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We made it. We made it farther than I think
any of us thought possible. We are about to do picks for the
College Football Playoff. What's up?
It all started here. Me getting this free Signeti
T-shirt. It's been a great season, man,
this is exciting. I can't believe we're picking
College Football Playoff games and I use involved, so this is
just fantastic and little teaser.
I've got some good news for who's your fans out there, I
think. So did we win?
Have you? Have you?
Did you get the the DeLorean? Did you go in the future?
Do you know what's going to happen?
Look, let me just say that Biff, he knows how to run a casino,
so. He does.
I have so many questions about that.
But we shouldn't. This is our.
That's a different. Podcast it, really.
Is although do you know that like one of the scores that
they're talking about when Biff is driving in his car, It's an
Indiana football score. There's a lot of odd things.
They also predict the Cubs World Series win too.
No, they did. Like he's listening to scores on
the radio and it's like an Indiana.
It's like an Indiana game that he's listening to.
Like the scores. I don't remember that.
Yeah. I thought it was USC for some
reason. You what?
I thought it was AUSC game for some reason.
I. I if I remember correctly, it's
like Indiana against somebody, but it's like they, they say,
they, they say Indiana when he's driving the car, like going into
the tunnel. The other thing that I would say
is. Maybe he's just Rose Bowl well.
No, but that would have been 67. The the he goes back to 54.
The thing is, it's a random. It's not bowl games, but he's
he's just getting random college football scores from that year.
OK. If it's if the the if the
Almanac has, if you assume it has every college football score
from the season, you would also assume it has every NBA, every
college basketball, every hockey.
If if you're talking about a book that has every score from
every game from 1950 to 2000 and it's like that big if you're on
video, it's like an inch wide. Like that thing would be like 3
phone book sizes. Go easy.
Yeah, there's no way it's fitting in Marty's back pocket.
No, not a chance. Anyway, we are way off topic,
James. Let's get to some.
Picks time to move time and space and money and create more
money. All right, we're going to start
with SMU at Penn State. Penn State is is contractually
obligated, I guess, to get the best path in the College
Football Playoff, which at some point they're going to stub
their toe. The idea that Penn State's just
going to walk through the semi final I think is, is a wild
thought because they're Penn State and they this is what
they're going to do to people. But they are at home.
It's not a white out. I kept on joking it was going to
be a white out. They didn't get a home game, so
they don't get to do their white out.
They are at home. They are an 8 1/2 point favorite
against SMU. Penn State is, we all know all
year. I believe them to be frauds,
complete and total frauds. They actually look fairly decent
against Oregon. They put up some points, which I
did not see they did. We have an over under a 54 on
this game. I think the over is probably
going to hit on this one. I think this one might have a
lot of points. Doesn't look like it's supposed
to snow there. It's a noon game.
SMU will be able to put up points on Tom Allen's defense.
Why do I know that? Because I've seen every Tom
Allen coach defense at IU and I know for a fact they can't stop
a team that does the things that SMU does.
So I think SMU scores a lot of points as well.
I think they do probably cover 8 1/2 points.
So I will take either SMU plus 8 1/2.
Might look at the over there, maybe look at some teaser action
on either of those. I think you'd be fine.
Next up you have the team that found the back door to the
College Football Playoff and they stepped right in.
You have Clemson going up against Texas.
Texas is a 12 point favorite at home.
Clemson has been interesting this year.
Their offense could do nothing at one point, and then they kind
of started clicking towards the end of the year.
That makes me think that 12 points might just be a bit too
much. Although I'm worried how that
Texas defensive line can get in there.
But let's remember Clemson's also glittered with talent.
There's a bunch of like highly recruited ranked talented guys
on that team. Not Portal.
Talent, but recruited talent, Yes, Yeah.
Recruited talent. True, and as much as their coach
is an asshole, and he is an asshole, he does seem to know
how to coach football. So 12 points seems a bit rich
for my blood. Give me the road team plus the
points here. All right, finally, Saturday
night you have Tennessee going into Ohio Stadium to play Ohio
State. Ohio State finally gets the
night game they've been bitching about all season.
So night games. So they get their night game.
They'll probably show up and they'll probably win, but they
are 7 1/2 point favorites at home.
So I've done a lot of, you know, I've been on XA lot, you know,
you know, checking, you know, what's everybody saying about
the College Football Playoffs? What are the other fans like?
The Notre Dame fans are ridiculous, and we'll get to
that in a little bit. But the most delusional of all
of them are Tennessee fans who somehow think they're going to
waltz into Ohio Stadium and win this football game.
Absolutely delusional off their rockers, folks.
Ohio State's going to win this. They're going to cover.
I I think Ohio State wins this thing going away.
I, I, I just don't see how Tennessee can hang with them.
I just don't. So I, I think Ohio State, I
actually believe they may be the best team in the country and
they've got some decent odds futures wise, which we'll also
get to a little bit later. But yeah, give me the Buckeyes
to roll on this one. Yeah, that would have been the
worst case scenario is us having to go back to Ohio Stadium.
Oh, no part of that. I I did not want any of that.
None. No part at all.
All right, well, that's that's Crimson Cash.
Thank you. Oh, wait, wait.
We got one more game. Indiana is playing in a game for
the College Football Playoff. Bottom of the bracket, although
you wouldn't know it. Everyone's just penciling in
Notre Dame to play Georgia. But at first, they got to play
in South Bend. You have Indiana going to South
Bend. Notre Dame is, I just saw it on
FanDuel at 7. Action Network has it at 7 1/2.
Let me look at the lines other places.
So you can get it for DraftKings at seven Other places have it at
7 1/2, whether Notre Dame is A7 or A7 and 1/2.
Point Favorite opened at 8 1/2. Just to note, this has seen the
largest movement of any of the games and it's all gone towards
Indiana. So, OK, a few things here.
I've been watching a lot of media content about this and
aside from the back home network, I've only seen, I think
it was one, maybe two people think IU even has a chance in
the game, let alone to win it. All right, I am here for those
of you who are tired of hearing that nonsense because let's
let's look at some facts here, Scott.
All right, I've got, I've got my handy dandy note sheet here, OK.
In this world of fake news, we Crimson Cash is a home for
facts, if nothing. You better believe it, because
listen to this list of everyone wants to talk about.
Oh, IU hasn't played anybody, all right?
A shitty Texas A&M team. Louisville, Miami of Ohio,
Purdue. Northern Illinois Navy, Georgia
Tech with a backup quarterback? Stanford, Army, Virginia,
Florida State and USC also with a backup quarterback who put up
35 fucking points against them. This is not a murderer's role.
They've played Army and Navy can't even have £300 lineman.
They'd be kicked out. You think some 63360 dude is
fitting on a sub? Not a chance.
OK, come on now. This is not a serious football
team. They play some soft ass schedule
and think they can just waltz in and everybody's going to love
them. Well, guess what?
I got news for you because we played better teams than they've
played and we played A-Team. That's better than them for
sure. But we've definitely played
better teams than they've played.
And so I'm going to say that all this strength of schedule
bullshit, Paul Fineman can take his bald head and shove it
straight up his bitch ass. That's what I say all right,
let's get some other things for you here I use it plus 2:30 on
the money line. How tasty is that?
But here's the one I love, OK, this is my favorite bet on the
game, in fact. All right, the team total for IU
is at 20 and a half 20.5. Now, those of you who watched IU
this year know they score more than that in every single game
except for two, right? So I really, really, really,
really like that IU over 20 1/2 team total.
You can get them in either half over 9 1/2 team total.
So you can do a first half over 9 1/2, which I know Scott's like
oh, give me that. Scott loves his first half bets
So I really like that one. I'm taking notes of the bets I
want to, I want to take off of James.
Yeah, I like the first half. Point total, I can give you a
bunch I like here, OK? I'm going to take the Hoosiers
on the money line because I think they're going to win this
game. I think you want to take them on
the spread. You're also fine doing that.
You're getting over a touchdown. Get it at 7 1/2.
If you're going to take the spread over the money line, get
it at 7 1/2. Sprinkle a little on the money
line at that point, all right? That'll be your emotional hedge,
I guess. Do not put money on Notre Dame
under any any circumstances. That's bad mojo, and we don't
want to introduce that into the universe, all right?
Not for College Football Playoff.
No, no, we can't do that. All right, so I'm going to be
taking the Hoosiers there. Now, let's look at some player
props here. OK?
Now, not everybody can do player props.
In fact, Congress is hurriedly trying to take away your ability
to do it, I'm guessing because they were talking about it
recently. So if you are able to, here's
some that I like. We have the Notre Dame tight
end, Mitchell Evans, not our Mitchell Evans.
They're Mitchell Evans over 27 1/2 receiving yards.
I think almost every tight end value has played this year has
gotten that. We just seem to do give up some
receptions to the tight ends. I think it's just how our Cover
3 scheme works. Taylor Layman would have to
probably correct me on that, but it feels like that.
So if you want to take something pro Notre Dame or toss something
in a single game parlay just to really boost up some odds, that
might be 1 you can do. But there's some Hoosier props
that I really like too. We have Kashawn Williams over
20.5 receiving yards, which seems incredibly low considering
his recent production. Curtis work 198.5 over under
passing yards. He averages 235.6 a game, which
is pretty darn good, and Notre Dame averages giving up 196.4 a
game. OK, let's also remember they
played nobody. Northern Illinois not passing
the ball, Navy and Army not passing the ball, Georgia Tech
not passing the ball. I mean they played a lot of run
first teams and they still give up almost 200 yards passing a
game. I think.
Rourke. One other tidbit that I didn't
find fascinating. I listen to this on Pro Football
Focus. The College Football Playoff
show the highest rated passer in the last three years of college
football November or later is 1 Curtis Rourke, the Maple
Missile. So when the weather gets cold,
the Canadian blood starts pumping, it turns to Maple syrup
and boy is it sweet. So ain't nobody going to slow
him down. All right, so, so those are the
props that I really like on the game.
As far as like player props go, I really love that team.
Total take. Take whichever one of these you
like, partlay them up if you want.
If you're getting like a single game partlay boost.
My guess is there's going to be tons of boosts and little, you
know, promos here and there. So take advantage of those
things. That's kind of where I'm leaning
where I think this game goes. I do.
What worries me a little bit is Notre Dame blitzing a lot and,
and Curtis weren't getting off his timing and us not being able
to handle the blitz. I think we've done nothing but
work on blitz and crowd noise since that Ohio State game.
I've got a feeling and I think we'll be prepared for it.
I, I think we have the coaching advantage in this game.
We have a coach who's familiar with a playoff setup and is just
rightfully a really good coach. So I, I, I think a lot of things
work in our favor here. A crazy officiating call towards
the end of the game would worry me some.
Hopefully we'll put the thing out of reach by then 'cause if
it does come down to a final drive like under 2 minutes and
Notre Dame has the ball to win. They're.
Relatively concerned what may happen at that point.
So, but other than that, I, I, I do think, I think we get up
early. I think we forced them to have
to get off of their game because I think our rush defense will
keep them from hitting their Marks and and keep them behind
the chains. And so Riley Leonard's going to
have to beat us. I don't think he can do it.
I also think we at least intercept the ball once in this
game. So there's a prop out there for
that. So if you want to get nuts, I
think it happens. I I think we're going to we're
going to play the zone coverage. We normally play Riley Leonard's
not used to it. He's he's not a he's not a
thinking man's quarterback. He's a running man's
quarterback. All right, So he he'll see his
one-on-one match up with his elite wide receiver who's a five
star prospect against some poor midshipman.
You know, who's going to be shipped off to, you know, cutter
in a couple weeks and he's just throws the ball up right.
OK, that's easy when D Angelo Ponz is lurking back there and
may just come out of nowhere. It's it's a little bit harder.
So I, I really, I, I think that's the game plan and I, I
hope that's how it works out. I don't think weather is going
to be a factor at all. It's.
Just going to be cold, that's all it.
I mean, it's just, it's. Just whatever.
And we played in the snow globe against Purdue and put up 66
points. Curtis worked through for 349
yards and six touchdowns, albeit against Purdue, but it didn't
seem to bother him. You know, I mean, if if the guy
can't throw in cold weather, we probably would have seen that.
Also, he's Canadian. So I mean, that's just a stupid
thing anyways for anybody to think.
I, I agree with a lot of what you're saying.
I, I think a lot Indiana has a lot of advantages.
The more I dig into this, and I've been saying this on a bunch
of the different pods here, but you know, to me it's a really
lazy take to be like, hey man, the the only time Indiana played
somebody tough, they lost. It's like because Notre Dame
Stadium is not Ohio Stadium. It just isn't.
And there's going to be more Indiana fans there than they
were at Ohio State. Notre Dame holds like 30,000
people less and Notre Dame loses at home.
They've done it, and honestly, Ohio State doesn't and.
Unless, unless it's Michigan, right?
Right. Who, by the way, we beat so and
we were up two touchdowns on them in the first half.
So it's so funny with the strength of schedule thing, you
know, when when Indiana was taking all the arrows for their
schedule and who have you played?
I always like do Notre Dame now. Like, please, somebody do Notre
Dame like look at their schedule because it's like who have they
beaten? But more importantly, who'd they
lose to? Like talk about their losses at
some point. So I'm I'm with you.
I was not thoroughly overwhelmed.
And I think we have the coaching advantage.
And I think for us, the time off Rourke's thumb being two more
weeks healed, I think is good. And you know, there's gather
there's just so much available here.
Or if you can get this done, you are the toast of college
football for an entire like two week period.
Oh, absolutely. We'd be the we'd be the store.
It'll be Hoosiers, like the basketball movie, but with the
football team. I mean, the thing the promos are
already riding themselves. Jeremy Gray's got to be having a
field day with this. I I really do hope we have a lot
of fans show up, but I understand if you don't, you
know, like that's a lot of money.
People like Price, you're going down.
Look, the prices have gone way down compared to where they
were. Well, I know I was offered a
ticket to game seven of the 2016 World Series for 500 bucks, but
I would have had to have, I would have missed like the first
couple of innings because I got it like 2 1/2 hours before the
game was supposed to start away. And and I didn't pull the
trigger. And of course, in my belief,
it's the greatest baseball game ever played.
But I really enjoyed watching it at home with my friends and
whatnot, right. So I didn't feel like I totally
missed out on that. And so this one, 500 bucks in
that weather, Yeah. You know, I'm fine.
I'm my dad's going to come over, We're going to watch it
together. The two games we've watched this
year together, we want to combine 113 to 10.
So, so good luck for us. So just keep that in mind.
I was going to stay home. We did not get tickets and I
wasn't going to spend that much. Like I was just going to be hard
to find care and all that. And then a good friend of mine
had four tickets and they had two that they were not going to
use. They're not awesome.
They're, they're in the upper section, but I don't, I don't
think there's a bad seat at Notre Dame Stadium.
So we're, we're upper section, we're up by the scoreboards.
We have to kind of turn around to see stuff.
But my wife is like, I want to go.
I'm like, all right, if you're in like, I want to go.
So we were getting like they were gifted to us.
We had to pay nothing for them. So we got 2.
Tickets go to the bucket game. We did not because the the IT
was more the kids like the kids. I'm still cold from going to the
bucket game. It was chilly out that night.
Yeah, it's going to be cold. It's going to be cold up there.
We'll we'll dress warmly so. But yeah, I, I'm, I'm excited to
go. Never been there.
I'm excited to see a game and hopefully, hopefully you'll see
AW. It is the worst party school
I've ever been to, by the way, you would know if I can talk to
Notre Dame. I do know.
I I Notre Dame is, yeah. They're about the lamest people
ever. I can't imagine that stadium
getting too loud from their fans.
So maybe we'll have to make it loud.
All right, we, I'm catching you off guard here, but we have to
do this. Yeah.
It's pretty simple. I win.
Google me. Can't finish the season without
a Hoosier hot streak? You got to you got to hook up.
And what's funny is I'm looking at our last who's your hot
streak? You, you, you paired up IU with
Notre Dame. You had IU with an alt line and
a Notre Dame money line. So you would have gotten that.
So you need to get three this time.
I don't think you're going to connect with Notre Dame this
time. So you got to pick the IU game
and then two other games and they got to be College Football
Playoff games. None of this other bowl game
stuff. Other bowl games don't count
right now. All right, here's what we're
going to do. We are going to do a three leg
teaser then. OK, no we won't.
No, we'll take IU plus 7 1/2, we'll take Ohio State to win,
and we'll take Southern Methodist plus 14 1/2 on an
alternate line. Plus 14 1/2.
Yeah, OK. OSU money line.
You know what, you know what, you know what?
Just take all. Just take SMU, Ohio State and IU
spreads and do them as a teaser and you'll get plus 160 odds so
that that'll get to six points on each of those.
So you'll get OS U -, 1 1/2, SMU plus 14 1/2 and IU plus 13 1/2
or 13 depending upon where you're at.
Do it as a six point teaser on that three leg.
You'll get plus 160 or plus 170 depending upon the book you're
at. OK, I like it.
All right, man, James, it's been a fun year.
I been. A profitable year we've been.
Good we've we've had a good year.
We've had a really good year. Your hot streak has been awesome
and I look forward to we'll talk in a couple weeks because we're
going to have to do the next round of college ball playoffs
right because how you should. Be there.
That was the other thing I was thinking, you know, I could get
this ticket to the Saturday game, or I could take the wife
to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl.
So who knows? Maybe we'll get to do that.
We have we have three more games after this one that we might
have to pay for, so we got some work to do.
You all, let's do it man. All right, James, thanks as
always for joining everyone out there.
As always, thank you for listening.
And this is Scott for Crimson Cash signing off.
Post time. And goodbye, you too.