Welcome to Act II's patent-pending FOLLOWING FOOTBALL predictions for the American weekend of football just underway - and if the games are anything like that weird Boise/BYU game last night (teams that go minus five in turnovers are 9-231 over the last thirteen years...the ninth was last night!), it'll be a treat!
NFL GAMES this weekend:
Seattle @ Arizona: we have the Cards as two point favorites, just about what Vegas has...
Baltimore @ NY Jets: take the Jets - 1. We have them by six.
Buffalo @ Miami: we think the Bills should cover the -2.5...
Houston @ Denver: poor Brock.
Oakland @ Jacksonville: Ironically, Vegas doesn't like its new team; we do. Take the Raiders to win.
NY Giants @ LA: this is our biggest disagreement. The Giants are a mess. Odds favor them to win; we like the Rams by seven.
Our other favorites are Atlanta, Cincy, Detroit, KC, Minnesota, SF, and Tennessee.
Finally, our system doesn't understand that Tom Terrific was gone for four weeks and thinks Pittsburgh takes New England Sunday. Personally, I disagree, and so does Sin City.
KEY FBS GAMES this weekend:
NC State @ Louisville: the Cards aren't blowing good teams away; take the Wolfpack +20.
Michigan St (-3) @ Maryland and Northwestern (-1.5) hosting Indiana: take the favorites, big.
Oklahoma @ Texas Tech: the Red Raiders can keep it within the two TD spread. (I think.)
Middle Tennessee St @ Missouri (-7): We have the game as a toss-up. That's how far the Tigers have fallen.
Ol' Miss @ LSU (-6): The FOLLOWING FOOTBALL tiers say this is a toss-up, but our buddy Ed Orgeron's brought the Tiger offense to life. No bet from us.
Texas A&M @ Alabama (-16.5): If anything, we'll take the Tide and give the points. Against a top six team. Absurd. We actually think that spread's right.
Some other major Power conference games that we agree with the professionals on...Ohio St (-19.5) over Penn St...Wisconsin (-3.5) @ Iowa...Texas (+3.5) @ KSU...and Arkansas (+9.5) @ Auburn (although our tiers say it's more like a three point spread).
Lots of action in the AAC...
It's too late to tell you we liked Temple over USF...but we did. We also like Cincinnati (-1.5) over ECU by six; Navy (+3) over Memphis at home by four, and U Conn (+3.5) over UCF by two.
A few other Group of Five games... we'll take Akron (+2.5) over Ball St by that margin, Buffalo (+22) to cover easily at poor Northern Illinois, Nevada (+4) to upset Wyoming, and Texas St (+7) to at least cover if not defeat ULL.
No odds makers touch the FCS games, but here's our own odds for the games we're most interested in tomorrow...
Montana (-4) @ Northern Arizona...Monmouth (+10) @ Liberty...New Hampshire (even) @ Towson...ND State (-6) @ Western Illinois... 3-0 Youngstown St (+5) @ 3-0 SD State... Duquesne (even) @ St. Francis (PA)...Jacksonville St (-6) @ Eastern KY...The Citadel (-3) @ Wofford...Sam Houston St (-11.5) @ upstart Nicholls St... Harvard (+1) @ Princeton...Jackson St (+6) @ Texas Southern...
Enjoy your weekend, football lovers! Last week, we went 23-25 in the college ranks, and split 7-7 in the pro ranks with comparison to the professional oddsmakers. (As always, please remember that any betting you do is at your own risk. We don't bet on our own predictions; we sure don't recommend YOU do!)
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