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- 0:07Hello everybody. Welcome to episode two of
- 0:10Targeting Winners, Your home for successful college football
- 0:13betting. Play along with us, grow your
- 0:15bankroll, have some fun and we are here.
- 0:17Today we're going to talk about the Big 12 and the PAC 12.
- 0:22If you want to see or hear in this case what we did on our
- 0:25last podcast, you can check us out on Spotify, on Apple,
- 0:28Google, iheart. And you'll see our picks for the
- 0:31for the playoffs and our best bet for the playoffs and the
- 0:33teams to make it. And we're going to move into the
- 0:37Big 12 and the PAC 12. I think we'll do the PAC 12
- 0:40first and we're going to go into to over to Darren.
- 0:45We're going to shoot it over here.
- 0:46Obviously with USC, they're probably the early favorite to
- 0:50win the PAC 12. How do you see things going out
- 0:52so far? Yeah, the PAC 12 to me looks
- 0:55like a pretty pretty top heavy conference here.
- 0:58I think the four best quarterbacks, no coincidence
- 1:01just happened to be on the top four teams here.
- 1:05You know, I'm not sure how you break down these conferences,
- 1:07but when I look to to make a bet here for a conference champion,
- 1:10I'm just trying to find the two teams that are going to get
- 1:13there and just try and basically bet on the one with with the
- 1:17higher odds so. Yeah, I'm looking at the
- 1:20breakdown here. Pretty much neared it down to
- 1:22probably the same for that you did USC, Utah, Washington and
- 1:25Oregon. I did take a little bit of a
- 1:29look at Oregon State and UCLAI. Don't know what your thoughts
- 1:32are there, but Oregon State. I can't trust DJ Ugalele
- 1:36transferring over from Clemson until he shows me something.
- 1:40UCLA losing Dorian Thompson, Robinson.
- 1:43They very well could be starting a freshman at QB.
- 1:47And then again, like I said, the top 4QB's in this conference or
- 1:50head and shoulders above everybody else.
- 1:51I don't know if you had any thoughts on on the Beavers or
- 1:54the Bruins for this year. Oh, not so much for the Bruins.
- 1:59I'm not. I'm really down on them this
- 2:00year. One thing I noticed something
- 2:04else We disagree on you. I'm a Southerner now.
- 2:06So it's Oregon down here, I guess up there it's Oregon.
- 2:09So that's. I did not major in English, so I
- 2:13apologize. Definitely wouldn't.
- 2:16No, I'm still more leaning towards either USC if they can
- 2:20outscore everybody because their defense is very suspect and God
- 2:25forbid if they get hit with some injuries, they're really going
- 2:26to be in a in a tough spot. The second-half of their
- 2:30schedule is pretty brutal after the bye week.
- 2:34So I'm staying away from UCLA. I'm going to stay away from
- 2:37Oregon, even though it's, you know, they're a flashy team.
- 2:41But I for my money, I like the four to one odds on Washington.
- 2:46They had seven starters coming back on offense, 7 coming back
- 2:49on defense. Quarterback is coming back,
- 2:52which is very important. If the defense steps up a little
- 2:56bit, even just a little bit, they are going to improve a lot
- 3:00and I think they can sneak up and get some teams and the
- 3:03schedule looks pretty good. I believe they have Oregon at
- 3:06home, so I I'm seeing Washington at least getting to the game and
- 3:12once they get to the game, all bets are off.
- 3:14And I like the offenses here. I think they could outscore if
- 3:17they hold. If they hold, you know, USC to
- 3:2038 points, I can see them winning, you know, 4838,
- 3:24something like that. So that's where I'm, that's
- 3:26where I'm leaning towards Washington at 4:00 to 1:00.
- 3:29Yeah, I mean that's that's that's an excellent bet.
- 3:31You make some good points there. The only the only thing that I
- 3:36couldn't put Washington, I I mean, I agree that USC is going
- 3:38to be one of the two teams. I mean, they've got the reigning
- 3:40Heisman Trophy winner and I think all around they have the
- 3:43best team. Even though, like you said,
- 3:45their defense is is a little suspect, the thing with Utah and
- 3:50their defense, I mean it's really, really good And they've
- 3:54got 9 starters coming back on that side of the ball.
- 3:57We all know what they can do to USC and while everybody doesn't
- 4:02really think of them for offense, they actually average
- 4:04only one point less a game than Washington did.
- 4:06So I mean, offensively they can hang.
- 4:09But then again, this team last year did lose to Oregon State.
- 4:11They did lose to UCLA. You know, I I couldn't trust
- 4:15them on a on a week to week basis.
- 4:18So yeah, I couldn't think of who to put in there with USC but you
- 4:23certainly make some good points with Washington.
- 4:25But me, myself, I did pass on that.
- 4:28You know we don't ever tell everybody who'll listen to us.
- 4:30Don't ever force a bet just to have some action.
- 4:33I I couldn't bring myself to to get it down to two teams.
- 4:36So I did pass on this conference.
- 4:39Right. Yeah.
- 4:39Utah has a habit of sneaking up on people.
- 4:41I don't think they'll they'll win it, but they'll they'll ruin
- 4:43it for somebody. They'll ruin the party.
- 4:46They're not going to be the life of the party.
- 4:48But yeah, and they've won it the last two years, so it's hard to
- 4:52bet against them. But and yeah, they'll probably
- 4:55prove everybody wrong. They'll win it again.
- 4:57And you. Know well, I hope not for your
- 5:00sake. You got?
- 5:01Yeah, right. I want to get my money.
- 5:03I want to get my 4:00 to 1:00, but.
- 5:06Yeah, I'm sticking with Washington.
- 5:08I think the offensive is too explosive and the defense just
- 5:11has to improve marginally at best.
- 5:13Yeah, and they actually have a little bit of a schedule
- 5:15advantage over Utah. Also, they they get home games
- 5:18with Oregon and Utah. Their only Rd. game is at USC,
- 5:22whereas Utah's only home game, you know, and talking about
- 5:25these other BIG4, of course. So Utah's only home game is
- 5:27Oregon. I think Oregon's A-Team I trust
- 5:29the least out of the four. That's probably a Bow Nicks
- 5:32thing. But they do have to go to USC
- 5:34and Washington as well, so. I can totally see it being USC
- 5:39Washington, and I do hope for your sake that at 4:00 to 1:00
- 5:41odds, the Huskies come home for you.
- 5:44It'll be interesting to see with Lincoln Riley once again how
- 5:47many points they actually can score at USCI.
- 5:50Don't think they're going to improve enough to to to
- 5:53outscore. They're not going to outscore
- 5:54everybody. They're going to get stopped.
- 5:56And yeah, I can't, I can't say enough.
- 5:59For me, the easiest bet Washington at 4:00 to 1:00.
- 6:04Yeah, I mean, I you've said nothing that would make me want
- 6:06to disagree with you. Much of the entertainment of
- 6:08who's ever listening. I and I I can't.
- 6:12Part of me wants to. But yeah, I I I can't.
- 6:14I I will be staying up late rooting for Washington every
- 6:17week, because if you didn't bet for them, I'd be in bed by 8:00
- 6:20PM. But, you know, now I guess I
- 6:22can't. So, yeah, go Huskies.
- 6:25Right. Go Huskies, here we go.
- 6:26Get that money. So, all right, well, that that
- 6:29was pretty easy. The next conference is not going
- 6:31to be so easy. The Big 12.
- 6:35Is the dumpster fire. I do not like this at all.
- 6:38It's so hard to pick. I can't see one standout team.
- 6:41You can make arguments against every team.
- 6:45So what's your strategy here looking at the Big 12, All
- 6:48right? First of all, we don't call it a
- 6:50dumpster fire. We call this a betting
- 6:52opportunity. So let's, you know, let's be a
- 6:54little more upbeat about the the fire here that we're talking
- 6:56about. And you're correct, you can poke
- 6:58holes in any of the 14 teams that make up this conference.
- 7:02However, the one with the fewest holes by far are the Texas
- 7:06Longhorns at plus 1/20. I think that this number is
- 7:09correct. You know they don't have Bijon
- 7:12Robinson coming back, but that's okay.
- 7:14The other ten offensive starters are running back.
- 7:17Usually is a little easier to replace.
- 7:19Although I don't think you can really replace a Bijon Robinson
- 7:23defense has seven people coming back as well they they've
- 7:25probably got the strongest position groups of every
- 7:29position group in the conference I.
- 7:32Can totally see them getting to the conference title game now.
- 7:36They haven't won it since 2009, I believe so.
- 7:39I mean, I don't know what it is they get to the end and for
- 7:41whatever reason they just can't get to the to the last two.
- 7:44But I think a lot of this conference has weakened a little
- 7:48bit. You know, the next 5 betting
- 7:51choices are on their schedule, but I think they're a lot deeper
- 7:54and more talented than than just about all those teams.
- 7:56So I do have them. As much as I hate picking the
- 7:59favorites, I do have them. Making up one 1/2 of the
- 8:04conference title game here. As far as the rest, like you
- 8:09said, everybody else has got their money on Oklahoma, it
- 8:12looks like plus 350. I just need to see something
- 8:16from the defense here. I mean, it's as simple as that.
- 8:18I've been. It's preventable.
- 8:19Second year last year, they started off great.
- 8:24Dylan Gabriel got hurt. He missed two games, but even
- 8:27when he came back, you know they still lost five others that he
- 8:30was part of. So you know, this is all on the
- 8:33defense. They brought in a lot of
- 8:34transfers. If the defense steps up, yes,
- 8:37sadly it'll be Texas and Oklahoma and I won't really
- 8:39care. But until I see them actually
- 8:43play some defense, I, you know, I'm, I'm not picking them to win
- 8:48it. I am a little curious about your
- 8:51thoughts with Texas and Oklahoma.
- 8:53You know, we all know they. Petition to get out of this
- 8:56conference and go to the SEC. Now they're leaving a year
- 8:59early. I think there's maybe a little
- 9:02something to these teams given Texas and Oklahoma their best
- 9:06shot and then some when they come to town.
- 9:08What do you think there's anything to that or am I just
- 9:09nuts? Oh, if there's a lot to that, I
- 9:12think especially the fan bases, I think they're going to be, you
- 9:16know, dial it up. Dial up to 11 Spinal Tap.
- 9:19Just crank it up there one more. You know, every whiteout game,
- 9:23every pack, the house game, every whatever game is going to
- 9:26be for Texas is going to be for Oklahoma.
- 9:30Yeah, they're they're going to want to leave them with a little
- 9:32parting gift. I don't think as far as Texas is
- 9:37concerned, they're going to get too many parting gifts, but I'm
- 9:40sure Oklahoma is going to get more than a few.
- 9:42I'm kind of down on them this year.
- 9:45Part of the reason of my dumpster fire analogy here is
- 9:48that you've got four teams that are just joining.
- 9:51So you kind of are moving up in class.
- 9:54I guess you can say you've got two teams.
- 9:57You know you have Baylor and you have Kansas that are pretty much
- 10:00one man shows. You know you got Jalen Daniels
- 10:03in Kansas. If if he didn't get hurt last
- 10:05year, who knows. But he was playing out Santa.
- 10:08He was carrying the team. You know Richard Reese down at
- 10:13Baylor, he's he's going to be. You know Super Steve, probably
- 10:16the next be John Robinson. Even though even though Texas
- 10:18lost be John Robinson, you're going to see all the fantasy
- 10:21football dynasty players clamoring for that pick and he's
- 10:24losing that that great of a player.
- 10:26But they still have the offensive line coming back.
- 10:27They got think they have four of the five starters for Texas and
- 10:32they know how to coach their offensive lineman down there in
- 10:34Texas. So plenty of pancakes to go
- 10:36around for everybody. As far as Houston, one of the
- 10:40new teams, I think they'll be the best of the four new teams.
- 10:44But I'm not. I'm not putting, I think Gus
- 10:47Mazon's going to need a couple couple seasons in the Big 12.
- 10:54You know maybe K State I think will probably be.
- 10:58I think it ultimately it'll be probably K State and Texas.
- 11:03But I don't see the lines big enough to, to put it put a bet
- 11:07down. I'm going to pass on this one.
- 11:08I don't, like you said before, I don't want to force a bet.
- 11:11Similar to the racetrack, you know, I'm sitting there in the
- 11:13first race, I'm like, well, how about I pick three, I pick four,
- 11:15pick six, and then all my money's gone because I forced
- 11:18it. So I'm going to lay off the Big
- 11:2012. I know you said you had a bet in
- 11:22mind, but you haven't mentioned it yet.
- 11:24I have not. I'm just going to take a SEC
- 11:25here and go through some of the the holes I poked and all these
- 11:29other contenders here just real quick.
- 11:30So I don't want to, you know, have this get boring here, but
- 11:34Kansas State, third betting choice of plus 450.
- 11:38Deuce, Vaughn's gone. I mean, that's going to be a lot
- 11:40harder to replace then, then, then it's going to be to replace
- 11:43Bijon Robinson. I mean, he just did everything
- 11:45for them, so I don't like them. Texas Tech again, they've
- 11:50they're already given up almost 30 points a game last year with
- 11:53only five starters coming back on defense.
- 11:55And again, three of their wins last year came in overtime.
- 11:59That kind of stuff usually isn't sustainable from one year to the
- 12:01next. A lot of time that that flips.
- 12:04Baylor at plus 1600 Also something similar.
- 12:07Only 5 defensive starters coming back and only 12 total which is
- 12:11actually tied for the third lowest in this conference and
- 12:13only one of those is on the offensive line.
- 12:15You know how I love as many offensive lineman coming back as
- 12:18possible. TCU also at plus 1600.
- 12:23Again they came from behind a lot of times last year and you
- 12:26know only 10 starters total. Granted, they did make the
- 12:30national championship game last year, but just a lot of losses,
- 12:33including offensive coordinator Garrett Riley.
- 12:36And if you listen to our first show, you'll know how much I
- 12:39love him going to Clemson anyway.
- 12:41I mean, they'll still be a competitive team, but they're
- 12:44not going 11 and one here. You had touched on Kansas.
- 12:50I think the odds certainly kind of reflect how bad they are
- 12:53defensively. They're at plus 3500.
- 12:56They started off great five and O.
- 12:58If you had a over on their win total bet from last year, which
- 13:01was 2 1/2, you catch that by the third week of September.
- 13:05Congratulations. But they also finished one and
- 13:08seven and their defense does not look to be any better.
- 13:13And I'm just going to rip you off a few numbers here.
- 13:15How bad they are defensively. The last eight games they
- 13:18allowed 38523516, and that was to an Oklahoma State team
- 13:23without Spencer Sanders, 435547 and then 55 in the bowl game.
- 13:29All right, so this, this defense is not good.
- 13:32It's not getting better. They go to Texas.
- 13:35They also have to play Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Kansas State.
- 13:40Yeah, that. That schedules brutal.
- 13:42So, yeah, so I mean, we touched on the returning starter
- 13:44concerns on on a handful of teams here, some schedule
- 13:47concerns that I have for some of these top teams.
- 13:51Just quickly. Kansas State goes to Texas Tech
- 13:53and Texas. They also have to play TCU and
- 13:56Baylor. Again, Texas Tech has to go to
- 13:59Baylor and Texas and then they have to play Kansas State at
- 14:01home. Baylor's got to go to K State
- 14:04and TCU, even though I don't think TCU is going to be great,
- 14:07but still. And then home against Texas and
- 14:09Texas Tech. And then TCU at K State, at
- 14:12Texas Tech, at Oklahoma, home against Texas and Baylor.
- 14:15That's part of the reason I think TC is not going to be very
- 14:18good. So after poking all those holes,
- 14:21you may have noticed I left one team out and this team would
- 14:25happen to be my pick to win the Big 12 at an insane plus 5000.
- 14:31We need Jimmy Johnson because how about them Cowboys?
- 14:34That's right. The Oklahoma State Cowboys at
- 14:37plus 5000 is my pick to win the Big 12.
- 14:41So you know, and I think that these odds are this high because
- 14:44of how they finished last year. I mean, they were totally beat
- 14:47up. They lost their quarterback.
- 14:49They lost a lot of people on the defense due to injuries.
- 14:53I mean, this line just doesn't really make sense to me here.
- 14:56We all know Mike Gundy. Our favorite coach of all time.
- 15:01I'm a man. Darn right you are Coach Gundy.
- 15:05That boy can get offense out of anything.
- 15:07I mean, even with all the issues, they still averaged 30
- 15:09points a game last year, so I'm not worried about their offense.
- 15:13Alan Bowman coming in as a QB transfer?
- 15:15He's look good. This spring, Michigan State
- 15:18running back Elijah Missile transferred over to the Cowboys
- 15:21along with Holly Gordon. That'll be a solid RV combo.
- 15:24They did lose a lot of receivers, but their top
- 15:26receiver as far as receptions and yards go is back on the
- 15:29team. And even with the defense, as
- 15:32horrible as it was last year. Still, they only gave up 28
- 15:36points a game, which is better than, you know, Oklahoma and
- 15:38then Oklahoma's a + 350 second choice to to win the conference.
- 15:42So you know, despite the fact that you know, they lost a lot
- 15:47of people and they weren't healthy.
- 15:49You know, let's just take a peek at the schedule here.
- 15:51Now, we've talked about there's only 9 conference games.
- 15:53There's fourteen teams in this conference.
- 15:55Some people have harder schedules than others.
- 15:57So the teams with the five highest betting odds, Iowa
- 16:01State, BYU, Cincinnati, West Virginia and Houston, that's
- 16:05five of the nine games for the Cowboys this year.
- 16:07So that's possibly five wins. Also, they do have Oklahoma, but
- 16:14Oklahoma is a home game and they do have Kansas State.
- 16:17That's also a home game. So they don't have to play TCU,
- 16:20they don't have to play Baylor. And most importantly, they do
- 16:23not have to play Texas. So this schedule's nice.
- 16:27I think they're being overlooked because of the disaster they
- 16:29were at the end of last year. I know plus 5000 is probably
- 16:33like, you're crazy, It's not going to happen.
- 16:35But my thought is if they do get there, then that sets us up for
- 16:39a nice little hedge around the end of the season and and
- 16:42hopefully if Oklahoma State's playing well, we can get into
- 16:44that topic a few months down the road.
- 16:47But. Love the schedule.
- 16:49Love the coach. And most importantly, I love the
- 16:53schedule. If I didn't say that already,
- 16:54but they can. If they could stay healthy.
- 16:57Seven and two is certainly possible.
- 16:59And I think with all these teams beating up on each other, seven
- 17:02and two could easily represent this conference in the title
- 17:05game. So I already got it locked in.
- 17:08I I have Oklahoma State at plus 5000 to win this conference.
- 17:13Yeah, that's true. All they have to do is get in
- 17:14the game. You know they make it to the
- 17:16championship game and then all bets are off there sort of speak
- 17:19but you know Ashley would be putting a hedge on but but you
- 17:24know, who know, who knows what can happen one game one night
- 17:28Oklahoma State. Yeah, the Oklahoma State
- 17:32Oklahoma game. Huge rivalry game that's that's
- 17:34in Stillwater. So Oklahoma's got to come to to
- 17:37the Cowboys house. You know, I think the other Rd.
- 17:40game is Kansas. We already talked about how.
- 17:42How. For their defenses, I It's set
- 17:46up if they can stay healthy. I know that's probably the same
- 17:48for every team on the planet, but I just think they're those
- 17:53odds are way too high considering what their
- 17:54schedule's like. I mean, Gundy's been there,
- 17:56what, 9. It's his 19th season.
- 17:58I think the next longest has been like 8 years.
- 18:01So I mean this guy's got a coaching advantage over
- 18:04everybody else and the dude can get offense out of whatever he's
- 18:07got out there. So you know, she's just stay
- 18:10healthy. Enjoy this nice easy schedule
- 18:12that you got. At least go seven and two, man.
- 18:15Give me give me some reason to glow, I think.
- 18:17That'll get them in together. I think it will.
- 18:19I think a lot of these, I think Texas could easily go 8 and one
- 18:22or nine and oh, which means all these other teams that play
- 18:25Texas are going to have a loss. You know, I think your K State,
- 18:29your Baylors, your Texas text, they're all gonna end up beating
- 18:31each other and you know, seven and two could easily get it
- 18:34done. So that's what I'm hoping for.
- 18:37Also nice reference here to Jimmy Johnson.
- 18:40Well, you know, I've been a Cowboys fan for a long, long
- 18:43time. I'm a Homer.
- 18:45Well, yeah, but I mean, I didn't.
- 18:47I have nothing really in love with Oklahoma State other than
- 18:50when I saw the plus 5000, you know, my chin hit the floor.
- 18:53But I was like, you know what's funny?
- 18:55When I, when I bet this one of the other books had the same
- 18:59number, they actually dropped to 4000.
- 19:01So two of our three books are sitting at 4000 instead of two
- 19:04of them sitting at 5000, so. Glad I got the bed in when I did
- 19:08because. Maybe it was your bet that shut
- 19:10the line. Well, I doubt that.
- 19:12But maybe Jimmy Johnson through. Maybe Gundy's got something.
- 19:14On There you Go another another Homer reference.
- 19:17Yeah, even though I'm sitting here with my Florida State
- 19:19kool-aid that my name Marty said I was drinking last last
- 19:22podcast. So Marty, cheers.
- 19:24Here's to you, man. You.
- 19:25Were drinking. Like I said, at least you backed
- 19:27it up with facts. So I mean, I got, I gotta give
- 19:29you that. It's not.
- 19:30You're just not like you were sitting there with, you know,
- 19:31with the headdress on and you had a big spear that was on fire
- 19:36and you chucked it at the laptop or anything, so.
- 19:38You know that my wife would advise against.
- 19:41Yeah, she would Chuck it at you. And then I'd be doing this solo
- 19:43and that's no fun. All right.
- 19:46So that's our, that's our breakdown here.
- 19:48So let's do a quick recap of what we did.
- 19:50Nice small recap this week here, so.
- 19:53I have a one unit play on Oklahoma State and again I did
- 19:56get plus 5000 that is still currently available at
- 19:59DraftKings and Tim has a one unit play on Washington at plus
- 20:03400. We got that at that Rivers.
- 20:06The other books we were using are you like plus 340 + 375.
- 20:10So shop around for the highest number you can get.
- 20:14If you've got that Rivers, they're still offering plus 400.
- 20:18Nice. Well that you know this is going
- 20:20to be one of our shorter podcasts only we're only what
- 20:231520 minutes in. So that's a sounds like a good
- 20:27spot to wrap up. I think next time let's go into
- 20:30the group of five, we've got the five conferences going on so it
- 20:35would be good. A lot of interesting plays on
- 20:37teams moving around, teams moving in, teams moving out so.
- 20:43And just one more point I'd like to bring up.
- 20:45If you're wondering, hey, you forgot about the SEC, the ACC in
- 20:47the Big 10, we actually didn't. If you want to go back and check
- 20:51out our first show, episode one, our national championship
- 20:55futures, a lot of the teams we covered were from those 3
- 20:57conferences, and we really didn't see anybody beating them.
- 21:00So we're not betting on those 3 conferences either.
- 21:03So we just, we just covered the other Power 5, the other two
- 21:07Power 5 conferences on this show to end up covering everything,
- 21:10so. These are the only two
- 21:12conferences we actually feel good about making a bet on.
- 21:15So, all right, well, we're going to wrap it up here.
- 21:18We are getting close to, I think we're 50 days away from college
- 21:22football. So I hope everyone has a good
- 21:24night. Thank you all for listening and
- 21:26we'll see you next week.