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**Udog** · 09-25-2016, 10:29 AM

Armadillo: Sunday's six-pack

Top 6 selections in the Westgate Super Contest this week:

6) Miami Dolphins (395) -9.5

5) San Diego Chargers (418) +3

4) Jacksonville Jaguars (477) even

3) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (502) -5.5

2) Arizona Cardinals (536) -4

1) Pittsburgh Steelers (663) -3.5
Top 6 so far this year: 4-8 vs spread

Through two weeks of the Westgate Super Contest, out of 1,800 people in it, two entrants are 10-0; two are 0-10. Here are their Week 3 picks:

10-0 people:
first 10-0 guy: Bills-Jaguars-Packers-Chiefs-Bears
other 10-0 guy: Broncos-Raiders-Steelers-Jets-Chargers

0-10 people:
first 0-10 guy: Bengals-Titans-Bills-Eagles-Cowboys
other 0-10 guy: Raiders-Cardinals-Giants-Steelers-Cowboys

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Armadillo: Sunday's List of 13: Wrapping up a sports Saturday

13) Florida State 55, South Florida 35– FSU’s star RB Dalvin Cook carried the pigskin 28 times for 267 yards, as Jimbo Fisher showed how little faith he has in his defense by continually feeding the ball to a banged-up Cook despite having a three-TD lead in the 4th quarter.

USF justified Fisher’s lack of faith in his defense by running for 290 yards.

12) Auburn 18, LSU 13– LSU appeared to score the game-winning TD as time expired; replay reviews apparently showed that time had expired before LSU got the play off. Very chaotic last 0:30. Auburn wins without scoring a TD.

Dalvin Cook had 28 carries for 267 yards for Florida State; Leonard Fournette had 16 carries for 101 yards for LSU in this one– why only 16 carries in such a close game?

Cam Cameron makes $1.2M a year coordinating the LSU offense, but his offense isn’t good- they didn’t score in second half last week, scored one TD in this game. In the immortal words of former NBA star Micheal Ray Richardson, “….the ship be sinking”.

11) Tennessee 38, Florida 28– Gators led 21-3 at halftime; Twitter was calling for the coach’s scalp, then they played the second half. Vols ended an 11-game losing streak to Florida.

10) Duke 38, Notre Dame 35– 21-point underdog Duke put up 498 total yards; 208 rushing, 290 passing and the Irish are 1-3. Scapegoat for all this will be the defensive coordinator; either that or Brian Kelly will jump to the NFL next year.

9) North Carolina 37, Pittsburgh 36– Panthers scored 74 points in last two games, lost ’em both- they led 36-23 with 6:00 left; UNC scored winning TD with 0:02 left. Pitt ran ball for 281 yards; Tar Heels threw it for 453.

8) Colorado 41, Oregon 38– Huge win for Mike MacIntyre’s Buffs, who blew a 33-17 lead, then won game in 4th quarter behind backup QB Montez, who threw for 333 yards. Total yardage: 593-508, Colorado.

7) Wisconsin 30, Michigan State 6– Spartans got all fat ‘n happy after beating Notre Dame last week, then turned ball over four times here and got waxed by a Badger squad that hadn’t won in East Lansing since 2002.

6) Wake Forest 33, Indiana 28– Deacons are 4-0……..over last three years, they were 10-26. Wake Forest hasn’t been to a bowl game since 2011; would be ironic if they played Baylor and former coach Jim Grobe in a bowl game this season.

5) Tulsa 48, Fresno State 41 OT– With 10:16 left in first half, Fresno State led this game 31-0. They lost.

Tulsa ran 100 plays for 617 yards; football is the only sport I know of where the college version is a longer game than the pro version.

4) Purdue 24, Nevada 14– Not only did Boilers win, two QBs who jumped ship and transferred out of West Lafayette lost their games (Florida, LSU). in especially painful fashion.

Mountain West teams are getting hammered this year; they’re now 2-11 vs spread as a non-conference road underdog. Not good.

3) Utah 31, USC 27– When was last time USC/Notre Dame had combined record of 2-6? Utah won this game Friday night with TD in last minute, on drive led by a QB from LA who grew up rooting for the Trojans, but they never tried to recruit him.

2) Stanford 22, UCLA 13– One of worst gambling beats of all-time; Cardinal (-3.5) scored nine points in last 0:24, beating UCLA, the spread in one fell swoop– Cardinal has now beaten UCLA nine games in a row.

I’m assuming David Shaw can be a head coach in the NFL, if he wants to be; would be curious to know if he is interested.

Sidelight: it is great fun to be in a Las Vegas casino when a team covers the way Stanford did (defensive TD on last play). People who were cursing 10 seconds before now declare themselves to be brilliant, while people who were grinning ear to ear start cursing the QB laying on his back.

1– Giants 9, Padres 6 (10)– NL Wild Card is Mets/Giants tied, with St Louis a half-game back. Cardinals have one extra game to play. Giants led this game 6-0 with Bumgarner on mound, blew the lead, then won it in extra innings.

Like we said yesterday, if this were to end in a 3-way tie (for two spots), there is chaos as far as the process to decide who doesn’t get in– its a weird system that you know they don’t want to use.

I think it is like this: Teams A-B play one day, the winner gets in, the loser then plays at Team C the next night, in effect giving Team B two chances to win one game and make it. Winner of the second game would then play one game at the winner of the first game to advance. Oy.

**Udog** · 09-25-2016, 10:31 AM

WNBA
Dunkel

Sunday, September 25

Atlanta @ Chicago

Game 607-608
September 25, 2016 @ 1:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Atlanta
111.372
Chicago
109.806
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Atlanta
by 1 1/2
178
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Chicago
by 2 1/2
173 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Atlanta
(+2 1/2); Over

WNBA
Long Sheet

Sunday, September 25

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ATLANTA (18 - 17) at CHICAGO (18 - 16) - 9/25/2016, 1:00 PM
Top Trends for this game.
ATLANTA is 0-6 ATS (-6.6 Units) in road games when playing with 3 or more days rest over the last 2 seasons.
ATLANTA is 47-29 ATS (+15.1 Units) in road games revenging a loss versus opponent since 1997.
ATLANTA is 35-20 ATS (+13.0 Units) off an upset win as an underdog since 1997.
CHICAGO is 10-19 ATS (-10.9 Units) after a non-conference game over the last 2 seasons.
CHICAGO is 9-19 ATS (-11.9 Units) in home games after allowing 75 points or more over the last 2 seasons.
CHICAGO is 28-46 ATS (-22.6 Units) after scoring 75 points or more over the last 3 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
CHICAGO is 8-7 against the spread versus ATLANTA over the last 3 seasons
CHICAGO is 9-6 straight up against ATLANTA over the last 3 seasons
10 of 15 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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WNBA

Sunday, September 25

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Trend Report
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1:00 PM
ATLANTA vs. CHICAGO
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Atlanta's last 6 games when playing Chicago
Atlanta is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing Chicago
Chicago is 1-6 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Atlanta
Chicago is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Atlanta

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