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Bowl Season Money: CFP and Bowl Game Best Bets · Targeting Winners: A College Football Betting Podcast

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Hello everybody, welcome to targeting winners first episode
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of 2026. Sadly to college football season
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is coming to an end for me, it's coming to a merciful end.
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So I'm always joined with by Darren and Peter.
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Darren, how you doing up there is warming up any at all?
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Yeah, it's above 15. You know, T-shirt weather,
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'cause you know, that's what we do up here.
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And I mean, you guys know you're from here originally.
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Anything over 10 T-shirts mandatory.
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Tank top. But yeah, glad to be here, man.
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And like you said, we're running out of, we're running out of
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season. We got a game going on as we're
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sitting here. We got a game coming up 4
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tomorrow and then like 3 more playoff games and then.
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Yeah, as we're recording, it's 3 nothing, Indiana with 13 minutes
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left in the second period. So Peter from the beach, from
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Mexico, you're backlit. You look like you're hiding from
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a drug cartel. What's going on?
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Is everything all right? That's what I'm doing.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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It's happy New Year, everyone Good to be here today.
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Yeah, Way, way late night. Very tired.
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Haven't been outside. It's beautiful out there, but
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I'm not going outside. So happy to be here doing this.
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And my New Year's resolution is to stop with the very bad picks
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and turn this thing around. So we'll see how that goes.
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So, so wait, wait, I have a question.
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So you're you're tired 'cause you made it to midnight, didn't?
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Get home to almost 55 AM so. What, like 11:00?
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I was done. Tim, you know we had a picture
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of Pete not making it to midnight that lives in targeting
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winners lore. I I I did not send that to you,
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but I've I've. Got it.
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If I had known you wanted the reference that I would have, I
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did. Not I, I mean I know, he said
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when do you want to record? The later the better.
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And I'm like, he can't make it till 12.
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He's old like we are. What is he doing?
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But good for you man, Congratulations because I was in
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bed 6 hours before you. No, never again.
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Bad idea. Don't do that.
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We're too old for that. Don't do it.
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Yes. One star do not recommend Oh,
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since we're on the topic my New Year's resolution, I'm not going
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to make so many futures bets. I think I got called out a
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little bit by one of the commenters on the YouTube video
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saying we didn't bet out any bets.
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So then I just went nuts and I think I made like 24 futures
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bets. That's that's high.
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That's a lot. So that and I think I'm going to
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resolve to not, I think I forced some bets this year, so I'm not
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going to try to get the three. If I only see one or two, then
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I'm only going to make one or two bets.
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That's also good for the bankroll.
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We cover that in bankroll management.
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Darren, your New Year's resolution.
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It's similar to one that I thought I was going to do last
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year because apparently I'm a moron.
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I didn't entirely stick to it and I I thought of this when I
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bet on Air Force thinking that they could actually beat Pete's
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Hawaii Rainbows even with their poor defense.
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Yeah, I decided right then and there, you know what?
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Stop betting on teams that have really, really bad defenses.
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And what did I do on the last show?
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2 of my 3 bets were on teams with shitty defenses.
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And how'd that work out? USC did not cover the 6 1/2 and
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tackled like a bunch of third graders on that game-winning
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touchdown by TCU. And then I bet on Duke, who I
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was fortunate to get a push out of that also an absolutely
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terrible defense. So as usual, I learned nothing.
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But I'm going to write that down.
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Yeah, I I just have to stop thinking the teams with bad
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defenses are going to do good things for my bankroll.
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So that's mine. We can see why you bet on Duke.
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They are the ACC champions and it just means more.
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Obviously I was. I had the wool pulled over my
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eyes. I actually thought that they
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could beat a team that had 19 people in the portal starting.
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Jeff Sims, valedictorian of Turnover University, and he
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looked like Joe Montana. So you know, Lucky likes Lucky
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to get the push out of that. But learn my lesson.
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I have a pending bet with Georgia tonight.
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For the most part they actually play defense so doesn't mean
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they'll cover but if they lose the bed probably they won't give
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up 50. But shit I just jinxed.
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I'm sorry. We both are playing the six and
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a half of Georgia. Yeah, no more teams with crappy
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defenses. Well, we are in bowl season,
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It's winding down and we did have our Bowl Mania contest.
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We're going to pull this up. We're getting down to the nitty
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gritty of it. I think we're down to the final
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five here. Darren, run us through it.
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Yeah, I know three of these people that are competing.
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There are a couple with 14 as well, but with our leader, our
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main man Jeff with 21. Yoga school.
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Yes. I mean, he was destined for
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greatness in this contest with that entry name.
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But yeah, so I just put the top five in there.
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Like I said, we got a game pending, We got a game going
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tonight, four. And then what, three more
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playoff games. So less than 10 games to go, I
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just kind of sent you the top five there.
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So Jeff's in the lead. Jay Williams, I think his name
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is Jeff also. Wouldn't swear to it.
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He's hanging in there two games behind Jeff Parley.
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Paul, long time original friend of the show who texted me a
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three team parlay that he did bet yesterday and I won't give
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it away, but he needs Alabama to win the game.
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So yeah, he's in there as well. Your boy Mattie Olson completing
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another successful fantasy football season from what I've.
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Heard last place. Yeah, well, at least he gets to
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participate in the first round of the draft this year and T
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Nelson hanging in there with 15. So those people still
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realistically have a shot, but it looks like it's a battle that
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Jeff's there as we head into the last few days of.
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Game we'll have a new champion, Swifty Scott not.
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Yeah, your your FSU hating friend is struggling a little
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bit this year and for anybody new to the show and first time
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in the contest I am ineligible so don't don't feel bad ESPN.
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You can't create a group apparently unless you create an
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entry. So whatever I'm in, just ignore
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that I'm one. Just drop all those numbers down
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1 and that's the actual. Stance like win Ben Stein's
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money but different. Exactly.
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You, you'll win all three of our money.
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But you know, Tim, you know how it is.
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You know we do the show sometimes you got to show why
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you're the people that do the show.
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So putting all those young whippersnappers in their place,
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'cause I believe last year I won this as well, but, you know, had
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to pay 'cause whatever. But yeah, I mean, at least I'm
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doing this, but you know, whatever.
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Thanks, USC, because you cost me in the in the pool as well, but
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I digress. But yeah, couple Jeffs heading
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into the heading into the home stretch with the best chance to
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win our. Money.
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All right, well, good luck to those two as we wind down to the
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editable season. I posted a question, you guys,
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in the text chat we had. Gronk had a bowl.
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Snoop Dogg had a bowl. Tony the Tiger had a bowl.
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Is there a person or a celebrity you would like to see have a
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bowl game and if so like what kind of bowl or what household
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product they we had the Dukes Mayo bowl.
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We had a mow lawnmower bowl. What would you like to see?
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Have you guys thought of anything or any any celebrity,
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any I don't want? I don't want the bowls to kind
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of go away. I, it seems to be like that's
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where all this is headed. But I mean, I don't know if you
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watched any of the Duke Arizona State game yesterday, but who
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doesn't want to jump in an huge inflatable bowl of Frosted
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Flakes? I mean, that's one of the best
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screenshots of bowl season. Was that Duke receiver doing the
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backsplash into the Frosted Flakes?
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I mean, we talk about motivation, but a lot of these
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bowl games mean something to these kids.
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And I and I hope that whatever the NCA does to to screw with
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the postseason, I hope they leave some of these bowl games
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because they are fun. Like I said, more often than
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not, the kids seem excited to play in them.
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I mean, yesterday in the Dukes Bowl, besides Frosted Flakes,
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you got a guy ejected for spitting on the ground.
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You had some other guy ejected for two unsports while I conduct
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tells you before halftime. So those people in the bowls
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don't matter camp, you're just, you're not watching, man 'cause
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these kids like to play. But yeah, I don't have anybody
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specific. I mean, I would love to have
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like a targeting winner's bowl, but, you know, maybe someday.
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So well, P do you have one or should I just go on and give I I
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just went all out. I had a brainstorm and I just
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went with it. I made a graphic.
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I think this would be like right up there with the Pop Tarts bowl
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and the Frost and Flakes bowl. Let's do yours.
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So if you're watching on YouTube again, thanks you please like
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and subscribe. I have the Weird Al Yankovic
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tofu bowl perfect. I mean, Can you imagine
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everything you could do? I I I had I made-up a little
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thing here and it's got quality lost state versus transfer
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portal A&M and the opening line is Portal A&M favored by 3 1/2
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with over under 62 1/2. I just think this screams with
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everything you could do with Weird Al.
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Like, could you imagine, like if Virginia Tech's playing in the
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game and they come out to Enter Sandman, like off to Never
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Neverland and then like, it's like a polka version of the
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songs, you know, have, I don't know, some random like Barry
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Manilow and David Hasselhoff working the chain gang or
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something? I mean, it'd be totally off the
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wall crap. I think this would be great.
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I think everyone would enjoy it. I'd know people who went to a
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concert with this guy who said it was like one of the best
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concerts that you've ever been to.
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He puts on a great show. I don't know your thoughts.
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I think this would be I think this would be a a Grand Slam
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family friendly. The whole family would like it.
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He's dancing with a rubber chicken in his graphics Some for
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some reason, I mean. Any thoughts on?
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How? You work with your drugs,
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people. This is how you work with your.
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Drugs. I know it's called dope for a
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reason but so oh. Indiana touchdown.
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It is now 9 to nothing. Extra point pending Charlie
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Becker, 21 yard reception TD. Another fraudulent SEC school
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getting ready to have their season end.
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No, come on, there are no bad teams.
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That's right, I forgot. They just don't care when they
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lose. I just hope they all have.
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Fun. That's right.
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When they win, it's an important bowl game.
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They're the best players in the world.
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When they lose, the bowl game is meaningless.
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So. Hey, I hope the Buckeyes had a
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great time losing yesterday. It was.
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It was just a damn shame to see them lose.
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I know you're like that. I haven't seen any pictures of
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anyone getting naked running around the beaches of Mexico, so
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I guess. By the way, can I just say Paul
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texted me last night and was really scared of seeing Pete run
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around naked on this week's show.
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So Paul was very happy when he tunes in to see that you at
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least have a shirt on. I can't see over you can't see
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for the bottom part of you, but at least you have an upper,
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upper article of clothing on which will make Paul very happy
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and probably make Tim and I very happy as well.
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But. All right, let's go into the
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bowls Tomorrow. We've got the Armed Forces Bowl,
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1:00, Fort Worth, TX, Texas State.
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It opened at 10 1/2, went to 11 1/2.
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I actually got it at 13 1/2 over under 59 1/2.
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Darren, let's start with you. What are you thinking about this
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game here? A lot of opt outs.
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Yeah, you may have not gotten the best number, but you still
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got a good one because Texas State is now laying 16 1/2 as
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well with the total sitting at 55 1/2.
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If you are a DraftKings guy. Yeah, I, I, I still like this
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number you got. I don't know if I would go any
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higher than this. I mean, Rice changed their
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offense. They're pretty much run first
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most of the time now. But the odd thing is Texas State
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actually has a better run stats than Rice does here.
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So not a successful offensive transition for Rice in 2025.
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Their quarterbacks in the portal.
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So that's obviously a huge problem for Rice should limit
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their scoring and for Texas State, their thousand yard
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rusher is actually playing in their thousand yard receiver.
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Both Sparks is supposed to play as well.
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So I like this one here. I I wouldn't touch it at 16 1/2,
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but yeah, if your number is is available anywhere, which I
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highly doubt at this point. Yeah, I do like Texas State
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here. I think Rice going to have tough
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time slowing them down and a tough time scoring as well.
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Yeah, I think Rice is showing up to a gunfight with a library
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card for this one backup quarterback if they're going to
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pass the ball about as much as, you know, Barry Switzer, the old
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wishbone teams in Oklahoma. So, and that's just not that
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much. I think it works for a little
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bit. I think they keep it close maybe
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for 1/4, but then I think Texas. State just pulls away.
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I think the match up is just too big of an advance for Texas
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State. I think that's the way it's
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going to go. They're going to pull away at
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the end and I don't mind even though it opened at 11, I don't
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mind laying the 13 1/2. Any final thoughts, Peter?
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Yeah, I agree with what you said.
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I mean, the total opened at 59 1/2.
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It's come down. I think you said it was 55 1/2
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now down or something like that. It's I thought about playing the
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under and that 59 1/2 just because, yeah, I don't know what
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Rice is going to do. I mean, Texas State's going to
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score. I don't, I don't know what Rice
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is going to do. I don't think Texas State's
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going to score almost 60 by themselves.
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So I thought it was a pretty good under play, but I decided
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not to play it just 'cause I just didn't know what's going to
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happen with the opt outs and all of that and what that would turn
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into. But it still seems like AI mean
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if I was going to do anything, I'd probably lay those points
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and not play the under, especially at that 55 1/2
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number. So.
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But I agree with what both of you said.
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Yeah, I wonder how many points Rice would score.
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I mean, I don't know if I mean, Texas State's going to score.
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I don't. I don't know if they could got
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that high so made some backdoor cover probably with rice getting
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like the 10th point or something so.
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Yeah, that's what concerns me. If that number coming down to
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who knows what, it goes 5554, yeah, some kind of backdoor
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thing that that that worries me here.
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And the extra point was good, had nothing.
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Indiana, Carly Paul's watching that.
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So there's my official pick, Texas State -13 1/2 in the Armed
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Forces Bowl. We are going to move on now to
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the Liberty Bowl, OK 4:30 in Memphis, TN Cincinnati, the line
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opened at -6 1/2. I believe it moved to 7 1/2 over
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under opened at 57 1/2 and moved to 54 1/2.
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Maybe had an opt out. What's whatever happened to
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going down with the ship? What's up with that?
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So they had a defensive tackle. Cincinnati had a bunch,
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including Dante Corleone. So we talked about him in the
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Big 12 preview earlier this year just cause of his name.
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But I don't know, Peter, we'll start with you.
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Where you going on this one? I'm too many opt outs for
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Cincinnati, you'd think. Yeah, this felt like the Army
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game all over again, right. When I looked at it where, you
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know, I, I assumed, you know, that the, the number's high 57
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1/2. I thought it's come down a bit,
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but still high number. So I, I was thinking under,
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under, under, right. But what happened in the Army
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game, right? Army scored too many Dang
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points. You know, UConn scored some,
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like some more than I thought they were going to.
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And that scared me right away from this game, right?
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I I was going to go the under here and I thought, well, yeah,
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half the team opts out for Cincinnati.
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Somehow they'll score, I don't know, 1417 points.
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You know, Navy will score a bunch and this thing will
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somehow go over, which which will just infuriate me.
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So I decided not to. Play it for all.
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Those reasons, because it really should be an under and, you
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know, I would feel comfortable normally betting this is an
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under, but at the moment, yeah, I just can't because I just feel
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like it's going to be an Army thing all over again.
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So I did not do anything with it.
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So those are my thoughts. Darren.
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First off, kudos to you for your Navy going down with the ship
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reference. I'd see what you did there.
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That was that was that was very, very sharp of you there.
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But yeah, the yeah, the Cincinnati opt out list is
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insane. I mean, I'm looking at one that
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was updated earlier today. We already talked about Brendan
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Soresby. One of their running backs is
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declared for the NFL draft. Their other one is hitting the
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portal. You mentioned Corleone.
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Looks like they've got two other lineman in the portal.
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They've got a linebacker that declared for the draft and seven
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players in their secondary, all of them entering the transport
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portal. So I would assume none of these
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gentlemen are playing here. But I mean, even from an injury
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standpoint, neither team has a ton of injuries that I can see.
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But I mean, Navy's coming into this basically a complete team.
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I wish I had seen this at 6 1/2. I would have been all over this.
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Any sevens out there really highly juiced?
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DraftKings looks like they had one at a -, 120.
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But FanDuel and a lot of other places are already at 7 1/2
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here. So you're not getting the best
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number. If I had to do anything, I would
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still lay that, but I'm just not going to like Pete said, I mean,
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Army even put up some points on these guys.
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I don't know if I can fully trust Navy's defense even with
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all of since he's opt out, so I'm going to let this go.
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But if you played Navy at 7 1/2, I wouldn't be mad at you all.
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Right now, we're getting down to the end here.
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We got the Holiday Bowl, Arizona, SMU opening line,
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Arizona minus a point and a half.
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It's now -3 the over under opened at 52 1/2.
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It has moved to 51 1/2. This is 8:00 at San Diego.
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I think you both have bets on this one.
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So, Peter, let's start with you. Yeah, so this is the one where I
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decided to fire. So total 52 1/2 here.
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You know my my thoughts on this. I mean, neither defense is
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terrible, right? They're not great, but they're
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they're decent offenses tend to be efficient.
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Both of these teams have have went back and looked at their
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scores of of late. I mean, they've been hitting
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unders quite a bit. Both of these teams, which kind
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of feels this feels like a 4547 to 50 point game in total,
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something like that. It's just kind of where my mind
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is looking through, you know, he was playing and it looks like
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pretty much everybody's playing other than a couple opt outs
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here. So it it feels like it should be
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a pretty decent game, honestly to watch with most of the most
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of the players playing. So yeah, it feels like a, you
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know, 4750 point game under that 52 1/2 total to me.
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So this is the one game I felt comfortable playing this week.
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So I'm doing 1 unit. You want unit on the under 52
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1/2. All right, got the graphic up.
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And Darren, obviously, we'll go to your pick now.
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Yeah, and again, this is one thing I hate about bowl season
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is, you know, we're doing this show, we got to get our bets in
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and I've I've got a terrible number already.
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I'm looking at DraftKings. Arizona's now getting a point
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and 1/2. So I'm on the wrong side of a
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three-point swing here. That being said, I still think
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Arizona's the better team here. And I think from a motivation
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standpoint, I mean, last year Arizona only had four wins.
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I think we expected Brent Brennan to maybe get fired,
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Fafita to maybe leave, McMillan would go on to the draft and
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Arizona would be a dumpster fire.
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But they're A9 win team and I think there's something to be
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said for finishing with double digit win.
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So I think you're going to get a fired up Arizona here.
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This is being played way out West.
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I don't put too much into SMU flying all the way across the
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country because they probably had ample time to get out there
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and get acclimated to the time change.
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But one thing about SMU, they are 11 and 2.
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Two of those losses are at the Big 12 teams.
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So I'm not sure whether that means the Big 12's a little bit
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better than the ACC this year. But for whatever reason, SMU has
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not handled the Big 12 very well.
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Yes, Arizona's three losses are against the Big 12, but that
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just happens to be the conference they play in.
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But yeah, give me Fafita and the Wildcats here.
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I think they're going to be psyched.
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They're going to be pumped to get A10 win season.
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So even though my number is asks.
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At this point if you're a DraftKings player, hell take the
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point and 1/2 with Arizona cuz it's still like -108 on the
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money line so you might as well get that point and a half.
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But yeah, if I laid a point and 1/2 with Arizona, I think they
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went here. All right, uh oh, we're down to
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the last one. I believe this is the Dukes Mayo
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Bowl 8:00 in Charlotte, NC. We got Mississippi State open as
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a three-point favorite. The over under opened at 55 1/2.
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Has since moved, I believe last check to 53 1/2.
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Couple opt outs for Wake Forest, couple for Mississippi State.
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Peter, let's start with you. Were you coming down on this
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one? Yeah, I I thought about the
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under at that opening 55 1/2 number.
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Now that it's come down a bit, I I'm not, I think it's, it's just
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coming down too much for me. And I think it would probably
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continue to come down a little bit more off of that.
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I think before for kick off of this game, I think I think it's
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about right. And I think this game will
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probably end up around, you know, 5152 points, something
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like that would not be surprising.
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I think you're going to see a good amount of scoring here, but
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not not a really fast tempo in this game.
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So I I would expect, you know, kind of a a moderate tempo here
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on both sides. Certainly Mississippi State can
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score. They score in spurts and so I
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think you'll see some of that play out in this game.
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So that's what I would expect is this.
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I think it actually will be a pretty interesting game as well.
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Once again, most of the players are playing, which is good,
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which is good to see for a bowl. So I like, I like to see that.
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But yeah, I decided to I guess pack up my ball and go home
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'cause I don't like the number so much.
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So that's my thoughts here. Yeah, this game is really
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interesting to me. And I, I was gonna actually ask
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you about this PB. You had already addressed it.
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I'm surprised this total kind of went down a little bit because
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Mississippi State's defense is really, really not good.
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Wake Forest isn't great either. But you do have two quarterbacks
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here who I am interested to watch.
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I mean, Robbie Ashford is excellent.
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He does bring a running element, as does Camario Taylor, who is
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probably going to start this game from Mississippi State.
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He could be a breakout star in the SECI believe Leah Chapin is
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out of eligibility. This guy came in and started the
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Egg Bowl. Wasn't great but but showed some
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flashes of what he could be. So I'm excited to watch this
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game. Just as a fan, I did not touch
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this at all 'cause I don't know what the heck Mississippi
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State's defense is gonna do here.
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It's, it's usually pretty bad, but I mean, nobody's confusing
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Wake Forest, you know, as a 45 points a game team here.
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But I want to see these two quarterbacks play.
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If I had a lean at all, it would be to the over 'cause I'm not
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understanding why it's coming down the under 53 1/2 of
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DraftKings is actually juiced -115 so it might even drop
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further. But yeah, I kind of lean the
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over just 'cause these quarterbacks, they're both dual
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threats and Mississippi State's defense is horrible and they
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lost their defense coordinator. He got fired.
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They don't even have an interim defense coordinator announced at
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this time. So, I mean, could an already bad
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defense get worse with no direction?
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It's certainly possible, but we'll see.
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I mean, that Damon Claiborne opt out for Wake Forest is a little
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concerning since he had over 900 yards and 10 TDs.
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But yeah, I lean over. But I think I I'd watch this one
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more as a fan and who doesn't want to see, you know, somebody
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get a bowl of mayonnaise dumped on them to end bowl season?
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I mean, kind of seems like a great way to kick in the new
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year, but. And the things they put the Mayo
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on, I think last year someone get the doughnut, the glazed
23:53
doughnut and the mayonnaise. I don't, I'm not buying that at
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all. No way.
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Yeah, I wouldn't recommend having tasty snacks during the
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the timeouts in the booth because they will have them.
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And that, that Mayo is not like, you know, that's not like
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regular Hellman's miracle web. I mean, that's got like some
24:09
tangy that's like Mayo on roids. I mean, I, I'm like, yeah, I
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just can't not not. OK, yeah.
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Maybe they can combine your bowl games and put it on some tofu.
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There you. Go and let Weird Al take a bite
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of it and see how he is. I'm sure.
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I'm sure he would. All right, let's review our
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bets. Peter, why don't you go first
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since you're up there? Yeah, hopefully this is a winner
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this time. So Arizona SMU under 52 1/2.
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That's my only bet for this week.
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Darren, what you got? Yeah, none of us had anything
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with Indiana and Bama, but we do have some bets for later on
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tonight. I did lay the 6 1/2 of Georgia
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overall miss and I did lay a point and 1/2 with Arizona over
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SMU. All right, and I also have
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Georgia -6 1/2 over Ole Miss and I do have Georgia Ole Miss under
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55 1/2. And I did lay a unit on Texas
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State -13 1/2 over Rice. That'll do it for the first show
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