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James, what is up, man? Hey, nothing much.
I may actually have to check out Home Field, my son.
I was on a college tour last weekend with my son and it seems
that he's interested in going to Purdue University.
And I know, right? And there is nothing nice Purdue
wise, fashion wise out there. So I'm going to have to check
out Home Field and see what they got because it's all just so
damn ugly. So, you know, we'll get there.
They must be a pharmacist, otherwise he'd be going to IU.
Yeah, I go at me people. You and I were just talking
about some some sounds like some, you know, adding music to
the sound board. I need the the like the the the
losing sound from Price is Right.
We need the sound of the Purdue Stadium chanting IU sucks as
Notre Dame kicks off to them ahead by 35 points.
That's what we need. What we need is like them
playing, you know, like volleyball against Rutgers.
Chanting IU sucks. Exactly.
So let's let's get to it. We're going to leave the IU game
for last, but let's get to our games for this week.
We have starting off in the Big 10 wash.
It's all Big 10 now. We are thankfully out of the the
realm of silly, silly games. We have nothing but Big 10.
We start with Washington at Rutgers.
Rutgers is a 2 1/2 point favorite at home.
Hello, there we go. I still hear you.
Oh. OK, great.
So Rutgers, yes, now you got on me for taking them as an
underdog last week. I did and and they won.
They are favorites this week. And Washington is really getting
the introduction to the Big 10. Here they are.
Because nothing says Big 10 football like a Friday night in
Piscataway, NJ. You know, I mean, we've all been
there, right? The smell of, you know, rotting
fish and you know, all the all the great things you get there.
I think there's going to be a rude game for Washington.
I think Rutgers is good. Rutgers on the numbers is about
as impressive as IU has been and I think they're keen to be
reckoned with. So give me the home team on a
Friday night against the team traveling cross country.
It's too bad, you know, we, we haven't quite figured out the
audio here where you can hear my soundboard.
But I was thinking as you were doing this, I think I'm going to
add this to our soundboard list. I need the theme song to
Sopranos. As you were talking about the
sights and sounds of New Jersey, I thought just the sound of The
Sopranos theme song going on the back.
I think that's going to be our new when you're about to pick
Rutgers, I'm going to play The Sopranos theme song.
Well, I do a great impersonation of soprano eating prosciutto
from bridge, which is also very erotic in ASMR, so we could use
that noise. No, no, I don't.
I do not want that. All right, Next up we have
rowing the boat in Minnesota going to Michigan, who I guess
just isn't going to play a road game this year.
I'm sure it'll happen at some point, but just every week,
Michigan at home. Michigan is a 9 1/2 point
favorite. OK, so it turns out Minnesota's
really bad. Michigan surprisingly beat
Southern Cal. They didn't look dominant doing
it, but they can certainly run the football still.
And Minnesota proved last week against Iowa they cannot stop a
team from running. The football Iowa rushed for was
like 367 yards or 200, and it was a ton of yards.
No, it was like something like almost 300 yards, but still,
that's a lot of yards. That's like Indianapolis Colts
level rush defense bat. So give me Michigan to run all
over the Gophers and I will take them -9 1/2.
I think they went by two touchdowns.
Yeah, wow. Moving up, it's I remember
saying there was no big lines. We got a bunch of big lines
coming, coming, man. We are going to have Next up
Nebraska going to Purdue. Purdue at home teams we like to
talk about that aren't good is a 10 point underdog at home
against Nebraska. This line has gone towards
Nebraska, where they're giving more points now than they were
when it opened. We got an over under 46 1/2.
I think the under could be in play here because I don't think
Purdue's offense is very good at all, and Nebraska's defense is
plucky enough to stop him. I think the Huskers probably
cover here pretty easily. Yeah, I think 24 to 10,
something like that. And that we still may not know
if they're a good team after that.
Exactly. Yeah.
As Next up, we have Wisconsin, The Badgers going to USC.
Seems like this would be a, you know, most years a pretty cool
matchup. But Wisconsin just got throttled
at home by Alabama. They may not be up for the task.
We'll see. I thought USC was going to beat
Michigan. So what do I know?
USC is a 15 1/2 point favorite at home.
Yeah, I have no idea what to make of this.
I'm staying away. If I had to pick something, I
think I'd probably pick the under 51.
Seems like a bit amount of points there, but I guess
they're thinking USC is going to run away with this thing.
I don't know. I'm staying away, people.
That's that's my advice. Stay away from this.
All right, stay away. Next up we have Illinois going
to Penn State to top 20 teams. We're going to see if Illinois
is for real. It is funny, you know, I guess
Illinois did beat Nebraska, but Nebraska's always kind of a
little bit. You're curious about like
Illinois just gets ranked and everyone's like, ah, they're
good. It's like Indiana's four and O
not ranked and everybody's like they play this garbage schedule.
It's like, I'm not sure what quite is the difference there,
but whatever, we'll find out now.
Penn State is a 18 point favorite at home in Happy
Valley. This this line got me because I
was stunned, stunned to see this.
Stunned. At how many points, Penn State?
Is getting where they were huge dogs and they won out right and
Penn State beat Kent State maybe the worst Division One team
there is. So I'm going to take the line
and give me a whole bunch of points here.
I kind of agree and I think Penn State's going to win, but 18's?
A lot. It's a no, It's a night game so
they're going to do their like white out thing.
But I mean we're talking 3 touchdowns here people.
That's a huge line in a conference game.
It's stupid. Next up of bigger lines and
conference games my friend Ohio State going to Michigan State
and and I think the next two games you might take the the
team to cover the spread as you just talked about how you hate
big lines and conference games. Ohio State is a 23 1/2 point
favorite traveling to East Lansing.
Yeah, this seems very trappy. Does it?
There's an over under a 48 1/2 here.
But no, I love the Buckeyes to roll.
They cover this easily. Another big one, Oregon going to
UCLA. We saw how UCLA does at home
games. UCLA is a 25 1/2 point underdog
playing the Ducks at home. We got an over under 55 here,
which is incredibly low for an Oregon game, so I'm going to
take the over there. OK.
And last one, we got a couple teams off this week.
Last one is our Indiana fighting Hoosiers, Cignetti's boys, the
CIGS playing Maryland, the Terrapins, Indiana.
This line has moved their way. I think it opened at like 4 1/2
or five and a half. I wish I would have if I was a.
Better. If I was a better gambler, I'd
be betting when I see stuff I don't and it's now moved to
Indiana is a 7 point favorite at home.
Just let's take a breath and think about this.
Indiana is a touchdown favorite against a Big 10 opponent at
home. We don't see that very often,
and I I lean toward taking Indiana to cover that spread.
But I I want to know what you think.
All right, so the last time Indiana was this big of a
favorite against Maryland was in 2020, and they were 11 1/2 point
favorites. Since then, Maryland has been
favorited in every game. They've won every game too,
right? But they've only covered one of
those, which was last year. And you know what?
I'm throwing all that crap out the window.
I'm going to take the Hoosiers here.
I think they cover this. I think they're a much better
football team. Now, I will say this, Maryland
has an exceptionally good football player named Ty Felton.
I would, I'm going to look out for some prop bets for him on
Saturday. He is.
He's by far their best player and their quarterback has the
ability to run and scramble. So watch out for that a bit too.
But I think the Hoosiers do some better football team and so I
really like them to cover here. The weather in that game is
going to be interesting. You're going to get some rain,
you might have some remnants from the hurricane.
I look at an over under a 52 and I think the under might be the
play here as well. I just I wonder if you're going
to get 7 plus touchdowns in a possible bad weather game.
But yeah, that's true. I mean, you can look at that,
but Maryland is not great against the run.
Yeah, I used had a pretty effective ground game.
And so if they can get that ground game working, does it,
you know, is that really going to be a, you know, a show
stopper? And I mean, we're talking like a
slight rain or hurricane. You know, I mean, we're not
playing this game in Tallahassee, you know, like, so
I mean, by the time it gets to Bloomington, the wind gusts will
probably be, you know, 5 to 10 miles an hour, you know, and you
might have one of those, you know, soft kind of constant
rains or you might get nothing, who knows?
I wouldn't I, I'm always hesitant unless you're closer to
kick time on betting over unders based on weather.
That's fair. And by that it's usually already
priced in unless you're like a weather fiend like Galen or
something. By the way, I will be contacting
because I'm going, I will be at the game this Saturday at
Galen's tailgate. So you know I will be down there
and hopefully staying dry ish. I was just listening to his last
podcast. He his his recommendation if
it's going to be winds to have no covering.
So if it's raining and windy you may not have an awning to stand
under. Just be prepared.
I can live with that. OK, I I thought I figured it'd
be all. Right, that's what ponchos are
for. Last I checked there are 4078
tickets left available for the game, so please start buying
those up. That's ridiculous.
Everybody needs to go. I agree.
I'm driving. I'm driving from Fort Wayne to
sit out in the rain to watch this football team.
My son has a soccer game Saturday morning at 9:00 to
10:00 up here in Westfield and we are leaving the minute it's
over to get down there for the game.
Excellent. Yeah, so we'll be we'll be
coming in hot. Not going to have tailgate time,
but we'll be there for the game. Very excited.
What I'm excited for now, James, is we have a new and what's
called you Galen. We have a new we were talking
Galen. It got my my head wrong.
You get, I know you look nothing like you get to your mid 40s.
And it's like, dude, everyone just becomes a name that is
wrong. We have a new feature we're
going to start here that we probably should have started a
couple years ago. Great idea.
We are calling this the Who's your hot streak?
Yeah. It's pretty simple.
I win. Google me.
Thanks, coach. So the who's your hot streak is
this IU's been on a hot on a heater.
So what we're going to do is we're going to make every week.
James has to bet Indiana and then another game in a parlay.
The other game needs to be a money line.
Ideally you're picking Indiana to win and then another team.
But there's some games in the schedule, like when we get to
Ohio State. It's just that's not going to be
fair. So you're allowed to pick
Indiana either plus or minus, you know, covering the points or
being a dog and getting the points.
You got to pick Indiana and then one other game.
If you win the parlay this week, then next week it ratchets up
and we add another team and you got to do 3, two extra teams.
If you win that week, we're going to add another one and
then we're just going to start keeping track and we'll see how
far we can go. If you get one wrong, then the
week after you start back at Indiana plus another game, but
ideally you're doing Indiana money line with another money
line winner. So James, first week we are
doing the Hoosier Hot Streak and this is one that I will play
along with you. I will do a $10 bet every time
with you as well on this. So give me the Hoosier hot
streak for this week. All right, this is a pretty easy
one to start us off with. OK, I'm going for a nice, easy
winner for everybody. We got the Hoosiers to win on
the money line. We're going to take the Michigan
Wolverines to win on the money line.
Those two parlayed together, I'll get you -130 or better.
And so your $10 bet will win you $7.69.
OK. Real easy.
We're not going to get crazy this week.
We're going to we're going to start the hot streak off with a
hot streak. That's that's my, that's my
thought. OK.
And then, you know, because we're, we're kind of a gambling
pot, not kind of we are a gambling podcast.
What do you think? I'm going to set the over under
at 3 1/2 for this season. How far you get on the Hoosier
hot streak. What do you think?
Are you taking the over under if I set it at 3 1/2?
I got to remember what week we play Ohio State, so we'll see.
Here we got 1/2. 3. 4566 games until Ohio State.
Yeah, yeah, we'll be able to. We'll we'll get your 4 winners
in a row. I bet we can do that.
You think 4 is the high? Well, no, but you said the over
under 3 1/2, so I'll take the over there.
I think we can get four weeks in a row here in a.
Winter. What do you think the high is
for this season? Do you think you get to like 5-6
seven in a row? Money lines, yeah, we could
probably do that. Yeah, I mean the the the Indiana
one again, you don't have to pick.
You don't have to pick Indiana money line every time.
You could you can pick four against the points.
I guess we can we can be there are some games that aren't fair,
like maybe you we can say you can pick against Indiana as
well. You just got to.
Probably only two games left on the schedule that we won't be
favored. Yeah.
So, you know, and I, I don't plan on taking the points
against Michigan. I can tell you that.
Yeah, I mean, the, the, the point of this is I, I think it's
a fun thing to keep track of and and have you grow your parlay
every week. So it's, I don't want it to be
contingent also on Indiana winning.
Like I it just, I think Indiana has to be the key bet every
single week. And so I think it's fine if
you're allowed to bet against Indiana points Indiana, but
ideally you're going money line Indiana to win.
Ideally, yes. Ideally, but then there's point
there's but I but I think what comes first is you're trying to
keep the hot streak alive. So you got to pick in a way that
keeps you winning the bet. I think that's the the way we
got to look at it. Correct, and so that's why we're
starting off nice and simple this week, but still decent odds
at -130 all right. I mean, there's no way
Michigan's going to lose to Minnesota at home.
I mean, it's just not happening, people.
Yeah. And again, this is not about
odds. We're just trying to get the hot
streak going and then next week it'll because if we keep
winning, the odds will just go up based on the number of teams
we're adding. Absolutely so.
All right, James, anything else you want to plug, you have your
big time parlay you want to throw out there?
I did take a parlay that starts on Thursday night with Army, IU,
Rutgers and Michigan all on money lines.
So that's a good one. The Colts suck.
I'm, I'm just going to say that right now.
I do want to, I do want to go on a gripe a bit about Anthony
Richardson. Go for it.
His inability to throw a soft pass.
Good Lord, man, not everything needs to be a fastball.
Learn to change up. Yeah.
So if you're listening out there, AR sure he is.
I'm sure he is. 100% sure he is. So no, that was just that's just
a general rant I have. I'm still very excited about
this game on Saturday. I'm taking my son.
I I can't believe we're four and O about to be 5 and OI really
think we're going to win this game and I think we're going to
cover. So I'm super sick.
I am too. I have a story for you.
So I went out with some friends. People love making fun of what I
do with my friends and neighbors.
Went to a wine tasting, but there's like A8.
No, no, no. Like 5 couples were there and it
kind of broke into like girls talking, You know, it's a high
school dance. All of a sudden the guys are
talking, girls are talking. And turns out me and my buddy,
one of my neighbors, we both had a parlay and we both had picked
USC plus the four and a half over Michigan.
And at that point, it's like 2 minutes to go, USC is up 24 to
to 20. But Michigan has the ball on
their driving. And we're both just like, damn.
Like, like there's no like we're just talking it through like,
well, if USC like gets the ball, let's say stop them, they get
the ball. They're just going to take the
knee. Like you're not, there's no way
they're going to like go 70 yards and try and kick a field
goal. Like they're just going to knee
it out. It's like like we're trying to
figure out like, like we're pick 6, like pick six will do it.
Like that's what we're rooting for.
So we're sitting there rooting. Then another guy like T comes in
and looks what we're doing. He's like or like Michigan
scores a touchdown. Like hold on.
USC comes back last second field goal goes to overtime, USC
touchdown to win. And we're like there we go like
another out. Like here we go like another way
to do it. But they're like the Michigan
scores and then USC comes back, like, what if they scored?
We're just like, it's like, it's so funny when you're just trying
to make something work, when it's like there's really no outs
in logical ways to play football to get the score that you want.
And the best thing is if you're not betting those, you know what
I'm saying, like don't live that when you're in that in that mind
state, like that is the worst thing you can possibly do.
Yeah, Oh, no. It was just weird.
Like I was half, you know, 55 glasses of wine and I was not in
the mood to to try and bet my way out of that.
It was just like, let's just see if I can somehow win my parlay
out of this, which sucks because it was like a five leg money
line parlay. I hit everything else and this
was the one where it's like, all right, I'll do the points just
to get a little bit more juice on it and like no way US.
And then of course it happens that way.
And then of course we're just sitting there like, how does
Vegas always get this right? Like how do they know like it's
a four and a half line and it's a four.
It's just always, always, always, always.
Well Andy Dalton ruined like 4 parlays I had last Sunday so his
ginger ass can go to hell. That's that's the way I look at
it. That was that was essentially my
recap from last weekend. There you go.
Well, James, good times. I look forward to talking to you
next week. I look forward to seeing you at
the game. Stay dry, enjoy the Hoosiers.
This is a going to be a I think it's going to be a good game.
I also think we're going to win. But it is it is a very.
Very important game and let's get the hot streak going.
So thank you all for listening. Happy betting out there.
You see me walk into the game, start yelling, lying, I love it.
Just be like, hey, talk about the line.
Who's your who's your hot streak?
I love it all. It's fantastic.
So for James, this is Scott for Crimson Cash signing off.
Post time.