Pat....I favor the USF play just a little more..I think the question here for Cincy is which QB are they going to use? If they use Pike then we're looking at a little more wide open higher risk offense. But if they use Anderson they'll probably scale back and rely heavily on the run. But the Bulls are second in the Big East against the run. It's probably going to be a gametime decision for Kelly. Anderson had a terrible second half last week against UCONN. And he pretty much looked lost. So if I knew Kelly was going to start him, I would have probably played the under instead..But the problem is we have no way to know who he's going to start before kickoff.
I hadn't really thought about the cold weather that usually hits there this time of year. It could be a factor..Nevertheless Utah State is getting better and closing the gap a little on the other MWC teams. And only about 20 yards total seperate these teams. So I'll take any points they give me here..
Your right about this line being a carbon copy of the Mizzou line. Right down to Dr.Bob picking Mizzou in that game. The only difference now is Texas will have to cover the number on the road...Good luck jb...I'm actually pulling for your Shorthorns here because with a win it still leaves the outside possibility open of OU or OSU playing Texas in the BCS Championship game. Which I would like to see. Especially since I think the Big 12 is the strongest conference this year.
Plays so far:
South Florida (-2.5) over Cincy ** (Thursday)
Texas A&M (-3) over Colorado **
OU (-22) over Nebraska **
OSU (-30.5) over Iowa State **
Iowa (+3) over Illinois **
Temple-Navy (UNDER 45) **
Kentucky (+2.5) over Miss. State **
Texas-Texas Tech (UNDER 75.5) **
Utah State (+7) over Hawaii **
I'll be putting in one or two more plays before Saturday. I'm keeping my plays small this week because my bigger plays have been killing me for the last couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll get a little back this weekend. Right now the two I feel are my stronger plays are Iowa and the Temple-Navy under...Good luck this weekend.
South Florida (-2.5) over Cincy ** (Thursday)
Texas A&M (-3) over Colorado **
OU (-22) over Nebraska **
OSU (-30.5) over Iowa State **
Iowa (+3) over Illinois **
Temple-Navy (UNDER 45) **
Kentucky (+2.5) over Miss. State **
Texas-Texas Tech (UNDER 75.5) **
Utah State (+7) over Hawaii **
I'll be putting in one or two more plays before Saturday. I'm keeping my plays small this week because my bigger plays have been killing me for the last couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll get a little back this weekend. Right now the two I feel are my stronger plays are Iowa and the Temple-Navy under...Good luck this weekend.
Thanks GS, I appreciate it. Funny though, us Longhorns down here are sort of rooting for a rematch to with OU as well. One, because you Sooners swear that you'd beat us in a rematch, and two, well, it'd be pretty freaking sweet to have 2 Big 12 south teams in a National Championship in South Beach. We can dream right? My gut feeling is, if we get past this game in Lubbock, is that the Big 12 Championship game could VERY WELL trip us up, a la Colorado in 2000. I would HATE having to play a VERY pissed off Missouri, in Kansas City, in 30 degree weather, with revenge ALL OVER Mizzou's mind. Let's not get ahead of ourselves though. One more thing; have you noticed how much the media is saying how it's Tech's game this weekend? As Longhorn fans, we gotta love that. Our guys still aren't getting respect even though they have that 1 next to 'em. Good luck this weekend GS; I'll be tailing you.
I'm adding LSU (-26.5) over Tulane ** This article is basically all you need to know about this game:
Tulane coach braces team for test against LSU
By Glenn Guilbeau • gguilbeau@gannett.com • October 29, 2008 2:00 am
</SCRIPT>BATON ROUGE — That Wave headed to Tiger Stadium appears to be that of a white surrender flag instead of a green swell of water.
Tulane Green Wave coach Bob Toledo all but conceded his team's game scheduled for 7 p.m. at Tiger Stadium Saturday to LSU during his news conference on Tuesday.
"I scared the hell out of them," Toledo said of his talk to his 2-5 team on Monday. "I said, 'You know what Custard felt like? Get ready baby, because that's what it's going to be like. We're going to have a lot of bows and arrows and bullets.' But all kidding aside, I'm very honest with my football team, and I told them it is going to be very, very, very difficult and you're going to have to play your very best."
Toledo meant to say Custer for Gen. George Armstrong Custer, who was killed along with many others in the 7th Cavalry during a lopsided defeat at the hands of Native Americans in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876.
Toledo said he was kidding, but other comments he made were serious if not dire.
"Yeah, I think I'd rather play it early to be honest with you," he said. "Get it out of the way and get on with the league. So, we're playing them in the eighth game of the season and now we're beat up as it is. We might just take the equipment down and circle it up and get out of town real quick. It's hard playing a team like that, and they're mad right now. They're really mad."
While Tulane (1-3 Conference USA) is coming off three straight losses — 44-13 to Army, 24-21 to Texas El Paso and 42-17 to Rice — No. 15 LSU (5-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) is coming off two losses in three weeks in which it allowed more than 50 points. Then-No. 11 Florida beat LSU 51-21 on Oct. 11, and No. 9 Georgia won 52-38 on Saturday around LSU's 24-17 win at South Carolina.
LSU has not allowed 50 points to opponents so close together in 115 years of football. The previous 50 before Florida was a 56-13 loss to Florida in 1996, which was preceded by a 58-3 loss to Florida in 1993.
The 120 points allowed by LSU in its last three games are the most since 1948 when the Tigers allowed 131 in a 34-7 loss at No. 3 North Carolina, a 49-19 to Ole Miss at home and a 48-7 loss at Vanderbilt.
"And I don't like them being mad," Toledo said. "They're tough enough. They are one heck of a team. I know they got beat last week and they gave up some big plays, but you look at them and their depth chart and you look at their players, and I tell you what, they are outstanding. And as I said, it's going to be difficult."
Toledo, who won a pair of Pac-10 conference titles and was 49-32 while UCLA's coach from 1996-2002, said LSU and Tulane are not on the same level.
"We're not in the same leagues," he said. "People might not want to think that or believe that, but I'm just being honest again. There's a reason why they're a BCS conference school, and we're a mid-major conference school. We're different. And if people don't realize that, there is something wrong.
"They didn't recruit any of our football players. None of our guys took official visits there. And I don't believe any of their players took official visits here either."
And Toledo just lost star junior tailback Andre Anderson to a shoulder injury. Anderson is No. 8 in the nation in rushing with 123.43 yards a game.
"It's a big blow to our football team," Toledo said.
Tulane did play well against LSU last season in the Superdome. The Wave took a 9-7 lead in the second quarter before falling 34-9.
"Tulane has proved that they'll play us as hard as anybody that they play," LSU coach Les Miles said.
"I think they were kind of looking forward to the next football game (against Florida) last year," Toledo said. "It's like this week. They play Alabama next week. They don't need to waste all of their bullets on us."
LSU leads the series 67-22-7, including 16 straight wins. The Greenies' last win was a 31-28 thriller in Tiger Stadium in 1982. Tulane also won 48-7 in 1981, 24-13 in 1979 and 14-0 in 1973.
"It used to be great in the old days," Toledo said. "But you know, let's be honest, it's not the same right now. They're a much better football program than we are, and that's being brutally honest again."
Tulane coach braces team for test against LSU
By Glenn Guilbeau • gguilbeau@gannett.com • October 29, 2008 2:00 am
</SCRIPT>BATON ROUGE — That Wave headed to Tiger Stadium appears to be that of a white surrender flag instead of a green swell of water.
Tulane Green Wave coach Bob Toledo all but conceded his team's game scheduled for 7 p.m. at Tiger Stadium Saturday to LSU during his news conference on Tuesday.
"I scared the hell out of them," Toledo said of his talk to his 2-5 team on Monday. "I said, 'You know what Custard felt like? Get ready baby, because that's what it's going to be like. We're going to have a lot of bows and arrows and bullets.' But all kidding aside, I'm very honest with my football team, and I told them it is going to be very, very, very difficult and you're going to have to play your very best."
Toledo meant to say Custer for Gen. George Armstrong Custer, who was killed along with many others in the 7th Cavalry during a lopsided defeat at the hands of Native Americans in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876.
Toledo said he was kidding, but other comments he made were serious if not dire.
"Yeah, I think I'd rather play it early to be honest with you," he said. "Get it out of the way and get on with the league. So, we're playing them in the eighth game of the season and now we're beat up as it is. We might just take the equipment down and circle it up and get out of town real quick. It's hard playing a team like that, and they're mad right now. They're really mad."
While Tulane (1-3 Conference USA) is coming off three straight losses — 44-13 to Army, 24-21 to Texas El Paso and 42-17 to Rice — No. 15 LSU (5-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) is coming off two losses in three weeks in which it allowed more than 50 points. Then-No. 11 Florida beat LSU 51-21 on Oct. 11, and No. 9 Georgia won 52-38 on Saturday around LSU's 24-17 win at South Carolina.
LSU has not allowed 50 points to opponents so close together in 115 years of football. The previous 50 before Florida was a 56-13 loss to Florida in 1996, which was preceded by a 58-3 loss to Florida in 1993.
The 120 points allowed by LSU in its last three games are the most since 1948 when the Tigers allowed 131 in a 34-7 loss at No. 3 North Carolina, a 49-19 to Ole Miss at home and a 48-7 loss at Vanderbilt.
"And I don't like them being mad," Toledo said. "They're tough enough. They are one heck of a team. I know they got beat last week and they gave up some big plays, but you look at them and their depth chart and you look at their players, and I tell you what, they are outstanding. And as I said, it's going to be difficult."
Toledo, who won a pair of Pac-10 conference titles and was 49-32 while UCLA's coach from 1996-2002, said LSU and Tulane are not on the same level.
"We're not in the same leagues," he said. "People might not want to think that or believe that, but I'm just being honest again. There's a reason why they're a BCS conference school, and we're a mid-major conference school. We're different. And if people don't realize that, there is something wrong.
"They didn't recruit any of our football players. None of our guys took official visits there. And I don't believe any of their players took official visits here either."
And Toledo just lost star junior tailback Andre Anderson to a shoulder injury. Anderson is No. 8 in the nation in rushing with 123.43 yards a game.
"It's a big blow to our football team," Toledo said.
Tulane did play well against LSU last season in the Superdome. The Wave took a 9-7 lead in the second quarter before falling 34-9.
"Tulane has proved that they'll play us as hard as anybody that they play," LSU coach Les Miles said.
"I think they were kind of looking forward to the next football game (against Florida) last year," Toledo said. "It's like this week. They play Alabama next week. They don't need to waste all of their bullets on us."
LSU leads the series 67-22-7, including 16 straight wins. The Greenies' last win was a 31-28 thriller in Tiger Stadium in 1982. Tulane also won 48-7 in 1981, 24-13 in 1979 and 14-0 in 1973.
"It used to be great in the old days," Toledo said. "But you know, let's be honest, it's not the same right now. They're a much better football program than we are, and that's being brutally honest again."
Plays so far:
South Florida (-2.5) over Cincy ** (Thursday)
Texas A&M (-3) over Colorado **
OU (-22) over Nebraska **
OSU (-30.5) over Iowa State **
Iowa (+3) over Illinois **
Temple-Navy (UNDER 45) **
Kentucky (+2.5) over Miss. State **
Texas-Texas Tech (UNDER 75.5) **
Utah State (+7) over Hawaii **
LSU (-26.5) over Tulane **
South Florida (-2.5) over Cincy ** (Thursday)
Texas A&M (-3) over Colorado **
OU (-22) over Nebraska **
OSU (-30.5) over Iowa State **
Iowa (+3) over Illinois **
Temple-Navy (UNDER 45) **
Kentucky (+2.5) over Miss. State **
Texas-Texas Tech (UNDER 75.5) **
Utah State (+7) over Hawaii **
LSU (-26.5) over Tulane **
