Hi folks. Welcome back week 5 of crimson
cash, not a bad week last week Rutgers easily covering that 20
and a half point spread. There's also some crazy spreads
this weekend but James man, how you doing?
You're doing pretty well, doing great doing great Seasons been
fun. So So far and if L was a little
Kinder last week. So so we're starting to turn
things around baseball, playoffs.
Can't wait to bet them. Love love.
Love baseball postseason. I know we'll stick to football
here but check out my Twitter at Crimson cast to 60 for some
baseball bats. This is the good time of year
and it's fun to watch gambling on baseball in the playoffs is
about as nerve-wracking gambling experiences you can have.
So if you really like that, you know, the get Uneasy feeling,
that's where it's at. I don't think.
But yeah, you're all over it. I love your.
Your logic of baseball bedding is like just just bet on the
good teams and bet against the bad teams.
So so either works with, that's why I love the game.
It's so simple. Yeah, yeah.
Just if you could just figure that out like, dude, I'm great
at picking stocks, I just buy stuff low and so high.
I mean, just all you got to do. All right, real quick, do you
want to talk about? I always give you your time.
Time to talk about last week's IU game.
I missed some of it because I was at my son's marching band
competition. So I didn't get to watch all of
it. I got suckered into thinking, we
might blow them out. That was no good.
It's so cute. James.
I know the, the over was nice though and in game, I ended up
taking some in-game action, and I got me some Western Kentucky
action at some pretty good odds. So so I was okay, I didn't have
covering my initial bet so we can live with that.
I think I ended up the whole weekend last weekend down like
six dollars. So very even kind of weekend.
It's good. I got to I got to step it up.
Rucker is one me some money. But as I was telling you a
second ago, my money line parlays have just been getting
me crush this weekend. So we're stopping that this
week. I'm still gonna do it because I
like throwing a little money out there.
I'm gonna start remembering to put my stuff on my Twitter.
I just I always forget, but I will, I will do a better job of
that. Let's go to the lines this week.
We have a Friday night game, which, by the way, let's start
gambling Friday night, because this line fine.
You got to tell me what I'm missing.
Iowa is at Maryland, Iowa. They what 5th ranked team in the
country. Is that Maryland?
The unranked Maryland. Terrapins, Iowa is only a three
and a half Point favorite. I don't Iowa lay in
three-and-a-half. Like, I'm taking that all day
long. I'm not sure what I'm missing
here. Yeah, and that's what scares me.
What are we missing is? Iowa.
Not showing up like, is it is it is Wood, jr.
College like is, this is the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Like, the, the team with the black and yellow uniforms like
they're showing up in Maryland. Correct.
Yes. But they have black, and yellow,
and white red, five other colors on their uniforms.
So, you know, spare hum. It's going to be a Friday night
game. It's a, you know, big, it's a
conference game. The East is superior to the
west, but I don't think, Maryland Superior.
In this case, not so much, but three and a half.
Half the, you know, that kind of this line is moved towards
Maryland as the weeks gone on I believe.
So I think it started like five and a half or six.
So this is gone down. I have already bet this game
tonight. I did a single game parlay where
I took Iowa on the money line and parlayed with under 54 and a
half, which is a touchdown more than the regular line is and
that's getting me plus odds. So I'll take that.
And that's the bet that I put on this.
So I think I will wins. The three-and-a-half scares me a
little for some, for some reason, it's at that for a
reason. So I just want the money line
and I think that over under might be the play on that
alternate line the 47 and a half.
I would probably look at the under as well.
Yeah, I mean the thing is with Iowa, May guess the only thing
you can be nervous about is when you look at, you know,
conference, you know, just looking at the Big Ten in
offense that they're last in the Big Ten and offense their own
The averaging 293 yards a game you know, they're rushing and
passing yard it. Is there not a very great
offense but their defense is Elite.
You know, Maryland's offensive numbers are really good.
They're second in the league in offense but the teams they've
played have been coming. They've played West Virginia,
Howard, Illinois and can state. So I I love Iowa, even though
I'm laying three and a half that, I hate the hook at the
head, three and a half, but I think Kyla wins this by like
four to seven. So, I'm I'm very comfortable.
I'm going to start my week off with a win.
They're going into Saturday games.
You have Michigan at Wisconsin. Thank you again to Michigan for
being overrated and getting to a nice for.
Do start to giving us a huge win with a 20 and a half point line
at rut playing Rutgers, that was fantastic.
But now, they're going to Wisconsin.
I don't, I don't know what to make of either of these teams.
Wisconsin has to win this game there, too.
And to write, you know, the lines started at 9:00 on.
I know it sounded it down to two.
To me, this is a no-brainer take Michigan on the money line.
I think they're going to win this game.
Wisconsin looks horrible. I don't know that I've seen
Wisconsin offense, this bad in a lot.
Long time. The quarterback is who is
supposedly a stud? Just looks bad.
Was name's Graham because anybody named Graham, now they
may be with your, you know, for your accountant or something,
but now your quarterback. So yeah, I'm with you.
I like, I like Michigan laying to.
I like Michigan moneyline. I like all that maybe the over
unders 43. I might even take the over on
that to I could. That's a low over under Yeah,
we're stay away. I actually, I think the under
would probably be the play, because I just think it was
conscious that bad. I mean, did you wash that?
Notre Dame, Wisconsin game or as a Penn State Wisconsin game.
Well, I watch that the fourth quarter, Scott's just gave up it
just stopped playing, there's nothing they could do was
working all day and so it could be more of that.
I think Michigan defense section really good.
So, but yeah, I think Michigan wins this game outright, take
them get some pussy. There.
Yeah. Charlotte is that Illinois, you
know, I'm just assuming Charlotte's in the Big Ten West
because the Big Ten West sucks. So it sounds like I'd be a team
that would be over there just playing Charlotte's.
What does will assume that Charlotte's a big ten west team?
Because, you know, all that happens for Indiana.
Is our crossovers are always like Iowa or it's like, hey,
what do you know Alabama's across over for Indiana.
We're playing Alabama and Clemson out of the Big, Ten
West, like it's. So.
Anyway, I'm assuming cat Charles with big ten west team because
there's over there. Just play a bunch of garbage
teams. Illinois is an 11-point favorite
at home. I mean, dude, this the over
unders 54 to me, everything on this game as a stay away, I
would money, I wouldn't parlay this.
I wouldn't screw around with this game at all.
I think Illinois is going to win.
I'm not comfortable giving, Illinois, double-digit points
against anybody. Even if the team is called
Charlotte, I could see Illinois, losing this game.
I to me, this is like an absolute complete.
Away. If you have to bet it just bet
Illinois to win and try and make a buck on a Ten Dollar Bet which
is stupid. That's why I say completely stay
away on this game. I say take them points.
That's a way too many points, really really been giving up.
In fact, I'm a toss. A couple bucks down on,
Charlotte to win the game outright because I think that's
highly possible and those are some pretty good odds.
So do not do not put 10 bucks on the Illini to win a dollar, that
would be a foolish bet, take that 10 bucks and do something
else with it. But if you're going to bet this
game and our friends in Illinois, cannot bet this game.
Did you know that Scott? Yes, that is the stupidest
thing. But so, yeah, I'm going to go
ahead and I'm going to bet this, I'm going to take Charlotte in
the points. Next up, you have Minnesota
traveling to Purdue a Get Right game at a high level.
I would say for Minnesota. Minnesota is offense, is second
worst in the Big Ten right behind right ahead of Iowa, who
is really bad. You know, losing at home to
Bowling, Green is not not ideal and their offense being this
bad. You know, having played Miami of
Ohio and Colorado, and Bowling Green and your offense is still
this bad. At least, Iowa can say they
played Iowa State in a bunch of other like Indiana,
theoretically, good teams. That said, I mean, I initially
was like, oh, you got to take Minnesota and take the two and a
half. I Purdue might be good like,
Purdue might be better than we. Think this could be the end of
Minnesota. I, this is, I'm all I have a
couple coming up where I'm pretty comfortable with it.
I would say tentatively take Minnesota, and lay the two and a
half, but I could easily be swayed to the other side.
We are getting two and a half of your Minnesota, aren't you?
That's right. That's right.
That's what I meant yeah. Yeah, yeah.
All right, so I have a friend, we're gone.
Icons and he went to IU but he's a Purdue fan.
So I know some of you think that, you know, just because I
usually pick the boilers to win that, I'm a Purdue fan.
This dude is legit a Purdue fan. His nickname is cons after
Cuonzo Martin. On Sunday of last week, he sent
me a text message and it was about this game and he called
it, the Crimson cast lock of the week.
All right, so so this is the official.
I you graduate Purdue fan Crimson cash lock of the week
from last Sunday. He took the Gophers plus 2 and
took the Gophers to win on the money line.
Because and I quote, the boilers blow, and the Gophers are going
to be pissed about last week against Bowling Green.
So take that for what you will. Folks, I am going to stay away
from this game because I don't know what to make of either of
these teams, but if I were to take it, I Would probably take
two and a half from Minnesota, but I wouldn't feel comfortable
about it at all. I think the under would be an
excellent play here as well. 47 is a low number.
I would say this how many points later Minnesota score against
Bowling Green 10. Yeah, okay.
And produce defense is a little better than bowling grades.
So I mean, this could be a real. I'm even produce offense, it's
horrible to, so I like your call of the Minnesota money line.
And this might be a you're throwing around a couple parlays
like moneyline parlays of which I will be doing again this
weekend. I do like the idea for a couple
throw in Minnesota as a win as a moneyline parlay their just up
your odds. And oh, yeah, I think it's
gambling, so I like that call. Next up.
Are are covering buddies, Rutgers, welcome.
Thank you, boys. They got a big number this
weekend. The Ohio State Buckeyes are
coming into town. Rutgers is Is a 15 and a half
Point Underdog. I think Rutgers defense is good.
I am not sure that Ohio State's defense is as good.
I think it's crazy to say I like, I like Rutgers and getting
15 and a half points. I agree with you.
I also think the under might be a good play here. 58 to high
number 58 a high number. We saw Rutgers defense is pretty
decent and Ohio State's offense is not exactly you know lighting
the world on fire this year. Now they got there were a little
better last week so we'll give him credit for that.
But I like Rutgers with the points and I also like the under
but I like Rutgers with the points more.
I'm going to save the IU game. Next up.
All right, next up, we have Western Kentucky, a team that we
are all ideally, understanding remembering playing at Michigan
State. Michigan state is an 11 Point,
favorite in this game, I screwed up all my numbers here, so I'm
just talking to myself. I've, I've tried to put the
numbers down in a spreadsheet every week, and I keep on
changing, and I keep on messing things up in my mind.
Yeah. Michigan, state is an 11-point.
Favorite The over-under is 64. I, I think I'm going to take
Western Kentucky in the point. It's probably recency bias
having just seen them. Run a pretty nice offense, but
do that Air Raid? Offense is tough.
I know for my buddy, Robert talking about Michigan State,
like he thinks their secondary is the weakest part of their
defense. That's not good against a
Western Kentucky team. Yeah.
I also think there's going to be, you know, Indiana had
receivers open all day long against Western Kentucky.
When they did bring pressure, it's windy and and look good.
I know 64 is a high number of the over-under.
I'd probably go Western Kentucky, take the 11 points and
maybe go over as well. Yeah, Western Kentucky, it's
hard to imagine a team beating them by two touchdowns simply
because it seems like every time they get the ball, they're going
to score. Yeah.
Now, you know, I don't know that, you know, they'll be able
to do that against Michigan State.
But I got a feeling they could do that against pretty much any
team because of the way that scheme is.
So, I like a lot of points in this game because there's no way
they will slow down, Michigan, State's running game.
We could I mean we were running all over them when we decided to
run and so I think it's going to be a high scoring game.
I think Western stays within that 11 Point range.
So yeah I'll take Western in the points.
Next up, this might be another one where I'm at.
This might be kind of like, my Michigan Rutgers from last week.
You have Northwestern going to Nebraska northwestern's been
dodgy. I mean, they lost to Michigan
State, beat Indiana State lost to Duke beat Ohio.
I don't think those westerns phenomenal.
I watched a lot of that, Nebraska, Michigan State game.
I was just toggling on Saturday night between those games.
Nebraska beat Michigan State. Like they had that game one.
They fucked it up like eight, different ways.
They make so many mistakes. They are so undisciplined.
Like, they, just, they make the bet the biggest mistakes at the
worst time. I don't understand how Nebraska
is an 11 and a half Point favorite against anybody like
anybody. I love Northwestern and getting
And a half points here, I might screw around and put
Northwestern on a moneyline parlay just for fun, but the 11
and a half points, like the Brassica win this game, they're
gonna screw up seven things in the fourth quarter to let
Northwestern score random touchdown here.
There may be a special teams thing.
I mean, the, the punt return that Michigan state had, there
was nobody on the other side of the field when they, you know,
they just completely, you know, they had to keep on having two
guys back all like I asked Buddy, who's at the game?
He's like, basically Michigan State because I watch it.
I guess I'll one replay. I'm like, how did this happen?
And basically, like they just date on every punt.
Return in the game. Michigan state had two guys
back. He's like, they're setting
something up and then they did, at the end of the game,
everybody went One Way, north of the Wrath guys, followed them,
and just mean a great setup, but it tells me it's like Michigan
State. Obviously saw something or they
were just like, hey, here's a coach.
We could fuck around with like Scott, Frost is Never Gonna
figure this out. It's like when I play chess with
my Five-year-old - or moving pieces for fun.
All that said, that's not a team that I feel comfortable with 11
and a half points at it even at home.
So yeah. Northwestern 11 and a half all
day long. That's me.
I think my thoughts on Nebraska are, well, documented, so we
won't get into that. I do agree with you, I think
this will be a close game eleven-and-a-half.
Does seem like a lot. I don't think this is going to
be very high scoring game, so I think we're going to have very
few points scored in this. So take a close.
Look at that under, if you can find some value there, maybe
take an alternate underlined and then, you know, take that spread
for Northwestern. Really boost your odds there.
I think you're right. This is an opportunity to find
some money line value on Northwestern just because these
conference games any conference game that's a double digit
margin is usually kind of scary because these teams know each
other. You know they play each other.
They're familiar with each other.
They usually don't run away with things unless it's Ohio State
and you know I mean we I've seen that at IU Bret.
Bielema Wisconsin did at us how many times, you know, it does
happen but it doesn't happen a lot.
So always be wearing those double-digit giving double-digit
points in the conference game. So, yeah, by the way, I had a
lot of fun with your Nebraska. If you're not following us on
Instagram, I put little Snippets when there's something good, I
put Snippets of the, the podcast up there and I have some
photographic side. A lot of fun with your Nebraska
take last week. That was those good times in the
balloons. It's so early this weekend, I
hope that you said, when there's something good, I put Snippets.
So it boils got the show into like 23 seconds Snippets.
It's yeah, it's like it was me in the HBO in the in the 80s.
They had stiglitz. There you go.
I'm old. All right, last game.
You're Indiana Hoosiers going to Penn State.
Thank you big ten for making this a seven a night game.
That as if going to, Happy Valley isn't hard enough for IU.
The big Ten's like, hey man, how about you go, fuck off and play
a night game. Here's the thing, Ryan rasila
did a thing on this on the ringer talking about, you know,
college football and like Penn State, you know, they beat
Auburn, it looks great like Auburn.
Maybe like the eighth best team in the SEC when you, when you
come down and look at it. Like Auburn may not be fantastic
this year and then you look at the rest of Penn State's wins,
Yule Ball, State and Villanova no great shakes and Wisconsin,
the only beaten by 6 and Wisconsin may not be great.
So there is rasila was talking about Auburn but it's like if
you assume Auburn's not top five in the SEC suddenly the you
know, the winds thus far for Penn State.
May not look as good. That said, this is a four-game
stretch at home. So they've been home for three
weeks good at leading into this game.
You know, they really should have probably won the game last
year. Obviously, if the, oh, they're
running back takes a knee, they probably win the game.
They made a lot of mistakes at the end.
The penix thing or that through their season for a loop.
I think we've been in their head for a while.
I could see them just wanting to crush us for a lot of reasons.
And you know, Get take care of this game and then get ready for
Iowa. Next week, I also mentioned this
in the preview, the post game show with gaalan from Western
Kentucky. You know, when when we had guys
opening, its Western Kentucky penix, look good.
When he was getting pressured to me penix, did not look good.
I don't have his numbers on like, you know, pressure versus
non pressure, but I don't think he completed any passes or at
least not a very high number of percentage of passes when he was
getting pressured. In Penn State's going to bring a
lot of pressure. I think our lines are not good.
I like Penn State even though I have to lay 13 at home, I I
don't I unfortunately don't see how Indiana is going to compete
against the top tier teams in the Big Ten.
I'm not even sure Penn State is as good as I was as good as Penn
State. We saw what Iowa did when they
were fired up at home. I think it's going to be a
similar atmosphere and Happy Valley.
I took a long time explaining this one, but yeah, I like Penn
State. eight, even though I have two late 13 points, Yeah, this
is this is a Revenge game for Penn State.
I'm sure they've had this circle and getting it at night.
They're going. Oh it's not good, it's not good.
You know, it reminds me of Rocky 3, where that club or do you
have a prediction for the fight? Hey, that's what we're in for
pain and I think that's what we're going to get.
A lot of. I don't even think Penn State's
that good. I agree with you reading Auburn
but Robert is the 8th best team in the SEC, is in the end of the
eighth, best team in the Big Ten.
There are. You know I mean so so I think
Penn State's going to roll. I think they've got a lot of
reason to. I think that they are a good
team. They're not great, but they're
good and they should be able to handle IUI appendix look good
against against a defense that allowed him to have over
receivers. Those receivers are going to be
open whether or not there's a pass rusher, not those receivers
are going to be as open. Open.
He does seem to be affected by the crowd at times as well, a
hostile crowd and that's certainly going to be what
they're facing a beaver stadium. So, you know, I don't like the
looks of this one. I agree.
I'm not sure. It's, we're recording this
Friday morning. I'm not sure Dale and I are
gonna have time to do a preview in time, but my he might do a
solo preview again, but You know, my take on this is I see I
see it being a loss. I think it's either going to be
us just getting completely completely throttle.
Like we did against Iowa. I think there's also a chance
that it's one of those weird games where I could see us going
down. 14. Nothing.
And then it's like Penn State takes a little bit of foot off
the gas, we score a couple. We have a weird on side like one
of those games where we end up. It's like the fourth quarter,
the holy shit. We actually shot to win, but we
don't and then we never kind of put it together.
I could see that happening again.
But yeah, I just I don't see a path to Victory and I think this
is a game in Penn State's going to want to just like lay the
wood. So unfortunately, yeah, I think
this is where you guys put a Penn State moneyline win.
This is where you can play around with Penn State.
And some of those other teams like we mentioned, like throwing
Michigan, maybe. Yo, you put a Michigan, you
know, Minnesota, Penn State and use Minnesota to get some nice
odds and play around with that. I think you can, you know, have
some combinations there and, you know, Don't listen to me because
I've lost basically every moneyline parlay this year.
So listen to James DraftKings has a foreleg parlay special
this week - 500 per leg is the minimum so you could pick some
pretty assured winners there on a 4-legger.
They'll get you up on the odds. I've won that won two weeks in a
row. So I'll be posting it again this
week on Twitter, at Crimson cast to 60 so that you can check that
out. See if you want to take any of
those as well. Yeah, you also had an idea but
better than me this year, talk to me, I had an idea, then an
idea for the Crimson cast, listening audience, what if we
adopted another team? So, you know, we always talk
about the Big Ten and everything.
What if we just adopted a team from somewhere in the country
and we just followed them each week, you know, and let our, you
know, let our listeners go to our Twitter and recommend you
know, is it Texas San Antonio, is it Charlotte?
Is it Wyoming? Who could it be?
You know, do we want to become Utah, State fans.
And look at each game, they play each week, just might be
something fun to do. You know.
Maybe pick a team that's always on CBS Sports Network so that we
could all baby watch it. You know, Navy, I want to Navy
last week, so maybe Navy could be our team.
What do you think of that Scott? Love it.
Absolutely love it. That is fantastic.
So yes, Crimson cast listeners, Crimson cash, listeners, I
should say, hit us up on Twitter, hit me up Crimson cast
317. Because I don't always check the
Crimson cast feed is honestly a little inside baseball.
It's more Galen than me follow. Yeah, his up.
Hit us up on a crimson cast, 317.
Also tag James Crimson Castle, 260.
Yeah. Shoot us some teams, and then
we'll pick a team next week and I love that will add them to our
Our weekly, our weekly list of gambling numbers.
I think that's fun. I like it a lot.
And by the way, the thread is out there, listeners, if you
don't give us answers, it's going to be Ball State.
So you're in be stuck. Listening to us, talk about
ball. State lines all year round?
No I don't want to do that or Notre Dame even worse Milliken
Notre Dame. Yeah well Megan Notre Dame.
Yeah and then I'll play the another Dame fight song will
really punish everybody for not giving his team so I love that
idea. That's great.
Let's have some fun and let's really dig into like a A deep
second, third tier Team. PS Western Kentucky.
Could be a fun watch this year, too.
I got I wouldn't mind them being our team but we already play,
but yeah, they also play on CBS Sports Network.
That's where all the tiny little schools play is on that crappy
Network. How about that camera work in
last week's game though? Oh, That was, I could have done
better suited on myself. I thought I was like, is this
Periscope? What am I watching here?
The behind the, the field goal cam was wild.
That was, that was crazy. There was a shot, like, a Bubba
Prague on Twitter, who does a bunch of, like screen capture
stuff and just he had a great great clip from that game, where
it's a good camera. It's like going up to the
cheerleaders, like, just got really close to and she's like,
uh, like to the total like that, like, during that game.
So anyway, All right, I love it. Let's go followed.
I'm gonna call streak right now. So until I'm hot again, you got
to follow James, take his lead on everything you hear on this
podcast and yes, send us some teams and next week we will
bring the Crimson cash team. Our new second favorite team but
we'll add them to the list. Who's it gonna be?
I love it. All right, for James, this is
Scott for Crimson cast. Thank you guys.
All for listening. We'll catch you next week.
Signing off let her ride bitches.