Smoo's blues....

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"It's the blue field blues for the smoo's"
Boise St -38 over SMU top play ********
Do not like to give 38 pts away as a top play but have to.Smoo is coming off a 15 game losing streak beating San Jose St.Boise has the longest winning streak in football and just got by BYU winning 28-27.Home streaks,winning,etc,etc
Boise is ranked 6th in passing offense and 3rd in the nation in total Off.I could go on and on.Smoo is ranked 108th in pass defense and 105 in total D.
Lyr at they lost to the Broncos 45-3.Boise had 3 wr's get over 100yds each.Smoo defense will not be able to stop this offense.Smoo offense has big time qb problems.Cannot see them moving the ball. This is a classic 55-0 score or maybe 61-7.
And Smoo left the WAC joining Conf USA next yr.What better way to send off a fellow member then with a whipping..

TCU -18 over Army **
Big time qb problems at the Point.Silva.I think will start.To many under thrown balls,over thrown,WR drops,with guys wide open.Pass protection is a problem.Silva is a mop up qb.Nevels has been horrendous,Dahman who started 15 games is even worse.Army ]s completion rate is 44%,107th in the nation.In Silva's last start vs So Miss he threw an Army record 6 ints. He has 3 career tds and 13 ints.Army has big time injuries on the DL.They have the worst punter in the nation.Almost the entire corp closees their eyes during punts.
I already told you about Ross and his apologies.Maybe that can fire them up.But I doubt it.
TCU is coming off that TT blowout.On defense the Frogs are pretty bad.They shut out Smoo but gave up 45 pts to Northwestern,70 to TT,and 44 to So Fl. But TCU offense can put pts on the bd.They have 48,44,35 and 44.I don't think Armys defense can handle that.Lyr TCU shut Army out 27-0.Army was a +30 dog and covered.TCU's defense might be bad but they play pressure defense.They are much quicker and athletic and I can see them attacking the Army qb's.On offense TCU has Hassell at qb who is 7-3 as a starter.Hobbs has rushed for over 425 yds and 6 td's.Army is ranked dead last in defense 117th giving up 574 yds per game.
I think TCU can win this by 3 td's or more.

Purdue -2.5 over Notre dame ***
So much has been written on this game.Purdue breaks the spell.Wins the battle of indiana by 10 pts.Cannot see Irish defense containing Orton.Purdue defense will stop ND offense.One of my strong plays for the day.There is so much info out there I don't want to bore you.


Cuse -6 over Rutgers **
Rutgers won't have Leonard today.Thats the key.This 6'2 235 pound is the whole offense.He's caught 28% of the passes,and 56% of the rushes.Take away Qb's Hart sacks and leonard is 63% of all the rushes.He's their no 1 receiver and rusher.W/o him the Rutgers offense is in trouble.They cannot score in the red zone with him so playing in the dome could be problems today.RU's dbs are weak.
Cuse is nothing to write home about.RU since 1999 is 3-32 in conf play.But 2 of those wins were vs the Cuse.Pasqu is in big trouble esp lyr when RU beat them.But this is BE opener,parents weekend,etc. Cuse has lost to 2 ranked teams.Reyes needs to get out of his funk. They talked Heisman for him. Think he has a breakout game today in the Dome.Think their defense steps up and one of those 2 qb's plays well.
If leonard was playing I would grab the 6 pts in a minut.But missing him will cause some inconsitent play on the RU offense.Cuse blocks punts and their off didn't commit 1 turnover vs a good Vir team.

Will come back later for a few more
Stanford -13 over Wash
UAB +1.5 over Cinncy
San Diego St +6 over UCLA
Mid Tenn +3 over North Texas
Ok St -17 over ISU
No Illi -17.5 over Akron
Wyoming -14 over UL Monroe..like that one a lot
Minny -14.5 over penn St ***
Bowling Green -7.5 over Temple
Oregon St +7.5 Cal



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g.l. on all but purdue.....i`m taking the points with the old "unranked home dog vs ranked opponent" angle....and with revenge to boot....

i didn`t like the way the illini moved the ball on purdue last week....i understand that everyone is saying lookahead....i`m not so sure....

this passing game may be a shock to the system for the irish,though.......that`s a concern...

g.l. on the others..
 

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great reading, but -38 thats steep...
i might take a stab at it for sh!t and giggles.
i feel to beat my bruins, you need a running game. aztecs are starting 5 totally new o-linemen from last year and starting rb is out with injury. should be a game where the passing game decides a winner... g.l.
 

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Stanford -13 over Wash * downplay because of Wash ats record
UAB +1.5 over Cinncy **
San Diego St +6 over UCLA ** Astecs linebackers dominate
Mid Tenn +3 over North Texas ** be back tonite
Ok St -17 over ISU ** running game can't be stopped
No Illi -17.5 over Akron ** Love AJ and qb comes back
Wyoming -14 over UL Monroe. ** Cowboys get a breather after nice Miss win

.Minny -14.5 over penn St *** who plays qb for Penn .Minny should roll
Bowling Green -7.5 over Temple **
No Temple defense
Oregon St +7.5 Cal **
Tough luck and schedule LSU,Zona St and boise.OSU is a good team.Cal loses outright.
Toledo -16 over Ball St **
Glass bowl,Grad at qb.Ball defense weak.
Will do North Texas-Mid Tenn and UNLV-Nevada tonite.
Army leading 17-0 over TCU.Unreal.The dumbest penaties I've ever seen.


Boise St is now -37.5..don't think I need that half pt but I'll take it
 
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Mid Tenn +3 over North Texas **
NT has won 18 str Sun Belt games.They are 0-4 and have the 114th worst defense in the nation.But their comp was Texas and Colorado.Also FAU and Baylor.BU was the real baramoter.NT offense got 1 first down in the 2nd half and BU blew them away.
QB Hall is ranked almost last for qb's with a 45% completion ratio.Thomas the super frosh who took over for Cobbs and had 247 yds vs Colorado had 55 yds vs BU but got hurt.OL on NT can't run block.
DL who should be ok is "Lost" on that same island that the new ABC TV show is on.Linebackers are the worst. This team has 3 sacks in 4 games. LB's are young,inexperinced,going for every fake,etc,etc DB's are ok.You know your team is in trouble when the 2 safties lead in tackles.
Mid tenn comes in with a passing attack.Marks is a solid qb and has a stud wr in Wright.They rank No 1 in Sun Conf in passing and scoring offense.They are going against NT who is giving up over 263 yds on the ground and a total of 500 yds per game.
NT's defense has had four 3 and out series.Everyones gets 1st downs. Marks passed for over 359 yds vs FAU.He has some other good wr's that will cause NT big time problems.
But MT last week in a close game vs La-Laf had 13 penalties for over 110 yds.Thats pretty bad.
But I think the NT winning streak ends tonite.NT always won with their running game and defense.They have no defense and must pass the ball.

Nevada +6 over UNLV ***
Rebs have won 4 in a row.But other then Dorsey their offense is predictable.It's time the Pack win one.With Robinson announcing his retirement I'm sure that won't have any effect tonite.But Kretch,Rowe and co and the UNLV offense gives the Pack an outright win.Lyr the score was 16-12.UNLV has won the ats battle in this series too.But 2 yrs ago the Rebs won by 4.So the last 2 yrs the Pack lost by a total of 8 pts.And there is no doubt Nevada is better then the past 2 yrs.Thats enough for me.

Boise St -37.5 is still my big game tonite.
Lost with TCU-Army.I watched the game.TCU didn't deceide to play until the 2nd half.Dumbest penalties I've ever seen.
Cuse won and covered.Wow. Got lucky the way that ended.
GL tonite.
johhny b..the line dropped a half a pt.I'm sure thats ok now..ha
 
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