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We had a positive Week 1, so starting off on the right foot, yeah, I I put it in the show notes. I I had my money line parlay of which I will do another one of like all favorites and it was Clemson Clemson's the team that got me. I threw them in, which totally suck because I won the parlay all through Saturday and then it's just like hanging out there to wherever that that Clemson Duke game was like Monday. It's like oh this, you know, that's easy money. I'm not going to cash this thing
out. And then hey, what do you know, top ten team goes down on the road. It happens. Doesn't happen in Bloomington, but it happened to Clemson. And it's such a nice guy like Dabo Sweeney, you really hate to see it. He's a he's a God fearing man, my friend. He's something. He is. So let's let's talk about the the lines this week. We'll go in order. So that gives you time to get ready and talk about your Indiana Hoosiers.
We'll talk about the line. But also, as a fellow Indiana fan and someone who's going to be there this weekend, I want to give you a chance to talk about your Hoosier football team. But I U is a favorite at home. Don't get too used to those those words put together, but it's there. Now Indiana is a 34 1/2 point favorite over Indiana State. I will take Indiana State in the points.
That's a lot, a lot of points and like even the best triple option teams of all time, like I'm thinking like Tom Osborne Nebraska triple option would put up that kind of points. But that's about it. So I don't expect a a real shootout here because TomTom Osborne's not walking through that door. Yeah. And neither is Lawrence Phillips.
Well, I think we all hope Lawrence Phillips isn't walking through that door so. You know, it's it's it's a situation where I don't think the Hoosiers are going to be able to exert their will on Indiana State and think of the Idaho game from last year. I believe they were. I I like not to, but go ahead. Yeah, but they were heavy favorites in that game as well and the damn near lost it. You know, I think the defense looks really good against Ohio State. How up will they be for Indiana
State? Yeah, and you know, and and it's a weird, you know, it's a Friday night game, which is kind of weird for what's Tom Allen think about those? I don't know. I could give a shit what Tom Allen thinks about it. It's just, you know, he's got other things he needs to be focusing on, you know, and and who scheduled this. I'm guessing you know he had a hand in the schedule right? I don't, I don't know.
So I did. I listened to the post game and he said that this was scheduled by the Big 10 or that the Friday night was scheduled by the Big 10 which I'm I don't know but let's I'll give him benefit of the doubt on that. Obviously the Big 10 didn't schedule because not a Big 10 game, but I I I do think probably per the network deal, they each team probably has to play one Friday night game. Okay. Well, you're getting a lot of money from that deal, so suck it up, buttercup.
You know, like. You know, like what a ridiculous thing to be complaining about. Just go out and play your game. You know, and I mean I get he's partial to high school football because he's a high school football coach who hasn't proven that he's a great college coach yet. And that's that's the way I will get it because what I saw from the offensive side of the football was just football malpractice. It was. I get they were trying to play some rope, a dope and really
kind of like. Shorten the game. But a certain point you got to get off the ropes, you know, because Ohio State just kept scoring. I mean, the defense was good, but you can only hold them 23 points. They still got 23 points. You know, at some point you got to score and they didn't seem in
any hurry to do that. And you know, once again, we saw it. The lack of halftime adjustments from Tom Allen. So if the Indiana State keeps this thing closed at halftime, don't expect the Hoosiers to pull away and cover would be my my thought on this game. So take Indiana State. Take the points. I'll just I agree with you on all of that. I'll kind of I've been thinking more about this and I saw some comments by Walt Bell this week on Twitter or I know it's
accents. I will call it Twitter. I'm going to be the. It's like, it's like I have a friend in high school who went by Danny and it's just his whole life was Danny. And then all of a sudden now he's a professional and he goes by Dan and it's like, yeah, no, you're Danny. Like it's just you don't you don't get that for me. Same thing with Twitter.
It's like you're just Twitter. Anyway, Walt Bell had some comment about, you know, yeah, you know we probably pitter like played pitter patter too long or something like just we were basically like you know like they they weren't really going like doing enough of the offense early on.
And it's like that's the really frustrating part is like you're you're 10, three in the start of the third quarter against Ohio State. You have I mean I'm not saying if they would have opened up the playbook they would have won. But I know that you know playing pitter patter using Walt Bell's words but you're not going to win. You're never going to beat Ohio State 12 to 10 with a safety or 13 to 10. Like you're going to have to
score. You look at like again the the aforementioned Duke game they they brought it. It's like they realize like oh we're we're going to we got a chance to beat Clemson and they did it again. I'm not sure Indiana had the horses to do it. I'm not sure if they couldn't open up the offense because it's you know how State's defense wasn't was not allowing them to.
But it it sure felt like they were holding back and they they it felt like they went into that game like the rest of the fan base did assuming like I just don't want to get killed. And then once it's 10 three they were like wow wow.
It's like too late to adjust. It just it it it it, it continues to leave a sour taste in my mouth because I don't feel like, again, I'm not sure we would have won the game, but it felt like there was an opportunity there to do something, just to at least give yourselves a shot. And it felt like we didn't even do that. Well yeah, I mean this is this could be a program changing season defining win. You know what I mean? This could make people's careers.
You beat Ohio State and you know I mean and I you because it just doesn't happen right and and and you're forfeiting that opportunity it, it seems like to go for it to try to win the game. And quite frankly, there's a big problem with the strategy of let's just keep this thing close and hopefully he got a victory at the end because do you think there's any way Big 10 officiating would allow that to happen? No one.
And you look at the way when when Ohio State has lost to kind of, you know, non Michigan, Penn State, you know, non top tier programs, it's not a game that was really close to eked out a win. It's like it's like that Purdue game a couple years ago where the other team just lands a knockout blow and has three or four just crazy plays and suddenly they're up, you know, 21 to 7. And then it's like then then Ohio State's trying to run it back and trying to figure out a way to win.
And then like you're trying to hold on to that lead. Like it's never I I can't remember a game where it's been like nip and tuck the entire time and then the the massive underdog has come out ahead. Exactly. So you know, I think the strategy going into it is is flawed and then the execution I think was even worse. And that that gives me grave concerns.
What are you expecting? We will move on to the other games and be quick with it. But what are you expecting is something Galen and I touched on like I I think you just have to win this game against Indiana State Friday night. Do you think you know? Galen was said he kind of thinks, you know, style points matter. I I see that. But I look back to, you know, Idaho last year and it's like they just won. And you know, looking back and like, yeah, a lot of things were
harbingers of problems. But I I just think at this point like we're kind of past, we're past moral victories. We're also past like you know, a win that like if we beat Indiana State, you know 52 to 0, it's not like I'm going to feel much better. So to me it's like I just think you got to win. I don't really care how it looks outside of like, you know, having to have a fourth quarter drive to win the game or something, but what's your feeling? They can't lose the game.
That's why I didn't. That's why I didn't make that an option like you lose the game and it is. It's it's overtime. But you know, they go out and they win 52 to nothing and they look good doing it. That would really. Make me think twice. I mean, if they, if they came out and I don't know, the offense looked completely different, you know they were throwing a passing attack out there or something, you know, great. I would be totally happy with
that. If they came out and they had perfected the triple option in a week and looked really good doing it, I could even live with that. Although I do have a big problem with that because I'm worried Jalen Lucas is going to get hurt. He's a guy who's very effective out in space. He's undersized. They still affect you out in space because you can't square him up, you can't get a good
lick on him. The only way you can do that is if he's running straight up the middle and they just keep handing the ball and running him straight up the middle and he's going to get hurt doing that. You need to get him the ball out in space. So if if they if they start doing some of those things and they look really good doing it, yeah, that could, you know, turn my pessimism around a little bit. If it they come out there and they win, you know, 23 to 21 on a last second field goal.
I think it's a harbinger of horrible things to come. Yeah, I mean, my counter would be this. Then we'll move on. Like if if they come out and win, you know, just lay the smackdown and they beat them, you know, beat Indiana State 35 to nothing.
I'm again, why? I think it's just you got to win and move on is I'm not going to feel much better because if they go out the week after and then just get demolished by Louisville or lose to Louisville or can't move the ball against Louisville or like have a really bad showing against Louisville, it's not like I'm going to be like, well, but you don't forget Indiana State. They they kind of figure it out like they can turn it back around.
Like I'm just going to be like, all right, well, Indiana State's bad. They're just a really bad team and we're able to beat really bad teams. Unfortunately, we don't play anybody else bad the rest of the year except for maybe Akron, but really not so that that's that's where I look at this Indiana State game. I'm just like just win. Like just win, move on. And I'm not sure you're going to read anything or take anything out of it. Yes. Just win, baby. Just win, baby Al Davis.
All right, moving on now. We'll now we'll speed through. Illinois is at Kansas to one of no teams. Kansas is a 3 1/2 point favorite at home. All right, so last week we had Illinois losing to, what was it, Toledo? And we were almost right until field goal. With five seconds left, Illinois almost lost at home to a Mac school. Take The Jayhawks, lay the points. You can also get them for three if you shop around that line. I love, I love you shopping around.
Ohio State actually has a bigger line this week. They're at home. They're hosting Youngstown State. I feel like they play them every other year. Ohio State is a 41 1/2 point favorite. I I hate these big lines, but what would you would you go over under here or I don't even know. I say stay away folks, that's what I say. I might look at the under, but I'd stay away if I'm forced to take it. I would take 41 1/2 points but I got a feeling they might try and do something different, but I
don't know. It's just going to bet this game. Who cares? I mean, you know these, this is one of these, you know Youngstown State, you know, I mean what what do you what's going to happen there? It's going to be 42 to nothing or it's going to be like 35 to seven or something like that. So I would probably take the points if I had to. I'm I'm going to use Ohio State as a money line parlay where I know they're going to win that game. Well, definitely and just lock that in.
But yeah, it's, I would say like if you're Marvin Harrison Junior and you want to win the Heisman, you've got to start throwing up some stats now. How stupid were they to only target him? What? He got like 3 or 4 targets the entire game. Yeah. I mean dude come on Ryan Day. The over under for his yards is 93. I had the over. Let's let's let's think about Scott is gambling a little bit. Well, I had that too. But regardless, yeah, so hear the ball more than that.
Delaware at Penn State, I don't have a line. It's it's off the board unless you have. I don't. Have one. Either. Yeah, bet Penn State money line on a parlay if you can get them. Next up, oh man, this. This is going to be a juicy game. This is noon on Fox. I'm excited to watch this. It's Nebraska at Colorado. Colorado. Like, immediately the darlings of college football. And rightfully so. Nebraska doing exactly what Nebraska does every year pissing games away.
I mean it's Colorado is a three-point favorite to me. This is like my I love Colorado to cover three. I I think they could be good. I think Nebraska's find a way to mess this up. But I'm I'm taking your Thunder. What do you think of this game? Okay, so Nebraska covered for us last week. And we're going to take him to cover it 3 1/2, which you can get if you shop around. I've already put it in a parlay so I'm kind of locked in on Nebraska 3 1/2. I changed my mind earlier today,
but I was like, well, too late. I'm already in so, so that's the way I have to go. You're going to, you're going to hate yourself. You're just going to hate yourself during that game. I talked myself into Colorado is going to have a let down. And and I think they're going to be cocky against Nebraska. And I don't think Matt Rule is an awful coach. Although I do not think they have a very good football team. That's all fair. Here's a question for you. Just just I'm asking this off
the You're right there, man. Easy on me to get you a cough button. Oh, the kids went back to school and they brought every virus known to man back in this house. All the covids you have, all the variants at your house. Yeah. So here's a question I have that was a friend and I were talking about my my buddy was saying, you know, I don't know why any other school didn't hire D on like just for schools that are at that level like take a shot.
And I'm like, I totally agree. And he was saying, you know like if you're I, you want to hire D on. I'm like, well, yeah, I would have loved it. Like I don't think that would have been a fit culturally, but for a variety of reasons. But I was like, I also think it's not like there's other there's other Dion's out there available. He is Dion is like singularly A1 of 1 where he has like just the cachet.
He has the cred. He has you know one of the best if not the best quarterback of all time. Also has the coaching you know has has coach and has the history and like has that cred. Now we, I was trying to think like is there anybody else like Dion out there? Because I was thinking like like, you know if I you tried this they'd mess it up and hire like Joe Flacco or something. Like just not the. It's like I don't, I don't think
there is another Dion title. Pete, you're going to see other schools try to emulate this, but I just don't think there's another person that has all the pieces that Dion has. Well, I mean, probably not many that are as accomplished as he was as a player, but certainly, I mean there are plenty of former players who have gone on to coaching careers that have been pretty good. But who's out there that I U
could go grab? Not I U, not I U I'm just, I'm just saying like I'm just saying theoretically of any school, this is not an I U. It's just like if you're if you're a low level BCS school or top five school like and you want to if you're going to emulate the Dion thing like who who else? It was just it was kind of a theoretical like. Who else? Peyton Manning. Yeah, I mean, he doesn't have the coaching. Yeah, he would. He would be there. Maybe.
Eli. He'd have the cachet, you know, Like, didn't Jeff Saturday coach in high school football down in Georgia? Although his stint with the Colts didn't go too well, you know, But I mean, I was thinking like I was thinking like Ray Lewis. Phillip Rivers just coaching his kids like a high school team. What about Ray Lewis? I don't know. Does he? Has he ever coached? I'm sure he could do it. Got to give it a couple years.
Anyway, it's just you're you're. I think you're going to see a lot of people trying to emulate the Dion thing. But anyway, have fun rooting for Nebraska. They cover that line. Good times with that. All right. Here. Here's another win for you. You were on, I think you you definitely picked Fresno State to keep it close with with Purdue. I I push you on the money line there. You didn't go for it.
Probably should have. Purdue owned one after paying I think 1.2 million to have Fresno State come into West Lafayette and beat them. Purdue is now going to Virginia Tech to see. I love that entrance. The inner Sandman entrance. That was all over Instagram last week. I love that Purdue will get it face to face. They are only a 2 1/2 point underdog at Virginia Tech. What do you think? Well, last week we did have Fresno State to cover and we had the over and I'm going back to the well.
I'm taking the over 46 1/2. That Purdue defense looked bad against Fresno State and the offense seems to be able to move the ball fairly well. Mockabee has a pretty good back, so I'm going to take the over here. I'm loving it by the way. I love this over Okay Is it your Is it your lock of the week? It is not Okay. You love it, but you don't really love it. All right. Next up, I've got it in a parlay
with my lock of the week. So Next up you have UTEP playing Northwestern. Northwestern is a 1 1/2 point underdog at home. I'm going to take Northwestern on the money line. Oh wow. Okay, you'd like them to win. They're slide home dogs. UTEP sucks just as bad as Northwestern. I mean, this is this may be the most unwatchable football game of the season. The over under on it is 38 1/2. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's not good. All right, Next up I got.
This would have been a great mid 90s basketball matchup at UNLV against Michigan at the Big House. Michigan, you know, really, really starting off their season strong with some tough opponents. Michigan, a 37 point favorite at home. Again, I hate the big lines. They couldn't cover last week. I don't think they cover this week. Take UNLV in the points fair, fair call. We have Richmond at Michigan State. I have no line on this game as well.
Yeah, I do not either. So add Michigan State to your money line Parley. Although they looked, they looked really bad for 1/4 till they look at. Then they figured stuff out last week you get Central and then figured and and started moving the ball. But Central look like for a while they were going to to really cause Michigan State's problems. Yeah, those Mac teams are scrappy. Yeah. All right. Next up we have Iowa on the road at Iowa State.
Iowa State is a four point underdog at home against the Hawkeyes over under at 3636. Folks, this is my lock of the week. Take the over 36. Okay, you're you're again. You're going to hate yourself when Iowa is scoring like 12 points, but go ahead. So did you know Brian Ference, offensive coordinator at Iowa, has a clause in his contract that if Iowa does not average 25 or more points per game this season, he is fired? Yes, I saw that. That's wild.
They scored 24 last week, so he's got some making up to do. That's a great clause. And this dude fighting for his damn job give me the over. And that's such a low number too. I mean, it's not going to take much to get to 36, my friends. This is my absolute lock of the week. If I could play the harmonica and it would record it, I would be playing a harmonica right now, so. Where's your slide whistle? Where's your kazoo? What else do you have over there? Yeah, they're up in my son's
room. He's the one with all the wacky instruments. Yeah, we need a new gimmick. You get a sound board or something, we'll come up with something. I have a sound board. It'll be, it'll be it'll be in play next week. I'm just working on mic issues. So we'll we can we can have digital sounds. They can be at it. All right. Next up, Eastern got so many Big 10 teams. Eastern Michigan at Minnesota. Rowing the boat. Minnesota is a favorite. 20 1/2 points. Yeah, this is a tough one.
Nice to come back from Minnesota. I wasn't super impressed by their quarterback, but 20 1/2 seems a bit high, so I'll take the points. Next up, Charlotte at Maryland. Maryland is a 24 1/2 point favorite at home. I hate to do it, but I'm thinking to take the points again. Although I also like the under here. It's at 51 1/2 so that could be in play, but 24 and a half's a lot of points so I might look at taking those. All right, last two we have Temple at Rutgers.
A fun. Old school you know, East Coast matchup. Rutgers is a 8 1/2 point favorite at home. Over Under is 44 1/2. I like the under here. Rutgers doesn't move the ball well. Temple doesn't move the ball well. I think the under is a great. Play here Last game of the Big 10 slate. 730 Game on ABC. The Wisconsin Badgers are traveling up to Washington for sorry, Washington State, one of their last times of being a big
power conference team. Sorry, Washington state and Wisconsin is a six point favorite on the road. Yeah, over under 59. I I might be tempted at the under here. I also think that Wisconsin will probably cover this. They started off pretty slow last week, but then they kind of figured a couple things out, so this will be a good test for him. Wazoo is not exactly a House of horrors to play in.
So you know, I think they'll probably be fine and should cover this, but I think it might be lower scoring than some people expect. All right, man, that's that's our slate. Do you have any good parlays you're putting out? We got our adopted team, Southern Cal. That's right. That's right. That's right, almost covered the over by themselves last week when they scored 66 points. So this week they play Stanford. By the way, I know gambling's all about money. Like, I feel like that should be
like I used to get a bonus. Like if you bet the over and then one team just covers it on their own that you should get like, it's like getting blackjack. You should get like, you know, your bet and a half back or something like points betting or something, you know, Yeah, yeah. So this week though we've got him at 69 1/2 okay. So they had to put up 70 to cover by themselves. But I do think the over hits as they take on the Stanford Cardinal, so take the over again on Southern Cal.
We're just going to ride this, I think, with our adopted team here all. Right. And then and then, yeah, my bad on that. But then do you have any other parlays to talk about? Yeah, so here I've got a couple, you know, one of these. I've been taking some long shots with some free bets recently, so I've got one that's a five way parlay and here these are just
some games that I really like. OKI took the over 55 1/2 Vanderbilt Wake Forest. I like Notre Dame to beat North Carolina State over 63 which is an alternate line. I took SMU, Oklahoma, Iowa team total over 19 1/2 points and over 65 1/2 Ole Miss two lane. My $10 free bet would pay out $106.07 so so hopefully that'll come through.
I also like the I took a three-way teaser so I ended up getting over 64 Stanford US C / 40 1/2 Purdue Virginia Tech and over 30 Iowa, Iowa State. So that's the three-way teaser of the week and I will be posting that to X as well. Also make sure you you check out for any promos, check all your books, see what they're giving away all. Right. I just put together a a parlay for you. All right, let's hear it. Hold on, I got to get to. That's refer button to my bets. All right. You ready?
I'm ready. All right, Colorado to win on the money line. Notre Dame to win on the money line. The Iowa. Iowa State Game over 36 1/2 based on your advice. UNLV to cover that 37 1/2 point spread. Alabama money line, Wisconsin money line and USC money line, $10 bet will get me 161. Not bad. Who's going to screw it over for you? That's a great question. It'll be Nebraska, will be Colorado, and you'll be kicking yourself. It's going to be Nebraska beating Colorado.
It could also be Notre Dame, just because I was just looking for odds there and I don't care enough about them that they could lose one of those games. Or or it could be like, yeah, but those are probably the two, the two honest, to mess me up the most, that's going to be awesome. Nebraska just We're going to hate them either way. I think Notre Dame is going to beat Ohio State in a couple weeks. Oh, all right. I like it, so I've been waiting for a line to pop up for.
The keep looking man. Fanduel's got like I said, Fanduel's got a lot of those those late lines out. So all right, make sure, make sure everybody's checking X I'll be posting our bets over the weekend. I will be down in Bloomington for the game this Friday night, so. That's right. Will you be in a Galen's tailgate? I will. I will be over at Galen's tailgate. So I'll stop by and say hey. Enjoy, man. Have a great time at the game. I unfortunately will not be there.
I'm playing. Have a couples golf. With my wife. So we're doing a couples golf scramble and we'll have fun with that. That sounds like a good time, too. It is, man. It's Friday night. You know, it's Tom Allen's mad about high school football. You know, we have golf scrambles. Like there's a lot of stuff going on Friday night. You know, I you should. I'm a firm believer that Friday night is it's. Golf scramble night. Come on. Golf scramble night. Nothing else. Hell yeah.
Ridiculous. All right, James, I appreciate it. Good times. Be safe that not there everybody. We'll catch you next week. And for James, this is Scott for Crimson Cash signing off. Oh, the kids went back to school and they brought every virus known to man back in this house.