NFL Playoff Picks

College recap next week. I am still trying to digest the Ohio State loss.

Saturday

Baltimore -4 over Indy. This should be an interesting game but I think Baltimore will be ready and motivated to send the old Colts away from Baltimore again in disgrace.

Eagles +6 over Saints. I was planning on being at this game but actally teams I root for don't seem to play well when they see me on the road cheering for them. In the NFL playoff experience seems to carry ton of weight and if Sean Payton were not the HC of the Saints I would say take the Eagles straight up. This will be a close high scoring game between two explosive offenses and I have no idea who will come up the winner.

Also Saints/Eagles over 48.5

Sunday

San Diego -4.5 over New England. It will be close game but San Diego will win down the stretch by 10.

New Year

Well I am still recovering from some of the beatdowns I received prior to New Years so I have been a little quite.

Here are my weekend and BCS Championship game pics.

Other bowl games. Shouldn't these crappy games be before Christmas?

BCS Game.

Ohio St -7 over Florida. Tressell is a great coach with great talent on his team. He has always been inovative in trying to get the best people on the field at anyone time. Florida does not have the offense to keep up.

Over 46. I think Ohio State will have a huge game offensively putting up over 31 so 17 for Florida would be put us over.

NFL

KC +7. Indy can't stop the run and the game will be close.

Seattle -3. Dallas is in total dissaray. TO will be a distraction and the division was so bad that they never needed to win down the stretch.

Philly -7. Who is going to play for the Giants this week and any Eli Manning is a big pussy.

Peace out!

Lots of plays covering the entire weekend of action

Well 12-12 on the NFL for the season I believe and now 9-8 in the college post season.

Friday

Already spoke about Houston in my last posting.

Clemson -9. They are just too much for Kentucky.

Oregon St. -3.5.

Purdue -1.

Minnesota/Texas Tech over 65 and for some reason I like Minnesota +8.

Saturday.

Navy +6. BC has a great bowl record but their head coach has left for greener pastures down South and I think this will cause problems.

Texas -9.

Virginia Tech -2.5. Okay offense and strong defense beats inconsistent offense and okay defense.

Virginia Tech/Georgia Under 37.5. Supposedly the low totals in bowl game always go under.

Sunday.

Nevada +3.5. I really don't buy into to this game being a tryout for the players with new HC Shannon. I just think it is long trip to a crappy bowl where the Boise State fans will all be rooting for Nevada.

Monday

Tennessee -4 over Penn St. I think Penn State blows.

Wisconsin +2.5 over Arkansas. Wisconsin has been overlooked all season. They will take that out on an overrated Arkansas.

Georgia Tech +11 over West Virginia. Better off without Reggie Ball.

Michigan +1 over USC. Michigan seems to have all the stars lined up to make another run next season and look for the road to redemption to start with romp over USC.

Michigan/USC over 46.5.

NFL

Houston -4 over Cleveland.

Pittsburgh +6 at Cincinnati. Cowher chance to go out a winner and give Cincinnati a bit FU.

Tennessee -3 over New England. New England has nothing to play for Tennessee can still get in with a win and a miracle.

I also recomend looking at the Eagles at around 4 PM and see if they need to win the game or not and if Atlanta still has a chance of making the playoffs. If the Eagles need the game to win the Division and Atlanta is out of it, look out. The Eagles will win big.

Picks for Wednesday and Thursday

Down to 6-5 for the college post season after last night.

Wednesday night.

UCLA -3 over Florida St. This is a case of going with the hot team instead of the not team. I don't see FSU being psyched for this game.

Thursday

Oklahoma St -2 over Alabama. Also Under 51. The Tide will slow down the sometimes potent Cowboy offense but even under an interim coach they will fail to generate significant offense.

Rutgers -7 (buy it down if you can) over Kansas St. Over 44. Rutgers moved into a different league this season and will be happy to win any bowl since they have never won one.

Texas A&M +4 over Cal. Cal has been a hard read all season but I don't think they will show up after a very dissapointing season. Texas A&M has lost 3 games by only a total of 6 points. They will be fired up to bring home a big win probably straight up.

Early Call for Friday.

Houston +6 over South Carolina. A real offense comes to face Spurrier and South Carolina will not be able to keep up.

Post Christmas

Well I had an okay weekend raising the college post-season total to 6-4 and splitting on the NFL because of a stupid Redskins team. Sorry had to whine about that terrible game.

Tonight

Middle Tenn St +8 over Central Michigan. I think that is too many points to lay in a game the MTSU should keep close or win outright.

More Tomorrow

So far I am 3-1 in the college post season and am loving being about to watch bowls. The NIU/TCU loss on the total was a little frustrating because it was so close but oh well.

Bowls.

Tonight

Rice -4 over Troy. Neither team is so great but Rice finished strong against tougher opponents then Troy. And yeah they both got their asses kicked by FSU.

Three Big Games for Saturday

South Florida - 4.5 over ECU. Two weak offensive teams in action here, but USF finally has a QB and should win easily.

SJSU +3.5 over New Mexico. This is going against logic with New Mexico as the home team in the inaugural New Mexico Bowl but they are a weak team and should lose straight up against a resurgent San Jose St.

Tulsa +1 over Utah.

Sunday

Hawaii -6.5 over ASU and OVER 73. I am still in the Rainbow Warrior coalition and I think they will rally to win this last game in a great season. I also think the ASU offense will get back on track and score into the 30's but I don't see Hawaii under 40 for a second game in row.

NFL

Sunday.

Washington +2 at St. Louis. Two god awful teams here but Washington is playing better especially strong on the ground where St. Louis has been very very weak.

Monday

Philadelphia +7 as I mentioned before. The Eagles may lose but I also think they may win outright. Their defense has been giving up yard and points but also making game changing plays. Westbrook and Garcia have stepped up big the last few weeks and I see another strong game this week.

Thursday Night NFL

I love the Packers tonight -3.5 at home. Bowl Picks through Christmas and the weekend of NFL action tomorrow.

I also love the Eagles +7 at the Cowboys. Will explain more tomorrow.

Early Bowl Picks

We had a nice weekend winning the first game of the college post season and winning both NFL games to get me to 13-10 on the NFL season as well.

Tonight's Game Poinsettia Bowl

TCU -11.5 over Northern Illinois. TCU has gone 22-3 over the past two season and will not lose to a weak NIU team that probably should not even be here if this were not TB Garrett Wolfe's last game.

Over 46.5. TCU's games have been high scoring to close the season and I see a score of 35 -17.

Thursday Night
Las Vegas Bowl

BYU -3 over Oregon. This game will have lots of scoring but Oregon has lost 3 straight. BYU run of covers ended in their last two games but in one game against New Mexico they won by 25 as a 27 point favorite and the other was a rivalry at Utah where they still won straight up. At 3 points, this is one of the bargains of bowl season.

Back with more games on Thursday or Friday.

NFL and finally College Game tonight

Last week was 2 and 2 in the NFL bringing the talley up to 11-10 for the year. So basically I have covered my juice.

You will how much I am Jonesing for college football since I have a pick for tonight.

App St -3 over U Mass. Just a hunch and I am desparate for some action.

NFL

Philadelphia +5.5 at Giants. The Eagles seem to be getting some offense from Garcia. Lets just hope they play a whole game unlike last week when the Eagles backed into victory again.

Denver -3 at Arizona. This is only because I like my friend Dils' rationale about going with the Rookie QB who has the better defense.

Bowls are comming up on Tuesday. YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Recovery and a Break from college

Well I still trying to recover from my worst week of college football prognosticating, but now I have sometime to focus on the NFL where I have gotten back over .500 at 9-8. In college I went 7-9 and did a few stupid plays on my own that I failed to post, so now my record for posted plays in College is 158 -125.

I will have some bowl previews next week and some discussion of the BCS and how it has failed in someways but also suceeded this season.

NFL

Jacksonville +1 over Indy. Indy has not played well on the road and Jacksonville is great at home.

Eagles (Even) at Washington.

Oakland/Cincinnati over 38.5 Not much defense in this game. I think the Bengals will allow some points after opening up a big league and having their shutout streak ended in the last minutes of the game last week.

Seattle -3 at Arizona. Seattle is playing very well right now.

Added Action

UConn/Louisville over 54. Again Louisville should score a ton in this game but stil give up 14 to 20 points.

West Virginia -10 over Rutgers. I think West Virginia will rebound after last weeks debacle.

NFL Sunday

Seattle +4 at Denver. I like Seattle healthy and again a virgin pro QB.

Last College Weekend

I was working on picking my games for tonight and the weekend, and was sad to realize that the season is basically over. Bowl season is fun but it is one or two games a night spread between the 19th of December and January 8th. So here we are with my last full slate of action in the Regular Season. In addition I have to say that the CUSA and MAC Championship games should be abolished since they have no meaning at all. At least the large conference title games determine who goes to the BCS.

Friday

Houston -4.5 over Southern Miss. I booked this game this morning and have since seen the line run to 5.5 so I guess that is good for me. Houston just seems to be the solid team here especially playing home. It is also hard to beat the same team twice in a season and I see Houston atoning for an earlier loss.

Saturday

West Virginia/Rutgers over 49. West Virginia does not play defense.

Navy -20 over Army. Navy has kicked their offense into high gear the last 4 weeks while Army has failed to cover their last 6 games.

Army/Navy over 49. Sloppy weather, lots of scoring.


New Mexico St -11.5 over La Tech. This is a ton of points for NMSt to be favored but they are confident after a killing of Utah St last week.

USC -12.5 at UCLA. I don't think it will be close again.

TCU -17 over Air Force.

San Jose St -4 over Fresno St. Capping off a great season with a big win against a team that killed them in past seasons.

Colorado St. -1 at San Diego St. Two really bad teams but Colorado St. is still far better.

Arkansas +2.5 over Florida. Arkansas has more heart and will win in a "nail biter", and Chris Leak will be firmly established as a "pillow biter" after he is replaced again by Tim Tebow.

Oregon St./Hawaii over 70. Score score score.

Oklahoma -3.5 over Nebraska. Nebraska is not playing at home so therefore that is a problem, Sooners roll.

Ok/Neb over 45. The total will easily hit 50.

Sunday

Tennessee/Indy over 46.5. Just a hunch.

Thursdays Games

Last week was a winner in college going 14-11-1 for the entire week putting the season total to 151-116. We got the NFL squared back up to 7-7 for the year.

Tonight.

Ohio +3 over Central Michigan. Ohio plays solid defense and we will have a close game. They may not win but I don't see them loosing by more then 3.

Cincinnati -3 over Baltimore. Baltimore is a hot team but I think Cincy will come through with the must win on the home turf. The weather may be help to Bengals passing game against a tough defense.

Good Luck

Gobble Gobble

Well Bowling Green sucks. Sorry about that one. Hopefully I can make up for it starting tomorrow with a huge long weekend of games.

Thursday NFL

Yeah actually an NFL play. Surprise.

KC -1 over Denver. Rivalry game and KC should be back healthy this week.

Thursday College

BC -3.5 at Miami. Come on. Miami has nothing left.

Friday College

Ohio U -3 at Miami Ohio.

Texas A&M +13 at Texas. Too many points for Texas to cover.

Western Mich +2 at Akron.

Oregon St -3 at Oregon. Teams going in two different directions.

Air Force -10 @ UNLV. The Rebels are terrible.

I am still debating taking Colorado at Nebraska but will probably lay off.

Saturday.

West Virginia -20.5 over South Florida. Too much on the ground at home for the Mountaineers.

Tennessee/Kentucky over 60. Kentucky does not have a defense and Tennessee can score with Ainge back.

East Carolina +2.5 at NC State. Meaningless for both teams but it makes ECU a better bowl team and NC State has lost 6 straight.

Rutgers -14 over Syracuse. Please Rutgers get it back together.

North Carolina -6.5 at Duke. The Tar Heels have played better as of late while Duke has not improved at all.

Oklahoma -5.5 at OK St. Ok State plays well at home but they will not able to stop the ground attack.

BYU/UTAH over 54.

New Mexico St -6.5 at Utah St and OVER 54. Utah State is up there with Temple at the worst team in college football and New Mexico State will score 50 on them with no problem.

Kansas +7 at Missouri. Missouri got screwed last week and Kansas looked great beating their rival.

San Jose St. -7 at Idaho.

Arizona -3.5 over ASU. Maybe ASU picked the wrong QB this season, I don't know what happened but Arizona has been a great surprise winning three straight at Double Digit dogs.

Cincinnati -3.5 at UConn. The Bearcat defense should stifle the Huskies.

Louisville/Pitt over 58. Another shootout. Palko will put on a good show in his last home game.

Georgia Tech +2 at Georgia. This is Tech's year.

Virginia Tech -17 over Virginia. Beating Miami does not mean much at this point.

Notre Dame/USC over 57.

Purdue +17 at Hawaii. Also OVER 74. Come on now, giving 17 points to a bowl eligible Big Ten team. Both teams will score into the 40s.

Maybe more football on Sunday check back late Friday or sat.

Recap and Tonight

Last weekend worked out well with a 14-10-2 total for the week. Two ties pulled from wins but it beats losing. NCAA 137-105 on the season. NFL has not posted for a bit and is still at 6-7.

Tuesday Night

Bowling Green +6.5 at Toledo. Well Toledo is not good enough to be a favorite by this much here.

Some weekend college fun

I love a nice 3-0 start to kick off the week. West Virginia looked amazing last night. Their game against Rutgers to end the season should be quite a battle. Let's hope Rutgers does not have an setbacks on the way to that game.

Friday Night

Central Michigan -4 at Northern Illinois. There is not much logic to this but in Central Michigan has been solid this season and would love to beat an under achieving NIU team that they have lost to 8 straight times.

Saturday

U Conn +1.5 at Syracuse. Wait is this basketball, well it is played in the same place in Syracuse anyway. Syracuse has just folded the last few weeks of the season while UConn is still alive for bowl bid.

Rutgers -6.5 at Cincinnati. Rutgers had one lapse in a sandwich game (failing to cover) between Pitt and Louisville, but this team is too solid to let it happen again and this line is very light.

Northwestern +2.5 over Illinois. Yes, I am finally playing Northwestern again. Although the scoreboard did not show it, NU played a decent first half against Ohio State and have been significantly more competitive on the field the last 4 weeks. They will win outright and stay out of the conference cellar.

Missouri -13 at Iowa St. McCartney is done and so are the Cyclones this season.

Minnesota -2.5 over Iowa. Gophers need the win to get to the post season.

Navy -31.5 over Temple. Possibly 500 or 600 yards on the ground for Navy this week.

Houston -17.5 at Memphis. Houston is hot and Memphis is not. The Memphis cover last week was against a team in the midst of failing to cover 5 in a row.

Texas Tech -6 over Oklahoma St. The Tech passing attack is on fire and they should be able to light up the soft Cowboy defense.

Rice +2.5 over East Carolina and OVER 55.5. Rice has been having some crazy high scoring games lately and are getting no respect at home as a dog.

Oklahoma -20.5 at Baylor. Shockingly the Sooners have been great since losing their star tailback Peterson, and Baylor has faltered since losing their QB to season ending injury 3 weeks ago.

Michigan +7 at Ohio St. Here it is. The Big Game. I think Michigan might get motivated to play for the memory of Bo Schembeckler who passed away today. I am not sure about who wins but I know it will be close.

Oregon St. -14 at Stanford.

Auburn -3 at Alabama. There seems to be alot of sentiment on Bama's side in this game but I just don't. I will enjoy my bargain line.

BYU -26.5 over New Mexico. BYU can't be stopped right now.

Wyoming -8 at UNLV. The perfect remember for playing badly is a matchup against UNLV.

Idaho +12 at Fresno St. Maybe Temple should be a 12 point dog to Fresno but Idaho has proved to be much better then they are getting credit for. This would be a nice upset to cap off Dennis Ericson's return trip to Idaho as a head coach this season.

Maryland +8 at Boston College. Maryland is getting no respect and BC plays every game close.

Utah Even at Air Force.

Nevada -17 at La Tech. Nevada is not going to slow down before their battle against Boise St.

San Jose St/Hawaii under 74. This might be the best defense Hawaii will face this season. Hawaii may get to 40 points in a win by at least 2 touchdowns.

Middle Tennessee State +15.5 at South Carolina. Three weeks in a row of tough games for the Cocks and now comes in a patsy. Oops MTSU is not a walkover having played great football for the last 6 weeks and might be ready to post their second win against an SEC team in two years.

Thursday's Game

Well I had a nice win last night to kick off what seems like MAC week on ESPN2.

Here is a play on the one non-MAC weeknight game this week

West Virginia -11 at Pitt. Also OVER 52.5. There will not be much brawl this year in this rivalry game, but there should be lots of running by West Virginia. Pitt will put up some points but will lose the game by 20 ish and Pitt will be hard pressed to keep the Mountaineers under 40.

Tuesday night

Well it was not a bad weekend in college football for me or for the BCS since as of right now it is a pretty open race to see who will get the other spot Louisville or Auburn or Texas almost had locked in. I went 12-9-1 to get to 123 -95 for the season and did not post an NFL play. I did decide at the last minute to take the Bears and went to bed Sunday night with a smile.

Tonight

Time for a MAC Attack. You know they should be called MWAC (Mid-Week Athletic Conference) since all their in conference games are during the week this week but everyone sells out for TV now anyway.

Ball St +5 at Toledo. Ball St. played an amazing game against Michigan last week and the road dog seems to always cover these midweek games.

Thursday through Saturday's College Action

By the way not sure why it says Tuesday since this was published around 3:30 on Thursday.

NCAA Record 111-86. So far I seem to be stuck a just hitting 50% for the last three weeks and I am getting frustrated but at lead I am still strongly on the plus side.

By the way, I saw a great stat that Temple is giving up double the yards they gain on offense per game. Quite impressive. At least they won a game this season but I think Villanova would have a better chance competing at a Div 1 level then then Temple. Villanova had the chance several years ago when UConn came up to expand their stadium and become a Big East football member as well.

Tonight.

Well the line for this game has been all over the place today and I was lucky to book it right before lunch at Louisville -5 at Rutgers. I was quite torn in this game but I think Rutgers does not have the passing game to keep up with Louisville in what could be a high scoring affair. Again the Rutgers defense has not really been tested this season, so I am not sure I have faith in their strong statistical pedigree.

BYU -17 over Wyoming. The Mormons have dominated all of their conference foes this season and Wyoming has settled back in mediocrity after a nice mid-season run.

Friday

Central Michigan -5.5 over Western Michigan. CMU just seems to be covering every game this season (discounting a 16 point win but not a cover against Temple last week) and I like them again in this rivalry game among the directional Michigans.

Saturday

Maryland -3.5 over Miami. How the mighty have fallen into the abyss. I was in Miami last weekend and saw tons of Hokie fans walking around South Beach and on Sunday morning in the Miami Herald (by the way, great sports section, a whole section on college football every Sunday) that only 41,000 attended the game. With the additional injuries and a dead starter for Miami this week, Maryland should cruise and Coker should be released and at this point maybe school President Donna Shalayala too.

USF -9.5 over Syracuse. Syracuse has folded against teams with solid defenses and South Florida has been solid at home, especially off an upset of Pitt in Tampa last week.

Wisconsin (Even) at Iowa. Iowa is terrible. Did they really lose to Northwestern? I am a Northwestern fan and am totally in shock. Who plays QB for the Badgers will not matter, it will be an easy win in a low scoring game.

Georgia Tech -13.5 at UNC. I was told by a source that UNC will not name Butch Davis as head coach until after this weekends homecoming game so to not disrespect Jim Bunting. Who cares! It will not help Georgia Tech will swallow them up.

Cincinnati +18.5 at West Virginia. The dream is over and West Virginia might be a little hung over. This is also a sandwich game between two big Thursday night road games, last weeks loss at Louisville and next week at Pitt. Also Cincinnati is on a bit of a roll covering 5 of 6 and playing tough defense.

Florida St -8 over Wake Forest. Well FSU seems to have the QB position set again and I think they will thrive this Saturday being able to focus on the run.

Navy -15 v. Eastern Michigan in Detroit. EMU is not very good and Navy should have the fan advantage with their national fan base.

Texas A&M +1 over Nebraska. I think the Aggies will rebound after last weeks tough 1 point loss to Oklahoma at home.

Texas A&M/Nebraska over 52.5.

Rice/Tulsa over 55.5 Games involving Rice this season have been really high scoring.

LSU -18 over Alabama. LSU has been killing teams at home and Bama is coming off a nightmare loss last week.

Boise St/San Jose St over 58. Boise puts up some big points this week and gives up a couple of TDs too.

Nevada -29.5 over Utah St. Nevada has been on a tear covering their last seven and with two competent QBs to run the offense look for a big cover here.

Baylor/Oklahoma St over 59.

Clemson -17 over NC St. Clemson should have a nice rebound this week. At least they have not lost to bad teams this season like Clemson has in the past. NC State's coach is on his way out the door, it might hit him in the ass.

Oregon St. -2 at UCLA. Oregon St is on a roll and UCLA has fallen apart. Oh wait I mean their coach is on crack since he is not starting Olsen again now that he is healthy.

Oregon +8 at USC. The Trojans are just not that good.

Hawaii -37.5 over La Tech. Hawaii is that good. They should get their fourth 60 point game out of their last 5 contests.

Middle Tennessee St -3.5 at Arkansas St. The Blue Raiders have won and covered 4 straight in conference and is playing a slumping Arkansas St.

Well That's All Folks! (for now at least)

Saturday and Sunday (Let's Call It Road Trip Weekend)

Well Louisville got its win but the first couple minutes was a nightmare if you are a West Virginia fan. They showed character in the end but played no defense in the second half.

Saturday's Games

Boston College -3.5 at Wake Forest. Wake is having a great season but they are not up to BC's level yet.

Pitt -4.5 at USF. Pitt will wake up after the Rutgers loss in sunny Florida.

Indiana +6 at Minnesota. I just think the wrong team is favored or at least by way too much. Indiana was at least able to get a field goal against Ohio St.

Georgia Tech -4 at NC St.

Vandy +17 over Florida. Florida will win but the game will be close as Florida can't hold big leads this season.

Ohio St -23.5 at Illinios. Another week another Big Ten killing.

North Carolina +25 at Notre Dame. I just don't think Notre Dame can beat a team by this many points.

TCU -20 at UNLV. A healthy TCU off a big win against a weak injured sucky Rebel team.

Hawaii -26 at Utah St. Offense offense offense.

Wyoming -14 over SDSU. SDSU just lost to a non-Division 1-A team. That is all I need to say.

Arkansas -2.5 at South Carolina. The Arkansas run game has not been stopped the last 7 weeks.

Tulsa -3.5 at Houston.

East Carolina -5.5 at UCF.

Nevada -10 at Idaho.

BYU -15 at Colorado St. BYU has not been stopped yet.

Oklahoma St +18 at Texas and OVER 62.5. Lots of points and Oklahoma St is off a big win and is throwing the ball with great success.

Virginia Tech -2.5 at Miami. This is a lost season for Miami. They might as well announce that the Head Coach is fired already.

Sunday NCAA

Southern Miss -6.5 at Memphis. Memphis still sucks.

NFL

Atlanta -5 at Detroit. Well no climate issues for the new throwing Vick here. I think he will have another 3 touchdown week.

Chicago -13.5 over Miami. Miami is a total train wreck and their QB has past experience geting beat up by the Bears.

Indianapolis +3 at New England. Well I see Vinaterri kicking a game winner but now he plays for Indy. This is statement time for Indy undefeated and an underdog for 2nd week in a row on the road.