I know you may not care about WAC football, and it's painful for you that this even exists, but bear with me, I'm an odd duck obsessed with inconsequential things.
Fresno State (-3) over WASHINGTON
The bulldogs are just too good and UW is just too bad. Oregon is a damn good team, and a gutsy, well-coached one, and they barely squeaked by FSU. Washington is getting better, but they’re still a mess. This could be close, but I think Fresno wins by at least a touchdown, especially after getting fired up by coach Pat Hill all week. Add in that they’re still pissed at the Pac-10 in general and I like the Bulldogs in this one, which I said already.
Boise State (-7) over WYOMING
Boise is insanely good, I’m telling you. And Wyoming — even though they barely lost at Virginia last week — is kind of a tub of crap, and their starting center is gonna be out for this game. Boise’s running back is doing his best OJ Simpson (minus the double murder) impression. If anything, this spread seems a bit low to me.
Idaho State (+13) over IDAHO
Idaho sucks. I mean, they really, really suck. They’re borderline 1-AA. Idaho State IS 1AA, but I just can’t see Idaho beating anyone — let alone an in-state rival — by more than 10 points. Just a gut feeling.
Utah (-20) over UTAH STATE
Utah State is almost as horrible as Idaho. Utah is coming off a thrashing of a 1-AA team, and I think are ready to prove they can do it against a 1-A team after that rough Week 1 loss to UCLA. I mean, Utah State is really, really bad. Angry Mormons should be heavily involved.
Article comments
1 - berkeley joe
well, it's 10:15 at nite here in Honolulu, and with Hawaii up on UNLV to the tune of 42-7 at the end of the third, it looks like I went 4-3-1 this week (Boise beat Wyoming by 7, the exact spread, so that's the tie, and a wash). Not bad, especially considering a few things: LA Tech won by 10 (the spread was 11) so I missed that one by just a point, but hey, football wagering isn't horseshoes, so I won't dwell on that. I did go 3-1-1 on the games between 1A competition (a pathetic 3 WAC games this week were against 1AA teams). It's much, much harder to find media coverage of 1AA teams on the net. So it appears, when I can get viable info, that I'm half decent at quantifying it and making a pick. or else I just got a bit lucky this week. no celebrating or yack talking yet, my overall record for 2 weeks is still a sad 5-8-1 (pending Hawaii keeping at least 12 ahead of UNLV, which looks fairly likely), but hey, onward & upward. mahalo.
2 - Matthew T. Sussman
At a real no foolin' bettin' establishment a "tie" is the same thing as a loss. That's why those places have big shiny walls.
Picking against the spread, though, takes big ones.
3 - El Bicho
That's not the way it works on Vegas. A tie with the spread is a tie and you get your wager back.
http://www.vegas.com/gaming/gaming_tips/betting.html
The big, shiny walls come from having people bet $11 to win $10, and creating a spread that gets enough people to bet both sides. Plus all the teasers, parlays and sucker bets.