college football week 4 best bets recap

Well we didn’t want to get juiced in week 4, and that we certainly didn’t posting a losing record of 4-8-1, just a dreadful week.  In looking at what happened, it was a bunch of bad bounces, and the tale of 2 halves in some games that kept us from a winning week.  It could’ve just as easily been an 8-4-1 or 7-5-1 week, but that wasn’t the case and we’re holding losing tickets.  Let’s have a recap

Virginia Tech -8 vs Georgia Tech

This one looked good at half time and then again at the end of the third quarter with VT leading 16-10 and only needing a fg to cover.  Well in the 4^th quarter they collapse and get outscored 17-8, costing us the game and themselves the win.  Looks like VT is to young this year.

Pittsburgh -7 vs Iowa

Another game looking good heading into the half with a 17-7 lead.  Pitt was dominating the game, and controlling the line.  They looked like they were on there way.  Then in the second half Iowa just stopped letting Pitt run the ball, and Iowa outscored Pitt in the second half 17-3, again costing us the cover and Pitt the win

Duke -17 vs Tulane

This game went our way, and after 2 second half collapses to start the day, we thought this was the game to send us on our way to a winning week.  Duke offense continues to roll along, and Tulane struggled again on the road.  Duke with the huge win.

North Carolina +3 at East Carolina

This was a disaster from the word go.  Sure UNC was only down a point at the end of the 1^st quarter, but after that it was all ECU football.  UNC couldn’t get a stop to save there lives.

Texas A&M -33.5 at SMU

This game was over at half time.  Texas A&M looked like a team trying to make a point, and they did winning big on the road.

Navy -6.5 vs Rutgers

We thought Rutgers would be let down after loss at home to Penn State, but they weren’t, they were pissed off.  Navy was caught with it’s pants down.

Missouri -13.5 vs Indiana

Missouri defense finally found an offense it couldn’t stop, and Indiana was able to put forth best defensive effort all year and limited the Missouri offense.  Football is a weird game.

Washington -34.5 vs Georgia State

We have Georgia State as a team to bet against each week.  This should’ve been an easy cover, but Washington was asleep at the wheel in the first half, and was actually trailing by 14 at halftime.  They scored 45 in the second half and won by 31 points, but we needed that 4^th score in the 4^th quarter to be a touchdown and not a field goal to get the cover.  Unbelievable.

Arkansas -13.5 vs Northern Illinois

We thought the hogs would be to much up front for NIU and they were.  They started strong scoring 21 in the 1^st and ended strong score 17 in the 4^th.

LSU-9.5 vs Mississippi State

This was the first loss at home at night for LSU since Les Miles became the head coach.  We didn’t see it coming, but we didn’t see a lot of shit coming at us on Saturday.

South Carolina -21 at Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt is the other school we have to bet against each week, and they cover this wee against South Carolina.  I didn’t think Vandy was capable of scoring more than 17 on USC, but they put up twice that.

New Mexico -3 at New Mexico State

We took the push on the game, and was lucky to get it.  After leading 21-14 at halftime, New Mexico was outscored 14-3 in the 3^rd and needed 2 touchdowns in the 4^th to get us the push, if this was a loss this week would’ve been worse

Boise State -17 vs Louisiana Lafayette

BSU dominates at home on the blue turf and they didn’t let us down.  BSU ran all over Louisiana, closing the night out with a win.