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Welcome back to Crimson Cash. Scott here with you.
I got James. We're doing this on a Friday of
holiday weekend. Oh my God, one of the games is
already in progress. Well, we're going to miss that
one. Minnesota, Wisconsin is
happening right now. And I would have taken
Minnesota. Yeah, he would have taken
Minnesota. They were a 13 1/2 point
favorite. They're up 21 to seven.
Yeah, we, we couldn't get this done on Wednesday.
We were both busy Thursday with Thanksgiving.
So one day late. Sorry, but we're here.
And dude, it's wild. It feels like we just started
doing this again and now it's like it happened so fast and all
of a sudden it's Thanksgiving and it's time to time to move
on. Yeah, but you know what, this is
good because I am thankful for good football this year.
So it's been an excellent year. I think we need to come back for
either. If we don't come back for
conference championships, although we should, we'll try to
do that next week. I think with IU now, like let's
come back and try and do the first round of the let's, let's
do every round of the College Football Playoff, right?
I'm absolutely and yeah. All right, this this time of
year, by the way, this time of year the Vegas usually is pretty
close, so you can make some hay Benton teasers this time of
year. OK, well let's let's see what we
got. So First off, we're going to
save the bucket to the end. We have Nebraska at Iowa.
Iowa is a three-point favorite home.
I like the Hawkeyes to win outright.
I think they probably cover on this, but I definitely love Iowa
in this game. I think Nebraska is just doesn't
have it. The game's in Iowa City, so
yeah, give me Iowa. This is one of Iowa's made-up
fake rivalries that Gary Barton decided they were going to have
protected even though they played like a handful of times
ever. So yeah, give me the Hawkeyes.
Some of the some of those rivalries are funny, like Penn
State also has like just, I think there's this Maryland.
It's like, really? Yeah, all.
Right. Next up, we have Illinois still
ranked somehow Illinois going to bring that up going to
Northwestern. Northwestern is an 8 point
underdog at home. Well, they're going to Wrigley
Field, right? So is that where they're
playing? This one.
Yeah, OK. I think so.
Fifty to six. That was what Northwestern lost
by last week to Michigan. And this spread is just a little
eight points rivalry game. That's the other thing to
remember this week, folks. The ones that are actual
rivalries. This is an actual rivalry game,
you know. Penn State, Maryland is not the
actual rivalry games. I love the Dogs usually, but I
think Illinois probably wins by double digits in this one.
Speaking of other rivalry games, you have Michigan going to Ohio
State. This game opened at a 10 point
line, although probably open closer than that might be the
end of the year. It is now a 19 1/2 point.
Well, Michigan's a 19 1/2 point underdog.
Do you still like these Rd. dogs on the in the in the rivalry
game? That line probably opened in
April. Like, that's how long that
line's probably been, right? So if this game were in Ann
Arbor, I'd have a different feel for it.
But we know Ryan Day is a Dick hole who loves to run up the
score, right? Yes.
So I'm tempted to take Ohio State here, but I actually think
Michigan will keep it closer than 3 touchdowns.
So I actually do like the 19 1/2 here.
Give me give me the points in this one.
OK. I just want to play it one last
time this year. They're not playing in New
Jersey, but you have Rutgers going to Michigan State.
Michigan State is a 1 1/2 point favorite at home.
That just goes to show you how unremarkable the city of East
Lansing is, that there's nothing in song or movie history that
could dignify it or let you know that, hey, we're talking about
East Lansing here, or Lansing proper, this game.
It also it also sucks when like obviously Michigan State hates
Michigan and that's their rival, but it sucks when it's rivalry
week and it's like now you're going to get Rutgers.
Yeah, Rutgers. Why not?
You know, this game is going to be horrible.
I can't imagine anybody watching this game who's not an alum of
either of the schools. Why are we?
Why are you betting on it? That's my question.
Instead of giving you a line, I'm just going to ask you, why
are you betting on this fucking game?
You don't know anything about either of these teams.
Stop it, people. Stop.
That that would be like if funny FanDuel, you start betting this
and Fanduel's like you have a problem, like we're just
connecting 100 gamblers right now, like we're not accepting
this bet, sorry. Oh, I've got a four leg teaser
going on now that I posted on X and somebody replied.
That's some real sicko shit right there.
So, but it's currently all four legs are hitting and the United
States Naval Academy is going to make sure I cover one of those
legs. So anchors away, bitches.
All right, Next up, big dogs Maryland going to Penn State.
Penn State is a 24 1/2 point favorite at home.
That's too many points. I don't know.
Who fucking knows? You know?
I don't know. I think this is probably too
many points. So I would take Maryland and a
boatload of points here because I don't think Penn State gives a
shit. All they got to do is win,
right? And, you know, and hope Ohio
State loses. That's really everybody's just
hoping that. And this game takes place after
the Michigan Ohio State game. So if if Michigan were to
somehow pull off a huge upset, Penn State's going to have
something to play for. So that may change, you know,
the dynamics of this game a little bit.
My guess is Ohio State rolls not by three touchdowns or more, but
and then Penn State's like that. Let's fucking make sure nobody
gets injured. You know, K Tron Allen or
whatever his name is and getting injured.
Sure would be nice if Penn State could lose.
That would be awesome. God, how great would that be?
Speaking of the other team, would be awesome to lose to help
us out going to USC, all right? Notre Dame is going out to
California. They're going to USCUSC is a 7
1/2 point underdog at home. Yeah, Notre Dame's going to
roll. Yeah, take the Irish all day
long on this one. I hate to say it.
I would love for them to lose. And I how did that team lose to
Northern Illinois, by the way? So yeah, I think they're going
to roll. That defensive there is frigging
legit. Their offense leaves a little to
be desired, but so does US CS defense.
So take the Irish there and feel happy.
Staying out in California, you have Fresno State going to
UCLAUCLA is a 8 1/2 point favorite at home at the Rose
Bowl. Having watched a ton of Fresno
State football, as we all do, I'm, I'm really excited about
this match up. I hate this match up.
This is stupid. Why are we playing this game
here? I don't know.
I'm not betting it. I have no advice, I have no
knowledge to give anyone on this damn game.
This is also why we need Notre Dame and the Big 10 because it's
like just make us a Big 10 round game like USC and UCLA.
They should be playing the last week.
It shouldn't be Fresno State anyway.
All right, last non Indiana game, we're going out to Oregon,
Washington. It's like a hurricane.
Game. All right, Washington is going
out to Oregon. Oregon is an 18 1/2 point
favorite at home. They have nothing to play for
other than to win, right? They don't need to win in style.
There is no chance they're getting knocked out from the
number one spot as long as they win, right?
Even they squeak out a one point victory, they're still the
number one seed headed to the Big 10 championship game.
Undefeated, right? No need to try and run the score
here. I think Washington will cover
that. That's almost 3 touchdowns,
folks. That's a lot.
That's fair, A. Lot of rivalry games with huge
lines here and that concerns me a bit.
Unless you like betting dogs, in which case you should be
salivating. No, I like I like that logic on
the Oregon game. I think I will take Washington
of the points there. All right, last up, you have
Indiana, 10th ranked Indiana. Purdue's coming to town.
They're also have a 10 in their number.
It's the number of losses they have this year.
They are one in 10. Indiana is God.
God's a Big Line Scares Me is a 29 point favorite at home.
I couldn't find a bucket game with this high of line as far
back as I could research. So this may, this may be a
record for a bucket game. And we have a uniquely, you
know, a unique set of circumstances here in that IU is
incredibly good historically and Purdue is incredibly bad
historically. All right, this game was 25 1/2
when it opened and within 12 hours was bet up over 4
touchdowns. So and now we're sitting at
what, 29 points and doubt this thing's getting under that 4
touchdown mark before kick. I just don't see it happening.
If it does, good for you. I'm shitty at predicting lines
so you may want to wait it out. I don't think it's going to go
much higher than where it's at right now.
So that begs the question, what do the Hoosiers do?
Well we've got weather, right? So it's supposed to be snowy and
cold and possibly a little windy.
And let me tell you, I'm looking forward to that.
I've got my fleece lined pants, merino wool socks.
I got, I got the whole gear. I'm ready to go bringing my old
man with me. He's all this shit.
But I think he'll be able to, you know, tough it out.
He's buying like some hand warmer and stuff and like, I
don't know, he's got a whole deal.
Will the weather affect these teams and the scores in the
game? Generally in those kinds of
games, you don't see shootouts, right?
But I doubt it's going to. We're not going to see 12 inches
of snow. This isn't going to be anything
like that. Everything is probably flurries.
I mean, anybody who's lived in Bloomington knows you're not
getting a heavy snow this time of year.
So that all that being said, every time Purdue was played a
College Football Playoff eligible team or one that's in
the rankings so far this year, they have been absolutely
fucking destroyed. If IU wins this game but wins a
close one, they will find a way to screw them out of the College
Football Playoff, and Chris Zignetti knows that full well.
So they're going to come out ready to play.
I like the Hoosiers take the Hoosiers play the points.
I hate doing it. I hate doing it as a principal
on rivalry games and particularly this one.
All right. I was at the 1989 game where
Anthony Thompson returned the kickoff, which he never did all
the way down to like the what two or three yard line and they
couldn't punch it in and Purdue wins the game and we were way
better than the night here. But this is a totally different
scenario. This is this is night and day.
These two teams. Ryan Walters has people
defecting, went down to transfer portal.
Now the fan base is calling for his head.
I don't know what they do. Yeah, it's I hear everything
you're saying. I know that they've got to score
some points and got to win with a margin.
You can still do that with like 28 and lose this bet.
It it it. It's a stupid bet.
Don't make it look you want to. If you want to do it and be
happy when we win 42 to 7 super, go for it, right?
Because I don't think Purdue's going to put up more than 14
points. That's just not going to happen.
Yeah. OK.
So then you got to figure what what do we need to score then?
And then it's becomes more than 42.
And that does seem like a lot because we haven't done that in
a few weeks. However, we do need to kind of
get this offense rolling again. We need to see what's what's
behind the what's under the hood, you know, again, because
the last six quarters have not been good.
All right, it is time for YEAH. It's pretty simple.
I win. Google me.
We have our Hoosier hot streak, James.
Talk us through it. I like what you're doing this
week. Yeah.
So we're going to do an alternate line.
We're going to take the Hoosiers -23 1/2.
It's going to get us under that critical number and it's going
to get us under that 24, which is also another critical number
there between the, you know, 3 and 4 touchdown mark.
So we're going to take that and then we're going to combine it
with a Notre Dame victory on the money line.
That's -1 three. That's really nice.
If you're catching this in time to get Iowa on the money line,
go ahead and toss that in and maybe do a separate parlay.
You get plus 162 if you toss them into SO.
I'm stupid, I'm just going to throw Oregon in there too.
I know it's only if you only have to do 2 but like I'll throw
money line. Just just get an extra $0.12 on
that bet. Yeah, exactly.
And, and you know, and that's OK to do in college football.
As college basketball season kicks off, be very wary taking
like big favorites and tossing them in a parlay.
Boston College today was a 16 1/2 point favorite to Dartmouth
and, and lost by I think 4 or 6 points or something like that.
So be very careful when you're just tossing in winners on a
parlay from college basketball at this point in the season.
College football, you're probably fine.
No 3 touchdown favorite is losing out right this weekend.
I'm on record saying that, although I would love it if it
happened to Penn State. It'd be great if it happened to
Penn State and Notre Dame and Ohio State.
All right, James, it's been awesome.
Unless you let both of us get back to our families on this
Friday. Thanks for the lines and we'll
be back. Let's let's be back to preview
the absolutely. Yeah, there's lots of betting
going on. And then we'll come back for the
College Bowl Playoff. Absolutely, and we'll be able
tossing bowl bets and stuff and stuff too.
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All right, James, have a great one, everybody.
Thank you for listening. Happy Thanksgiving to all, and
for Crimson Cash, this is Scott signing off.