
It’s been a tale of two weeks in betting so far. Last week the favorites were covering. I was looking good in the Confidence Pool. This week, every underdog has won. The pool picks are toast.
I’m going to go with the underdog trend today with:
Purdue +3.5 vs Auburn – Music City Bowl – One fan base is excited that their coach is staying after going 6-6. The other fan base is bummed their coach is still here after going 7-5, a year after just missing the playoffs last year. Secretly, Auburn fans are hoping to lose so that Malzahn gets put on the Hot Seat. Such are college football fan bases these days.
Auburn may have lost five times but scheduling had a lot to do with it. Yeah, losing to Tennessee rightly gets you on the hot seat but losing to Georgia, Mississippi State, LSU and Bama would happen to just about any team.
Who knows which Purdue team will show up today. The one that blew out Ohio State or the one that got its doors blown off by Minnesota. After that big win over the Bucknuts, Purdue went into a tail spin losing three of four before knocking off arch rival Indiana.
Auburn is the better team and it doesn’t lose to teams of Purdue’s caliber. But they just don’t bring it in Bowls. Starting with the National Championsnhip loss to FSU back in 2013, the Tigers are 1-4 in bowls. They were better than Central Florida last year too and clunked.
I’ll take the Boilers to play out of their minds. No quatloos though. I’ll be watching with the Big Guy. Mrs Doofus says not family feuds this year.
I’m going to go with the underdog trend today with:
Purdue +3.5 vs Auburn – Music City Bowl – One fan base is excited that their coach is staying after going 6-6. The other fan base is bummed their coach is still here after going 7-5, a year after just missing the playoffs last year. Secretly, Auburn fans are hoping to lose so that Malzahn gets put on the Hot Seat. Such are college football fan bases these days.
Auburn may have lost five times but scheduling had a lot to do with it. Yeah, losing to Tennessee rightly gets you on the hot seat but losing to Georgia, Mississippi State, LSU and Bama would happen to just about any team.
Who knows which Purdue team will show up today. The one that blew out Ohio State or the one that got its doors blown off by Minnesota. After that big win over the Bucknuts, Purdue went into a tail spin losing three of four before knocking off arch rival Indiana.
Auburn is the better team and it doesn’t lose to teams of Purdue’s caliber. But they just don’t bring it in Bowls. Starting with the National Championsnhip loss to FSU back in 2013, the Tigers are 1-4 in bowls. They were better than Central Florida last year too and clunked.
I’ll take the Boilers to play out of their minds. No quatloos though. I’ll be watching with the Big Guy. Mrs Doofus says not family feuds this year.

Syracuse +1.5 vs West Virginia – Camping World Bowl – You weren’t paying attention, you think ou know college football but you missed it, but Dino Babers has something pretty damn good going on up by the Finger Lakes. Syracuse went 8-3 with only one clunker, a loss to Pitt. The other two losses were an oh so close loss to Clemson, in Death valley and a loss under Touchdown Jesus.
It’s been fun in the carrier Dome. The Orange averages over 40 points per game. QB Eric Dungey averages over 350 yards passing and should exceed 300 against a porous WVU secondary.
It was all teed up for West Virginia. Win their last two games and the win the Big 12, go to a NY6 bowl or maybe even the playoffs. They lost the last two in shootouts.
The offense was fantastic, even better than Syracuse but the defense gave up almost as may points.
The spread was WVU -6.0 when the match up was announced and then dropped to -1.5 when WVU star QB Will Grier decided to forego the game. I jumped in then. Now it’s Syracuse -3.0.
The trends favor the Cuse. Holgerson is 0-5 ATS in Bowls while Syracuse went 9-3 ATS this year and 4-1 ATS against teams with a winning record.
I’ll take Syracuse for a Mega Bet.
It’s been fun in the carrier Dome. The Orange averages over 40 points per game. QB Eric Dungey averages over 350 yards passing and should exceed 300 against a porous WVU secondary.
It was all teed up for West Virginia. Win their last two games and the win the Big 12, go to a NY6 bowl or maybe even the playoffs. They lost the last two in shootouts.
The offense was fantastic, even better than Syracuse but the defense gave up almost as may points.
The spread was WVU -6.0 when the match up was announced and then dropped to -1.5 when WVU star QB Will Grier decided to forego the game. I jumped in then. Now it’s Syracuse -3.0.
The trends favor the Cuse. Holgerson is 0-5 ATS in Bowls while Syracuse went 9-3 ATS this year and 4-1 ATS against teams with a winning record.
I’ll take Syracuse for a Mega Bet.

Iowa State +2.5 vs Washington State – Alamo Bowl – It was all teed up for Washington State too. Game Day was in town, win the game and it’s off to the PAC 12 championship game with bigger prizes awaiting. Then it snowed. It was a beautiful blizzard. And it hamstrung the Cougars in a 28-15 loss.
It's a typical Leach offense. Lots of passing and scoring. The averaged 38 PPG to finshed 15th overall. What led to the victories is that they finally had a defense allowing 23 PPG (39th overall)
Iowa State has been on a roll. After starting 1-3 they won seven of nine. Iowa State zigged when everyone else zagged in the Big 12. While offenses rule in the conference, The Cyclones decided to focus on defense. They held West Virginia to 14 points in a win. It’s a sure tackling team that will play well against a WSU team that dinks and dunks down the field.
I’m going to stay with the underdog trend and take the Cyclones and the points. No quatloos though. I will put a quatloo on the under 57.0. The defenses are underrated.
It's a typical Leach offense. Lots of passing and scoring. The averaged 38 PPG to finshed 15th overall. What led to the victories is that they finally had a defense allowing 23 PPG (39th overall)
Iowa State has been on a roll. After starting 1-3 they won seven of nine. Iowa State zigged when everyone else zagged in the Big 12. While offenses rule in the conference, The Cyclones decided to focus on defense. They held West Virginia to 14 points in a win. It’s a sure tackling team that will play well against a WSU team that dinks and dunks down the field.
I’m going to stay with the underdog trend and take the Cyclones and the points. No quatloos though. I will put a quatloo on the under 57.0. The defenses are underrated.