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Friday, September 18, 2009

Football preview and baseball playoff odds

No real big college football games this weekend. I'd say the two biggest storylines are whether Ben can actually get to .500 with his college teams (1-3 now) and 3 challenges for the 3 leading non-BCS teams. There are two UFL matchups: Texas Tech (Bussmann) at #2 Texas (Scallet), but if Lyons hadn't driven Bussmann away, he certainly would have a better college team right now. Texas is -18 here. Also tonight's Boise St. (Pat) at Fresno St. (Hermann) where the spread is BSU -7.5.

Big games: #18 Utah (Scallet) at Oregon, #10 Boise St. (Pat) at Fresno St. (Hermann), and Florida St. at #7 BYU (Zig).

Cupcake city: Duke at #22 Kansas (Lyons), #3 USC (Brian) at Washington, Michigan St. at Notre Dame (Brian), Hawaii (Busmann) at UNLV, Furman at Missouri (Ben), East Carolina (Ben) at #24 UNC, #11 Ohio St. (Hermann) at Toldeo, Tennessee at #1 Florida (Campbell), UTEP (Campbell) at New Mexico St., SE LA at #5 Mississippi (Zig), Temple at #5 Penn St. (Matt), Texas St. at #15 TCU (Matt), North Texas at #4 Alabama (Pat).

Aside from UNLV-Hawaii, none of the spreads for these games are in the single digits.

No big NFL games really. Giants (Ben) at Cowboys (Zig) could go a long way to deciding the NFC East.

And some quick MLB odds on making the playoffs from Baseball Prospectus:

Lyons
Padres 0
Royals 0

Brian
Cubs .45%
A's 0

Bussmann
Rockies 86.4%
Twins 16.1 %

Ben
Mil 0
Angels 96.6%

Hermann
Dodgers 99.9%
Rays 0

Campbell
Cards 99.8%
Rangers 4.4 %

Zig
Giants 5.1%
Red Sox 99.2 %

Matt
Braves 7.6%
Yankees 99.99 %

Scallet
Phillies 98.8%
Tigers 81.4%

Pat
Astros 0
White Sox 2.4%

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