Tag: college football

  • Week 7 NCAA Football: Games that will and won’t suck

    Week 7 NCAA Football: Games that will and won’t suck

    So continuing from where we left off last week, let’s see how we did in our predictions: Suck: Baylor 66, Kansas 7  Result: Mega Suck Ole Miss 52, New Mexico State 3. Result: Mega Suck Texas 24, Oklahoma 17. Result: Totally Not Suck Not suck: Tennessee 38, Georgia 31.  Result: Not Suck Clemson 43, Georgia Tech 24. Result: Suck Notre Dame 41, Navy 24.  Result: Suck I…

  • Betting against my alma mater: Week 6 (I should sell this system)

    Betting against my alma mater: Week 6 (I should sell this system)

    After me questioning my experiment last week, Minnesota came in to Ross Ade as 3.5 point favorites (the line was actually somewhere in the 3.25 point range, since it paid back at -105 instead of the normal -110). I thought perhaps the tides had turned when Purdue took the first drive to the house (and…

  • Betting against my alma mater: Week 5 (Regression to the mean?)

      It finally happened, after going 0-3 ATS, Purdue finally covered.   I do have to say I didn’t see it coming, as the Spartans took a 21-0 lead into the locker room at half time, but in the most uncharacteristic of Purdue moves, Purdue fought back (though perhaps the driving rain bogged down Michigan…

  • Betting against my alma mater: Week 4 (oh my God, it keeps happening)

    So we’re now in week 4 of me betting against Purdue and I’m alarmed I’m doing this well, but at least today I got to see the beginning of the end. Purdue once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, losing by 7 to the Bowling Green Falcons.  This was Purdue’s 2nd MAC loss…

  • Betting Against My Alma Mater, Week 3

                        As I mentioned in an earlier post, this year I will be (ok, I will probably forget at some point) betting against Purdue every week of the season.  For now I’m giving them the line, but I reserve the right to change that once I…

  • I’m betting against my alma mater every week this year

    The NCAA doesn’t read this site, I’m sure.  And they wouldn’t want to, because this year I’m going to focus even more heavily on gambling on NCAA Sports.  The reason?  It’s legal here in Germany, and I find it really ironic that the NCAA is taking a stance against making money on college players. So…