College football week 10 thread: Wild Horses

"How come you watched two sports instead of focusing on one" is also a wild take on a site called "Sports Journalists."

 

Jacksonville State - Liberty
99.1% of the country wouldn't lift the blinds of their bedroom window to watch that crap if they were playing next door. I took the @Cosmo route and we watched the game at a bar/restaurant. They certainly didn't have Jacksonville State - Liberty on the other tvs (they had NBA), but if they would have shown Jacksonville State - Liberty, I would have found the manager and requested they show Chive TV instead.

 

I dunno, man. When one of them is the deciding game of the World Series, I know where my attention is going. And I'm a G5 guy.

 

I got more than enough of RichRod ca. 2008-10 in Ann Arbor, thank you very much.

 

Games I like this week:
• Ole Miss -7 at Arkansas — Ole Miss is at least on the same level as LSU, which choked out and overran Arkansas. Transitive property holds here.

• Northwestern PK Purdue — What am I missing here? Does Northwestern have a QB injury or something? Purdue has played one good half of football since Week 1, and this line has gone from Northwestern -2 to a Pick’em over the course of the week. Something smells fishy.

• Army -22 at Air Force — Once again, Air Force is one of the worst FBS teams in the country. A 22-point spread seems low.

• Vanderbilt +7/ML at Auburn — Still no respect for Vandy? Their loss, our gain. A +210 moneyline is really juicy as well.

• North Carolina -2.5 at Florida State — North Carolina is perfectly average, but Florida State has to be in the “let’s get this over with” stage of the season, right?

• Indiana -7.5 at Michigan State — There are a handful of decent to good teams that are getting great spreads week after week and Indiana (7-1 ATS, all as a favorite, with five single-digit spreads) is one of them. Michigan State seems to be its usual mediocre self. I'm staying on the Hoosier train.

And some games I want to like, but can’t:
• Illinois +3 vs. Minnesota — I was getting on board with Illinois a couple of weeks ago, but now I’m spooked. The second-half meltdown against Purdue and the blowout loss at Oregon are red flags I will not ignore.

• UCLA +6.5 at Nebraska — I really like UCLA this season as the Big Ten team that sucks but grinds out close losses, but I’d like this better if it nudged back over seven points. Oddly, I do think it’s a decent flyer as a money line bet.

• Wyoming +8 at New Mexico — If this game was at 9 p.m. I’d probably be all over it. At 2:30 it’s probably a pass. I kind of like Wyoming, which has gotten a gritty vibe to them recently, but it would probably be more palatable as a double-digit line.

• Oregon -14.5 at Michigan — Should be a blowout, and Oregon is starting to look legit — which means it’s just about time for them to struggle to a 28-14 win in which they give up a touchdown with about seven minutes left, then drive down the field and take a knee at the Michigan 5-yard line to run out the clock.

• South Carolina +2.5 vs. Texas A&M — Texas A&M caught lightning in a bottle by inserting Marcel Reed at QB against LSU. I think, with a week to prepare, South Carolina’s defense is good enough to cause him more problems. That said, Texas A&M might just be pretty damn good. I want to like South Carolina here, but it might be too much of a toss-up to pick a side.

 

Midweek MACtion doesn't start until next week, and nobody sane will pay attention to college basketball until conference play starts.

 

Said what I said.

 

On this spookiest of nights, I hope all children can learn from the wisdom of their elders:

The best part of any Mike Leach diatribe is there's always a tell that he's considering the question seriously, and in this case, it's "There's still candy innovation."

 

To avoid political ads between innings?

 

When’s the last time Michigan was a 2-TD home dog? Was Fielding “Hurry Up” Yost coaching?

 

His teams never lost. But back in the mid-'60s, before Bo, Michigan was in a bad way.