Who to bet on Week #12: Sides and Totals to consider
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Who to bet on Week #12: Sides and Totals to consider
Well for the first time in 7 weeks TSE didn’t have a winning week on the site. But thanks to a fine week by our ACC capper jimmyshivers, we managed to go 19-19. We certainly had our share of bad beats this week. The FSU – Va Tech total, Penn State and Ole Miss were tough losses, but there will be “bad luck” weeks throughout the season. Unfortunately luck, good and bad, plays a much larger part in winning than anyone of us would like to admit.
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Illinois also held penn st under their conference avg at home
what-you didn’t read my newsletter article last week…??
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You are absolutely correct. I was just looking at ppg, but now that you mention it, they held Penn St, Indiana and Minny under their season avg’s for yards per game and yards per play.
I will definitely be looking at Rutgers this week. They have the better defense. Surprisingly they don’t have the better overall run numbers, mainly because Cincinnati has such a solid run game, but I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if they ended up being the running dog in this game.
From USA Today: RB Jawan Jamison suffered a minor sprain to his right ankle and missed a series and a half against Army. He was limping in the locker room, but expects to play next week.
From The Star Ledger (11/13/12): Running back Jawan Jamison didn’t practice today due to his sprained right ankle and his status for Saturday’s game against Cincinnati remains uncertain, Rutgers coach Kyle Flood said.
“Jamison didn’t go today so we’ll have to re-evaluate him” Wednesday, Flood said. “I still say 50-50.”
“We’re not thinking about big picture. We’re not thinking about three games. We’re thinking about Cincinnati. And if (Jamison) can help us beat Cincinnati this week, he’s going to help us.”
Stanford got steamrolled by Oregon at home last year with a much better team (and superstar QB). Stanford has dropped down a peg or two this year, while Oregon is still top 5 caliber. I know the Ducks are beat up in some areas, but is that enough to keep them from flattening Stanford like they did last year?
McGloin’s Comments about the bad calls in the Nebraska game:
There was a controversial call during Penn State’s loss when officials ruled that tight end Matt Lehman fumbled at the goal line. Replays showed that it looked as if the ball had broken the plane of the goal line before Lehman fumbled, but even after reviewing the play, the original call was upheld.
And McGloin wasn’t afraid to tell everyone why he thought the call wasn’t changed.
“We’re not going to get that call here,” McGloin told reporters after the game. “We’re not going to get that call ever, actually, against any team. It doesn’t matter who the refs are. That’s the way it is.”
While he doesn’t come out and say it directly, it’s obvious that McGloin is intimating that Penn State won’t be getting any calls due to the Sandusky child-abuse scandal that led to the school being punished by the NCAA.
Now, while I’m not so sure I buy McGloin’s feelings that the scandal is affecting the way officials rule games, it’s impossible to pretend that the Sandusky mess doesn’t leave a cloud hanging over the program in the minds of some.
Maybe if there was an evident, continuous pattern of questionable calls against Penn State, then McGloin may have a more credible point. A few calls went against them in one game, its not like this has been happening all season.
True, I’m just still bitter about all the calls going Nebraska’s way the past 2 weeks. HA!!!