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anyone have trends for phila/detroit sunday. road favs after a monday night home win, struggle the next week. only happens a couple of times a year, and worth a shot at +4.5.
Texas Tech at Kansas
Saturday, September 25
Fifth-year senior QB Sonny Cumbie has
shown little hesitation of following in the
shoes of Kliff Kingsbury and BJ Symons!
Under Mike Leach, those QBs have
thrived in his offense and after just three
games in 2004, Cumbie has averaged better
than 450 YPG through the air while
completing 61.3 percent of his passes
with nine TD passes! The Red Raiders
are off to a 2-1 start with their only loss
coming at New Mexico when they lost
27-24! Last week vs. TCU, the Red Raiders
spotted the Horned Frogs a 21-0 lead
before winning 70-35! Kansas is off to a
2-1 start in 2004, including a 2-0 home
mark beating Tulsa 21-3 and Toledo 63-
14. QB Mike Barmann played poorly vs.
Tulsa but in his last two games has
thrown for 604 yards and six TDs while
completing 54-of-82 passes. I am not sure
that the Jayhawks have the offensive firepower
to match Texas Tech score-forscore,
though. Neither team bothers
much with the run but Texas Tech is much
more used to playing in an expected
shoot-out like this!
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Mississippi at Wyoming
Saturday, September 25
Scheduling, they say, is a big factor in a
team’s won-loss record at the end of the
season. This couldn’t be a worse spot
for Ole Miss. The Rebels opened the season
with backyard rival Memphis, a bitter
loss, went to Alabama and got
croaked, then came from behind to nip
Vanderbilt in overtime. That’s a rivalry
game and two conference games behind
them and their homecoming game coming
up next. This week, Mississippi goes
where no Rebel has ever gone before -
to the mountains. My database records
every college football game played since
1980. Nowhere in those records is Mississippi
playing above sea level. And the
Rebs aren’t just playing above sea level,
they’re playing nearly one and a half
miles above it. The furthest north the
Rebels have been is South Bend, Indiana.
The furthest west is Lubbock, Texas.
Wyoming is 39-12 straight up since 1980
against non-conference opponents in
Laramie, including a perfect 8-0 straight
up against teams who live east of the
Mississippi River and south of the Mason-
Dixon line. Bad scheduling, no oxygen,
unfamiliar surroundings. Sounds
like an upset to me.
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Houston at Kansas City
Sunday, September 26
With the Chiefs off to an 0-2 start the
knee jerk reaction would be to play on
them against Houston this week. However,
the Kansas City offense hasn’t exactly
lit it up their first two games as their
defense has been on the field for 67 minutes
while their offense has been on the
field for just 53 minutes vs. the Broncos
and Panthers. The Chiefs run defense is
once again yielding big yards. The Broncos
Quentin Griffin ran for 156 yards in
the Chiefs first game while the Panthers
DeShaun Foster ran for 174 yards in their
second. As the saying goes “if you don’t
stop the run in the NFL you don’t win.”
Houston is also off to an 0-2 start but
they have out-gained their opponents in
both games. In their short history the
Texans are 10-2 ATS when playing off
back to back straight up losses. They
are also motivated by revenge from a 42-
14 loss to Kansas City last year. The
Chiefs are 0-6 ATS when playing off a
straight up loss in their last game and
then face a team that has revenge.
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Penn State at Wisconsin
Saturday, September 25
The Nittany Lions turned the ball over all
game last week against Central Florida,
but talent won out in the end. Don’t expect
the same thing to happen this week
against a quality Big Ten foe. Penn State
simply isn’t good enough to give up possessions
to a quality squad. The Nittany
Lions have really struggled on the road
as of late, dropping five straight against
the spread. In those games they have
been outscored by a 133-52 margin. Just
two weeks ago an offensively inept Boston
College team beat them 21-7. While
Penn State has looked good against the
Akron’s and Central Florida’s of the
world, have they really taken a step up as
the linesmaker has suggested?
Wisconsin struggled last week out west
but that is becoming a common thread
for the Big Ten. Coming in off home field
revenge against UNLV the Badgers may
have taken the Wildcats for granted. But
as we all know winning in Arizona in the
midday sun isn’t an easy task. Still Wisconsin
did win that game as their defense
was once again outstanding. The Badgers
have now played three games and
allowed a grand total of 16 points. Needless
to say you can win a lot of games
when you play defense at that level.
The Badgers haven’t been a good home
favorite but most of that lack of success
has been laying double digits. In fact,
when laying 9 points or less at home,
Wisconsin is a solid 7-4 ATS. Barry
Alvarez and company win by playing
sound defense and not turning the ball
over, something the Nittany Lions have
yet to master. With a weak Illinois club
on deck the Nittany Lions will get the full
attention of the Badgers. Look for a low
scoring affair as Wisconsin shuts down
the Penn State offense and wins the turnover
battle.
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Misissippi State at LSU
Saturday, September 25
The Tigers are 11-3 ATS the last 14 tries
as home chalk, and coming off the last
minute loss to Auburn last week will have
these guys focused here today. Meanwhile,
the Bulldogs 1-14 ATS over the last
16 efforts as SEC dogs and 1-11 ATS off a
non-conference affair, losing to Maine
nonetheless. Blowout in the Bayou.
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Louisville at North Carolina
Saturday, September 25
The Louisville Cardinals come in to this
contest with an extra week of preparation
as they saw their last game, at
Tulane, postponed due to Hurricane
Ivan. North Carolina comes in to this
game off an upset victory against Georgia
Tech. It was the first time that the Tar
Heels had beaten the Yellow Jackets
since 1997. Coming off a win of that magnitude,
I expect the Tar Heels to suffer a
letdown. I also expect the week off to
have benefited Louisville. However, it’s
not as if the # 24 ranked Cardinals need
any extra help! Through their first two
games, the Cardinals are 2-0 both straight
up and against the pointspread,
outscoring their two opponents by an
80-21 margin. North Carolina did play
surprisingly well on defense last week,
limiting the Yellow Jackets to just thirteen
points. They’ll have a much more
difficult time against this balanced and
potent Cardinals attack though. Prior to
last week, the Tar Heels defense had given
up 38 points to 1-AA William & Mary
and 56 points (549 yards) against Virginia.
The Tar Heels are 3-9 versus the number
the last twelve times that they played the
second of back to back home games, 4-
10 against the spread over the last 14
times that they faced a non-conference
team at home, and 3-8 versus the spread
the last eleven times (including last
week’s victory) that they were listed as
home underdogs. The Cardinals are 10-1
against the spread the last eleven times
that they faced a team from the Atlantic
Coast Conference. Look for them to win
this one by double-digits!
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Nevada at San Diego State
Saturday, September 25
In 2003, the Aztecs almost pulled the
upset at the Horseshoe in Columbus, losing
by only three to mighty Ohio State.
The team was not disheartened by the
tough loss to a major conference foe in
the slightest, as they went back on the
road the next week and beat up Texas El-
Paso, 34-0, buoyed by their competitive
defeat. The circumstances are very similar
here. San Diego State just gave Michigan
everything the Wolverines could
handle in the Big House this past weekend,
once again, losing by only three
points. Their defense was ferocious,
forcing four Michigan turnovers and
holding the Wolverines to just 3.1 yards
per carry. The offense was just as good.
Quarterback Matt Dlugolecki completed
26 of 42 passes against one of the top
secondaries in the country. Playmaking
wide receivers Jeff Webb and Robert Ortiz
both had over 100 receiving yards, and
running back Michael Franklin was able
to grind out some tough yards on the
ground, keeping the chains moving. In
short, this is a pretty darn good Mountain
West team, probably the only team
in the conference with a chance to knock
off Utah. Nevada is coming off back-toback
home wins against vastly inferior
competition; beating Buffalo and Sacramento
State is not the same as almost
beating Michigan! And even against
lowly Buffalo, Quarterback Jeff Rowe
couldn’t complete half of his pass attempts,
they allowed 183 yards on the
ground and the Wolfpack didn’t pull
away until the latter stages of the fourth
quarter. It’s surely worth noting that this
team that needs to run the football to
succeed just lost their starting center out
for the season. Nevada was outclassed
by Louisiana Tech in their lone previous
road game, so look for them to get outclassed
here as well.
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Army at Connecticut
Saturday, September 25
U Conn tried unsuccessfully to step up in class last week as they lost,
7-27, at Boston College. They now return home to take a major class
drop, finding themselves as double digit favorites, as Army heads to
town. This type of class drop seems to work for the Huskies as we
find them at 6-1 ATS after facing a Big East opponent and 6-0 ATS
after a SU loss in their previous game! Army is already 0-2 SU (1-1
ATS) this season while allowing a combined 87-points in two Conference
USA battles and are only 1-7 ATS during their last 8 efforts
outside their own conference. Don’t be afraid to lay the BIG number
against this Navy squad that’s allowing just under 45-points per game!
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Troy State at South Carolina
Saturday, September 25
South Carolina has been workmanlike in their efforts against lesser
teams during their good seasons and the Gamecocks are better than
pesky Troy. Columbia a tougher venue than most realize,
and when quality SEC opponents meets quality Sun Belt opponents,
this price range is very layable. Go with South Carolina.
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