October 3, 2025 • 12 mins
The handicapper for Paramount Sports on his best bets this weekend in the NFL & CFB including BYU vs WVU tonight in Provo + more
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, you were listening to about Sean O'Connell show, your
source for the best hutes football coupach. Here's oc from
the Murdoch Hyundai Studio of ESPN seven hundred ninety two
(00:20):
one half m.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
All right, Welcome back into the Sean O'Connell Show, Bryce
Larson alongside Jordan Bianucci and Jordan Normally we make our
picks on a Friday morning during Bryson Banucci in the
Bryce's right segment, where were picking against the spread and whatnot.
We made our upset picks of the weekend as well. Yes,
mine was Florida taking down Texas in the swamp this
(00:49):
weekend five and a half point dogs at home. Cut pick,
my friend, I'm not going there. I'm taking them out
right over the Texas Longhorns. I don't believe in the
offense of one Texas.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I'm not going there.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Have you watched Florida.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I've watched Florida. All right, that's where I'm going.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, our next guest here has won eleven straight NFL
games on Paramount Sports on his service, and he is
last week had a forty unit play on South Carolina
that won by a blow out of thirty five to thirteen.
It is Lee Sterling, and we jump out to the
ESPN seven hundred hotline to welcome him in here this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Lee, appreciate you jumping on. How our thing's going.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
We're good, actually great. I mean everyone's happy and it
should be fun. Just kind of laying low, saving my
energy for the Miami Florida State game tomorrow night. So
still one of the greatest rival recent college football.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
All Right, I just talked about my upset pick of
the weekend being Florida over a Texas team. What are
your thoughts on that? In the swamp Saturday? Yeah, what's
going on with Florida and Texas?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I think Texas Win's my five touchdowns?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I actually like I
actually like Florida a lot. Also, Uh, they're gonna be
They're gonna be welcome back. They're gonna get one of
their I think no one knows about this guy because
I hadn't played in a game yet. But they did
some really good recruiting in the off season and they
(02:20):
found a kid named Dallas Wilson. Sol him in the
spring game. He domin I think he had like eight, nine,
ten receptions in the spring game. So watch for Dallas Wilson.
I think he's one of the best young players in
college football. But he was out a lot of their guys.
You know, I've been missing time, so check him out.
I think he's number think could be wearing number six.
(02:43):
Eugene Wilson's also very good number three. Something to also
take note in that game, whether could be a factor
for about the four or five hours during the game
right now more than fifty percent chance or rain. So
maybe maybe look to the under two under forty two
and a half total points, probably a low scoring game.
Two good defenses.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Okay, how about a team that's regional here to us
in the state of Utah, but at Boise State taken
on Notre Dame, Notre Dame of twenty and a half
point favorite in that in that game, how are we
feeling about Notre Dame of Boise.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
So the public is going to love Notre Dame, I
mean Notre Dame what they did. Arkansas blew them out
last week, but they still have some problems. They're no
pass rush did over forty sacks last year so far
this year not even ten sacks on the season. I
think Boise's under the radar. A lot of people base
their decisions on what they saw last and you know,
(03:39):
first game, that's most what most people can tell you
the only game they saw this year Boise. They went
to South Florida opening weekend, looked terrible, three turnovers, melted
in the sun, got blown up in South Florida. But
I think they've regrouped here and last two games they
have combined five touchdowns running the football here, so they
do have some balance here. I think Not Name's going
(04:01):
to win the game. It's an elimination game. Whoever lose
this game is out of the college football playoff. I
think Notre Dame wins the game thirty to seventeen. But
twenty one points is way too much Lee.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
When I saw the line for this next game, I
did a little bit of a double take. It's Cincinnati
minus one and a half at home against Iowa State.
But you dig into it, Iowa States had some serious
injury issues this week. Who do you like here?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
They probably lost two of their top four to of
their top five players, and they're both cornerbacks. Both probably
going to be all first team Big twelve players, So
to replace those guys gonna be very tough. Then on
the other side, Cincinnati finally got a signature win. They
beat Kansas. They were the better team. And now let's
(04:50):
look at the matchups. Cincinnati brought in three transfer receivers
and these guys probably the best trio they've had in
the last twenty twenty five years. Swersby has been just
has only had it each year. Maybe one guy, one
go to guy. He can spray the ball around now
and with those three guys and finally a running tech,
(05:12):
I think Cincinnati finally getting over the hump and getting
that signature win. I think they're just going to keep
moving on, averaging eight point three yards per play, top
eight in the country. Here either right team in his
favorite Cincinnati wins this game here thirty four to twenty four. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I really like Dante Corleon on that defensive line for
Cincinnati too.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
He's a very good football player.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Speaking of good football players and guys that I love
in college football, Diego Pavia is one guy. He's going
to be taking on Alabama this weekend. Bama's a ten
and a half point favorite in this football game at
home in tuscal Loosa. How are we feeling about Vandy
Diego Pavia and the Crimson died.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
It's fun to watch. I mean, do I think he's
an NFL player? Probably not, but a great college football player.
And you know he did it all last year they
pulled off a shocker twenty three point underdog won the
game forty to thirty five. But now Alabama they will
be ready for this game. The three games before that upset,
Alabama had won by a combined one hundred and forty
(06:12):
eight to three. The weakness for Vanderbilt is their pass defense.
Bama quarterback Ty Simpson, he might be playing the best
football right now any quarterback in college football.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He's got a.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Three to zero receivers probably second only to Ohio State
Utah State two for two seventy four on the Bama defense.
So I think the airwaves are going to be open
here for Bama to hit on numerous big plays. If
you think Ryan Williams, like in the game last week,
is going to drop a bomb again, he may never
drop a bomb like that. His entire college and NFL
(06:45):
career payback is a you know what, rollfied forty one
to twenty staking.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Hey, going back to the Big twelve this Houston Texas
Tech game. I'm really interested in this because I want
to see how good the Cougar's actually.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
They are.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Texas Tech a twelve point favorite. What are you looking
at here?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Yeah, So there's six schools that have spending big money
and nil. It's Texas one, Texas Tech two, who you
saw up close in personal Ohio State, Oregon in five
and six pretty much tied or Miami in Texas A
and m those six teams, they've only lost one game
Texas because they had to play another tops six spender.
(07:26):
So tech As you saw, what did they do instead
of just going for skilled players what they've gone in
the past, had no defensive line. They said we're going
to bring in four studs. They brought in the best
for defensive line and they could find kid from Stanford, UCF,
Northern Illinois and Georgia Tech. They held you, guys, you
(07:47):
talked to forty five, just ten points in that game,
giving up just forty five points in four games. Held
Devin Dampier to twenty seven yards rushing. This defensive line
is a force and that's how you games, big games
and championships. Now, Houston's best win was over Colorado. That's right,
two to three Colorado. Colorado's only wins were Delaware and Wyoming.
(08:10):
There's a common opponent, Oregon State. Houston won the game
in overtime twenty seven to twenty four, and Tech beat
him easy, pasy forty five to fourteen. Here, I mean
this is like Houston's nice. I mean, I like Connor Wigman.
I think it's good quarterback, but they don't have much
else here. This is like going into a gunfight with
a knife here, Texas Tech thirty eight, twenty one.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
We also saw a really beat up West Virginia team
take on Utah last week. Now they come to the
Beehive State and play BYU later on tonight. Eighteen and
a half is the line in favor of the Koogs.
Have seen it move a little bit back and forth
on that line. How are you feeling about a BYU
team led by a freshman quarterback taking on West Virginia tonight?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Well, West Virginia, you know this is a go against team.
You either go against them or you lay off the game. Oh,
Nico Marshall, he is out. And even the backups, I
mean all three are not good. I just felt it
was a huge mistake by Rodriguez. Rich Rodriguez, you got
to bring in a quarterback you can mask a lot
(09:14):
of weaknesses. On top of that, everybody lost their top
two running backs. This is BYU's first home game in
a month, so you know the crowd, they're going to
be ready to go here. And what was telling about
West Virginia in the game last week they trailed seven
to nothing, fourteen to nothing, twenty one and twenty eight nothing.
(09:35):
They just said, you know what, we're not going to
throw the ball. We're just going to try to shorten
the game and run the ball here. So short week,
long trip here to face a salty BYU defense here,
they're going to be ready to go here. I like
BYU forty to ten.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
All right, let's jump over to the NFL, where you've
won eleven straight at Paramount Sports. The Eagles a four
point favorite over the Broncos this weekend and also the
game of the week.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
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Speaker 2 (11:31):
Get in on the action this weekend right now, you
heard at Paramount sports dot com before we let you go, Lee,
any wrong teams favored this weekend?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
That's my favorite segment, all.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Right, So I'll give you one. I don't think they're
going to win the game here, but you know what,
I think they will. I think that they will. I'm
going to take Maryland Maryland Terrapins plus six and a half.
Washington's traveling cross country did not win a road game
the Big Ten last year. Disappointment last week, not beating
(12:03):
Ohio State. They're head coach Jed Fish. He threw the
team under the bus for his failed fake field goal call.
They're facing a quarterback in Milike, Washington. Public doesn't know
about this kid is so talented. They ran off the
pass starter Billy Edwards. So you know what the team
(12:24):
is favored Marilynd Terrapin straight up twenty eight twenty five
over the Washington Huskies.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
There you have it, Lee, Thank you so much for
your time here this afternoon, and always great talking to you,
my friend.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
We'll talk to you here soon.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
You two guys.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Take care, be safe.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That is Lee Serling from Paramount Sports Paramount sports dot
com get in on the action here this weekend
Yeah, you were listening to about Sean O'Connell show, your
source for the best hutes football coupach. Here's oc from
the Murdoch Hyundai Studio of ESPN seven hundred ninety two
(00:20):
one half m.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
All right, Welcome back into the Sean O'Connell Show, Bryce
Larson alongside Jordan Bianucci and Jordan Normally we make our
picks on a Friday morning during Bryson Banucci in the
Bryce's right segment, where were picking against the spread and whatnot.
We made our upset picks of the weekend as well. Yes,
mine was Florida taking down Texas in the swamp this
(00:49):
weekend five and a half point dogs at home. Cut pick,
my friend, I'm not going there. I'm taking them out
right over the Texas Longhorns. I don't believe in the
offense of one Texas.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I'm not going there.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Have you watched Florida.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I've watched Florida. All right, that's where I'm going.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, our next guest here has won eleven straight NFL
games on Paramount Sports on his service, and he is
last week had a forty unit play on South Carolina
that won by a blow out of thirty five to thirteen.
It is Lee Sterling, and we jump out to the
ESPN seven hundred hotline to welcome him in here this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Lee, appreciate you jumping on. How our thing's going.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
We're good, actually great. I mean everyone's happy and it
should be fun. Just kind of laying low, saving my
energy for the Miami Florida State game tomorrow night. So
still one of the greatest rival recent college football.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
All Right, I just talked about my upset pick of
the weekend being Florida over a Texas team. What are
your thoughts on that? In the swamp Saturday? Yeah, what's
going on with Florida and Texas?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I think Texas Win's my five touchdowns?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I actually like I
actually like Florida a lot. Also, Uh, they're gonna be
They're gonna be welcome back. They're gonna get one of
their I think no one knows about this guy because
I hadn't played in a game yet. But they did
some really good recruiting in the off season and they
(02:20):
found a kid named Dallas Wilson. Sol him in the
spring game. He domin I think he had like eight, nine,
ten receptions in the spring game. So watch for Dallas Wilson.
I think he's one of the best young players in
college football. But he was out a lot of their guys.
You know, I've been missing time, so check him out.
I think he's number think could be wearing number six.
(02:43):
Eugene Wilson's also very good number three. Something to also
take note in that game, whether could be a factor
for about the four or five hours during the game
right now more than fifty percent chance or rain. So
maybe maybe look to the under two under forty two
and a half total points, probably a low scoring game.
Two good defenses.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Okay, how about a team that's regional here to us
in the state of Utah, but at Boise State taken
on Notre Dame, Notre Dame of twenty and a half
point favorite in that in that game, how are we
feeling about Notre Dame of Boise.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
So the public is going to love Notre Dame, I
mean Notre Dame what they did. Arkansas blew them out
last week, but they still have some problems. They're no
pass rush did over forty sacks last year so far
this year not even ten sacks on the season. I
think Boise's under the radar. A lot of people base
their decisions on what they saw last and you know,
(03:39):
first game, that's most what most people can tell you
the only game they saw this year Boise. They went
to South Florida opening weekend, looked terrible, three turnovers, melted
in the sun, got blown up in South Florida. But
I think they've regrouped here and last two games they
have combined five touchdowns running the football here, so they
do have some balance here. I think Not Name's going
(04:01):
to win the game. It's an elimination game. Whoever lose
this game is out of the college football playoff. I
think Notre Dame wins the game thirty to seventeen. But
twenty one points is way too much Lee.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
When I saw the line for this next game, I
did a little bit of a double take. It's Cincinnati
minus one and a half at home against Iowa State.
But you dig into it, Iowa States had some serious
injury issues this week. Who do you like here?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
They probably lost two of their top four to of
their top five players, and they're both cornerbacks. Both probably
going to be all first team Big twelve players, So
to replace those guys gonna be very tough. Then on
the other side, Cincinnati finally got a signature win. They
beat Kansas. They were the better team. And now let's
(04:50):
look at the matchups. Cincinnati brought in three transfer receivers
and these guys probably the best trio they've had in
the last twenty twenty five years. Swersby has been just
has only had it each year. Maybe one guy, one
go to guy. He can spray the ball around now
and with those three guys and finally a running tech,
(05:12):
I think Cincinnati finally getting over the hump and getting
that signature win. I think they're just going to keep
moving on, averaging eight point three yards per play, top
eight in the country. Here either right team in his
favorite Cincinnati wins this game here thirty four to twenty four. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I really like Dante Corleon on that defensive line for
Cincinnati too.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
He's a very good football player.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Speaking of good football players and guys that I love
in college football, Diego Pavia is one guy. He's going
to be taking on Alabama this weekend. Bama's a ten
and a half point favorite in this football game at
home in tuscal Loosa. How are we feeling about Vandy
Diego Pavia and the Crimson died.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
It's fun to watch. I mean, do I think he's
an NFL player? Probably not, but a great college football player.
And you know he did it all last year they
pulled off a shocker twenty three point underdog won the
game forty to thirty five. But now Alabama they will
be ready for this game. The three games before that upset,
Alabama had won by a combined one hundred and forty
(06:12):
eight to three. The weakness for Vanderbilt is their pass defense.
Bama quarterback Ty Simpson, he might be playing the best
football right now any quarterback in college football.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He's got a.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Three to zero receivers probably second only to Ohio State
Utah State two for two seventy four on the Bama defense.
So I think the airwaves are going to be open
here for Bama to hit on numerous big plays. If
you think Ryan Williams, like in the game last week,
is going to drop a bomb again, he may never
drop a bomb like that. His entire college and NFL
(06:45):
career payback is a you know what, rollfied forty one
to twenty staking.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Hey, going back to the Big twelve this Houston Texas
Tech game. I'm really interested in this because I want
to see how good the Cougar's actually.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
They are.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Texas Tech a twelve point favorite. What are you looking
at here?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Yeah, So there's six schools that have spending big money
and nil. It's Texas one, Texas Tech two, who you
saw up close in personal Ohio State, Oregon in five
and six pretty much tied or Miami in Texas A
and m those six teams, they've only lost one game
Texas because they had to play another tops six spender.
(07:26):
So tech As you saw, what did they do instead
of just going for skilled players what they've gone in
the past, had no defensive line. They said we're going
to bring in four studs. They brought in the best
for defensive line and they could find kid from Stanford, UCF,
Northern Illinois and Georgia Tech. They held you, guys, you
(07:47):
talked to forty five, just ten points in that game,
giving up just forty five points in four games. Held
Devin Dampier to twenty seven yards rushing. This defensive line
is a force and that's how you games, big games
and championships. Now, Houston's best win was over Colorado. That's right,
two to three Colorado. Colorado's only wins were Delaware and Wyoming.
(08:10):
There's a common opponent, Oregon State. Houston won the game
in overtime twenty seven to twenty four, and Tech beat
him easy, pasy forty five to fourteen. Here, I mean
this is like Houston's nice. I mean, I like Connor Wigman.
I think it's good quarterback, but they don't have much
else here. This is like going into a gunfight with
a knife here, Texas Tech thirty eight, twenty one.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
We also saw a really beat up West Virginia team
take on Utah last week. Now they come to the
Beehive State and play BYU later on tonight. Eighteen and
a half is the line in favor of the Koogs.
Have seen it move a little bit back and forth
on that line. How are you feeling about a BYU
team led by a freshman quarterback taking on West Virginia tonight?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Well, West Virginia, you know this is a go against team.
You either go against them or you lay off the game. Oh,
Nico Marshall, he is out. And even the backups, I
mean all three are not good. I just felt it
was a huge mistake by Rodriguez. Rich Rodriguez, you got
to bring in a quarterback you can mask a lot
(09:14):
of weaknesses. On top of that, everybody lost their top
two running backs. This is BYU's first home game in
a month, so you know the crowd, they're going to
be ready to go here. And what was telling about
West Virginia in the game last week they trailed seven
to nothing, fourteen to nothing, twenty one and twenty eight nothing.
(09:35):
They just said, you know what, we're not going to
throw the ball. We're just going to try to shorten
the game and run the ball here. So short week,
long trip here to face a salty BYU defense here,
they're going to be ready to go here. I like
BYU forty to ten.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
All right, let's jump over to the NFL, where you've
won eleven straight at Paramount Sports. The Eagles a four
point favorite over the Broncos this weekend and also the
game of the week.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Yep, anyone wants to get it, how about this first
five callers, We'll give it to them for free. Just
call eight hundred four hundred nine seven four one. I
think there's a clear right side to this Eagles in
Broncos game so we're on a roll here in the
NFL eleven straight. Anyone wants to hop on board. How
about this. We don't call it October, we call it October.
(10:25):
You can get every game from tonight all the way
through the thirty first. That's four weeks normally five ninety seven.
You're the only show I'm gonna do this for just
your show. Every other show has a save one hundred coupon.
If your show, anyone hears it here, if they put
in the coupon code save two hundred, they're going to
(10:47):
get entire four weeks of action, twelve to fifteen games
a week, where we rate the games from ten to
fifty units, and we have another forty to fifty unit
max wager just three hundred and nine dollars. So put
in that coupon code save two hundred, you get the
entire four weeks of action on my phone Services three
(11:08):
ninety seven. Also a huge USC card coming from Vegas
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I said, from ten to fifty units. First time in
the six years giving out UFC selections, we have a
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fifty seven bucks one place Paramount sports dot Com.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Get in on the action this weekend right now, you
heard at Paramount sports dot com before we let you go, Lee,
any wrong teams favored this weekend?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
That's my favorite segment, all.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Right, So I'll give you one. I don't think they're
going to win the game here, but you know what,
I think they will. I think that they will. I'm
going to take Maryland Maryland Terrapins plus six and a half.
Washington's traveling cross country did not win a road game
the Big Ten last year. Disappointment last week, not beating
(12:03):
Ohio State. They're head coach Jed Fish. He threw the
team under the bus for his failed fake field goal call.
They're facing a quarterback in Milike, Washington. Public doesn't know
about this kid is so talented. They ran off the
pass starter Billy Edwards. So you know what the team
(12:24):
is favored Marilynd Terrapin straight up twenty eight twenty five
over the Washington Huskies.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
There you have it, Lee, Thank you so much for
your time here this afternoon, and always great talking to you,
my friend.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
We'll talk to you here soon.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
You two guys.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Take care, be safe.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That is Lee Serling from Paramount Sports Paramount sports dot
com get in on the action here this weekend
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