. Odds nice.
Good job on that. I have a a friend in Bloomington who is friends with some media members and says there was a either press conference, someone with Signet, he was talking to some press and one of the media members is like your team, your team looks pretty good. You guys are not too bad. And Signet, he's like, yeah, he's like all right, we off the record. He's like we're off the record and Signet, he's like we're really effing good. Like just just like we are really effing good.
It's I love the confidence that he has and it's really cool being like, dude, that's that's our guy. Like we got a guy who has quiet confidence. It's great. Of the 10 Big 10 games where a team has gone cross country so far in the conference, teams are one in nine on the road. That one win was IU at UCLA. So. We own the Rose Bowl. We own the Big 10 right now. Look at that. Look at that. Leaderboard first place, baby.
I know. All right, And I just got an e-mail that the Nebraska game is sold out. So so there you go. I'll get the ticket numbers for the rest of the week here in a second, but we'll start looking at some pics. The Northwestern Wildcats going to Maryland to play the Terrapins. Maybe I need a turtle sound. I don't know. I'm I'm not sure what we're doing for Maryland yet, but Maryland is an 11. Football, baby. Yeah, an 11 point favorite at home. Yeah, Northwestern looked kind of plucky.
I like that quarterback of theirs. I know he can move. He can move and I think Maryland's going to have a tough time with that on defense. I think Maryland will be able to move the ball on him, the over under on this I I was tempted to look at the over, but just give me Northwestern in those points. I I think that's too many points. OK. Next up you have Wisconsin, and Wisconsin is going to Rutgers. I got to warn you, Clark, they don't play the same games here
they do at the regular casinos. I loaded the wrong sound. I loaded the wrong sound. Oh gosh, it wouldn't be Crimson Cash if I didn't screw things up. I thought I had. The Sopranos would be. Thought if he didn't screw things up, yeah. Dang it, I thought I had The Sopranos. I got a label buddy. All right, Wisconsin's going to Rutgers. You need to make sure I'm going to pick Rutgers before that. Right. No, no, no. It's for the home team. It's just because they're going to Rutgers.
We're playing the home team sound anyway. Wisconsin is a 2 1/2 point under. Whoa, I'm looking at this for the first time. Obviously Rutgers the 2 1/2 point favorite at home. Wow. Yeah, this one. I don't know what to do with this. This is going to be a good game, very fun to watch. I think if I had to, you know, of course I have to pick here. I'm going to take Rutgers at home, OK? Money line or covering 2 1/2. I'm. Oh, he got so excited he cut out James.
Oh, there you go, you're back. Oh, OK. Yeah, sorry. That was like, that was like the end of Sopranos. You just went dark. Cute. Journey So no, I, I, I don't know what to do here. I don't like this. I don't like it at all. I take him on the money line, but I could be talking to Wisconsin on the money line.
I, I don't know what to make of Wisconsin after last week because they beat the hell out of a shitty football team and Rutgers really stymied Nebraska's offense, but they couldn't get anything moving themselves. I think this is probably like a 17 to 14 type deal, maybe a 16 to 14, you know, something like that. So that's why I don't like that 2 1/2. If you're going to do it, maybe toss Rutgers on a money line. OK. So your pick is Rutgers Money Line. Yeah, OK.
Next up we have Washington coming East, Middle East going to Iowa. Iowa is a lot of a lot of twos and hooks. Iowa is a 2 1/2 point favorite at home. You know, I can't imagine Seattle to Iowa City is any longer than like Seattle to Tucson. You know, like it doesn't seem like that much of a longer flight to me. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but I like Iowa here, Washington, I love Iowa here. Let's put it that this is my favorite Big 10 game of the week.
I think I was definitely going to cover this. Washington is coming off a huge win against Michigan. Teams traveling, as I've mentioned earlier, even though this isn't as much travel, have not done been doing well so far in conference and Iowa has statistically one of the best if not the best rushing attacks in the country and and Washington has shown themselves to be a little suspect to the run.
I think this is a classic Iowa low scoring affair, but I think they control the ball and are able to win by a field goal or more so I love the Hawkeyes here. OK, Next up, two teams that I feel like are in the same ilk. You have Penn State and USC, both kind of like not not the best in the Big 10, not the worst, but always kind of like pretenders to the throne. But you have Penn State going out to LA to play. USCUSC is a four and a half
point underdog at home. I like the over under on this game, so why don't we give that number? 5050, 1/2. I like the over OK I think. There's lots of points. No, No faith in the Tom Allen coach defense of Penn State. That's what it is. I I don't think USC is going to be able to easily stop the Penn State rush attack either. So I think that Penn State will be able to get their points and I think USC is going to get
their points. So this number just seems a little low for me. So I don't like the spread either way on this. If I had to take the spread I'd probably pick USC plus the points, but I like the over better. Next up is a game I'm going to ask two questions about. I want to know your take, but also I have, I have a further long term question about. So we have Purdue at Illinois. Illinois is a 23 point favorite at home against Purdue. Purdue's not good.
This line reflects it because it's not like Illinois for for a mid to mid high team in the Big 10 to be getting 23 at home is wild. My other question is I want you to pick the game, but then we need to discuss what could the line for the bucket game be? And can Indiana beat a 23 point line against like will Indiana be able to get favored by 28 against Purdue when that game comes? Anyway, I I leave you with that a couple a couple ways to go.
Give us your thoughts in the game and then IU Purdue future points possibilities for the bucket. All right, so you're right. You're absolutely right. This is a huge line on the conference game. You know I. And and Ohio State and like Oregon, are not involved. Correct. And I almost always, always say take the points, right? Right. When the head coach admits his team is lousy, yeah, maybe it's time to give some points. Another side note, do a little further digging on this.
Do you know what happened last year when Purdue played Illinois? I don't remember. Purdue boat raced him 44 to 19. OK. So a little a little payback here. Who's the coach at Illinois? Oh, you're right. It's. Yeah, that's big, old fat breast. There's nothing he loves more than run up the score. And I guarantee he has a grudge. And his former defensive guru is now the coach at Purdue, right? Yep. Though I think he wants to go and I think he's going to put a beat down on the Boil.
I don't think there's anything to do about it. The over runner on this game, Illinois may hit themselves 40. 8 1/2. Oh, that easily. They could hit that themselves. I think they could put up 49 points in this game because I think they're going to be have a desire to do so. So what do you think about our line against Purdue? Can we, can we get, are we going to be favored by more than 23? That's going to depend on some factors, all right, If we are undefeated going into that game.
That beat them, then we beat Ohio State. Like we could be ranked number one in the country. That's insane. And we'll be over 23 1/2 point favorite. I think if we. There's one scenario where that OK. If we're 11 and one, I think we're a 27 point favorite. If if we're if, if we are 10 and one going into that game, sorry, 10 and my guess would be 27 1/2. Yeah, I think a. Less person who finds some magic between here and there.
Even 9:00 and 2:00, if we put up a game against Michigan and it's really close and then we just, we don't get completely annihilated. Ohio State, I think we we could be a higher line than this because theoretically we'd probably still be ranked above where Illinois is right now. That is true, but you also have to remember they do price some of that into rivalry games. OK, Yeah.
On a rivalry game you might not get as big a odds just because some of that is priced in. So here's a game that's calling out to you and saying, James, how dare you say this is not the game of the week in the Big 10, Ohio State and Oregon. Ohio State is a 3 1/2 point favorite going in to Oregon. What are your thoughts? What did I say was the game of the week you. Rutgers, not this one. Yeah. Wisconsin and Rutgers was it? No, it was it, It was Washington, IA.
Washington, IA was the game. You said that's. My pick of the week. That's the game I love. I can't. I'm putting money on that. OK, right. So back to Ohio State, Oregon. What's the line? What line do we have right now? I I show Oregon as a 3 1/2 point underdog at home. OK, I think Ohio State wins this game. Yep, I think Oregon covers. OK. Oh, you're going, you're going right up the middle, like right, You're threading that I. Think 3 point game. I think these teams are super close.
If I'm taking things, I'm going to take those 3 1/2 points because you get 3 1/2 points and Oregon winning. So you know that in the home team they're not trash. I'm very curious to see how their rush attack holds up against Ohio State's defense, who to me is the best defense I've seen all season. Their defense is stout. So. And then they're going to put pressure on you too because they're they're going to score. And I think Oregon will give up some points to them.
So I think this is going to be kind of a maybe a higher scoring game. But I I 3 1/2 points, I don't know. These teams are pretty evenly matched talent wise. And then so it comes down to coaching only either coaches or, you know, Belichick. So we'll probably see somewhere, it's a field goal somewhere here and there. And, you know, this is a late afternoon game at Austin State. Yeah. The crowd's going to be fired up. Game day is going to be there I'm guessing.
I I don't know where game. No, that's probably, they'll probably be at Texas, Oklahoma. Yeah, Somebody be there. Big new kickoff. Somebody's going to be. Yeah, I'm sure, because this is 2 top six teams. So this is going to be a fun game to watch. All right, last one. Are they going to break this one? More note on that, Yeah, I hope Ohio State just wears their normal damn uniforms. You know, leave the wacky shit for Oregon. You know, Ohio State, that's scarlet and Gray.
It's a good look. It's a really good. I don't go fucking around with it. That said, they're probably going to wear black. Well, I don't know, or Oregon will wear something stupid. So they probably can wear any color that's not like fuchsia or, you know, or yellow. Last one, are they going to break the streak of teams going West? It's Minnesota going to UCLA, another team that could be hot garbage. UCLA is a four point underdog at home against Minnesota. Last I checked on this, the over
under was at 40 1/2. That it went down to 39 1/2. Excellent take the over people. This guy, do you think so? Yeah, I think so. I think Minnesota will be able to move the ball on him because everybody has moved the ball on UCLA, right? And UCLA is scrappy enough to get a few points of their own against Minnesota's defense. I think this will be a lot like the USC Minnesota game, quite honestly. But I think Minnesota will score more. I think Minnesota probably
covers. So if you're looking at the the spread on this one, I think the Gophers probably do cover that. And if you're going to toss it in a teaser, I do love the Gophers in a teaser here. Speaking of teasers, we're not going to be able to do the who's your hot streak because I use off this week, but we have the give us your your take, your you asked for it. Tell us what somebody asked you for. OK, so my buddy is taking his mom to the sports book this Saturday and he's going to teach
her how to gamble on sports. And so he wanted me to look at a few of the noon games and come up with a few winners so that he can, you know, just some easy bets for her to place and kind of teach her the process of doing it. So we're going to go over the noon games here with some options to go with. And we're calling this. You asked for it. And so my number one bet for the noon games on Saturday is the Iowa Hawkeyes -2 1/2.
I really, really like that bet. But let's say you don't want to put your mom through the subjective torture that is watching Iowa football. Look, I get. I understand. Be nice to mothers out there love our. Moms, we don't want to do that. We want, we want to see points. We don't want to see punts. Points over punts. All right, well where are we going to get our points? We're going to get with army -26
1/2. The Black Knights have been steamrolling people and I believe the team they're playing UAB lost by 61 points last week to too late. So yeah, they're not very good. So give me ARMY just to run all over them at -26 1/2. Love it. Those are the easy bets for Mom. OK. For those generates out there, those of you who love your parlay teasers, I do have a three leg parlay teaser for you for the new games. We're going to take that Iowa game. We're going to get Iowa plus 3
1/2. That's excellent right there. We're going to take we're going to take Army and we're going to get that down to 20 1/2, which gets us under that three touchdown, which is excellent. And the third game putting on there is Ball State minus 6 1/2 at Kent State. So all Ball State has to do is beat the worst team in the damn country, and I think they should be able to do that. All right, if you were watching on YouTube, you saw it. It's all there on the bottom. You can see those pics.
We're going to try one more thing live. We're not going to do the Hoosier hot streak. We're giving you a week off. And so next week we're going to come back and you got to do four teams. But just for fun, if we were doing it this week, and I know Indiana obviously isn't one of those teams, if you have to put together A4 team parlay for this week using only Big 10 games, what would you do? And talk slowly because I'll type it out for those on YouTube.
Well, I've got to put up my head what the games were again because I don't have them in front of me right now. So let me think real. Quick, you had Northwest and maybe just money line for this one. Let's just do straight money lines. You have well, there's point you you did well with the points last time you we got to get you a second phone. You're trying to do this too much with one phone.
You need 2 phones my friend, I. Have a second phone but it's my work phone so I don't put any gambling stuff on there so you could. You could have the action. Network, I'll figure some out. I'll figure some out. So anyways, OK, let's take, we'll take Maryland on the money line. OK, we will take Illinois on the money line. Easy. We will take Iowa on the money line and then we're going to take you. Going to do Oregon plus the points on that one. Do you like that enough or do
you like? 10 and a. Half I'm sorry you you cut out again you you support. 10 1/2 Get him an extra touchdown on an alternate spread. Oregon plus 10 1/2. Yep, get an alternate spread in there. All right. Let me put that up for everybody who is on. There you go. Look at it, make sure it's right. I can't imagine the odds are going to be great on that. Maryland money line, Illinois money line, Iowa money line, and then get the extra points and go
Oregon plus 10 1/2. Yeah, I'll bet that and I'll put that on X for. Everything I will bet that too it's not going to count for your streak, but when we come back next week we're doing who's your hot streak we're going for four and Indiana is going for seven and O against Nebraska. We'll say that yes, Nebraska, the game is sold out. I'm the, the, the file that I have still shows 121 tickets left, but that's basically a sellout. It's just a bunch of random singles left.
Washington still has 6200 seats available. So let's let's start buying some tickets. Folks like that needs to get sold out. Michigan has 2300 tickets available and Purdue has 5300 tickets available. All of those should be sellouts. Really doesn't matter, there's no excuse for the bucket game to not be a sellout. That to me is just a no brainer right there. Agreed. And same with Washington. Washington is a it's a key game.
Like that's a big game to, to try and rack up some wins and give you a shot at a good bowl or possibly the College Football Playoff. I will end with this. James I, I finally broke the seal and did it. I can't believe I did. I went and looked at the dates of when the College Football Playoff games are. I know it's great. Oh no, it's fun. It's good to have fun in life because my wife and I and the family were taking a trip with the boys.
We're actually going to Vegas for a night to see David Copperfield and we're going to Utah to go to a bunch of national parks in Utah and just kind of enjoy time out there. But we're going to be gone. Was it December 28th to January 3rd? And I, I was like, damn, I, I didn't think like I've, I've, I used to actually kind of after the Gator Bowl, I try to block off some time in the winter, you know, hoping we'd there be a bowl game first time. I'm like, I'm not going to do it now.
We're going to do it anyway. The first round of the College Football Playoff is the weekend before, like a December 20th range. So I could go to that game, although it's going to be on campus. I will miss the quarterfinal game and then I could make the semifinal or final game. I don't think Indiana's going to make it that far, but if we're able to host one of the first games, I could be able. To sell it out. God, I would hope so. We, we probably, we're probably
going somewhere for that. We're probably going to like Alabama or something like just roughly that game. Not if we beat Ohio State, it won't. We beat Ohio State, we may just be getting a buy. I mean, honestly. At that point. I mean, if you're undefeated going, if you, if you're, if you run the table, you're yeah, you're going to get a buy, right. Hey, I'm all for your fever dreams, Scott. I'm I'm completely bought in.
I've drank the kool-aid. This is a this completely different people who work in like offices and like real jobs, you know, like people in education, like Galen, people who are real jobs where where they come face to face with competent and incompetent people can recognize in a second who can get shit done and who can't. Right. And, and Kurt Signeti is the kind of guy who gets shit done because it's processes, not people. And that's the beauty of it. He's got a system.
He's got a process now. He's got some good people, too. But the process runs itself. You just plug and play. That's how Nick Saban did that. You know, you get the right guys in there that are buying into the system. The system will make everything else work. And I can't, I can't believe you can get kids to get past the last play. And that'll be the hardest thing on earth. You know, he's always talking about, you know, each plays its own play, its own game.
Like, that's tough to think, you know? But if you can get people to buy in that like, there's no stopping you. I I, I agree and Speaking of getting things done, if you're watching on YouTube, I spent like an hour or maybe not, maybe like 20 minutes to this afternoon making this logo right up here. Thanks to AI for the the bison with it. And I completely forgot to put it up. So guys who can't get stuff done, I'm on. I'm not in the Signeti camp yet trying to get there.
We'll be doing another week. Next week we'll bring back the Hoosier hot streak. James, as always, thank you for joining my friend. Take care everybody, good luck betting. Yes, for everybody else out there, enjoy the week off. Get ready to go nuts in Memorial Stadium against Nebraska next week. And as always, I appreciate you listening. And for James, this is Scott for Crimson Cash signing off.