Deep in the Couch Cushions Picks

Hello All,

I will be contributing on Wednesdays.  Lasko got me into this world about 2 years ago and been hooked since.  My best memory is last year grinding a San Jose St. game at 1am on ESPN Gamecast (game wasn’t on TV).  San Jose St. had to drive the length of the field with under 2 minutes to cover.  The flurry of text messages and lines moving across the was the most exciting football I watched all day.  I will be posting a couple of games that stand out to me each week. Here they are for Week 2.

Michigan -15.5 - Admit it, the first thing you did when you saw this line was think Oregon State will easily cover this, this is too easy*.  Then I realized that is what they want me to do.  Oregon is coming from the west coast to play @ noon (9am for them). Harbaugh’s first game @ the big house, place is going to be electric. And Michigan would have beat Utah sans all the turnovers.  Harbaugh fixes that this week and UM rolls.

*Last year there was an NFL game, Steelers at Jets, in which the oddsmakers gave the Jets an advantage and everybody couldn’t believe it and bet their mother on the Steelers.  What happened? Steelers lost to the Jets 20-13 and the Wise Guys and oddsmakers laughed all the way to the bank. Moral of the Story- If a line seems to good to be true, it is!

Stanford -19 -  I am sure the public will be all over UCF after the disaster of a game Stanford played last week.  This is the classic buy low opportunity.  Heck, go buy some futures on Stanford winning the Pac-12, great value.  Stanford will play this game angry and win by 20+.  with UCF taking a long trip across country.  

Hawaii +40 - +40, are you kidding me!  That is reserved for a FCS school.  Think in the NFL how difficult it is for a team to play on Monday night and then play next Sunday.  OSU has to do the same thing but play on Saturday.  That Va Tech game was closer than the score indicated.  Hawaii brings in a Norm Chow as a coach and a former USC Trojan as their QB.  This is Hawaii’s bowl game.  **OSU wins this game easy but Meyer will be bring in the backups early to save some energy.  

**This is what Urbz does not want to happen when his starters are up by 20+