week 2 betting

[emainvol]

As it stands right now i am thinking

Oregon St. +8 @ Boise St.
Pitt - 8 @ Cincy
Penn St. +8 @ Notre Dame
Arizona @ LSU -14.5
Idaho +17 @ Washington St.
Oregon -5 @ Fresno
and probably Ohio St. in a teaser +8.5 and over 45.5

 

[emainvol]

maybe the road teams will come through for me

and heads up to those of you that are interested, the over/under in the Bengals @ Chiefs is 46.5

 

[therealUT]

You are going out on a limb there emain. I hope you aren't parlaying those.

 

[emainvol]

You are going out on a limb there emain. I hope you aren't parlaying those.

definitely not. i go on hunches a lot, it seems to work for me

 

[emainvol]

the ohio st. teaser is the only thing i am betting on for sure at the moment.

 

[tidwell]

Admittedly I'm not up on my Vandal football, and I know they played Michigan State close... but +17?

 

[emainvol]

yeah, they played michigan st. close, and i think erickson is a good enough coach for them to play this game close as well.

 

[tidwell]

I'm so ignorant about point spreads. I guess Idaho at +17 means that WSU is favored to win by 17?

 

[emainvol]

yep

 

[emainvol]

i think if idaho was -17 i would go ahead and bet my soul

 

[tidwell]

So why does it have the +17 by Idaho instead of a -17 by WSU? I see it has the -14.5 by LSU, but not +14.5 for Arizona... :wacko:

 

[emainvol]

i just wrote down what i am considering betting.

in the idaho game i like them to cover the spread so i am taking them +17 points, in the lsu game i like them to cover so i take them -14.5, rather than taking arizona +14.5.

there are two point lines for every game, one for the favorite which is the -. and one for the dog which is the +

make sense?

 

[emainvol]

well and the over/under, but i hate over/unders this early in the season

 

[tidwell]

Oh, ok. That's the best explanation I've heard for it, thanks.

+ for the 'dog, - for the fave.