Thursday, August 30, 2012

NCAA Football Season Wins & Illini Prediction

NCAA football starts tonight and I wanted to post some schools' season win totals I bet earlier in the week. I'll do another post for NFL next week. Next year I'll probably bet these earlier in the month since I missed out on some sick value. Learning every day...

Here's what I have:

Texas A&M over 7.5 (+180)
Arkansas under 8.5 (+110)<---my big one
Oklahoma under 9.5 (+245)
Wisconsin under 8.5 (+315)<---would need a defeat to the Illini to win
Oklahoma State over 8.5 (+100)<----my biggest one
Georgia over 9.5 (-150)
West Virginia under 8.5 (+110)<---my biggestest one
Southern California under 10.5 (+130)
Vanderbilt over 6.5 (+170) also have Vandy +7 for a lot tonight so this first game is important
Duke under 3.5 (+240)

As for the Illini, I didn't make any wagers but most books had them at 6.5 or 7 wins. I could see us going 8-4, and really expect no worse than 7-5, but the phrase, "THREE STRAIGHT ILLINI BOWL APPEARANCES" is too ridiculous to get excited about so I expect 5-7, but could see us going 4-8. 


When it comes to Illini sports, I will follow the mantra "No WTF is too WTF" until Mike Thomas, Tim Beckman and John Groce make me believe again.