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Only 2 weeks to College Football

8/25/2011

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Who want to be A&M's moving buddy?
Only 2 weeks until College Football kicks off!

Just when you thought the conference realignment had died down for awhile - Texas A&M approached the SEC and asked to join. The SEC gave a corporate speak response that basically said not now but hang in there. Sticking points appear to be exit penalties by A&M to the Big 12, keeping its game against Texas and most importantly having a moving buddy to keep an even number of teams in the league. Likely buddies? Clemson, Florida State and Mizzou are on top of most lists.   

Another star player went down over the week as RB Knile Davis of Arkansas suffered a severe ankle injury. Davis was the leading rusher in the SEC last year and was on the preseason Doak Walker, Maxwell and Walter Camp watch lists. His likely replacement is Dennis Johnson who sat out last season with a bowel disorder. I can sympathsize - I suffered through most of my collegiate years with self inflicted bowel disorders.


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Only 3 Weeks to College Football

8/18/2011

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Kill Bubba Kill !!
Only 3 more weeks until College Football!!!  

But first - a moment of silence for the passing of Bubba Smith. Bubba was arguably the greatest DE to play college ball and was selected to Sports Illustrated All-Century team. And no - he is not best known for being Hightower in the Police Academy movies - he is best known for being a two time All American and for being the first overall selection on the 1967 draft (also the first combined draft between the AFL and NFL). He went on to be a two time All-Pro - winning a Super Bowl ring with the Colts in Super Bowl V over Dallas.
 
And if you want to win a bar bet ask which college team had the best  draft ever. Answer - Michigan State which had four of the first 8 draft choices in 1967 - starting with Bubba (#1 - Rams), Clint Jones RB (#2 - Minnesota), George Webster LB (#5 - Houston) and Gene Washington WR (#8 - also Minnesota)
 
With the season quickly approaching - I have updated the NCAA Div 1A and NFL Bettors Guides for the latest lines (the lines are now out for College Football week 1) and the Sagarin ratings for College. Click here to go to the latest spreadsheets
-  Handy Dandy Bettors Guide  


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One Month to College Football

8/11/2011

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The BBofG got a thorough Spring Cleaning
It's almost here. College football kicks off Thursday Sept 1st with 15 games and another 2 (including Michigan State taking on the Penguins of Youngstown State) on Friday.  

For those able to get to Vegas Baby! before the season starts - you can try your hand at playing the Over/Under on season wins for both College ball and the NFL.

In Div 1A some of the over/under lines are:

ALABAMA 10             NOTRE DAME  8.5      OKLAHOMA  10
TEXAS  8                   BOISE ST  10.5           MISSISSIPPI ST  7.5
LSU  9.5                    MIAMI FL  8                 STANFORD  9
OREGON ST 6.5        SOUTH CAROLINA  9   TCU  9
ARKANSAS  8.5        BYU  8.5                     TEXAS A&M  8.5
MISSOURI  7.5          GEORGIA  8.5             MICHIGAN ST  7.5
OKLAHOMA ST  8.5  AUBURN   6                NEBRASKA  9.5
TENNESSEE  6.5      FLORIDA ST  9.5         PENN ST  7.5
VIRGINIA TECH   10   NORTH CAROLINA  8  WISCONSIN  9.5
MICHIGAN  7             ARIZONA ST  8            UTAH  7.5
WEST VIRGINIA  9.5  NEVADA  8                 FLORIDA  7.5
UNLV  2.5                  USC  7.5

MSU at 7.5? QB Kirk Cousins is a 5th year senior and while they may not go 11-1 again they won't go below 8-4


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3 Months to VEGAS BABY!!

8/6/2011

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Who's that with the Video camera??
My 2-a-days are done! I have completed - not only the Handy Dandy Bettors guide for VEGAS BABY weekend (see attached) - but for every week of the season!!. Check out www.BigBookofGuesses.com under the tab 2011 Bettors Guide for every 2011 NCAA Div 1A and NFL matchup, record against the spread and lots of other cool info.

But first - you guessed it -
a trivia question.

 Who had the best record against the spread in 2010 in Div 1A and who had the worst? (answer below)

Friday night's festivities (that's 11/11/11) start with South Florida traveling to Syracuse. For the stat guys - Skip Holtz is an impressive 27-10-1 as an underdog including 16-6 ATS as a road dog.

Skippy may want to watch the sidelines during practices. That's because Syracuse University has hired Steve Scarnecchia -- former video director of the Patriots, Jets and Broncos -- to be the Orange's video coordinator this fall. Scarnecchia is best known for his run ins with the NFL.

 As a video director for the Patriots in 2007, Scarnecchia was involved in the infamous "Spygate" scandal in which the Patriots were found to have illegally videotaped signals of New York Jets coaches in 2007. He was later fired by the Broncos after it was discovered he videotaped a 49er's walk through prior to the teams' contest in London in 2010. The NFL fined the Broncos and head coach Josh McDaniels $50,000 each for the violation. 


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