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Use the promo code HOME 23 for 15% off your first purchase. So James is there. A I just shaved a little bit ago and nicked myself and like would not stop bleeding. Is there anything worse than that? Having to stare at your bloody face. Maybe that's fair, yeah. I I'm on blood thinners, so like, when I start bleeding, like, it really, like takes forever to stop. So I feel your pain.
Yeah, it's like a cut. It's just cut and it's kept on going and going and it's like I'm using the, I have a septic pencil somewhere, but I'm like, you know, doing the aftershave and the it's like, man, I didn't know my 40s. I'd still be messing with this stuff, but I bet I've got to learn how to shave better. There you go. Yeah, you should have learned that a while ago. Or just grow out of a big beard. I can't really do that.
I'm doing like. I'm doing as bad, as good as I can right now and got like a little kind of like. Handlebar, you got an Amish chin strap beard. It's it's about all I can do, man. I just, I I wasn't blessed with the good beard jeans. It's it's a bummer. I think my son might have it from my wife's family, so I hope so. I've always wanted to grow like grow like the the real solid, like goatee. But it just like I can't do it. Well, maybe you can live vicariously through your child.
Yeah, there you go. All right, let's get to it. Enough shave talk for today. Let's let's get to the lines this week. Starting off. We got some big lines again this week. A lot of big lines. We have Penn State at Northwestern. Good golly, Penn State is a 26 1/2 point. Yeah, big line with an over under 46. That's just too many points in a conference game for me to lay. I don't plan on betting it, but if I were to take it, I would take all those points.
You can get it for 27 at some books too. So that's probably where I would end up on that. All right. I'm giving you Northwestern plus 27. I'm going to, I will admit I've not been the best this season. I'm going to start keeping track of all of your picks and then come in. With We Killed it last week. Yeah. How'd you do? We killed it last week. We had our three leg parlay teaser hit again, that's every
week this year. So I've got another one coming up at the end of the show, so we'll tease the teaser. All right. Next up we have the University of Lafayette, the Raging Cajuns. I think I got that right, UL. I know it's not Louisville. They are playing at Minnesota and Minnesota is an 11 point favorite. It's not a lot of points, man. Yeah, well, Minnesota may not be very good, they got rocked, but I think this is a bounce back
game for them. I'll go ahead and I don't like it, but I'll lay 11 points there. OK. So you're rowing the boat with Minnesota? Yeah, I don't like doing it. All right, Next up, Michigan, who has not covered all season I believe didn't do it again last week. I've been in this is the best thing about this podcast. I'll normally get one kind of thing I pick up on and I've been betting Michigan opponents to cover the spread and it's been
great. Like Michigan has not been able to to cover these spreads, but they go into Nebraska. I mean you want to be your favorite teams to lose money on like every single week. You're like always back on Nebraska. But Nebraska is a 17 point underdog at home to Michigan. We'll see. Last week we had Nebraska's opponent to cover, which fortunately happened after an hour weather delay on a backdoor cover, so we barely made that one.
But I think Nebraska 17 points at home with an over under of 39 points. I think Michigan continues to not cover. And so give me Nebraska in those points. I mean, one of these things is going to happen. Either Michigan's going to cover or like Nebraska's going to finally win you a bet. I've been actually OK on Nebraska this year, it feels. Like I won a couple bets on them. All right. Here comes the moment of truth. Well, we'll we'll do one more 330 game.
We'll save I you for a SEC. We have wag against. Who's wag this is? This is. All Wagner. That's what I thought. Wagner. So it's. No spread, no line, no nothing. So Wagner, Rutgers, There you go, man. Wagner. The The Eagles, I'm assuming. I believe so, yeah. This is like one of those like schedule releases on Instagram where it's like people don't know what the the logos are. I'm just like those are the the angry Pirates, all right.
We also back to the Big 10 action teams that I know of Illinois at Purdue. I mean in what world is Purdue a favorite but they are at home against Illinois. I guess Purdue Big 10 W like RIP last year. The Big 10 W is awesome where one and three Purdue team is not very good. Gets to be a favorite at home. Big 10 W always good times, good comedy. Purdue One point favorite home over Illinois? This game is almost the least watchable of the week.
Give me the lion eye to go into West Lafayette and win this ball game. Yeah, I I like a why? And I money line here, right? Yeah, you take them on the money. I would. I mean one point I mean the chances of you, you were essentially I could maybe push. I mean, take the money line, you cowards. All right, you got some time to talk? I'm, I'm going to leave the floor open to you. But first give me the thoughts on Indiana, our our Indiana Hoosiers coming off of a win.
A big win, you might say. The hugest win I U is 2 and two. They're going into Maryland. Maryland's got a potent offense there for an 0 and Indiana is a 14 1/2 point. OK, so last week's episode we took I U to cover 17 Points and we also I believe said this is going to be a great opportunity. For Walt Bell to take that offense out there and and really see what it can do, right, We were going to open it up on the
highway, right? That was that's what we thought was going to happen and it was like an old man with a Walker with those little tennis balls at the bottom instead. So I have definite thoughts on how I'm going to bet this game, but I do want to say I listen to you and Galen's recap and. And I was listening to it in the car and I could have sworn my exwife was in there because you were screaming so much. It was like having her around. So bravo, my friend. You. I was like, would he just stop
yelling at me? Oh, no. Like because you were very animated and it was great. And I love the, you know, the original Crimson cast pod is not all sunshine and rainbows. And I just thought that was great. So I just want to throw that out there, if anybody, a little, a little inside baseball. It's funny, I I thought, I thought Galen was actually like, I I thought it started off like I felt like he was, he was a little more angry. I was trying to keep it calm.
I've been really trying to keep it my emotions and check this season on those. But then he kind of got fired up. I'm like, all right, well, I just got to take the, you know, take the guardrails off for like 15 minutes. But I felt like for the 1st 45 minutes I was I was on pretty good behavior. Yes, but you know once you start getting going on it, it I just get angry the more I think about it. Yeah, but I'm going to take, I will take a break.
Like I'm going to take a break and not from pot, but like just Maryland. I'm thinking Maryland, Michigan. And then, you know, I'm going to save some anger for Rutgers because I feel like we're going to, you know, just I'll be much more subdued. Just partially because I'm going to have to like mentally check out because I can't, I can't keep this this pace up all season, like they're going to be a lot of losses. There's going to be a lot of losses, but will we cover the spread?
That's that is the question at hand. 14 points is the best you can get it out there right now. You 14 1/2 at most. I actually bought down to 13 1/2. I've already placed a massive bet on this game. I took Maryland -13, 1/2 and I feel really, really good about it. So I think Maryland easily. I think the 14, they easily cover that. I I think this is going to be a bloodbath. This is the best quarterback in the Big 10 and and and.
Definitely the best quarterback I U has faced so far this season, and if the defense made DJ Irons look like Michael Vick, I can only imagine what Tonga Vialoa is going to do out there. I almost scotted the last name there. So scotted. Oh, it's like, what's the the bowling movie where Woody Harrelson becomes a name? The Munson. Yeah, I got Munson. Yeah, got scotted. Oh God, don't start that lay. Off that so yeah I and the over under is 50 here.
I trust Maryland to do their part but I don't trust I U to do theirs So I would stay away from the Over Under but I think Maryland's going to cover this easily. This is I use the pad football team and. And I think we should bet accordingly. We're not good that that. That is for sure. And it's funny because like I I have had the thought about like, you know looking at my preseason prediction like do I need to revamp it? It's like, no, I had us winning
one more game. Like I I had us losing from here till Purdue. I have us beating Purdue. I still think there's a world where that happens because I don't think Purdue is very good either. But it's like it's it's wild to kind of have that bad of a game and honestly not a great start to the season and not really have to adjust my my view of the season too much, too much. We played one semicompetent half of football all year.
Yeah, right. I would even say like up until the the goal line stand, at which point we kind of went back to normal. Let's not play competent. Yeah, yeah. The the 4th down call there I think is when that all died. So most of 1/2 of football. It's it's a shame but I don't see it improving at all because you know The thing is with good coaching, bad teams get better throughout the year, right? We we don't have that luxury.
This bad team's going to stay bad and and generally with poor coaching, which I believe we have, bad teams generally get worse as the year goes out. This 14 point spread seems like an early season gift. On this game, I think this number is really low. It should be 20 1/2, yeah. I mean we're we're we still have a Michigan and Penn State on the docket there. There's a world where we're we're looking at a 30 point spread coming up this season. Oh, absolutely. At Penn State, that'll be a 30
point spread. Yeah, I mean. I mean what the Penn State this week I get is 27 on the road at Nebraska or at Northwestern. Yeah. I mean there comes a point where as like if you're a Power 5 school, like if you have multiple games each season we're in conference, you're a 35 plus like underdog. Something needs to be done. Like there needs to be a discussion because like I I think I would love to go back and look like how many years in a row we've had.
We've been a 30 point underdog on a in a conference game. Well, I know at least one. I know it was last year, I think the last two years, I mean because last year we were joking about the Ohio State spread and I'm sure that two years ago you know we we were there because that that team fell apart as well. So there you go, I mean three years ago 2020 didn't have it. There you go, only two year run. Let's hope it ends there. Let's let's hope all right only
one more game left. A team that also has some coaching concerns. I would say the Michigan State Spartans traveling to Iowa. Iowa is a 12 1/2 point favorite at home. Yeah, this is going to be an ugly game, 36 1/2 at the Over under, but as per Caulfield rules, we stay away from over unders on Iowa. So we're going to take the Hawkeyes and we're going to lay
12 1/2 points. I don't think Michigan State, they have players still deciding whether or not they're going to play on Saturday, like that team is in disarray. I was coming off a nasty loss at Penn State. They're going to want to get that taste out of their mouth and give me the hawk eyes to cover. Yes. So real quick.
I I think we did a little talk about like Dion and coaching last week so I have a really good friend who's a Michigan State fan and it is funny hearing through him through his lens talk. Again, I think I U would do the same thing in a basketball coaching cycle but I don't think Michigan State football is where I U basketball is.
But like hearing him talk about like who their candidates for the next coaches is like wild, because it's like there's a real buzz, at least in his parts of the Michigan State fan base of like, you know, Urban Meyer, like we'll get Urban Meyer and turned around. It's like it's their. View where they where they sit is kind of crazy. Wait a minute. Didn't they just fire the last guy for, like, things? Urban Meyers, I think known to be in the same ballpark of it, tried to fire, by the way.
Still, I don't think he's fired yet. Oh, they're going to have a lawsuit on their hands. I I'm, I'm sure of that. This is not going to end. This is not going to end inexpensively for them, yeah, but it's like and he's just like, well, you know, like the new coach of Duke could be. It's like, I'm not sure you're going to get the top pick of the market based on like where you're at and what you've just been through. They should try and get Jim Harbaugh. That'd be great. Or John Harbaugh.
Yeah, we're John Harbaugh away from there. There's got to be another Harbaugh brother somewhere. They'll find another harbor. He's a brotherinlaw, right? Yes, I love it. All right. You know what, this is going to be a quick pod because our two we have two other kind of like, you know adopted teams. They're playing each other. USC is at Colorado. Colorado is a 21 1/2 point underdog. I just real quick want to say this. I I do think the what Dion is doing at Colorado to me is very
interesting. It is fun. I I find the crazy bandwagon on off this week to to be crazy because I've been out Colorado was 1:00 and 11:00 last year fully aware. They bring in all these all these players they brought in you know his his son to quarterback and Walker and like they brought in a lot of recruits. So it's like, it is not just a similar one and 11 team, but it's like there's still a base of a really bad team there and you're still figuring things
out. The the idea that like they're just they were going to go undefeated and win the title, like that's insane. Oregon is a really good program. Like USC is a really good program. Colorado could still have a great year, win seven or eight games and you know, be a, you know, low top 25 team. And teams like that can get blown out by good teams.
Like I just I find it odd like how many people just immediately jumped off the bandwagon when last week I I bet Oregon to to win that I bet them to to cover that line like it was pretty I I I just I didn't see a world where Colorado won that but I also don't think it like it's any reflection on what Dionne has done and or will do or has done anyway that that's my rant to you in the game I. Mean He's not Vince Lombardi. Let's not you know. I mean he he's he's what, 4th
game. So, you know, I mean, maybe we. They we wait until you know we talk about what a great coach he is. He certainly seems to be able to recruit well and you know that's going to take some time to pan out. But Oregon's a much better football team than they are. I mean you know look they were big underdogs and and one outright week one and that I think changed everybody's expectations but but their best players out and and that's that's a big loss for them.
Their defense is going to get absolutely destroyed by Southern Cal. But Southern Cal also has a crappy defense and allowed Arizona State to stick around last week, so 21 1/2 seems a bit much. I would probably take the bus to cover that at home because this is an early game. I I don't know how up for USC is going to be. I mean it's like 10:00 AM local time kick and 9:00 AM California time. So I don't know. I don't know. It just seems like a weird thing and over 3 touchdowns bit much.
Take the home team that is. That's all we got from game wise to give us some of your parlays. Your parlays are on fire. They are, and I will have more as the weekend rolls on. But here's my my 6.3 leg teaser. All right, this is the bet that we've won every single week this week or year at plus 160 odds. I've got Syracuse, so now they're getting 12 1/2 at home against Clemson. I think they may win that game out, right? Maryland as aforementioned,
because we love that. So that's Maryland -8 on the teaser. And then Iowa -6 1/2, we think they easily will cover that touchdown and so that's the three legs six point parlay teaser. Love it by the way I got I last thing I will say, I have a very another good friend who I've worked with who played at Clemson years ago. He was a manager of mine. He's always been talking about Clemson and so I've always been. I gotta come out for a game. I gotta come out for a game.
This is the year actually, like, I booked it. I'm going to take my son. Like we're going to the Clemson Georgia Tech game. And it's like I I wanted to go see the atmosphere of Clemson do. Do I back out and wait for another year? Like, I think it's still going to be fun. And like, I mean I got a little cabins, my son and I can go and like we'll be by a lake. It's still going to be a good
time. But it's like, I'm, I'm not sure if the atmosphere is going to be, I mean, it's still going to be better than anything at Memorial Stadium, I'm sure. But I'm not sure it's going to be the electric atmosphere coming down, you know, from Howard's Rock that I was expecting based on the fact that Clemson seems to be DOA this year. You may be waiting for a while if you are waiting for that. So I mean until the next Trevor Warrens or Deshawn Watson rolls around.
So I would go ahead and do it. Don't, don't, don't put off. Go ahead and do it. Yeah, I mean, they, yeah, they almost beat Florida State. And again, I think a 70% electric Death Valley is is probably still a lot of fun to go to. It'll be a little different than Memorial Stadium is my guess. You think so? Possibly. All right, James. Well, great times. Look forward to it. And yeah, we. Have I got one more parlay?
One more parlay. All right, I was just checking what else I already had out for this weekend. I told you I had Maryland -13 1/2, but I put Maryland to -9 1/2 in a different parlay, parlayed that with Louisville to win on the money line and Minnesota to win on the money line at plus 197 odds. So that's a pretty nice little parlay there. Couple money lines and a spread.
You know you have something here with like this might be one of the last times we get value on on I U because I I think you know you have a week off and then they're at Michigan it's that's going to be a a ridiculous line and it's you know they'll. Get home first, spread Michigan covers all year? Probably, yeah. And then they're then they're home to Rutgers like that.
You might still get some value there but then you're looking at big lines for Penn State, for Wisconsin and then you know the Illinois, Michigan State, Purdue. It's like at that point now you're playing. You know you're you're in the similar to like the that that Illinois Purdue game this week. It's like you're in this kind of like, I really don't even bet in these games. Yeah exactly. Good times at least.
At least after this we get we get a week off we'll still be back next week to do Crimson Cash. But we get a week off from watching I use there's there's something there's something there I. Love it. All right, James. The pain will be less. It'll be, it'll be Lessing because it won't be there. So thank you for hopping on. Thank everybody out there for listening and for James, this is Scott for Crimson Cash signing off.