October 3, 2024 • 29 mins
It's now the month of October and we are back with the latest edition of our show that focuses on underdogs in College Football against the number.
Host T.J. Rives and co-host Gary Segars return with their insight and analysis looking at:
Boston College taking on Virginia, Iowa as a significant pooch at Ohio State and an SEC doggie that the boys agree on, as well. They also roll out the Michigan Wolverines and if ESPN's "College Gameday" pregame show is there, it must be to take a look at Cal Berkley playing Miami?!
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Host T.J. Rives and co-host Gary Segars return with their insight and analysis looking at:
Boston College taking on Virginia, Iowa as a significant pooch at Ohio State and an SEC doggie that the boys agree on, as well. They also roll out the Michigan Wolverines and if ESPN's "College Gameday" pregame show is there, it must be to take a look at Cal Berkley playing Miami?!
Hear it all on the "3 Dog Thursday Podcast" and make sure to follow/subscribe on Apple, Spreaker, Spotify, etc.!
Also SEE the show on the 'Winning Cures Everything" Youtube page, as well!
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Football fans, it's time to go on the record with
this week's matchups in pro and college football. With just
one catch. We're only interested in underdog who can keep
it close, if not pull the outright upset. Time to
find out. It's three Dog Thursday. Now here's your host,
(00:27):
TJ Reeve.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Welcome into the latest edition of three Dog Thursday. Great
to be back with you as we get ready for
another weekend of college football. I am the somewhat capable host, TJ. Reeves.
We are bowing once again to the greatness that is Gary,
seekers of the winning Cures Everything platforms and YouTube page
Winning Cures Everything dot Com. It was a good week
a week ago three one and one. You and I
(00:51):
combined to go excellent handicapping on the show. We've entered
a new month, Gary. We're excited about everything that's going
to unfold. Good to be back with you. I'm a
little frazzled all over the place. Been doing a lot
of work, I know, by the way, I'm sitting live
on the show here on Thursday afternoon in Atlanta, where
that NFL pigskin gets played to night between the Buccaneers
(01:13):
and the Atlanta Falcons and I'm part of the Buccaneer broadcast.
Keep me on track today, Like you don't have to
keep me on track every week, but keep me on
track today, please if you can get on three Dog Thursday.
Good to be with you.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh, good to be with you as well. A little
all over the place, but hey, I feel like that's
me every single week. I get where you're coming from.
I get especially these travel days right where you're in
another city. You're trying to figure everything out, you're getting
your times right, and then you got to pick dogs
as well, so you know you're haiticapping at.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The same area and carry and I have been going
over underdogs and I've been going no, I've been laughing.
I like my twins that are going to try to
pick out outfits at the No, no, now are you
gonna buy something? But yes, we did each come up
with three, although I think we're gonna share again like
we shared on Alabama last week. And I also had Illinois.
You had another, You had a push with Arkansas, and
(02:01):
you had a third underdog. You one for us Sam
Houston State. Nice call on all of them last week
as well. So again, thank you for finding us on
the show. Make sure that you are here on Thursday's
live on Gary's platform. If you're only hearing us on
the three Dog Thursday podcast, come see the show on
his Winning Cares Everything YouTube platform. We love it, we
(02:22):
talk underdogs. We can't wait. Here we go with the
sixth weekend of college football, and you're gonna actually get
us underway with underdog number one on the show. And again,
if the line goes up or down after Thursday, we
only care about Thursday and the number. If a team
is suddenly not favored Friday or Saturday doesn't matter. It
matters only on what happens here on three Dog Thursday. Gary,
(02:45):
Where do you want to again for this weekend in
college football?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Let's start off in the ACC Boston College plus one
and a half at Virginia. I've got BC as a
favorite here, and what I had been waiting on was
news that Thomas Caston Longanos or Casianos, however you say it,
was going to be back as the starter this week.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
That BC offense was.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Dreadful last week with whatever whatever the other kid's name is, right,
it was not good without Casianos. Now he's back. He's
been at practice all week. It appears He was a
full go on Tuesday, full go on Wednesday, and of
course today they announced that he is the starter comes Saturday.
The line has not shifted too much. I moved from
(03:28):
two to a one and a half one at some places.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
There's still some.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
One and a halfs out there. That's what we're going
to take on the show. But Boston College, I mean
four and one straight up so far this year. Not
a huge fan of Anthony calandriy on what he's doing
with that Virginia offense. They are They're an average ish team,
but still not great, and I think that Boston College
(03:52):
has shown exactly what they are capable of doing. I
think the Boston College is better here and I've actually
got them favorite in the game. So I will take
Boston College first as a one and a half point
dog here.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And I got burned earlier this year by Tony Elliott's team.
I took them against Maryland at home. Of course, BC
had the emotional win on the Red Bandana night for
Wells Crowther, the young man that died in the World
Trade Center Towers on nine to eleven, two thousand and one.
They honor him every year they do a red Bandana
game because he was a BC athlete, a lacrosse player,
(04:26):
and it's almost like the other team psychologically and emotionally
has no shot in that game. And that was Michigan
State a couple of weeks ago. So maybe a little
natural letdown two for Boston College after that. So interesting
that you will go underdog number one with the BC Eagles.
The ACC is going to get a little more talk
on this show a little bit later on the program.
So that is underdog number one here on the show again.
(04:49):
We are hanging out live doing this on the Winning
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We appreciate the many mini hundreds and even up over
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it's worth every penny they pay for it. I love
(05:15):
what you do on the bet US show, by the way,
with Parker and Kyle. I watch you guys religiously on
bet US's platforms and get some intel, and you guys
were giving me some info on Ohio State and Iowa.
Still I believe in the Hawkeyes here in this spot
we often talk about the spot. This is the CBS
Big Ten game in Columbus. Iowa had the nail bier
(05:39):
game that they lost at home with Iowa State. But
we know Kirk Ference's team can always play defense. What
is this line up to on Thursday afternoon for this
Big ten matchup that's coming up in Columbus. What are
we up to?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You can get anywhere between nineteen nineteen and a half
and twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Wow, if I can get twenty points for Kirk Farrence's
d to start the game up to nine, I'm gonna
go ahead and take that. I think for three dog
Thursday purposes here. I know Iowa right now three and one. No,
they haven't played anybody as good as Ohio State. Iowa
State is good. They did handle Minnesota, and they do
(06:16):
come off a bye week with an extra week to prepare.
I have a couple of things in my favor, Gary Seekers,
And then I have your number about Farence recently as
a double digit underdog, and I'm gonna hide my eyes
on the program, not just hide my ears, but maybe
hide my eyes on this. What's the number as a
double digit doggie? Recently?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
They have not covered in six straight as a double
digit dog, so when they go up against this better competition,
they typically do not farewell.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Still, still, though, there was an impressive win at Minnesota
for what it shoulda coda Wood of Minnesota hung right
in there with Michigan last week, came a lot closer
to beating Michigan or tying Michigan than they did against Iowa.
Iowa also has wins over Illinois State and Troy. Okay,
is it a look ahead? You guys were talking about this,
you Parker and Kyle on the bet Us Show. Is
(07:07):
it a look ahead for Ohio State with Oregon next week?
Maybe maybe for the Buckeyes? And is in this situation
at home? I'm just feeling Iowa as underdog number two
getting twenty points here. Remember I went with a large road,
big ten dog last week with Illinois. It came through
(07:27):
the Illini came through at Penn State, getting what like
eighteen and a half in that one. I'll take twenty.
I'll take twenty and the Iowa Hawkeyes here just to
hang around national game on CBS for underdog number two.
By the way, you see this on the screen if
you're only hearing us, let me reiterate that whether you're
trying to go to the Big House in Michigan, the
(07:47):
Horseshoe in Columbus, any of these different matchups that we're
talking about on this Saturday, Tennessee, Arkansas is going to
be a tough ticket. Obviously, most of these SEC games
now are are tough tickets. It's going to be fascinating
in Berkeley. Will there be a full house for Cal
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Where are we going next? On three Dog Thursday? On
this first Thursday of October? What do you like?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I am going to Kyle Field in College Station, Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yes, I believe in Missouri and I will give you
the reason why. Now know, they have not played up
to what they are capable of playing. But if you
look at what you know, what Kirby did, the offensive coordinator,
what he did last year, it's almost a carbon copy
of what he has done this year. They haven't had
to show anything against anybody for the first five games
(09:41):
of this year. Now, granted, Vanderbilt played them a little
tighter than maybe they thought they would. Boston College that
game ended up close, but I mean it was a
double digit game late into the fourth quarter before BC
scored that last touchdown. I I think that Missouri has
not shown the full gamut that they are capable of,
and I think they're going to show it this week.
I don't believe, first off, if it's Connor Wigman that's
(10:06):
going to be starting a quarterback for Texas A and M,
I think the line may flip. I think that Missouri
may be favored by the time we get to Saturday.
Interesting number, it's two and a half right now, because
I think that more people believe in Marcel Reid being
able to run Colin Klein's offense for Texas A and
M as opposed to Connor Wigman, who just has not
looked the part. Doesn't look like he came back from
(10:26):
that injury really well. So this Texas Texas A and
M defense is really good. But I think that Brady
Cook can get the ball out quickly. They haven't. I'll
tell you this, Luther Burden is not the most targeted
wide receiver on that team right now, and that is
just mind blowing. The oies is and he's awesome too,
(10:46):
but not to the same level as Burden. They haven't
really unleashed him yet. I think they're going to do
that this weekend. This is a massive, massive spot for Missouri.
They need this game now.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
A and M.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
You could say that they needed as well, but A
and M has not covered in three straight seasons. The
week after the Arkansas game, that is always an emotional role.
It's always a really physical game. I think that Missouri
is gonna win this game outright on Saturday. So give
me the Tigers there.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You know, we talked about Boston College a few minutes
ago as an underdog here at the beginning of the show,
and Maszoo has a win at home over BC. Now
they scratched and clawed to beat Vanderbilt only by three
last week? What are we getting with Texas? A and M.
It's been a little jekylin Hyde again. They were very
good when they bashed Florida, but they've also I mean,
(11:36):
that game could have gone either way with Arkansas last week.
You give them credit for winning it. You're going right
back at A and M. You went at them with
Arkansas last week, and I admire that, and I'm gonna
join in.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Two weeks ago with the with Bowling Greens.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You did, you did, and you covered. As a matter
of fact, can I join you? I'm joining in the
fun with Miszoo in an early game at A and M.
This is an eleven am local time start for both
of these programs out of the Central time Zone SEC game.
Let's go Missouri, Tiger's here to get to five and zero.
A bit of a surprise in a conference where everybody's
talking about rightfully, so Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia all up at
(12:12):
the top of it, Kentucky with their upset last week
over over ole, miss Missouri a little under the radar,
trying to get a road win at Kyle Field. How
loud will it be? Will the will the cadets be
that early in the morning. Let's find out on Saturday.
So you and I agree, And right now the numbers
what two and a half, if it changes, if it
goes down, if it becomes a Missoo favorite, doesn't matter
(12:35):
for three dog Thursday? Right what do we get two
and a half with Missouri?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Two and a half? That's the best number we can
get right now.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
All right, So we'll take that for three dog Thursday
purposes as well. So underdog Number two for each of
us is the same team. That's Eli Drinkquitz's Missouri Tigers.
Missou in Southeast Southeastern Conference play some fascinating SEC games.
That one kind of kicks off the day as rolls
(13:00):
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(13:22):
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(15:42):
You're up first. Are you going to one of these
bizarre Big Ten matchups? I can't keep this straight anymore.
That UCLA's at Penn State and it's a conference game,
and Wisconsin's at USC and it's a conference game. And
where are you going in the Big Ten as an under.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I am going to Seattle, where Michigan is going to
Washington and it's a conference game. Yes, it's a rematch
of the National Championship game, although the majority I'd bet
seventy five percent of the players that were on that
field last January are not going to be playing in
this game. As a matter of fact, one entire coaching
two entire coaching staffs almost are completely gone, so we
(16:21):
don't have either head coach there anymore. The coordinators are gone,
other than Sharon Moore has taken over as the head
coach for Michigan. There are stats that would lead you
to go towards Washington right. Washington is top three in
net success rate in the country this year. They are
top ten in yards per play margin, all of these
(16:42):
advanced metrics that gamblers look at that lead you in
one direction or the other. Right, And when I look
at this matchup, I understand that Michigan isn't great at
throwing the football. I get it, And as a matter
of fact, I've been I've bet against Michigan quite a bit.
This number before the season was Michigan minus eight and
a half. Now Michigan is a two and a half
(17:03):
point dog. Michigan's lines are still significantly better than Washington.
Washington has a problem when it comes to scoring the
football right, they're like number one sixteen in points per
scoring opportunity. That's each time they get inside the opponent's
forty yard line. They are number one sixteen in the
country at getting points in that position. They don't do
(17:26):
well on fourth down, they can't get the ball in
the end zone. I think that Michigan is going to
be able to run the ball on this defensive line
because they haven't seen anything close to this at Rutgers.
May be the closest that Washington has played that looks
kind of like Michigan, and Washington was able to run
the ball on them a little bit. I think Michigan's
going to be able to do what they want to
just pushing them up and down the field. I think
(17:47):
Michigan wins the game out right. They give me the
Wolverines two and a half.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
They have run it well. And if you saw some
of the Friday night game last week, for what it's worth,
at Rutgers, they couldn't stop Washington. They couldn't stop Rutgers
from running the football for a lot of that game.
The equalizer is maybe the home field. And again, this
used to be my Rose Bowl several different times this
was my rose ball Michigan and Washington, and now it's
a big ten game at Seattle. Here you say, go
(18:14):
Blue take the Wolverines and Sharon Moore's team. Which again,
can we weigh in on the on side kick that
it looked like Minnesota had recovered down by three they
called the off sides? How in twenty twenty four is
that not reviewable? I realize it's a penalty, but either
he's across the line or not across the line on review.
(18:37):
Can we not overturn that and give Minnesota a chance
to tie or win the game? Please?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I did find it interesting by the way that that
they just decided this week after watching that game, that oh, yeah,
that's a that's a dumb rule. We're just gonna go
ahead and change it. Like typically these conferences, wait, you
have to go through this. Yeah, they've got to go
through like all these processes and everything, you gotta wait
till days. And instead they just came out and said, yeah,
(19:04):
this was really dumb, and we apologize and it's changed
from here on.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, and I'm sure Minnesota fan feels a whole lot
better now that you're changing the rule after the fact,
after they didn't get the on side kick that they
recovered due to a penalty. Nonetheless, Michigan and Washington makes
three dog Thursday. Uh, we're gonna go with one more underdog.
And I don't believe the College Game Day, the ESPN show,
which is soaring in the audience, has ever been to Berkeley, California.
(19:29):
I believe this is a first night and it is
Cal and Miami. Here we go again with this is
an acc game. This used to be like a bowl
game that we would watch in December, right when Cal
would play in Miami. Now it's a conference game. Uh.
Cal already a couple of interesting data points a win
(19:49):
at Auburn, but then a loss at Florida State, which
is what to figure about both of How bad is
Auburn If Cal goes ahead and loses to Florida State. Still,
this Mendoz as a kid can throw the football. Some
I've seen some of him. I know. Look, I got
in front of Miami and they put it on USF
South Florida in Tampa a couple of weeks ago. But
(20:11):
I had success going back at Penn State last week
with Illinois, and I'm going to go back at the
Miami Hurricanes as much as anything, because I'm getting too
many points here. I'm getting ten and a half points.
And I did watch the bet Us handicap in College
Football Show with You and Parker and Kyle, and Kyle
had the stat what is Justin Wilcox the coach in
(20:31):
the last eleven games that they're a double digit underdog
or at least a seven and a half point underdog.
I think last.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Eleven, not last eleven, but just he's twenty two to
nine overall.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
But I thought I thought in the last eleven that
he was at least a seven point underdog. He was
nine and two. I think I heard Kyle say that,
and maybe it's close to that. Is something like that
that's compelling. Also, what did I see Mario Christobal as
a double digit favorite of any kind? Homer in his
career is well below five hundred, like twenty and thirty.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
One, it's like thirty five percent.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
So he's going all the way out west for a
late night game with everybody telling him how cam Ward's
a Heisman candidate, Everybody telling them they're gonna be in
the college football playoff, And I'm getting ten and a
half points with a CAL team that's won at Auburn
and can throw the football a little bit. I think
they keep it close, they might win the game. I
heard I believe you said this that you could see
(21:27):
the argument that col wins. You could also see the
argument that Miami rolls them, right, if you could see
either way in this.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
So there's not a stat that I can come up
with that that has cow With any kind of advantage
in this game. But we all know how these late
night West Coast kind of games got. But it was
the same thing last week with Virginia Tech. There wasn't
a single stat that you could come up with that
would keep Virginia Tech in that ballgame. And then weird
things happen. Right, if the old cam Wards shows up,
(21:56):
then yeah, he'll be throwing the ball to the wrong
team cal.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Which it did show up a little bit against Virginia Tech.
He threw a couple of interceptions that helped them. And
that's what you're saying. If in that Cows defense.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah, will Cox defense can absolutely confused quarterbacks. We have
seen it time and time again. He is a defensive mastermind.
So yeah, I don't hate this. I mean my number
on this, my stats model has Miami by like thirty.
My Power Rating plus stats model has Miami by almost
three touchdowns. And yet I still don't trust him all right,
(22:30):
I mean, do you trust courstaball at all? Like I
can't trust him going out there.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I didn't trust him a couple of weeks ago against USF.
They wore them down. They threw it on him, they
ran on him. He's got better talent than what Cal has.
But it may not be about just talent here in
this spot. Give me the Cal Bears here again. What
kind of crowd will they have? Will it be embarrassing
if it's not at least half full. They're in northern
(22:55):
California for this game at Berkeley. After ESPN goes all
the way out there, and again ESPN is doing the
bidding of we're in bed with the ACC. This is
an ACC game. We have the ACC network. Let's see
what it looks like late night. One of the last
games of the night is Cal and Miami remaining a
couple of moments. By the way, we did mention Colorado
(23:17):
last week at UCF. My hand is up. I thought
that would be an easy UCF win. I didn't know
that I went along with thirteen and a half points,
but man Colorado trucked them. So props to Dion Sanders's
team at least for right now getting that win and
remaining nationally relevant for now. Gary, you have a quick thought.
They looked very impressive last week, and we did talk
about that briefly on three Dog Thursday.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
So we brought up the UCF secondary was pretty much garbage,
and I never imagined that we would get to the
point where the game state was set up where UCF
had to throw the football. I never I never saw
that one coming. Colorado might be good. I mean they're
playing on both the offensive and defensive lines of scrimmage.
(24:00):
It looks pretty good.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
There's no it might be. Travis Hunter is good, if
not great, and Shador Sanders has been good, if not great,
throwing the ball. The question is can they keep protecting
him and will their defense hold up against the better teams.
It's certainly good last week.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, it's the trenches there that I've been worried about. Right, Like,
obviously we knew Hunter and Shadur are fantastic, the wide
receivers are great. They had no running game to speak of,
and now the running game looks pretty decent too, so
maybe they got this thing figured out. Well, we'll see.
They got some tough ones next week. They got Kansas
State coming too bolder. That one's going to be tricky,
so we'll pay attention to that much.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Listen. I love your audience getting in the chat. Do
you have a quick thirty seconds on Tennessee at Arkansas. Again,
we both have backed Arkansas at different times so far
this year. You were backing them last week. They're getting
what thirteen and a half, but Tennessee's got such an
explosive offense. Quick thought on that game.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
If if Arkansas can stop Tennessee's running game, then I
think that's going to hurt Nico's ability to uh one
get the ball out quick and two it depends on
whether or not Arkansas has to bring their safeties up
because Hypel will absolutely run go routes on you to death.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I mean he will.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
He will do that to you. He was not able
to do it against Oklahoma because they I mean it
got to a certain point the couldn't.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Run the ball.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I don't know if Arkansas's defensive line can hold up
that well, but obviously we'll see. There's a few others
in the chat, Darryl has jumped in yeah, and Tony
has jumped in hit. So Tony jumped in on he said,
my play is Duke plus nine. I talked about this
on the bet Us Show a little bit. I've got
Duke favorite in the game, all right. Georgia Tech is
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coming off of a bye. Duke is coming off of
that massive comeback rivalry win against North Carolina last week.
They won twenty one to twenty. I worry a little
bit about this. It doesn't make a ton of sense
to me because georgiea deck has not been very good
covering as a home favorite, especially a number of this
big But man, I like their I like their coordinators.
So this this one I'm staying away from.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I got you, I'm I see your guy. Jeremiah in
the chat is saying nobody has run the ball on
Arkansas's D line. Uh, for the most part, only on
the backups, not on the starters. Will that be a
compelling point about that? But they haven't played anybody like
Tennessee yet. Yeah, that's another that's another point on that one.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Jot run a game very much. And aside from that,
like Oklahoma State hadn't run on anybody.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
So by the way, the dabbos Sweeney, I'm gonna put
it on everybody. Revenge tour here is in Tallahassee for
Florida State. Let's see, because I mean, he's what do
you think about that they've won by big margin against everybody?
And I think he's gonna keep trying to score, score,
score to prove the point that you don't need the
transfer portal and the ni L Let's see.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I think he's going to lay it out. I think
that he is. He won't stop scoring.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
And by and by the way, they've hammered Florida State
a couple of times in the past, and Tallahasse to
remember the image of the one fan sitting in the
loan section, the middle aged fan reading the book while
the game was going on in there, down by five touchdowns.
So Noles fans don't want to hear that. But let's
see what Clemson an FSU looks like. All right, by
means of recap, because we've got to get out of here.
You've got Boston College and the ACC against Virginia getting
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a point and a half. I took Iowa and the
boatload of points at the horseshoe against Ohio State again,
I'm gonna eschew that stat. I'm gonna ignore that stat
that Kirk Fernce in his last what is it six
as a double digit dog has not done so well.
I still think with that defense, they're gonna keep it
close enough and Ohio State probably a look ahead to Oregon.
(27:35):
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. We agree
on Missouri right against Texas A and m early and
the two and a half. You'll take Michigan and the
two and a half at Washington. And I love Cal
in the late night ACC game, that one getting ten
and a half against Miami against the Hurricanes. Let's see.
(27:57):
I mean a Cal team again that has a win
over alber but has a loss of floor to state.
Go figure. But they are at home and all of
all the attention that they're gonna get this weekend from that,
did we leave anything else out out here for the audience?
Anything else? Or are we good?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I think I think we're good, So I don't think
there was anything. Do you want? Well Auburn? I kind
of liked them at twenty four and a half and
then things down to twenty three, twenty two and a
half in some spot.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
How do you trust that? It's kind of like you
got Michigan State at Oregon getting a boat load what
twenty three? Twenty four points? They couldn't they couldn't score
the other night against Ohio State at home. They're gonna
go out to Oregon and score points. I don't know,
I don't see it, but we gave you the underdogs
that we have for our reasons. Gary, thank you again,
Thank you to the audience. We love it here on
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(29:04):
I appreciate it as.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
All ways are, of course, of course, and we'll.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
See how it goes with the underdogs. I'm off to
work the NFL on this Thursday night for the Buccaneers
and the Falcons. You'll know how my Friday's going depending
on how Thursday Night goes for the Bucks and the Falcons.
Let's see what the college football does this weekend too.
We are back again next week with another edition of
Three Dog Thursday Bye
Football fans, it's time to go on the record with
this week's matchups in pro and college football. With just
one catch. We're only interested in underdog who can keep
it close, if not pull the outright upset. Time to
find out. It's three Dog Thursday. Now here's your host,
(00:27):
TJ Reeve.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Welcome into the latest edition of three Dog Thursday. Great
to be back with you as we get ready for
another weekend of college football. I am the somewhat capable host, TJ. Reeves.
We are bowing once again to the greatness that is Gary,
seekers of the winning Cures Everything platforms and YouTube page
Winning Cures Everything dot Com. It was a good week
a week ago three one and one. You and I
(00:51):
combined to go excellent handicapping on the show. We've entered
a new month, Gary. We're excited about everything that's going
to unfold. Good to be back with you. I'm a
little frazzled all over the place. Been doing a lot
of work, I know, by the way, I'm sitting live
on the show here on Thursday afternoon in Atlanta, where
that NFL pigskin gets played to night between the Buccaneers
(01:13):
and the Atlanta Falcons and I'm part of the Buccaneer broadcast.
Keep me on track today, Like you don't have to
keep me on track every week, but keep me on
track today, please if you can get on three Dog Thursday.
Good to be with you.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh, good to be with you as well. A little
all over the place, but hey, I feel like that's
me every single week. I get where you're coming from.
I get especially these travel days right where you're in
another city. You're trying to figure everything out, you're getting
your times right, and then you got to pick dogs
as well, so you know you're haiticapping at.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The same area and carry and I have been going
over underdogs and I've been going no, I've been laughing.
I like my twins that are going to try to
pick out outfits at the No, no, now are you
gonna buy something? But yes, we did each come up
with three, although I think we're gonna share again like
we shared on Alabama last week. And I also had Illinois.
You had another, You had a push with Arkansas, and
(02:01):
you had a third underdog. You one for us Sam
Houston State. Nice call on all of them last week
as well. So again, thank you for finding us on
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live on Gary's platform. If you're only hearing us on
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(02:22):
talk underdogs. We can't wait. Here we go with the
sixth weekend of college football, and you're gonna actually get
us underway with underdog number one on the show. And again,
if the line goes up or down after Thursday, we
only care about Thursday and the number. If a team
is suddenly not favored Friday or Saturday doesn't matter. It
matters only on what happens here on three Dog Thursday. Gary,
(02:45):
Where do you want to again for this weekend in
college football?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Let's start off in the ACC Boston College plus one
and a half at Virginia. I've got BC as a
favorite here, and what I had been waiting on was
news that Thomas Caston Longanos or Casianos, however you say it,
was going to be back as the starter this week.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
That BC offense was.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Dreadful last week with whatever whatever the other kid's name is, right,
it was not good without Casianos. Now he's back. He's
been at practice all week. It appears He was a
full go on Tuesday, full go on Wednesday, and of
course today they announced that he is the starter comes Saturday.
The line has not shifted too much. I moved from
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two to a one and a half one at some places.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
There's still some.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
One and a halfs out there. That's what we're going
to take on the show. But Boston College, I mean
four and one straight up so far this year. Not
a huge fan of Anthony calandriy on what he's doing
with that Virginia offense. They are They're an average ish team,
but still not great, and I think that Boston College
(03:52):
has shown exactly what they are capable of doing. I
think the Boston College is better here and I've actually
got them favorite in the game. So I will take
Boston College first as a one and a half point
dog here.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And I got burned earlier this year by Tony Elliott's team.
I took them against Maryland at home. Of course, BC
had the emotional win on the Red Bandana night for
Wells Crowther, the young man that died in the World
Trade Center Towers on nine to eleven, two thousand and one.
They honor him every year they do a red Bandana
game because he was a BC athlete, a lacrosse player,
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and it's almost like the other team psychologically and emotionally
has no shot in that game. And that was Michigan
State a couple of weeks ago. So maybe a little
natural letdown two for Boston College after that. So interesting
that you will go underdog number one with the BC Eagles.
The ACC is going to get a little more talk
on this show a little bit later on the program.
So that is underdog number one here on the show again.
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We are hanging out live doing this on the Winning
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what you do on the bet US show, by the way,
with Parker and Kyle. I watch you guys religiously on
bet US's platforms and get some intel, and you guys
were giving me some info on Ohio State and Iowa.
Still I believe in the Hawkeyes here in this spot
we often talk about the spot. This is the CBS
Big Ten game in Columbus. Iowa had the nail bier
(05:39):
game that they lost at home with Iowa State. But
we know Kirk Ference's team can always play defense. What
is this line up to on Thursday afternoon for this
Big ten matchup that's coming up in Columbus. What are
we up to?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You can get anywhere between nineteen nineteen and a half
and twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Wow, if I can get twenty points for Kirk Farrence's
d to start the game up to nine, I'm gonna
go ahead and take that. I think for three dog
Thursday purposes here. I know Iowa right now three and one. No,
they haven't played anybody as good as Ohio State. Iowa
State is good. They did handle Minnesota, and they do
(06:16):
come off a bye week with an extra week to prepare.
I have a couple of things in my favor, Gary Seekers,
And then I have your number about Farence recently as
a double digit underdog, and I'm gonna hide my eyes
on the program, not just hide my ears, but maybe
hide my eyes on this. What's the number as a
double digit doggie? Recently?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
They have not covered in six straight as a double
digit dog, so when they go up against this better competition,
they typically do not farewell.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Still, still, though, there was an impressive win at Minnesota
for what it shoulda coda Wood of Minnesota hung right
in there with Michigan last week, came a lot closer
to beating Michigan or tying Michigan than they did against Iowa.
Iowa also has wins over Illinois State and Troy. Okay,
is it a look ahead? You guys were talking about this,
you Parker and Kyle on the bet Us Show. Is
(07:07):
it a look ahead for Ohio State with Oregon next week?
Maybe maybe for the Buckeyes? And is in this situation
at home? I'm just feeling Iowa as underdog number two
getting twenty points here. Remember I went with a large road,
big ten dog last week with Illinois. It came through
(07:27):
the Illini came through at Penn State, getting what like
eighteen and a half in that one. I'll take twenty.
I'll take twenty and the Iowa Hawkeyes here just to
hang around national game on CBS for underdog number two.
By the way, you see this on the screen if
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trying to go to the Big House in Michigan, the
(07:47):
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this first Thursday of October? What do you like?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I am going to Kyle Field in College Station, Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yes, I believe in Missouri and I will give you
the reason why. Now know, they have not played up
to what they are capable of playing. But if you
look at what you know, what Kirby did, the offensive coordinator,
what he did last year, it's almost a carbon copy
of what he has done this year. They haven't had
to show anything against anybody for the first five games
(09:41):
of this year. Now, granted, Vanderbilt played them a little
tighter than maybe they thought they would. Boston College that
game ended up close, but I mean it was a
double digit game late into the fourth quarter before BC
scored that last touchdown. I I think that Missouri has
not shown the full gamut that they are capable of,
and I think they're going to show it this week.
I don't believe, first off, if it's Connor Wigman that's
(10:06):
going to be starting a quarterback for Texas A and M,
I think the line may flip. I think that Missouri
may be favored by the time we get to Saturday.
Interesting number, it's two and a half right now, because
I think that more people believe in Marcel Reid being
able to run Colin Klein's offense for Texas A and
M as opposed to Connor Wigman, who just has not
looked the part. Doesn't look like he came back from
(10:26):
that injury really well. So this Texas Texas A and
M defense is really good. But I think that Brady
Cook can get the ball out quickly. They haven't. I'll
tell you this, Luther Burden is not the most targeted
wide receiver on that team right now, and that is
just mind blowing. The oies is and he's awesome too,
(10:46):
but not to the same level as Burden. They haven't
really unleashed him yet. I think they're going to do
that this weekend. This is a massive, massive spot for Missouri.
They need this game now.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
A and M.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
You could say that they needed as well, but A
and M has not covered in three straight seasons. The
week after the Arkansas game, that is always an emotional role.
It's always a really physical game. I think that Missouri
is gonna win this game outright on Saturday. So give
me the Tigers there.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You know, we talked about Boston College a few minutes
ago as an underdog here at the beginning of the show,
and Maszoo has a win at home over BC. Now
they scratched and clawed to beat Vanderbilt only by three
last week? What are we getting with Texas? A and M.
It's been a little jekylin Hyde again. They were very
good when they bashed Florida, but they've also I mean,
(11:36):
that game could have gone either way with Arkansas last week.
You give them credit for winning it. You're going right
back at A and M. You went at them with
Arkansas last week, and I admire that, and I'm gonna
join in.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Two weeks ago with the with Bowling Greens.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You did, you did, and you covered. As a matter
of fact, can I join you? I'm joining in the
fun with Miszoo in an early game at A and M.
This is an eleven am local time start for both
of these programs out of the Central time Zone SEC game.
Let's go Missouri, Tiger's here to get to five and zero.
A bit of a surprise in a conference where everybody's
talking about rightfully, so Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia all up at
(12:12):
the top of it, Kentucky with their upset last week
over over ole, miss Missouri a little under the radar,
trying to get a road win at Kyle Field. How
loud will it be? Will the will the cadets be
that early in the morning. Let's find out on Saturday.
So you and I agree, And right now the numbers
what two and a half, if it changes, if it
goes down, if it becomes a Missoo favorite, doesn't matter
(12:35):
for three dog Thursday? Right what do we get two
and a half with Missouri?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Two and a half? That's the best number we can
get right now.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
All right, So we'll take that for three dog Thursday
purposes as well. So underdog Number two for each of
us is the same team. That's Eli Drinkquitz's Missouri Tigers.
Missou in Southeast Southeastern Conference play some fascinating SEC games.
That one kind of kicks off the day as rolls
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You're up first. Are you going to one of these
bizarre Big Ten matchups? I can't keep this straight anymore.
That UCLA's at Penn State and it's a conference game,
and Wisconsin's at USC and it's a conference game. And
where are you going in the Big Ten as an under.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I am going to Seattle, where Michigan is going to
Washington and it's a conference game. Yes, it's a rematch
of the National Championship game, although the majority I'd bet
seventy five percent of the players that were on that
field last January are not going to be playing in
this game. As a matter of fact, one entire coaching
two entire coaching staffs almost are completely gone, so we
(16:21):
don't have either head coach there anymore. The coordinators are gone,
other than Sharon Moore has taken over as the head
coach for Michigan. There are stats that would lead you
to go towards Washington right. Washington is top three in
net success rate in the country this year. They are
top ten in yards per play margin, all of these
(16:42):
advanced metrics that gamblers look at that lead you in
one direction or the other. Right, And when I look
at this matchup, I understand that Michigan isn't great at
throwing the football. I get it, And as a matter
of fact, I've been I've bet against Michigan quite a bit.
This number before the season was Michigan minus eight and
a half. Now Michigan is a two and a half
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point dog. Michigan's lines are still significantly better than Washington.
Washington has a problem when it comes to scoring the
football right, they're like number one sixteen in points per
scoring opportunity. That's each time they get inside the opponent's
forty yard line. They are number one sixteen in the
country at getting points in that position. They don't do
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well on fourth down, they can't get the ball in
the end zone. I think that Michigan is going to
be able to run the ball on this defensive line
because they haven't seen anything close to this at Rutgers.
May be the closest that Washington has played that looks
kind of like Michigan, and Washington was able to run
the ball on them a little bit. I think Michigan's
going to be able to do what they want to
just pushing them up and down the field. I think
(17:47):
Michigan wins the game out right. They give me the
Wolverines two and a half.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
They have run it well. And if you saw some
of the Friday night game last week, for what it's worth,
at Rutgers, they couldn't stop Washington. They couldn't stop Rutgers
from running the football for a lot of that game.
The equalizer is maybe the home field. And again, this
used to be my Rose Bowl several different times this
was my rose ball Michigan and Washington, and now it's
a big ten game at Seattle. Here you say, go
(18:14):
Blue take the Wolverines and Sharon Moore's team. Which again,
can we weigh in on the on side kick that
it looked like Minnesota had recovered down by three they
called the off sides? How in twenty twenty four is
that not reviewable? I realize it's a penalty, but either
he's across the line or not across the line on review.
(18:37):
Can we not overturn that and give Minnesota a chance
to tie or win the game? Please?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I did find it interesting by the way that that
they just decided this week after watching that game, that oh, yeah,
that's a that's a dumb rule. We're just gonna go
ahead and change it. Like typically these conferences, wait, you
have to go through this. Yeah, they've got to go
through like all these processes and everything, you gotta wait
till days. And instead they just came out and said, yeah,
(19:04):
this was really dumb, and we apologize and it's changed
from here on.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, and I'm sure Minnesota fan feels a whole lot
better now that you're changing the rule after the fact,
after they didn't get the on side kick that they
recovered due to a penalty. Nonetheless, Michigan and Washington makes
three dog Thursday. Uh, we're gonna go with one more underdog.
And I don't believe the College Game Day, the ESPN show,
which is soaring in the audience, has ever been to Berkeley, California.
(19:29):
I believe this is a first night and it is
Cal and Miami. Here we go again with this is
an acc game. This used to be like a bowl
game that we would watch in December, right when Cal
would play in Miami. Now it's a conference game. Uh.
Cal already a couple of interesting data points a win
(19:49):
at Auburn, but then a loss at Florida State, which
is what to figure about both of How bad is
Auburn If Cal goes ahead and loses to Florida State. Still,
this Mendoz as a kid can throw the football. Some
I've seen some of him. I know. Look, I got
in front of Miami and they put it on USF
South Florida in Tampa a couple of weeks ago. But
(20:11):
I had success going back at Penn State last week
with Illinois, and I'm going to go back at the
Miami Hurricanes as much as anything, because I'm getting too
many points here. I'm getting ten and a half points.
And I did watch the bet Us handicap in College
Football Show with You and Parker and Kyle, and Kyle
had the stat what is Justin Wilcox the coach in
(20:31):
the last eleven games that they're a double digit underdog
or at least a seven and a half point underdog.
I think last.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Eleven, not last eleven, but just he's twenty two to
nine overall.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
But I thought I thought in the last eleven that
he was at least a seven point underdog. He was
nine and two. I think I heard Kyle say that,
and maybe it's close to that. Is something like that
that's compelling. Also, what did I see Mario Christobal as
a double digit favorite of any kind? Homer in his
career is well below five hundred, like twenty and thirty.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
One, it's like thirty five percent.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
So he's going all the way out west for a
late night game with everybody telling him how cam Ward's
a Heisman candidate, Everybody telling them they're gonna be in
the college football playoff, And I'm getting ten and a
half points with a CAL team that's won at Auburn
and can throw the football a little bit. I think
they keep it close, they might win the game. I
heard I believe you said this that you could see
(21:27):
the argument that col wins. You could also see the
argument that Miami rolls them, right, if you could see
either way in this.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
So there's not a stat that I can come up
with that that has cow With any kind of advantage
in this game. But we all know how these late
night West Coast kind of games got. But it was
the same thing last week with Virginia Tech. There wasn't
a single stat that you could come up with that
would keep Virginia Tech in that ballgame. And then weird
things happen. Right, if the old cam Wards shows up,
(21:56):
then yeah, he'll be throwing the ball to the wrong
team cal.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Which it did show up a little bit against Virginia Tech.
He threw a couple of interceptions that helped them. And
that's what you're saying. If in that Cows defense.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah, will Cox defense can absolutely confused quarterbacks. We have
seen it time and time again. He is a defensive mastermind.
So yeah, I don't hate this. I mean my number
on this, my stats model has Miami by like thirty.
My Power Rating plus stats model has Miami by almost
three touchdowns. And yet I still don't trust him all right,
(22:30):
I mean, do you trust courstaball at all? Like I
can't trust him going out there.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I didn't trust him a couple of weeks ago against USF.
They wore them down. They threw it on him, they
ran on him. He's got better talent than what Cal has.
But it may not be about just talent here in
this spot. Give me the Cal Bears here again. What
kind of crowd will they have? Will it be embarrassing
if it's not at least half full. They're in northern
(22:55):
California for this game at Berkeley. After ESPN goes all
the way out there, and again ESPN is doing the
bidding of we're in bed with the ACC. This is
an ACC game. We have the ACC network. Let's see
what it looks like late night. One of the last
games of the night is Cal and Miami remaining a
couple of moments. By the way, we did mention Colorado
(23:17):
last week at UCF. My hand is up. I thought
that would be an easy UCF win. I didn't know
that I went along with thirteen and a half points,
but man Colorado trucked them. So props to Dion Sanders's
team at least for right now getting that win and
remaining nationally relevant for now. Gary, you have a quick thought.
They looked very impressive last week, and we did talk
about that briefly on three Dog Thursday.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
So we brought up the UCF secondary was pretty much garbage,
and I never imagined that we would get to the
point where the game state was set up where UCF
had to throw the football. I never I never saw
that one coming. Colorado might be good. I mean they're
playing on both the offensive and defensive lines of scrimmage.
(24:00):
It looks pretty good.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
There's no it might be. Travis Hunter is good, if
not great, and Shador Sanders has been good, if not great,
throwing the ball. The question is can they keep protecting
him and will their defense hold up against the better teams.
It's certainly good last week.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, it's the trenches there that I've been worried about. Right, Like,
obviously we knew Hunter and Shadur are fantastic, the wide
receivers are great. They had no running game to speak of,
and now the running game looks pretty decent too, so
maybe they got this thing figured out. Well, we'll see.
They got some tough ones next week. They got Kansas
State coming too bolder. That one's going to be tricky,
so we'll pay attention to that much.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Listen. I love your audience getting in the chat. Do
you have a quick thirty seconds on Tennessee at Arkansas. Again,
we both have backed Arkansas at different times so far
this year. You were backing them last week. They're getting
what thirteen and a half, but Tennessee's got such an
explosive offense. Quick thought on that game.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
If if Arkansas can stop Tennessee's running game, then I
think that's going to hurt Nico's ability to uh one
get the ball out quick and two it depends on
whether or not Arkansas has to bring their safeties up
because Hypel will absolutely run go routes on you to death.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I mean he will.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
He will do that to you. He was not able
to do it against Oklahoma because they I mean it
got to a certain point the couldn't.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Run the ball.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I don't know if Arkansas's defensive line can hold up
that well, but obviously we'll see. There's a few others
in the chat, Darryl has jumped in yeah, and Tony
has jumped in hit. So Tony jumped in on he said,
my play is Duke plus nine. I talked about this
on the bet Us Show a little bit. I've got
Duke favorite in the game, all right. Georgia Tech is
(25:40):
coming off of a bye. Duke is coming off of
that massive comeback rivalry win against North Carolina last week.
They won twenty one to twenty. I worry a little
bit about this. It doesn't make a ton of sense
to me because georgiea deck has not been very good
covering as a home favorite, especially a number of this
big But man, I like their I like their coordinators.
So this this one I'm staying away from.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I got you, I'm I see your guy. Jeremiah in
the chat is saying nobody has run the ball on
Arkansas's D line. Uh, for the most part, only on
the backups, not on the starters. Will that be a
compelling point about that? But they haven't played anybody like
Tennessee yet. Yeah, that's another that's another point on that one.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Jot run a game very much. And aside from that,
like Oklahoma State hadn't run on anybody.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
So by the way, the dabbos Sweeney, I'm gonna put
it on everybody. Revenge tour here is in Tallahassee for
Florida State. Let's see, because I mean, he's what do
you think about that they've won by big margin against everybody?
And I think he's gonna keep trying to score, score,
score to prove the point that you don't need the
transfer portal and the ni L Let's see.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I think he's going to lay it out. I think
that he is. He won't stop scoring.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
And by and by the way, they've hammered Florida State
a couple of times in the past, and Tallahasse to
remember the image of the one fan sitting in the
loan section, the middle aged fan reading the book while
the game was going on in there, down by five touchdowns.
So Noles fans don't want to hear that. But let's
see what Clemson an FSU looks like. All right, by
means of recap, because we've got to get out of here.
You've got Boston College and the ACC against Virginia getting
(27:14):
a point and a half. I took Iowa and the
boatload of points at the horseshoe against Ohio State again,
I'm gonna eschew that stat. I'm gonna ignore that stat
that Kirk Fernce in his last what is it six
as a double digit dog has not done so well.
I still think with that defense, they're gonna keep it
close enough and Ohio State probably a look ahead to Oregon.
(27:35):
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. We agree
on Missouri right against Texas A and m early and
the two and a half. You'll take Michigan and the
two and a half at Washington. And I love Cal
in the late night ACC game, that one getting ten
and a half against Miami against the Hurricanes. Let's see.
(27:57):
I mean a Cal team again that has a win
over alber but has a loss of floor to state.
Go figure. But they are at home and all of
all the attention that they're gonna get this weekend from that,
did we leave anything else out out here for the audience?
Anything else? Or are we good?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I think I think we're good, So I don't think
there was anything. Do you want? Well Auburn? I kind
of liked them at twenty four and a half and
then things down to twenty three, twenty two and a
half in some spot.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
How do you trust that? It's kind of like you
got Michigan State at Oregon getting a boat load what
twenty three? Twenty four points? They couldn't they couldn't score
the other night against Ohio State at home. They're gonna
go out to Oregon and score points. I don't know,
I don't see it, but we gave you the underdogs
that we have for our reasons. Gary, thank you again,
Thank you to the audience. We love it here on
(28:42):
Winning Cures again, share the show out, hit the like button.
Make sure you're subscribed to this channel for all of
Gary's content. He goes over favorites, totals, the whole bit
all week long, great game previews, et cetera. On Winning
Cures Everything dot Com. I come in and, as I
like to say, cohabitate on Thursdays with three Dogs Thursday
on the program. Good luck with your underdogs, young man.
(29:04):
I appreciate it as.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
All ways are, of course, of course, and we'll.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
See how it goes with the underdogs. I'm off to
work the NFL on this Thursday night for the Buccaneers
and the Falcons. You'll know how my Friday's going depending
on how Thursday Night goes for the Bucks and the Falcons.
Let's see what the college football does this weekend too.
We are back again next week with another edition of
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