Friday, September 28, 2018

The FMQ Week #5 - The Whacky World Of CFB


Hmmm…Where Is This Season Heading?
Anyone else find it strange that last year’s QB’s that started/played in the National Championship game have both been benched, one is transferring and the other might transfer.  What kind of whacky NCAA football world are we living in??? 
Wait – don’t answer that…but there is this:
Rutgers Sucks…
In what will go down in history as “Delaney’s Folly” once cable subscribers find multiple other ways to get games and content, the lasting regrets of bringing Rutgers into the conference will linger for generations.  I didn’t realize that Rutgers had lost some of their academic status and their athletic status is bad, even for Rutgers.
The problem is, Rutgers was never meant and doesn’t fit the B1G School Model.  Maryland at least had some history of success and an undeniably successful basketball program, plus the location on the East Coast.  While Rutgers had the location, that was all they brought to the table. 
THE Sex Toy University Can’t Seem To EVER Get It Right…
The next time I suggest that either LNU or THE STU are inferior universities and institutions and someone wants to argue with me, I will keep this graphic handy.

IS everyone at these 2 institutions tone deaf to what happened on their watches?  Unbelievable
I Can’t Upload Twitter Anymore…
But if this WASN’T TARGETING (And even after booth review and review this week it wasn’t called targeting) than there’s absolutely no friggin’ way that either of Khaleke’s hits were targeting.
BULL$@#$%T!!!!!
THE FMQ
Sigh…Losing sucks.  That’s all there is to it.  And from what I understand, there are four winless teams in college football: UCLA, Nebraska, San Jose State and UTEP. This makes half-sense. There are 20 unbeatens, including Duke, Kentucky, Syracuse and Cincinnati. This makes no sense. Is this college football or the NCAA Final Four?
I don’t know how I blew the Michigan – Nebraska match-up so bad, but se la vie.  In fact, there were several head scratching blow-outs of games where, statistically speaking, the scores should have been much closer.  The Gophers, Indiana and Iowa all really let the FMQ down.  Just when you think you know somebody they up and crap the bed!!


Never fear, howeva’!!!  You gotta’ have heart if you’re gonna’ be a GAMBLER!!! 
On to this week’s picks:
Louisiana @ Bama (-47.5): This spread should be in the 50’s…and there’s probably a threat of Bama rolling up to triple digits.   There’s no way Satan will be able to sub early enough to keep this score from getting out of hand and the back-ups from Bama will keep rolling right over Rajun Cajuns for the entire game.  Easy money (I hope)…
Take Bama and lay the 47.5 for $50
Syracuse @ Clemson (-26):  With all of the Chaos in Clemson this week, I’m curious as to why some wise guy money hasn’t bet it up on the side of Syracuse.  The Orange have given Clemson a game for the last two years.  Dino knows how to get these guys up for a game.  And you can bet they’re gonna’ try to come after frosh QB Lawrence and rattle his cage a little.  I like the Cuse and the points.   
Take Syracuse and the 26 for $25
WVU @ Texas Tech (+3.5):  Since the first disaster of a game, the Red Raiders have really improved…This is a match-up where TT’s strength, offense, goes up against WVU’s achille’s heel, defense.  Texas Tech at home and a long way for WVU to travel. In an early game for WVU where their body clocks will think it’s 11:00 AM...Yeah, take the Red Raiders in a shoot-out.   
Take Texas Tech and the 3.5 for $25
CMU @ LNU (-26):  LNU and CMU is like a rivalry game according to Mark D’Antominua.  Well, at least the head coach understands who their rival is!  Still, with LNU’s struggles on offense, this line sort of makes this pick a coin flip.  But I think at home and the fact that CMU is just SO INCREDIBLY BAD this season, the green slime should be able to cover the number…
Take LNU and lay the 26 for $25
Stanford @ domers (-6):  If everyone believes that the domers are playing that much better with Booker as QB, why doesn’t this spread reflect that??  Yep, scratching my head as I thought this would be in the 10-13 point range.  At least two scores.  But maybe Stanford is better than anyone thinks and Vegas isn’t buying the domers just yet.  I’m going to go light with the Cards, but will probably regret this come Sunday.
Take Stanford and the 6 for $20
Purdue @ Nebraska (+3.5):  Home dogs are USUALLY the team to bet on.  Howeva’, I think we all saw just how BAD the cornsuckers were last week and I also think we saw how good Purdue can play when they stop making stupid mistakes.  I’m not sure the home field advantage counts for much here.  I like Purdue by a couple of scores…
Take Purdue and lay the 3.5 for $25
THE Sex Toy University @ PSU (+4):  HMMMMM….  I know that THE Sex Toy U is the way better team in this one, even without Bosa.  Still, White-Out in Happy Valley where that fan base has been whooping it up all day is a crazy environment.  And that fan-base gets even rowdier when it comes to teams from the states of ohio and Michigan. I’ll definitely take the Home Dogs in this one...
Take PSU and the 4 for $25
Michigan @ Northwestern (-13.5 O/U: 46) All right.  Now that I’ve reset myself on what I THINK Michigan is, I can tell you that, if they play the way they did Saturday against the cornsuckers, the Purple Kitties will suffer the same fate as the cornsuckers.  I’ve rewatched a couple of Northwestern games and while I think they have a better defense than Nebraska, though not by much, their offense is not very good.  And it tries to attack in a way that plays right into Michigan’s hands.  Of course, on the road in the B1G and it’ll finish at night in Evanston.  Still, Michigan should win this walking away…    
Take Michigan and lay the 13.5 for $50
Take the OVER for $50
PARLAY!
3 Bet/Team Parlay:   6-1
Michigan – Bama – Michigan/NWU OVER:  $40
TOTAL BET:  $340
Bank:  $517

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