NCAA LINES FOR THIS WEEK

For Sept. 3


NCAA Football
Thursday
FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG
Oregon St. 12 1/2 11 at Temple-x
Friday
at BYU 10 1/2 10 1/2 Hawaii
Saturday
N.C. State 19 1/2 18 1/2 at Navy
Texas A&M 3 3 1/2 at Pittsburgh
at Southern Miss. 3 1/2 4 Illinois
at Wisconsin 11 1/2 10 1/2 West Virginia
at Mississippi 9 1/2 9 1/2 Memphis
at Notre Dame 7 6 1/2 Purdue
at Michigan St. 23 1/2 25 Rice
at Northwestern OFF OFF TCU
at Clemson 12 1/2 13 Louisiana Tech
at Kentucky 19 19 UTEP
at Air Force 6 1/2 5 1/2 New Mexico
at Oregon OFF OFF Fresno St.
at Boston College 7 7 Stanford
at Washington 30 1/2 30 San Jose St.
at Oklahoma 14 1/2 13 Alabama
at Florida 1 1 1/2 Miami
Louisville 18 18 at Duke
at Wake Forest 5 1/2 4 1/2 East Carolina
at Colorado 23 1/2 24 1/2 San Diego St.
at Arkansas 8 1/2 7 1/2 Boise St.
Texas Tech 16 17 1/2 at SMU
South Carolina 3 1/2 4 at Virginia
at Syracuse 5 1/2 6 North Carolina
at Utah 14 14 1/2 Indiana
at Houston 4 1/2 3 Tulane
at UNLV 15 14 1/2 Kansas
at UCLA 7 1/2 7 1/2 Colorado St.
Georgia Tech 23 23 at Connecticut
at Ohio St. 31 29 Kent St.
Iowa 5 5 1/2 at Miami (Ohio)
at Michigan 24 1/2 23 W. Michigan
Wyoming 1 1/2 1 1/2 at Cent. Michigan
at Washington St. 28 28 Idaho
at Maryland 23 23 Akron
Toledo 23 1/2 22 at E. Michigan
at California 13 1/2 13 New Mexico St.
at Missouri 17 1/2 16 Ball St.
at Nebraska 32 1/2 31 Utah St.
at Tennessee 28 1/2 23 Middle Tenn.
at Rutgers 8 8 Buffalo
Tulsa 6 4 at Arkansas St.
at UAB 5 1/2 3 Troy St.
at South Florida 5 1/2 5 1/2 N. Illinois
at Kansas St. 39 1/2 38 1/2 Louisiana-Monroe
Minnesota 14 1/2 13 1/2 at La.-Lafayette
at Arizona St. 5 4 UCF

 

With the roll they're on, how can duke be considered an underdog?

 

I'll take some of NCSU, Alabama and Minnesota

 

The following information is for news matter only.

Shaping up to be a decent card this week I think. I'll throw one out now and come back for more later....

Michigan State (-whatever)
This number - currently at 26 - will only continue to rise between now and Saturday. Rice gave up 466 total yards in a loss to Houston last week. This included 305 yards rushing on 60 carries!! 5 yards a carry? To HOUSTON!?!? This is the same Houston that went 0-11 last year and couldn't run the ball against 11 people picked up off of the street.

 

Miami is an underdog in the game at Florida. Ha, what a freak'n joke.
Also, Virginia will beat South Carolina IMO.

Also, can Marshall beat Va Tech next week? That is a big game for them as they might be able to go undefeated with that win.
The only other team with a chance to beat them would be Miami (Oh).

College Football is in full gear already.

 

Ducks vs. Dogs

Lord, that Oregon vs. Fresno game is going to be ugly. Jeff Grady and Bernard Berrian are both still out. The RS freshman Pinegar gets the start again at QB. Last week vs. San Diego St. the Dogs started a freshman at RB, too, because their speedster sophomore Therrian Fontenot was out with a high ankle sprain.

In short, Fresno will probably be starting a freshman QB, WR and CB. Not good going up against the #13 team in the nation at their house.

 

The following information is for news matter only:

NCAA season record: 1-0, +1 unit

Saturday, 9/7

Purdue (+6) - Everyone is hyping ND now. Why? I did not expect much from ND or MD this year and I was not disappointed by the opener. Blah. ND was a LOT bigger then the MD guys and pretty much ran them over - until ND got close to the red zone. Then the Irish O stalled and couldn't do anything. Purdue will give them more trouble than MD did. They can't be any worse than the Terps on offense.

Texas A&M/Pitt UNDER 41 - These teams could play til Sunday and the two offenses would not score 6 TD's. I am hoping the defenses don't score either.

Michigan State (-29) - This opened at 23.5. I like it when people agree with me, but I hate that so many people like this that the number will be around 31 by the time I get in later.

Utah (-15) - Indiana is young. Very young. Utah's D is not.

Miami (+2.5) - Shocker is right I think. I know that Miami has a bunch of kids playing DB, but the Canes should have better line play on both the OL and DL. For that reason, I'll take Miami.
Side note: I have said before that I think one of the reasons Steve decided to bolt - aside from the cool 25 mil he got - was that the Florida schedule looked like it might have 4 losses on it this year. This would be one of those L's. We'll see.

That's it. Good luck. I usually treat all plays equally. Please feel free to add picks if you have any. this is what I'm going with unless I am bowled over by something I see later tonight.

 

and the Wolfpack keeps rolling along,,,,GO STATE

 

Independence High School has a harder schedule

 

I've got your harder schedule coach.