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It is time for Crimson Cash. We are back, James.
It's good to talk to you, man. It has been a long eight months.
I think we're back for like season three or four.
It wouldn't be Crimson Cash if we didn't know how long we've
been doing it, but it's at least three or four years.
At least three whatever betting was legal.
Somebody can Google that? 3-3 or four, we can bet on the
the the 3 1/2 is the line for how long we've been doing this
podcast together. I love it.
We've been doing it back in the Big 10 was 14 teams.
It's it's been a while and man, let me tell you, I'm so happy to
have college football back. I lost my ass on Olympic break
dancing. Did you bet on that?
Yeah, I had that chick from Australia who did the kangaroo
hop and totally lost my ass, so yeah.
I, I got to say that I was doing pretty rough in the NBA
playoffs. I kind of, I kind of take a
break after the NBA playoffs. That is, there's not a lot of
sports. I'm just I, I enjoy.
I, I did some Wimbledon betting and Pelini, I believe little
Italian girl went to the finals. I, I did well on her, but I had
a like 8, like an eight leg parlay or yeah, parlay on an,
the last Pacers Celtics game. It was great.
Like I went into the fourth quarter, I think I needed like
one more point from TJ McConnell, like a point from OB
Toppen and like one assist from Tatum and it was like, I bet 15
bucks and I won like $1200. Like it was just like the last
game. I'm like, I'm just doing like 12
things that I think will happen. Never worked.
I done like ten of those bets throughout the playoffs, hadn't
won and then just won a 15. Like a $1200 payout at the end
of the year was great. I got the Kentucky Derby winner
at 18 to one. I also had.
I also had the Preakness winner as well, so I got 2/3 of a
Triple Crown during the offseason.
I did not actually bet on break dancing on the Olympics.
I did bet on like fencing and table tennis and all sorts of
weird shit, but how'd you do? I I I did OK in the Olympics.
I about broke even. OK, I I did tennis.
I should probably get back into it.
I mean, US Open's going on right now.
Yeah, you can usually steal some value there all.
Right, I'm going to try and pull up talk for a second about
anything else you bet on. I want to pull up this parlay on
FanDuel because I was really proud of it.
Yes. So as far as betting goes, MOB
has been kind of, you know, down in the dumps.
I'm that it's tough, you know, when you're betting daily on
Major League Baseball, so you kind of got to look at your
teams. The White Sox have been
profitable because they lose all the time.
I can't believe you got something that.
Baseball's just nuts. Yeah, but if you're looking for
a parlay, just add the White Sox to lose on it and you're going
to be right most of the time. So that's unusual.
They are historically bad. So that's been profitable.
So, you know, that's kind of what I've been up to recently,
but really looking forward to this football season.
One of the things I did, and I posted this on X in May was I
took the Hoosiers over 5 1/2 wins on the season.
Oh, I like that. And in May, that was at plus 123
odds. So they are currently sitting at
over under six at -160 So the odds have definitely gone up on
the Hoosiers to win multiple games this year.
Good on you. And what's that?
I said good on you. Yeah so and I did post that so
it only got 2 likes so hopefully those two people also bet it.
It could have been Signetti and Rourke for all you know.
All right, so FanDuel, you can't go back in time that far and
look at that. So anyway, I had a nice, I had a
really nice parlay. Nobody cares about other
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15% off your first purchase. All right, James, we were
talking about what we're going to do this year.
We're thinking of just doing straight Big 10 teams like no
other extra teams because there's more than enough Big 10
teams. So we'll just start going down
the list. And then I would like to talk a
little futures with you as well. And I think we're going to try
and do like a parlay we all put together at the end of each week
of nothing but Big 10 teams. There's there's more than enough
gambling within the Big 10 if you just want to keep it there.
Yes, and but, you know, we may find a tasty little treat
outside the conference every now and then.
There is a team that I've got my eye on that I want to bet
against, so we'll get to them when we get to their game for
this week that is out of the Big 10 Conference.
But they're playing a Big 10 opponent, so there's a little
peas for everybody. OK, we are going to save the IU
game for last. So and by the way, be careful
folks. A lot of big lines out there
just let you know a lot of big lines.
So we start with Howard at Rutgers.
Rutgers, the first time in history, Rutgers is a 38 1/2
point favorite. I don't remember ever saying
those words and Rutgers together, but they are a 38 1/2
point favorite. The over under is 51.
So we're assuming Howard just not going to score.
What? What do you like here, James?
I like the under and I like Howard with the points.
But to your point here, don't go crazy.
This is the first week of the season, folks.
You don't know anything. Vegas doesn't know anything.
And so don't go crazy this week. But yeah, that's a huge line for
Rutgers. Like even when they're, when
were they really good? Even when they were really good,
I don't remember them ever putting up those kind of points.
So yeah, give me, I would take the under or 38 1/2.
That line has actually gone up because it was 36 1/2 this
morning. So that line has gone up by two
points. So maybe Vegas knows something
and the total has gone up by a point and a half.
So if you're on the, either take the points or go the underside.
It might be good to get it before it goes back down again.
Good call. All right, you have Speaking of
like, don't go crazy first week. Just a quick fantasy football
story. My, my friend Robert in our
fantasy Football League has already traded a third round
pick for a for Marvin Harrison junior season even started yet.
So it's like guys are already tanking and and trading first
round picks. It's it's wild.
So everyone, everyone's fired up for football.
Like everyone's just really fired up.
If you're taking, if you're throwing a ton of money on a 38
point line with Rutgers, you're you're really excited for
football and you probably need to.
It's a marathon folks. It's not a Sprint.
All right, Next up you have North Carolina at Minnesota.
Minnesota is a 1 1/2 point underdog at home.
I'm going to take the dogs to win out right here.
The underdog about Minnesota. Row the boat.
Yeah, row that boat. They're at home.
PJ Fleck. I mean, he's OK.
They've had some good teams. I don't know exactly what
they've got, but I know North Carolina lost their best player.
And so, yeah, give me, give me the Big 10 team at home here.
All right. Next up, we have Elon.
I'm assuming EIL that's Elon Eastern Illinois.
All right, Well, either way, it's it's a division two or
whatever they're calling it now team against Illinois.
Illinois is a 28 1/2 point favorite at home.
Yeah, I'm going to like the under here.
Oh, the under 49 1/2 is what I see.
Yes, so 'cause I mean, 49 1/2 seems like a lot of points,
although if this thing goes under 28, give me Bill, I'm
going to cover that spread. He's still the coach there,
right? He has.
Lost that checked. And there's nothing he loves
more than running up the score on people.
So 28 1/2 minus is tempting. But if you want to tease that, I
wouldn't. I wouldn't hate you there.
You don't hate anybody. You shouldn't hate anybody
moving on. So Next up we have Florida
Atlantic playing one of the many Big 10 teams that we're playing
this year that has a question mark around what we're going to
see out of them. The Michigan State Spartans
Sparty at home is a only a 14 point favorite.
Yeah, give me, give me 14 points there.
I don't know what to make of Michigan State.
They should be able to win by more than 14, but you never
know. So you like you like Florida
Atlantic plus the points. I don't like it.
I would stay away from it, but gun to my head, I'm taking 14
points there 'cause I don't trust Michigan State at all.
Would you take it over at 45 1/2?
It's a really low over. Yeah, I don't know.
I would just stay away from it. I don't know what to make of
them. That's fair, Fair.
I would agree it's it's not good.
You're only four points away from the Iowa Over Under.
Like if you're if you're getting an Iowa over Under territory,
it's like I'm starting to look at the over anyway.
Oh, don't worry, we'll get to that.
Next up we have Western Michigan, Western Michigan at
Wisconsin, WMU. I'm assuming it's Western
Michigan. This is and this is.
That's the one team I want to keep an eye out on.
This Oh, OK, nice. Well, they are right now.
They're a 23 1/2 point underdog going into Madison.
OK, do you know why I want to keep an eye out on them?
I have no idea. Their offensive coordinator is a
man named Walt Bell. Oh.
The Over Under total team points for Western Michigan is at 14
1/2 at +105 odds on DraftKings. I have already snagged that up.
So if you have as little faith in Walt Bell at Western Michigan
as you had in him at IU, that is a tasty little bet, my friends.
Oh I love this. So you're betting Western
Michigan unders? I oh team total unders.
Yeah, that seems like the way to go.
I love. I also like the Badgers to roll.
Here I am. I am writing that down.
That's. So there's a little tip for
everybody. Shout out to Big Z for cluing me
in on that. One of my gambling buddies.
He's listening, I'm guessing. That's that is fantastic.
That's a great call. You know what, we're going to
keep up with them every week. I there are, how many weeks do
you think they're going to go under their team total in
points? Everyone until Vegas catches on.
Yeah, it's 14 1/2 right now is the team total.
Yeah, and at plus odds. That's low.
No, no, that's a low number of points for like Vegas.
Wait, I mean, it's also at Wisconsin, but yeah.
Oh I love that defense. Wasn't exactly stellar last
year. James, that's a great call.
That is a great nugget. That's fantastic.
I love the anti Walt Bell. You know, we should also maybe
we should have like like a former IU coaches segment.
Maybe we could play some Alabama bets too.
Let's let's let's. Talk about that.
Alabama some. Some Alabama, some.
Yeah, yeah, I love. It well, Speaking of, I did not.
I wish I could segue this. Good.
Didn't plan on it. We have the Tom Allen LED
defense of the Penn State Nittany Lions going in to
Western Virginia. Western Virginia is an 8 1/2
point underdog at home. It's a tough Rd. environment.
I will say that if there was a like on my list of top ten
places I'd love to see a football game.
Charleston's probably like in there for sure.
I imagine that gets raucous. I would agree with that.
Also on my random list of places like obvious, like I'm I'm going
in two weeks, the Rose Bowl. I'm excited for that.
Like there's the ones, you know, the kind of the ones that make
sense. Yeah, we need to talk about
that. By the way, you and Galen taking
trips to IU games has ended horribly, so I hope you you're
consulting with a witch doctor of some sort, some sort of
voodoo priestess to, you know, let's wait.
We have two weeks, we have two weeks until then.
But like there's obviously the places you want to see.
For me, kind of one of my stealth picks, like I'm for you,
West Virginia for me is Virginia Tech.
Like I just think a a night game at VTech with Enter Sandman
playing when the team comes in. That place looks fun.
See, I hate Metallica, and I misspoke earlier.
I said Charleston. I'm at Morgantown.
Yeah, wow. Or West, But I but no, I no,
like, I get that. I mean, it's kind of cool, but
then you still got to watch Virginia Tech football.
It's true in the in the Turkey, walking around the field.
All right, So what do you what do you have in this game?
Penn State? I like cover State to cover.
Yeah, I do, too. Do we do we want to bet against
Tom Allen's defense? I don't know 'cause he was
actually a pretty good defensive coordinator.
I want, I want to see, well, I think with enough talent he
could make a defense work. And if he doesn't have to worry
about all the other things, I think that's his wheelhouse.
Yeah, I had. I think it was with Connor
Onion, one of my previews talking about how there might be
more pressure as the defensive coordinator for Penn State than
the head coach at IU football. And I'm actually, I, I don't
think that like on the surface is probably stupid, but there's
like, you could really make the argument it's possible because
like it's if that defense gets shredded, his, his ass is going
to be on the line very quickly. Yes, but Penn State, you also
have to remember they need somebody who's going to keep
their nose clean after scandals of the past.
And there's one who's definitely going to do that.
It's Tom Allen, so. Agree, but they're kind of
they're that's ten years in the rear.
I mean I hear but it's also like they, they just want to win.
Like their defence is getting shredded and like if Michigan
beats them and their defence gets shredded, it's it's going
to be on Allen. Oh, absolutely.
But you know, when he was a Miss, Ole Miss, and he had, you
know, SEC talent, he did a damn fine job.
So I can't imagine he's not going to do well, especially the
linebackers. I mean, it's linebacker
university, right? And that's one thing he
consistently did is put linebackers in the NFL.
So I'll give him a hat tip for that.
Here's one that I have a real question about.
You have Indiana State at Purdue.
Purdue's got question marks all over the place.
It's a noon game. Purdue's a 32 1/2 point
favorite. I mean, Indiana State's not
good, but is Purdue 32 1/2 point favorite good?
How many times has Indiana State rolled into Bloomington and the
Hoosiers haven't covered 32 1/2? Like this is the same deal?
I don't understand why this line is so big.
Yeah, Indiana State usually has some decent players, and Purdue
is, like you said, not that great.
So give me the Sycamores and I'll take those points.
I, I agree. I mean, it's one of those where
I think three times out of 10, Purdue's going to cover this,
but it does feel like 7 times out of 10, they're not like,
like you said, we've played Indiana State a bunch of times.
One or two times it feels like we've beaten them like 70 to 13.
But every other time it's it's within 3032 is a huge number.
Huge. Absolutely.
All right. Next up we have UConn at
Maryland. Again, another team with a lot
of question marks of what's the post Tagliovoa era look like in
Maryland. Maryland is a 20 1/2 point
favorite at home. Give me the terps.
Yeah, Yukon's just that bad. This isn't anything to do with
Maryland. It's just Yukon is horrible.
They're bad. So yeah.
All right, team, we wanted to talk about Illinois State is
going into Iowa. Iowa is a love these numbers, 22
1/2 point favorite, but the over under is 41.
It's going to be fun playing the Over under Iowa game again this
season. I just, I don't think their
offense can be as historically bad as it was last year, but you
never know. My high school that I went to
has a pretty decent little quarterback, Carroll High School
out of Fort Wayne, IN and he's been, he was recruited by Big 10
schools and he visited Minnesota and he's committed to Iowa,
which didn't. And they lost their first game
this year to Hamilton Southeastern and a huge blowout
fashion. So I assume that Iowa's offense
will continue to be horrible just based on that.
And if we get a 41 total on Iowa, that's an automatic under
Scott, we're going to take that. I mean, yeah, that's well in
Illinois State. I mean, can Iowa get?
Can Iowa get 20? 8 How many points is Illinois
State going to put up? That's fair, that's fair.
Like I would say I'd be shocked if they get over 10.
Because if this thing is 21 to 10, Kirk Ference is happy.
If it's 28 to 10, Kirk Ference is happy.
You know, and that's where this thing's going to be.
They're not going to show too much.
They're going to play some, you know, backups that I think
that's where we're at on this go the under.
I'm writing it down. That's that's one like if I
write it down, that means I'm betting it.
Maybe. You know, I think we'll, we'll
toss that in our teaser. This is one where a buddy was
calling me up the other day. We were just talking football
and we were going like he was asking me what I thought lines
were. And we get to the Akron, OH
State Akron at Ohio State game. He's like, what do you think the
line of that game? He's like, wow, what do you
think that line is? And I'm like, wow, I remember
last year Ohio State had a run of like 30 plus point lines just
they were crushing it and I was like, well, you know, it's
early. I don't know.
Like they, you know, I was like, I was like, I don't know, 34
1/2. No, I was wrong.
Line is 48 and a half, 48 1/2 with an over under a 58 1/2.
So they're assuming Ohio State just going to win 50 to nothing.
That's a monster line, dude. That is a monster number.
Yeah, this thing was at 49 earlier, too.
Take Akron, take the points. That's just, that's a stupid
amount of points. I don't care who you are.
I mean, this is a Mac school. Hell, they almost beat Indiana
last year. And sometimes those dual threat
quarterbacks can be a problem for even good defenses,
especially in the first week of the year.
And maybe Ohio State starts a little sluggish or whatever.
Definitely look at the first half spread on that as well.
Well, and the other thing too is, you know, with, with an
expanded playoff, you know, if you're Ohio State, as long as
you just even with one loss, you, you might be getting into
the into the playoff. So I, I do wonder if there's a
little bit of a, you know, resetting here that hasn't
happened, that Vegas isn't factoring in that, you know, a
lot of these teams, Ohio State doesn't need to win these these
garbage games by 5060 points. You just don't need to throw up
a huge number. You just need to win like it's
all you got to do is just stack up wins, not lose.
And and also like with Ohio State, Ryan Day has two jobs
this year and one is to beat Michigan and two is to win the
national title. And honestly, if he doesn't do
both of the he, if he does one and not the other, he's probably
OK. But if he doesn't do two of
those, he's fired or he's going to be really on the hot seat,
which is a wild place to be. So I just I don't see them in
any position like if he's up 38 to nothing or, you know, 35 to
nothing, just like, all right, screw it.
Just like let's run the ball, get out of here.
Like, I don't see any reason why he would want to keep guys in to
run up the score. He doesn't need to do anything
this year but beat Michigan. Well, and this isn't, you know,
my thing is this is Akron, this is a Mac school.
It's not. Every single one of these kids
has been passed over by Ohio State, right?
This is their damn Super Bowl, right?
They have no chance of winning, but by God, those kids are going
to go out there and lose by 7 touchdowns.
I think that's a ridiculously highline.
Another bunch of kids who were passed up by Ohio State.
You have Miami of Ohio going to Northwestern in a high school
equivalent arena or not a stadium in wherever they're
playing in the the side of Evanston.
Northwestern is a three-point favorite at Air Quotes Home.
Scott, I believe you have a sound for this pic.
There we go. All right, give me them cats.
So yeah, I'll take them -2 1/2. But you know, win by a field
goal against, you know, like, look, it's a Max goal.
This is a field goal game. Like, you know, like that makes
a lot more sense, right? Like, but you're right, they are
playing like in a rec field, like, you know, like it's, it's
pretty bad up there. But we shouldn't discuss that or
Galen will get upset and we'll both be reprimanded.
Yes, and it'll sound like this. So Next up, we well, it's so two
thoughts here that involve NCAA 25.
I'm not sure. Have you been playing NCAA 25?
I hate it. I bought a PlayStation five just
to get that game and I am so disappointed in it.
Luckily though my son bought me Fallout 4 for Father's Day and
and I love that so so it's worked out for me to get the new
console but very disappointed in the game.
Very very. I will check out Fallout 4.
I've I've enjoyed the game. They just had a new patch a
couple weeks ago and it's it's made it a lot tougher.
Like I'm getting sacked all over the place like it is.
That's what I've been waiting for.
I well, no, it doesn't need to be tougher.
Good Lord, what's the last thing it needs?
Well, it's gotten tougher, at least for me.
Like I, I started a dynasty with Indiana and I'm like, I'm, I
have 12. I have no time to throw the
ball. How many roughing the kicker
penalties you've been called for?
Because I get like 3A game. Well, so I, I SIM, I just play
offense, I SIM kicks, I SIM defense, I just, I get a game
done in like 12 minutes. Yeah, well, if you try to play
defense, trust me, you will throw your controller like
through a window. It's impossible.
Well, it's gotten I I think the offense has gotten harder.
All all that said, I was disappointed when I played at
Northwestern in the game and it's not on the rec league.
Feel like I was kind of curious to see what they did.
It's like now it's still in Ryan field.
So that's where. There's 45 mile an hour wind
gusts coming off of the leg. Yeah, it's like they didn't do
that. And then it's also a bummer,
like we moved Hep's rock too late so that the the the rock is
in the wrong place in the game. And then just this is a personal
note for me. Our next game, UTEP at Nebraska
UTEP, I have a, a, a long standing dynasty that I've
played with my brother-in-law back when the game like in 2008,
you know, 5678910, like we played a dynasty every year.
There was online dynasties. We had one that went 28 years.
We then exported all of those draft picks into Madden and
played a 28 year Madden dynasty. Like we, we go deep.
I've been playing one with him. We're in year 4I, I started with
UTEP. So I feel like I have a lot of
connection to UTEP right now so that we're doing pretty well.
We have not won a title at UTEP, but I've I've taken him to the
national championship game twice.
All this is fairy tale stuff, but in real world, UTEP is going
to Nebraska, and Nebraska is a 27 1/2 point favorite over my
beloved UTEP team. I'm tempted to take Nebraska and
lay the points, but I also like the under here.
I really like the under, yeah. 49 1/2.
Yeah, 49 1/2, I think that's a good under and I think that's
the one to take. Nebraska's offense, I'm not sure
about. They may put up some points, but
I can assure you that UTEP's a real life offense will not
mirror that of your video game experience and I'm doubting they
put up a ton of points. My team did I won the Heisman my
first year with the the running back there, but I don't think
it's going to happen in real life.
All right, another my God, this is like so many big we got to
stop talking so many big 10 teams.
All right, we have UCLA at Hawaii and Hawaii is a 14 point
underdog. Why?
What is What is? What do we know about UCLA?
Here's what I like. I like the over in this game at
54 and a. Half OK, that's a good way to
play it. I think there's going to be a
ton of points scored here. Tommy Chang out at Hawaii, he
got the offense moving last year.
They got a lot better towards the end of the year and UCLA
defensively should be able to put up a little bit of a fight
against them, but I think they might put up some points too.
I like the over late, late night, actually.
This is a four third or a 130 kick.
For them, yeah, seven afternoon game, 7:30 Eastern.
All right, Next up, by the way, bummed that Idaho was not in the
NCAA Football game. So like no Kibby Dome for any of
us? The dome's the best.
It it was the best part of the game.
Like that was one of the best parts of the game.
You have Idaho at Oregon. Oregon.
Get ready man, a 43 1/2 point favorite.
OK, I know I hate stupid lines. This is the one I'd take.
I I kind of agree that I feel like Oregon could just easily
blow this line out. They seem like the team that'll
win 56 to 10 or 63 to 10. Yeah, this is poor, poor, poor
Vandals. They're about to get boat
raised. Look at the over under 62 1/2.
Yeah, I kind of like, I don't, I don't like any of that.
I I would, I would take yeah, Oregon plus the points.
I wouldn't go to the over under. Yeah.
All right, and then you have Michigan, the defending national
champions hosting Fresno State and they're like, all right,
we're going to get our respect. You know, we we've done a little
cheating. We have some suspensions, but
we're going to, we're going to get the respect from everybody.
And then Nope, Oregon gets a big line, Ohio State gets a big line
and they get a big sad trombone. All they get is a 21 point line
at home. They're 21 point favorites over
Fresno State. And I like Fresno State here
with those points. If we will remember correctly,
last year Michigan did not have crazy lines and they did not
cover those lines either. Now I know we have a new coach,
but we also have less talent on the team. 21 seems a bit much.
So give me a Fresno State plus points.
We got two left. We have Weber State, Weber
State, Weber, Weber, Weber, Weber.
They're going to Washington, Washington, which is like just a
shell of themselves. They don't have anything.
They are a 26 point favorite at home.
And the over under I got it 52 1/2 that's.
Where I see it too, yeah. Yeah, and I like the under here.
I don't know what to make of Washington's offense.
I assume their defense should be able to keep Weber State in
check simply by the fact that they're Washington and the other
team is Weber State. So yeah, give me the under here.
I don't see a ton of points there.
And the last game, this is a good one man 730 on ABC.
You have LSU going to USC, both ranked teams.
This is where we're going to see is USC legit?
Are they going to be able to to to be a, to be a top level team?
Line doesn't say. So they are a four and a half
point underdog at home. Over give me the over points,
points, points, points, points. So the over 60. 4 1/2.
Yep, give me the over. This thing's going to be wild,
man. I got a feeling.
OK, I'm I'm going to write that down too.
I like you. You sold me just on saying it
five times. Well, maybe we toss it into a
teaser. You know, we find our best ones,
you know, we toss them into a teaser here.
That's what I like to do. You tease, you know, you get 6
points. You know, if we were to pick the
three best, which gives you like a + 160, which ones of those do
you like the best, Scott? Well, we got to get to the IU
game. We forgot one.
We forgot one so. The bread and butter.
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No reason why you shouldn't have at least one Upland game day
Logger at the game on Saturday, whether you're at Memorial
Stadium or watching somewhere else.
I will be at Memorial Stadium watching.
I'm taking the family down to tailgate.
I have some Upland beer. I have some Game day Logger in
my fridge which I will be bringing to the tailgate lot.
Ray to Rock'n'roll. I know Galen's going to have his
tailgate going. I think he's getting there like
a nine. He's doing a double meal,
tailgate, a breakfast and a lunch, which is a lot all in
advance. I'll be there.
Bring me a game day logger. Are you gonna?
Are you coming? Are you coming down?
My my oldest son, who's a senior in high school and I are coming
down for the game, so we'll be at Galen's tailgate.
So make sure to stop by and say, hey, and you better bring me a
game day logger. I will.
I love Upland, I will. Galen's moving his spot this
year so it's a little bit harder for us.
So I will text you where we're going to be.
You got to come, you might need to come, come by ours on the way
in the stadium. We can do that.
A lot I don't know after a are you, are you doing the 9:00
start time for the for the tailgate?
No, we won't get that. We got to drive from Fort Wayne,
so we won't be there that early. OK, so I was going to say, if
you're starting at 9, there's no way I'm getting a a James that
is going to be coherent by the time he gets to my tailgate.
Well, incoherent James is sometimes the best.
And all of this leading up to the Florida International game
coming to IUIUI was surprised by this.
I was trying to guess the line. I was going to say like 17 and a
half, 14 1/2 just because I think a lot of the the the
national and kind of the the pundits out there are just not
sure of what to make of IU. And they kind of default back on
this program doesn't do well with change, doesn't do well
with a lot of question marks, which is I have no, no way to go
against that. But we we got over 20 man 21 1/2
point line at home and the over under is 51 1/2.
What are you feeling? We have a bigger line than
Michigan does. I know, right?
So yeah, but we are playing Pitbull University.
Yes, Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
Is he going to be there? I hope so.
Oh God, how awesome would that be.
If he stops by Galen's tailgate, it's on.
I will have a beer checking contest with Pitbull and I'll
humiliate Mr. Worldwide in the 812.
So. I, I don't think any of that's
going to happen, but my God, if it does, that would be
fantastic. I don't know what's what's more
unlikely together. I don't know.
What's more unlikely is like the fact that we actually had game
day come to IU once, or if we would have a drinking contest
between you and Pitbull. Give me enough beers, I'll
convince you. I had the other one.
So, but no. So we're playing FIU, which is
exciting. I'm going to be there.
And look, FIU has got a dual threat quarterback and that
concerns me when you talk about big lines.
We've got a defense and offense that are still learning things
that aren't going to be throwing the kitchen sink out there.
Chris Igneti, let me just tell you this.
I've been an IU football fan my entire life.
It has not been easy, OK? I had season tickets when I was
in college and I sometimes got too inebriated to even attend
the games. And when I say sometimes, I mean
most of the time. So, you know, they just.
But, you know, we at least had Antoine Randall or we'd put up
points or, you know, we'd at least be fun or whatever.
We've had nothing of that recently.
I am so absolutely on board for this team and this coach.
I want to run through a wall for the damn guy.
That love stuff never worked for me.
Did you see the new T-shirts they had when he took over?
When they were showing like the training video?
The like training pictures? They replaced Leo with another 3
letters WIN and I freaking loved it because that's what it's all
about. I heard Justice Ellison on NBC
Sports doing an interview. This team is bought in, man.
They're absolutely bought in. And you give me a confident team
with a quarterback who is seasoned.
And do you know, Curse Work is married.
I found that out today. He's got a, that's a mature
person right there. You know, that's the kind of
person you want leading your football team.
And Signetti seems to be absolutely in love with him.
So you know what? I love all those things.
That being said, 21 1/2 points, that's a sucker's bet right
there. That hook right there is going
to screw you, I bet. But if IU comes out and they
win, you know, you know, 35 to 14, we're all super happy,
right? That's a good game, a good win.
We don't cover, right? So that's my guess is we're not
going to go balls out. We're not going to, you know, do
the Bielema, I'm going to run up the score kind of thing.
I think a 20 point point victory Signet, he's happy with that.
I looked at what JMU did against lesser competition last year.
They didn't tend to run up the score.
They had, you know, closer games.
So my guess is that Florida International at least keeps it
within the 21 1/2. But I think the Hoosiers win
big. Yeah, I well win big, but not
not 21 1/2 big. A20A3 touchdown win is a big win
you. Know it's the hook, it's that
hook that that's going. To kill you.
Yeah, no. And I'm, I'm with you on all of
that. I think the play here is you
just throw the Hoosier money line into a couple other parlays
and just use that as a guaranteed win.
Because I'm, I'm with you, I'm I think Indiana can look good.
I think they can win and then we all have a great day.
I'm not sure they can cover 21 1/2 and it sucks to lose bets
like that when your team had a good day and you walk away
losing money. Even the over under 51 1/2.
It's like I could see a 35 to 14 game that just isn't getting me,
isn't getting me enough or even like a 28 to, you know, 28 to 10
or something like just a game where you're just not getting
enough points to get to the the over under.
But I'm, I'm with you. You heard our preview podcast.
I'm very I have us at 8:00 and 4:00 and I've been saying, you
know, it's it's partially, I think Cignetti's doing the right
stuff. I think we've got the better,
but I don't think we had that little talent last year.
But I also just continue to go back to the way the schedule is.
It just breaks so well, but you look at it, it's like this.
The first two weeks are games you don't really do a lot.
You just you got to win and then if you're going to start opening
things up, you do it at UCLA. Yeah, I live in Fort Wayne, so
to get down there is a bit of a trip for me, you know, like, but
I bought the mini season ticket package.
I am all in. I'm going to four games this.
Year, let's go. I I want to be there to support
my team. We, we have needed a football
program for so long. Yeah.
And I think we finally got the guy who can do it.
And I'm juiced. What do you think?
Totally. Everything breaks the schedule.
When do we play Penn State this year?
Are you kidding me? What else?
What do you think? What do you think we end with
off of our schedule? What do you think we end with?
What's our win total? Well, I took the over 5 1/2.
I I think we get to nine wins. Whoa, Yep, whoa.
I didn't bet it, but I think we do.
In fact, I did put I had two $5 free bets and I put one on IU to
make the Big 10 championship game and one on IU to win it.
By the way, if that happens, your old boy is going to be
wealthy. What was the what's the pay off
on that? Well the one is like $1500 on a
$5 bet, so. Were you able to find like
Curtis Rourke, Heisman odds? I didn't.
Look for him yet, but I should I do have a great parlay for.
This OK, Yeah, yeah, we got, yeah, we got to wrap up.
Let's do a Let's do our parlay of the week for Big 10.
All right. So I've got, well, this is just
a regular parlay that I've got. OK, I've got Colorado, Texas,
Christian, Penn State, and Oklahoma State all in the money
line. And then I tossed in FIU plus 21
and A. Half.
Come on man. Yeah, I because it's, I think
that's probably going to happen. Now, if we look at our teasers,
what teasers do we want to go to?
Put three together, get plus 160 and you -6 points off of it,
right? Or you get 6 points.
If we take three of mine earlier, Scott, which ones would
you take to tease? I don't do a lot of teasers.
I'm more, I'm more a parlay guy. But I would probably.
God, there's so many big lines. It's like, I don't even know
what to tease because you got to go to one of the smaller lines,
like maybe the Penn State line. Let's go with Penn State.
Yeah, let's go with Maryland and get that down to 14, and then
let's go with Indiana State and get that up to 38 1/2.
Yeah, I I like that. So you know.
Or or rip rip that hook off the IU game and get it down to like
17 or something. We could easily do that too.
Yep, so you can get that IU one down to 15 1/2.
I think that's probably a decent play too.
Don't forget there are alternate lines available if our listeners
are going to be following me on X at Crimson Cast 260.
I will be posting all these bets as well as some of the prop bets
for the IU game. The prop bets aren't listed yet,
so I cannot bet them yet, but once they are, I'll start
getting in there and looking and seeing where there's any value
we might be able to find. Assuming there is coverage in
Bloomington from the parking lot, Probably so.
I think it's 100,000 to one for Indiana to win the national
championship. Well, I didn't say national
champion, I just did a Big 10 champion.
I'm just I'm looking at I'm looking at the the championship.
It went odds right now, futures. That's wild.
All right, man, James, I look forward to another season.
This one was they're going to we're going to have to go a
little faster, man. I did not.
This is like 40 minutes. This is long for us.
It's a lot of big 10 teams, man. It's just it's a lot of teams.
We'll, we'll condense people. Don't worry, we will.
But we don't. We don't want to talk to your
ear off. Nah, but it's it's it's fun
times. We'll get more sounds.
We're going to bring back a lock of the week.
We just got to think of a good sound for it.
It's not going to be the cat. But no, James, it's been
awesome. I will do it.
Look forward to seeing you on Saturday.
Let's have some fun. Let's go Hoosiers and let's go
win some money. Follow James on X see all of his
bets. He is way more active on there,
but he also he wins some money. So and thank you all for
listening. As always for James, this is
Scott for Crimson Cash signing off.