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CBB Princeton +1
CFB Penn St +8.5 (-1.10)
CBB Princeton +1
CFB Penn St +8.5 (-1.10)
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128 Indiana 7.5(-110) SportsInteraction vs 127 Wisconsin double-dime bet
138 Miami (Ohio) 6.5(-110) 5dimes vs 137 Kent St. double-dime bet
209 Navy -1.0(-110) Bookmaker.com vs 210 Troy double-dime bet
160 New Mexico St. 22.0(-110) 5dimes vs 159 San Jose St. double-dime bet
163 West Virginia 9.5(-110) 5dimes vs 164 Oklahoma St. triple-dime bet
115 Maryland 31.5(-110) bodog vs 116 Clemson double-dime bet
ML 157 Wyoming (-130) 5dimes vs 158 New Mexico triple-dime bet
196 Texas State 20.5(-110) 5dimes vs 195 Louisiana Tech triple-dime bet
203 Mississippi St 15.0(-110) 5dimes vs 204 LSU double-dime bet
166 TCU 7.5(-110) Justbet vs 165 Kansas St. double-dime bet
206 Nevada 3.5(-110) bodog vs 205 Fresno St. triple-dime bet
196 Texas State 20.5(-110) 5dimes vs 195 Louisiana Tech triple-dime betComment
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Kelso
10 Units
Wake Forest (+7½) over Nc State
3:00 PM -- Carter-Finley Stadium
Wake Forest (5-4) +7.5 over N.C. STATE (5-4)
Prediction: N.C. State by 2-3
Played in Raleigh, North Carolina
Played at Carter-Finley Stadium (51,583) Grass
Weather: Clear, game-time temperature in 60s, relative humidity of 49% and no wind.
Starting Time: 3:00
TV: ESPN3
Comments: This is a game of two evenly-matched opponents and both will be looking for their sixth win in order to become bowl-eligible. They are also two teams headed in opposite directions. Wake Forest is playing its best football right now and, while struggling against top-flight teams, has held its own with teams of its talent level. In its last game, Wake Forest buried Boston College, 28-14, in a game in which several offensive records were set. Meantime, N.C. State has lost two straight, including a 33-6 homecoming loss last week to Virginia (3-6). The game before that it was a 43-35 loss at North Carolina. While comparative scores usually mean little, it is of note Wake Forest won 28-27 over North Carolina and knocked off Virginia, 16-10. Wake has a giant edge at the skill positions, always comes to play, and the figures say the Demon Deacons will take N.C. State right to the money and it would not surprise me one bit they won straight up.
Sunny. Winds blowing from the South at 5-10 m.p.h. Game-time temperature: Around 65.
15 Units
Texas A&m (+14) over Alabama
3:30 PM -- Bryant-Denny Stadium
Texas A&M (7-2) +14 over ALABAMA (9-0)
Prediction: Alabama by 6-7
Played in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Played at Bryant-Denny Stadium (101,821) Grass
Weather: Clear, game-time temperature in the high 40s, relative humidity of 44% and no wind.
Starting Time: 3:35
TV: CBS
Comments: There is a saying on Wall Street that “trees don’t grow to the sky”, meaning there is a limit to how high a stock will go before it starts to decline. In many respects that applies to Alabama. How much better can the Crimson Tide get? They are 9-0, the best defensive team college football has seen in quite some time and come into this game off a last-minute, draining gut-wrenching 21-17 win over LSU in a showdown battle that required everything they had to win. My figures say that victory was Alabama’s high point of the season, that it can play no better and that it will be less than 100% against Texas A&M today. This is not to suggest the Crimson Tide are overnight going to slide so far down their performance profile that they lose but it is going to require a strong effort to get by a surprisingly-good Texas A&M team today. A&M is getting better with each game it plays and could easily be undefeated. The Aggies lost twice at home, first to Florida, 20-17, and then to LSU, 24-19. Texas A&M starts a freshman quarterback—Johnny Manziel—who runs the hurry-up no-huddle offense better than anyone I have ever seen. Last Saturday, he led the Aggies, a 5-point favorite, to a 38-13 win at then-15th-ranked Mississippi State and in the process ran 98 plays that amassed 693 yards. It was the fifth time this season A&M has put more than 600 yards of offense in the bank. It also is of note the hurry-up offense creates big problems for teams such as Alabama, who run defensive specialists in and out of each game. Against it, they don’t have time to always do what they want to do. I look for Alabama to go to 10-0 today but everything tells me the defending national champions are going to be challenged just as they were against LSU.
Mostly sunny. Winds blowing from the South at 5-10 m.p.h. Game-time temperature: Near 70.
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10 Units
Notre Dame (-19) over Boston College
8:00 PM -- Alumni Stadium
Notre Dame (9-0) -19 over BOSTON COLLEGE (2-7)
Prediction: Notre Dame by 28-35
Played in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Played at Alumni Stadium (44,500) Artificial Turf
Weather: Mostly cloudy with 20% chance of rain, game-time temperature in low 40s-high 30s, relative humidity of 63% and no wind.
Starting Time: 8:05
TV: CBS
Comments: Notre Dame may still be recovering from last week’s triple-overtime win over Pittsburgh, 29-26, but the Irish have such superior talent they should still be able to run off and hide from the weakest team Boston College has put on the field in yeas. Boston College has won two games this season—both at home—against I-AA Maine (3-6), 34-3, and against Maryland (5-4), 20-17, when the latter had lost all its quarterbacks—and the Eagles were still life-and-death to win. Notre Dame has an excellent chance to play for the national championship it will continue to fire the big guns in this one in order to impress a national television audience that includes those who vote in the BCS forum. The Irish have already won on the road, in Dublin, Ireland, against Navy (6-3), 50-10, at Michigan State (5-5), 20-3, at Miami (5-4), 41-3, and at Oklahoma (6-2), 30-13. It is going to be a long night for Boston College.
Mostly cloudy. Winds blowing from the South at 5-10 m.p.h. Game-time temperature: Around 45.
College Game Of Week
50 Units
UCLA (-16½) over Washington St
10:30 PM -- Martin Stadium
UCLA (7-2) -16.5 over WASHINGTON STATE (2-7)
Prediction: UCLA by 28-31
Played in Pullman, Washington
Played at Martin Stadium (35,117) Artificial Turf
Weather: Partly cloudy, game-time temperature in mid 20s, relative humidity of 81% and wind out of the west-northwest at 7 miles per hour.
Starting Time: 10:35
TV: ESPN2
Comments: Nationally-ranked UCLA comes into this game off a 66-10 blowout win over a decent Arizona team has all the edges where it counts the most—in the number of blue-chip skill players, especially at the quarterback and running back positions, a defense that is really turning up the heat, an outstanding offensive line, excellent special teams and, last but not least, in coaching. Meantime Washington State, which has beaten only I-AA Eastern Washington, 24-20, and had to come from behind late to beat UNLV (2-8), 35-28, is a team in complete chaos. First-year coach Mike Leach, formerly of Texas Tech, seems to have lost his way and has recently said the team was made up of cowards, and that was right after he said the Cougars played with the enthusiasm of a corpse. Washington State’s best offensive player, wide-receiver Marquess Williams, quit the team this week after one of Leach’s degrading tirades. There is just nothing to like about this Washington State team that last week was blown out, 49-6, at Utah. Yes, I am aware UCLA plays its biggest rival, Southern California, next week but this is a hungry Bruin team and I do believe it will take care of business tonight.
Clear. Winds blowing from the Northwest at 5-10 m.p.h. Game-time temperature: Around 25.
100 Units
MiamiFlorida (+1½) over Virginia
12:00 PM -- David A. Harrison III Field at Scott Stadium
Miami (5-4) +1.5 over VIRGINIA (3-6)
Prediction: Miami by 9-10
Played in Charlottesville, Virginia
Played at Scott Stadium (61,500) Grass
Weather: Clear with game-time temperature in 50s, 53% relative humidity and no wind.
Starting Time: 12:05
TV: ABC
Comments: Miami opened as a 2-point favorite in this game and then big money poured in early on Virginia and the Cavaliers are now the favorite. Why, I do not know. The Hurricanes have played a tough schedule this season, losing at 2nd-ranked Kansas State (9-0), 52-13, at 4th-ranked Notre Dame (9-0), 41-3, and at home against 10th-ranked Florida State (8-1), 33-20. Against the weaker teams on its schedule Miami has played well and has shown a lot of class and grit in winning the close ones. Virginia won 33-6 as a 10 ½-point favorite at N.C. State, in a game that was a fluke. Miami should get it done today with a certain degree of ease.
Mostly sunny. Winds blowing from the Southwest at 5-10 m.p.h. Game-time temperature: Around 60
200 Units
Georgia (-15) over Auburn
7:00 PM -- Jordan-Hare Stadium
Georgia (-15) over AUBURN (2-7)
Prediction: Georgia by 35-42
Played in Auburn, Alabama
Played at Jordan-Hare Stadium (87,451) Grass
Weather: Clear with game-time temperature in the low 40s, relative humidity of 53% and no wind.
Starting Time: 7:05
TV: ESPN2
Comments: If you are an Auburn fan that got pumped up and excited last week when the Tigers buried New Mexico State, 42-7, everybody else, except I-AA Sacramento State, has done the same thing. New Mexico State is one of the worst teams in college football and I am certain Auburn practice sessions are harder on the team than was this game. Georgia is loaded with talent on both sides of the ball and grades out between five and six touchdowns better than Auburn—and comes into this game incentive-driven. A win in this game—the last SEC contest of the year for Georgia—and the Bulldogs advance to the conference championship contest and, with that, still have a chance to punch their ticket to the national championship game. You can look these teams over from top-top-bottom and analyze them until you are blue in the face and you cannot find a single edge for Auburn, except for the home field. For instance, Georgia starts junior Aaron Murray at quarterback who ranks second in the SEC in passing efficiency with a rating of 168.9. He has won 24 games as a starter and has 60 touchdown passes, with just 15 interceptions, and is the SEC’s active leader in total offense with 8,873 career yards. Auburn counters with freshman Jonathon Wallace who made his first career start against New Mexico State. This is the situation at almost every position in the Georgia vs. Auburn comparison. Wallace is going to find out quickly he’s not playing New Mexico State, a team that has little defense, giving up 464.2 yards per game. He will be running for his life in this one. I could go on and on as to why I like the Bulldogs to win in blowout fashion but I think you get the idea.
Sunny. Winds blowing from the Southwest at 5-10 m.p.h. Game-time temperature: Near 65.Comment
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