Today: 1-0/YTD: 6-5, +0.5
Nice outright win by Northern Arizona. Feels good to have been dead right about that game after the egg I laid the night before. There is a great Friday slate of games for the middle of November. TCU/Michigan, Florida/Florida State, Penn State/Virginia Tech, Marquette/Maryland and Arizona/Wisconsin are some of the fun matchups.
The top two games are Ohio State at Texas A&M. Ohio State is 2-0 and already beat Texas. Yet they are 6.5 point dogs to A&M, who lost their opener by three to UCF. I think A&M should be pretty good, but Ohio State proved against Texas that they can’t be taken lightly. You don’t want to drop to 0-2 against real competition if you are the Aggies.
The big game is Alabama at Purdue. Alabama are 2.5 point favorites. I think that number should be more then a possession. I think I will be adding Alabama to my card tomorrow unless something changes my mind. While not having to play through Edey could make Purdue better in some ways, I think they need some time to learn how to successfully play a different way. Yale played them pretty competitively on Monday and I think Purdue is going to have a big problem with Alabama’s up-tempo style and overall athleticism.
Update tomorrow.