Speaker 1: It's Football Friday and time for the weekend's action. Here's
the best bets.
Speaker 2: All right, our favorite time of the week, right Fridays
at the Westgate inside the super Book.
Speaker 1: It is our best bets.
Speaker 2: We give you our three best college plays, three best
NFL plays. Marco di'angelo in the house, and our special
guests Mark McMillan, Mighty Mouse is with us, of course
from Alabama Lore and of course NFL side with the
Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, and of course
our main guy, Trevor Maddics in the trenches, just fresh
off of his Hall of Fame induction at BYU, the
One and Only trev what's going.
Speaker 3: On, brother, Hey GC, I am doing good, man, I'm
doing good.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That Hall of Fame thing was an honor just I'm
still kind of floating on air because of it. Great
group of people that were inducted, and I'm humbled to
be a part.
Speaker 4: Yes, congratulations, trev didn't get to talk to you last week.
Speaker 5: Watch the ceremony. Very happy for you.
Speaker 4: And all we talked about last week was trying to
figure out what the.
Speaker 1: The cougar cougartail cougartail.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had to actually google it and now I
want one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, the thing is, that's all you want is
one because when you eat a cougartail, which is an
enormous doughnut with maple frosting and thick of that bake
it all kinds of If you eat this thing, you
will have to take a nap for about a week,
and if it's cold in the winter, you can light
it on fire and it will burn for weeks.
Speaker 2: With that being said, hopefully you'll continue your fire. Trevor
King of the Unders last week on the NFL side
three and oh all going under under Under?
Speaker 1: Why do I have a feeling we're gonna get more
unders this week?
Speaker 3: Trev I don't know, maybe you will. I like going
with under because it really annoys Marco and so I'm
going to do it all right.
Speaker 1: College side, who do you got for Saturday?
Speaker 3: Okay? Louisville's that SMU. SMU is laying two and a
half at home, and I like SMU to cover that
two and a half. Part of the reason is the
spot for both sides. Louisville's coming off two consecutive heartbreaking
losses to cal and Clemson by a combined four points.
Their quarterback Miller Moss, really got after the team after
the Clemson loss last week, but I don't think it's
going to help them very much either way. They expended
a lot of emotion and it'll be hard for them
to get up a third straight week against an SMU
team that is fully rested. They're coming off of BUY,
and part of the spot is that Louisville is now
out of the ACC Conference championship race. They faced their
big rival Kentucky next week, so this actually is kind
of a sandwich game for Louisville because of that, Whereas
SMU coming off to BUY, has one conference loss in
the thick of the ACC race and they've got to
beat Louisville and col next week to have a chance
to make the ACC Championship game. So I think the
spot is better for SMU and then Louisville. On both
sides of the ball, they make lots of big plays
on offense and on defense, but in between those they
do a whole lot of nothing. And I think snu's
defense just has an enormous advantage over Louisville. To stop
those big plays, SNU just creates tremendous havoc Louisville is
struggling against defenses that can get behind the line. I
think it all adds up to SMU is going to
smash Louisville. I'll lay the points. Then New Mexico is
laying three and a half at air Force, and I
like the Lobos in this one. And part of this
is because of injury. Air Force lost their starting quarterback
in their loss to Yukon last week, and that's a
real problem because Air Force's offense has been great in
part because they're one of the best in the nation
at throwing the ball down on the field. I mean,
it's a very efficient deep passing game, and now that
they're starting quarterback is out, there's expected to be a
huge drop off between QB one and QB two. It's
also good for New Mexico because the Mexico's defense is
stout against the run, but they are weak against the pass. Well,
that won't be a problem this week against air Force
with the backup quarterback, and then air Forces defense terrible
against the pass, which is what New Mexico does best.
I think the Lobos will have a whole lot of
big plays. I'm happy to lay the points, so then
you want an under, Okay, So Marco, I hope you're
sitting down, So I'm going to get an under here.
Ball State is at Toledo. The total is forty six
point five, and I am taking that under. There's a
couple of reasons.
Speaker 1: What is it.
Speaker 3: Ball State's offense is just horrible, horrible, and they don't
do anything well. Toledo's defense is stout. I don't think
ball State is going to contribute must but also, ball
State's out of the running for the MAC. The thick
of the running for the MAC. Next week they play
Central Michigan, which will be pivotal into whether or not
they can play in the championship game. And Talbra doesn't
have any reason to run up the score against ball State.
They could if they wont but the Central Michigan game
next week is the one they really have to be
ready for. I think ball State will get shut down.
I think Toledo will be looking ahead and just wanting
to get out of this game with a win. And
I'll take the under, all right.
Speaker 1: Trevor maddis coming strong.
Speaker 2: Mark McMillan, which you got on the college side, give
us three.
Speaker 6: The first one when you talked about you know different schools.
I'm gonna go UNLV in Hawaii today, which is going
to be a really good game.
Speaker 5: They're going for the pineapple.
Speaker 6: And I was talking to Richmioni, who does a color
compensating for Hawaii. And you look at New Mexico State,
you got San Diego State, you know, you got Boise State.
There's a lot of teams right there still in the
hunt for that Mountain West championship. And you know, V struggles,
you know, in the first half. It seems like they
give up the big plays.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: They made some really good adjustments last week in the
second half against a good.
Speaker 5: Utah State team.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: But un LV can throw the rock and their defense
is much improved.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: Chang has those guys playing at a high level. It's
the Ninth Island. Uh, you know, so it's a it's
a good showdown. But I'm gonna go with un l
V in a close one today.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: That's that will, you know, bring the pineapple, keep the
pineapple back here.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: And then I'm gonna go with USC going to Eugene, Oregon.
Speaker 5: Now I'm I'm a little on defense about USC.
Speaker 6: They can score points and they can put up a
lot of points, but their defense is struggling a little bit.
Speaker 5: They're playing in Eugene.
Speaker 6: They don't play really well, especially without Reggie Bush back
there in the backfield. So you know, I'm gonna go
with the Oregon Ducks because they still have something to
play for. If USC gets this upset, then they're there
being a college.
Speaker 1: Football player, Who are you going with? Sc or Oregon?
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with the Oregon Ducks, going to Duck Yeah,
I'm gonna go with the Oregon Ducks. And then you know,
we have Missouri against Oklahoma, who smacked my boys last week,
and to Tuscalosa with Alabama. Missouri is struggling a little bit,
but they still have some really good quality players on
both sides of the ball. It is a home game
for Oklahoma, so I'm gonna take the Boomer Sooner.
Speaker 1: Boomer Sooner. Okay, I like it, Marco, What do you got?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: We're gonna start off with Minnesota at Northwestern.
Speaker 5: This is gonna be Northwestern playing a second.
Speaker 4: Week in a row at Wrigly And how do they
pick themselves up after last week's loss? You know me,
I tell you tough loss like that, lose the same
game twice, and the line is inflated because of that
good showing and the fact Northwestern sitting on five wins
they need one more win to be Bowl eligible. They're
making you pay a price for it. I'm gonna go
with Minnesota plus the points here. I like this one.
I think they actually win this game outright. TCU at Houston,
I'm calling this one. This line just smells Houston has
everything to play where they're still in the running for
the Big twelve and they're at home only laying a
point and a half. Something just doesn't smell right. I
am taking TCU to play spoiler because it's been a
down year for TCU, but Misery lefs company if they
can wreck Houston season and the last one going with
a big dog Coastal Carolina plus twenty four. Why well
South Carolina last week talk about how do you pick
yourself up after a loss? Like last week, You're up
thirty to three at halftime against Texas A and M.
You had them on the ropes. They came all the
way back to beat you, and oh, who do you
play next week?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You play Clemson. Yeah, this is a big brother versus
little brother game. I'm taking Coastal Carolina plus the big
number there.
Speaker 2: All right, Okay, we're gonna go to uh Upstate New
York a little bit and I'm gonna take Army against Tulsa.
Army's laying six and a half in this one. Tulsa
is a mess. Now, this line's a little bit low
because Tulsa finally won a game last week, but it
was against Oregon State out of the pack too, and
Oregon State is downright awful. But prior to that game
that win for Tulsa, they lost seven out of their
last eight games and lost.
Speaker 1: Most of them very, very badly.
Speaker 2: Tulsa cannot handle the military running game at all.
Speaker 1: They got drilled by Navy.
Speaker 2: See where I went with that drilled got drilled by
Navy forty two to twenty three on their home field.
Now they must travel up to West Point in the cold,
and they're gonna get drilled by Army.
Speaker 1: Oh speaking a drill press, what happened in this game?
Last year?
Speaker 2: Army drilled Tulsa forty nine to seven. I think it's
gonna be more of the same. Give me the Cadets
take care of business, having themselves a really good season
at seven to three Arizona and Baylor. Arizona is one
of the most underrated teams in the country at seven three,
and they're looking for a quality bowl game, and this
would be another statement game for them to win here.
They beat Cincinnati last week on the road and they
piled up four hundred and seventy five yards against the Bearcats.
Speaker 1: Their offense is rock solid.
Speaker 2: They nearly beat BYU if you remember that going back
a few weeks ago, they lost in double overtime. Arizona
a solid team here. They've won three in a row
right now. Baylor is probably looking for the next head coach.
All right, Baylor is a bona fide passing team. But
guess what, Arizona is eleventh in the country against the pass.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good spot.
Speaker 2: I'll take Arizona at home giving up the six against Baylor,
and we're gonna go with the rambling wreck from Georgia Tech. Baby,
and a lot of people were high on Georgia Tech
going back, you know, early on the season, but they
kind of quieted themselves a little bit. They're only favored
by two and a half against Marco's Pitt team.
Speaker 1: Well, Pitt was exposed last week.
Speaker 2: By the Irish and Notre Dame just beat them down.
I think there's gonna be a little physical residue from
Pittsburgh in that game, getting beat up so much, and
Georgia Tech believed in US a pretty physical team as well.
Georgia Tech has been on the road the past two weeks.
Now they get a chance to return home where they
are undefeated. And guess what their average victory margin and
home games nineteen points per contest. Haines King a real
good quarterback. Pitt Is gonna have to face the best
quarterback that they've seen all year in Haines King on
the road. I'll go on with a rambling wreck. All right,
that's the college side, NFL side, Trev Who do you got?
Speaker 3: Okay? The line? Jordan Home laying eleven and a half
over to the Giants, and I like Detroit and I'll
lay the points. There's a couple of reasons. One is
that the Giants are a mess right now. They fired
their coach. They're on their third stream quarterbackson Jameis Winston,
who can make big plays, but he'll make big plays
the other way too. He'll be exciting to but I
don't think you'll help the Giants do too much to win.
And while all that's going on with the Giants, By
the way, the Giants have a really good defensive line.
That's the best part of their team right now that's
healthy and on the field, but it doesn't help their defense.
It's still one of the worst overall defenses in the NFL. Well,
the problem for them is that the Lions lost in
their last game against Philadelphia. Why is that a problem
because in their previous losses, they came back the following
game and blew out the teams that they face by
thirty one, fifteen and twenty two points. Two of those
teams were the Bears, who leave the NFC North right now,
and the Buccaneers who leave the AFC Sound And so
it's not like they just whipped up on cutcakes. They
whipped up on pretty good teams. Well, the Giants now
are in that same position of that comeback, and that's
what's consistent with the Lions. They're up and there down,
but you can pretty much guess when they're going to
be up and when they're going to be down. When
they win, they win by a lot and I think
they're going to destroy the Giants in this game, and
then for Marco, I've got to go with an under,
and it's got to go with the Titans. Now, the
Seahawks and Titans both are six and four to the
over this year, but I like the under in this game.
The number is forty point five. There's a couple of reasons.
One is that the I don't think the Titans will
be able to do much at all to contribute to
the total. They're the worst statistical running game in the NFL.
The Seahawks rushing defense is one of the best in
the NFL. And then for the passing game, Cam Woard,
their rookie quarterback, in fact a lot his best receiver,
Calvin Ridley, is now out for the year with a
broken leg. There's just not a lot that they are
going to be able to do. So I think that
the Seahawks are going to score around thirty points, but
I don't think the Titans are going to contribute enough
to push it over forty point five. So I'll take
the under, and then I've got to take another under,
just because I want to see Marco turn purple and burst.
It'll be really fun if I win these.
Speaker 1: Watching just my color screen here.
Speaker 3: Yes, so this is Brown's Raiders. The Raiders offense, I
don't think it's going to be able to do much
against the Browns defense. Rather than struggling to run, they're
struggling to protect the quarterback. The offensive line is in
terrible injury shape going against one of the most dynamic
defensive fronts in the NFL, the Cleveland I don't think
they'll do too much. And the Charger, excuse me, the
Browns are starting Shader Sanders at quarterback. I think they'll
throw a lot of short passes, try to run the ball.
It adds up to an under and that number is
thirty six point five.
Speaker 2: All right, brother sounds good. Mark McMillan, which you got
for Sunday.
Speaker 6: Well, obviously I got to go with my Chiefs with
the Coats, but the Chiefs.
Speaker 5: Are really playing average football, playing.
Speaker 6: Against a dynamic I will say the MVP of the
running and the running and Jonathan Taylor running the rock.
The Chiefs struggled to stop the run last week against Denver.
Obviously bot Nicks didn't play well. But it's a home game.
I know TC we've been talking about this. I'm gonna say,
I'm gonna go with Andy Reid and the Kansas City
Chiefs on that one. And then I gotta go with
the Vikings and the Packers. Now we don't know which
Vikings or Packers team is going to show up. You know,
I know the Vikings were really high on their quarterback.
Speaker 5: You know, he had a.
Speaker 6: Couple of good games last year, came out smoking. But
I'm gonna go with the Packers in that game.
Speaker 5: And then the juicy one of.
Speaker 6: The Sunday is the Cowboys and the Eagles. I got
the bird flying to Dallas. I can't stand Dallas. I
don't like anything in Dallas. Their barbecue is not better.
I don't think there should be cream cheese.
Speaker 5: All over the field. I'm going with the Eagles.
Speaker 6: I'm going with the Eagles, and I know Dallas they're
playing with heavy hearts, obviously. You know, my prayers still
go out to that organization. What happened two weeks ago.
I saw them look really good against a terrible Raider team,
so they got a little confidence. But I'm gonna go
with Jaylen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles winning in Big
d And it's been a long time since they won
in Dallas.
Speaker 5: But I think they get it done this Sunday.
Speaker 1: All right, I like it. I like it a lot.
What do you got Marco?
Speaker 4: All right, I'll start off with the ugly one.
Speaker 5: Get it out of the way.
Speaker 4: I'm taking Cleveland plus the four against the Raiders, and yes,
you give me the better defense against getting points. That's
where I'm gonna go. Tampa Bay at the Rams. I'm
taking Tampa Bay plus the six and a half. Here's
the thing, Fat and Sassy. The Rams are coming off
two monster wins in back to back weeks against San
Francisco and against Seattle last week, which gave them a
lock on first place. I am going against them this week.
I like Tampa and Baker Mayfield and the last one.
You heard John Murray talk about it's sharp money on Arizona. Well,
I hope that's my money as well, because I'm on Arizona. Jacksonville,
Fat and Sassy, after that last week's still can't I
had Jacksonville last week, but I never thought they were
gonna win the way they did Arizona. That loss last
week very misleading yardage. They totally out yarded San Francisco.
Look for them to get the job done at home
on Sunday.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, hey, I knew who I was inviting
as our special guests, all right, I was inviting a
Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Chief in the Philadelphia Eagle. And I'm on both of
those bad boys too. All right, Fire up the grill, baby.
Speaker 2: Indianapolis is a nice story, right, but they stockpiled a
lot of wins against some bad teams, and you know what,
they're not as dominating now as they were earlier on
in the season. Remember they barely beat Atlanta a couple
of weeks ago, and they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers, right,
I mean, right now, you know they're going.
Speaker 1: To some dangerous territory.
Speaker 2: They're going to Arrowhead Stadium against the Kansas City Chiefs team.
We know how good they are usually coming off of
a buy or coming off a loss. Oh my goodness,
now coming off a double scenario here, because they should
have beat Denver last week, but if it wasn't for
the turnovers and the penalties. Now the Chiefs are at home,
must win for them. I will take the Chiefs against
Indiana Indianapolis to bring them back down to earth a
little bit. And same thing, Fly Eagle, Fly Baby. Delay
in three and a half against Dallas. Cowboys aren't playing
the Raiders this week. Okay, they're a little full of
themselves right now, right, But Dallas has bo Joe, I
get it, But that shit gets squashed come Sunday afternoon, Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: D is the difference here.
Speaker 2: Dallas is still Dallas, Okay in Philadelphia. Despite winning ugly
the last couple of weeks, are still the champs. I
will go with the Eagles and they take care of
their NFC East all right, And I'm with Marco. I
like Tampa Bay in this one against the Rams. The
Rams are coming off a close win against Seattle. Tampa
Bay's lost two in a row. Tampa Bay really needs
this game. They're getting healthier, Baker Mayfield will be able
to move the ball I think through the air and
on the ground, and we're getting touch down here. So
I will take the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Those are best
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