Thursday, December 8, 2016

Intermission - glancing at football's slowest weekend

Except for the Army/Navy game (the FOLLOWING FOOTBALL calculators say that game has a sixteen point spread, but Vegas is probably right at six taking the loss of their QB and RB into account), the only college games are the FCS quarters:
>> Eastern Washington over Richmond by 8 (Sagarin says it's twenty; I disagree).
>> James Madison over Sam Houston St by 4.5 (Sagarin cuts that in half, and my guts like SHS)
>> ND State over SD State by 7.5 (Sagarin pushes that to 11.5, and they may be right)
>> Youngstown St over Wofford by 7 (Sagarin says it's just 3.9 - I'd disagree, but then I thought Wofford would lose both of the last two rounds. PS - listen to Wofford's radio team - they're great!)

Meanwhile, the NFL has some semi-interesting games, tonight's Oakland/KC game tops among them (we say KC by four; Vegas says by three). Here are the rest...
>> Arizona @ Miami (we like the Cards by two; Vegas likes the Dolphins)
>> Atlanta @ LA (Falcons by six)
>> Chicago @ Dettroit (Lions by 8.5 or 9)
>> Cincinnati @ Cleveland (Bengals by 6 or 7 - by the way, not only are the Browns 0-12, they're only 2-10 against the spread)  
>> Denver @ Tennessee (we say Broncos by three, Vegas likes Tennessee by half a point)
>> Houston @ Indy (Colts by three, Vegas says it's six - I think that's because the Jets lay down)
>> Minnesota @ Jacksonville (this time we have the Vikes by six while Vegas says three)
>> New Orleans @ Tampa (Tampa by 2.5 in Vegas; we'll double it)
>> NY Jets @ San Francisco (we see a tie; Vegas actually like the Niners by one. Really?)
>> Pittsburgh @ Buffalo (we think Buffalo by two; Vegas disagrees)
>> San Diego @ Carolina (we all think Panthers by one)
>> Seattle @ Green Bay (Seahawks by three)
>> Washington @ Philadelphia (we think the Eagles win; Vegas disagrees)
>> Dallas @ NY Giants (Cowboys by two or three)
>> Monday night, Baltimore @ New England (Pats by 7).  

Made some headway in the battle against Vegas' picks last week, winning by two, but we're still trailing by eighteen for the season (most of which came from two weeks ago, when we just won one game!). Here's hoping!

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