Well last week sucked. The two games I felt were absolute locks (Georgia and Indiana) were in fact, not locks. It was a great start to the week with the Bengals taking care of business against the Dolphins (thoughts and prayers) but almost nothing went right after that. The Houston overs trend is dead (*Editor’s note: I wrote this before Houston-Memphis hit the over on Friday night), USC is no longer a ride or die pick, and some fool at my friend’s engagement party told me to trust the mainstream bias and take Virginia +2 against Duke. Final score? Vagina-17 Duke-38. Ya know, someone once told me, “Alcohol and mainstream bias is no way to go through life, son.” Truer words have never been spoken. (*Editor’s note: I took SMU on Wednesday night so we’re 0-1 this week)
College football finished 4-8.
I will say I made some smart picks. UTSA TT was easy, OU +11.5 (Ohio, Reid), and Kansas will be on the card once more this week.
NFL? Actually decent. 6-4-1 (BUF -3 pushed). Thought I did worse but a winning week is a winning week. Would love to do that again but it’ll be a negative start to the week with this Thursday night game making me want to drink another glass of Teremana (I took Broncos -3 and as I’m writing this it’s 12-9 Colts in OT)
(*Editor’s note: Nathaniel Hackett is a fucking idiot).
An important note: I think the week was destined to fail because I didn’t put in the effort on last week’s blog, and that’s on me. The SEC Insider (your guess is as good as mine) sent me two wrong lines and I only caught one of em. Just lazy by me.
I just want to say one thing.
To the fans and everybody in my blog’s Nation, I’m sorry, extremely sorry.
I promise you one thing, a lot of good will come out of this.
Let’s get to the picks.
CFB (39-37 overall)
Dominic Toretto’s “Take it or leave it” Pick of the Week (2-3): TCU at Kansas (+7) – I’m riding the Kansas train. TCU has beaten Colorado (one of the worst teams in the country), Texas State (?), an awful SMU team and Oklahoma (They’ll be good under Venables, just not this year). Kansas has been tested and will show out for this one. – PUSH
Texas at Oklahoma (over 65.5) – Red River rivalry – LOSS
Tennessee at LSU (+3) – riding with the Insider here – LOSS
Buffalo at Bowling Green (+2.5) – bought half point. Mainstream bias pick – LOSS
Kent State at Miami Ohio (+5) – this is me not trusting Kent State still. Love and Honor pick of the week – WIN
Wisconsin (-10.5) at Northwestern – Northwestern sucks. Mutual decision firing at Wisconsin this week. Feels like an easy win – WIN
**Late add: Utah at UCLA (over 64.5) – WIN
Kansas State at Iowa State (+1.5) – feels like a “Matt Campbell will get talked about in NFL circles again” type of game. Cyclones can absolutely win this – WIN
**Went 5-3-1 on Saturday. Updated record: 44-40-1 overall**
SEC Insider picks of the weekend (7-7-1 overall):
Mouth Watering Pick of the Week (4-1): Ole Miss (-17) at Vanderbilt – WIN
South Carolina (+6) at Kentucky – WIN
Tennessee at LSU (+3) – (sic) “a home team getting points, what’s better than that?” Musberger – LOSS
**updated overall record: 9-8-1…updated mouthwatering pick record: 5-1**
NFL (21-21-1):
Giants (+8.5) at GB
Titans (PK) at Commanders
Texans at Jaguars (-6.5) – bought half
Falcons at Bucs (under 46.5)
Dolphins at Jets (+3.5)
Steelers at Bills (-13.5) – bough half
Cowboys (+5.5) at Rams
Bengals (+3.5) at Ravens
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