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**Udog** · 10-09-2016, 09:34 AM

Armadillo: Sunday's six-pack

Six most popular picks this week in Westgate Super Contest:

1) Cincinnati Bengals -1 (841)

2) Philadelphia Eagles -3 (568)

3) Minnesota Vikings -6.5 (508)

4) Pittsburgh Steelers -7 (494)

5) New Jersey Giants +7.5 (476)

6) Detroit Lions +3 (443)

Season record for top 6 picks: 6-18 vs spread

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

13) Washington 70, Oregon 21— Huskies had lost 12 in row in this bitter rivalry, going 1-11 vs spread, but Ducks are lousy this year and U-Dub went out of their way to exact some revenge for those previous beatings. Starting QB Browning threw a 45-yard TD pass in the 4th quarter, when the score was 56-21. Oregon has lost four in a row; their coach has to be in very hot water.

12) Oklahoma 45, Texas 40— Sooners gained 672 yards, scoring 45 points in a game when they turned ball over four times (-2). Texas coach Strong called the defenses today, which helped in first half (14 -13 Sooners) but Longhorns reverted to normal form in second half. Have to think Texas will reach out to Houston coach Tom Herman in December.

11) Texas A&M 45, Tennessee 38 OT— I’ve never seen a team turn the ball over six times and win, but Tennessee got to OT with six TO’s; their 7th ended the game. With 8:00 left in third quarter, A&M led 28-7, but gritty Vols fought back and forced overtime, where they fell just short. Aggies are 6-0 for first time since 1994; they won their two I-A home games in OT.

10) Purdue 34, Illinois 31 OT— Good day for icing kickers; A&M’s kicker missed at the end of regulation when Tennessee coach Butch Jones iced him. In this game, Darrell Hazell used three timeouts in a row to ice the Illinois kicker on his game-winning try, and it worked as the Boilers prevailed later on in OT, winning a game where they allowed 315 rushing yards.

9) Navy 46, Houston 40— Middies ended Houston’s longshot hopes of a national title; with so many big-money programs struggling, Cougars coach Herman will likely bolt to one of those schools after this season, so curious to see how Houston does rest of way in a pretty good AAC.

8) Biggest Upset of Day (by pointspread); Tex-San Antonio 55, Southern Mississippi 32— Roadrunners won as a 17-point home underdog. UTSA ran ball for 339 yards.

7) Pitt 37, Georgia Tech 34— Most fun play of the day; Pitt’s QB rolls out to the right, throws a lateral/screen pass back to the left to #70 (an offensive lineman), who has an escort to the end zone for an easy TD. Football coaches work very long hours and drink a lot of Red Bull- that play had to be designed very late at night.

6) Oklahoma State 38, Iowa State 31— Cyclones have their hearts torn out for second week in row; they led 31-14 with 3:00 left in third quarter, but just like last week, they let it slip away late in a game where total yardage was 459-448. Iowa State is much-improved.

The field at Oklahoma State is so close to the bleachers in the corners of the field, really too close. Someone’s gonna get hurt, running OB at full speed with very little room to stop.

5) NC State 10, Notre Dame 3— In 1979, Tampa Bay beat the Chiefs 3-0 in a deluge on the last day of the season to win their division; this game reminded me of that, played in a quagmire with heavy rains. Total yardage was 198-113 NC State; the two FGs that were made in this game looked like me hitting a 5-iron— no bueno. Very tough weather conditions and Notre Dame is now 2-4.

4) TCU 24, Kansas 23— Jayhawks led 23-14 after third quarter; TCU kicked FG to win it with 1:21 left, avoiding a catastrophic loss. Kansas outgained them by 104 yards in a sloppy game where both teams had four turnovers. Huge sigh of relief from Fort Worth after this game.

3) Michigan 78, Rutgers 0— A long time ago, Florida State crushed some feeble opponent and coach Bobby Bowden said, “it is not my job to hold the score down, it is their job”, pointing to the other locker room. Total yardage in this game was 600-39. The Scarlet Knights have a lot of work to do, just to make their games competitive/watchable.

Hard to believe these teams are in the same league, right? Why did the Big 14 choose Rutgers over UConn? At least the Huskies are strong in basketball.

2) Florida State 20, Miami 19— Another great game is a series filled with them. Miami converted a 4th-down play to score TD in last 2:00, but PAT was blocked— that kicker had made 72 PATs in a row. Showtime is getting great theater for its Tuesday night reality show on the Seminoles. These two teams won’t be losing much the rest of the way.

1– Cubs 5, Giants 2— Chicago-Toronto-Cleveland all lead their best-of-5 series, 2-0.

Of the 72 previous teams to go up 2-0 in a best-of-5 series, 43 of them won the series 3-0. Only nine of the 72 teams wound up losing the series.

**Udog** · 10-09-2016, 09:38 AM

WNBA
Dunkel

Sunday, October 9

Los Angeles @ Minnesota

Game 605-606
October 9, 2016 @ 3:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Los Angeles
114.937
Minnesota
122.785
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Minnesota
by 8
159
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Minnesota
by 6
162
Dunkel Pick:
Minnesota
(-6); Under

WNBA
Long Sheet

Sunday, October 9

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LOS ANGELES (29 - 9) at MINNESOTA (31 - 6) - 10/9/2016, 3:00 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
MINNESOTA is 8-6 against the spread versus LOS ANGELES over the last 3 seasons
MINNESOTA is 10-4 straight up against LOS ANGELES over the last 3 seasons
9 of 14 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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WNBA

Sunday, October 9

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Trend Report
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3:00 PM
LOS ANGELES vs. MINNESOTA
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Los Angeles's last 9 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
Los Angeles is 2-13 SU in its last 15 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Minnesota's last 6 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Minnesota's last 7 games

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