General College Football 2013

[green]

The spread offense has killed the QB position in college football. Kids that 10 years ago would be moved to WR and DB are staying at QB because they are athletic.

I'm not saying it is a good or a bad thing, but it is the way it is. Look at some of the more hyped QB's around so far. Manziel throws a ton of picks. Keaton can't throw more than 15-20 yards. Mariotta isn't great with the deep ball. But they can all run.

Look at recent QB's in the NFL: RGIII, Kaep, Wilson. Same problems. Their best ability at QB is to run, or run around until the play breaks down and find an open guy.

Again, I'm not saying it is good or bad, but it is what it is. Toss in the fact that more kids want to play right away, instead of sit for a couple of years. Football is becoming more and more like basketball. The physicality is leaving the sport and offense is less about execution and more about moving one or two kids around to get them the ball in space and have them make plays on their own.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

College picks this week, starting with the PKM special:

Miss State -10 Kentucky
Marshall - 9.5 Middle Tenn
Buffalo + 7 Kent State
SMU - 10 Temple
Oklahoma State -13 Iowa State
Louisville -20 South Florida
Bowling Green -4 Toledo

 

[UGLI baby]

Bets I've got so far:

Arkansas St +3 vs Louisiana Lafayette

UCLA +23 @ Oregon

Stanford -5 @ Oregon St.

Tennessee +28.5 @ Alabama

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Those bigger lines looked off to me on first glance too. UCLA should be able to play better in an uptempo game.

 

[UGLI baby]

Those bigger lines looked off to me on first glance too. UCLA should be able to play better in an uptempo game.

Do you sportsbet a lot for real? I might get into it. (great life decision, I know)

Until this last week I had only sportsbet at Casinos and was just taking shots in the dark, now I'm trying to be smart and just take games I really like.

Went 5-2 last week so obviously I'm rich now and feeling bulletproof.

$2.99/week gets you access to all my picks.


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[Duck Rodgers]

Do you sportsbet a lot for real? I might get into it. (great life decision, I know)

Until this last week I had only sportsbet at Casinos and was just taking shots in the dark, now I'm trying to be smart and just take games I really like.

Went 5-2 last week so obviously I'm rich now and feeling bulletproof.

$2.99/week gets you access to all my picks.


£¥£

Good. We'll be setting dumpster fires in homeless encampments across Vegas together in 10 years when we lose our asses, I guess.

Yeah, I've been doing it for awhile. Mostly just for fun.

Edit: 2 good rules to stick to:

1) Always bet the same amount on every bet.

2) Have a certain amount that you can afford to lose in an account for a year and never add anything to it. Just play with house money or money you can lose. Not worth it to keep feeding the habit if you suck.

 

[UGLI baby]

Had a crazy sports betting day yesterday, almost every game came down to the last play.

I had....

Tennesee +28 LOSS
Maryland +17 WIN
UCLA +23 LOSS
Missouri -3 LOSS
Stanford -5 WIN

PARLAY-- St Louis Cardinals -105 & Over 7 total runs WIN

Hitting the parlay on the crazy ending of the WS game saved the day.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Oregon/Stanford tonight. Anybody think Stanford keeps it close?

 

[fishonjazz]

Oregon/Stanford tonight. Anybody think Stanford keeps it close?

No.

Oregon by 28

 

[UGLI baby]

No.

Oregon by 28

I'll take that bet.

 

[green]

Man. I want to say it is a close game, but then I think of all the weapons Oregon has and Stanford did lose to Utah...Oregon by 17. I think Oregon wins easily, but takes the foot off the pedal early to not make Stanford look silly.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang. Stanford is manhandling them early. Just pushing them around. High powered Oregon hasn't even scored. It will be fun to see Oregon go into full blown panic mode in the 2nd half.