Who's your lock

i will take oklahoma over texas a&m with a 3 point spread.

also like mizzou over ttu with a 4 point spread.

and even navy upsetting the 3 point spread and beating east carolina.

 
I know I read a warning about Clemson games earlier in this thread leveled by killer cacti...yet as much as I'm inclined to follow the advice of a fellow fan of the D, I'm gonna have to take NC State at +3 1/2 over said Tigers.

Wait...does that count? Or am I in the clear because I'm betting against Clemson? :D

 
Lock of the week Utah +5 over TCU Book it and Lock it !

Unless your the Huskers winning on the road is very hard. Horny Toads are 0-3 in there last 3 trips to Salt Lake.

 
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Nebula said:
I know I read a warning about Clemson games earlier in this thread leveled by killer cacti...yet as much as I'm inclined to follow the advice of a fellow fan of the D, I'm gonna have to take NC State at +3 1/2 over said Tigers.

Wait...does that count? Or am I in the clear because I'm betting against Clemson? :D
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Betting against...you're safe.

Edit (after the game): Just stay away from the Tigers altogether.

 
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Nebula said:
I know I read a warning about Clemson games earlier in this thread leveled by killer cacti...yet as much as I'm inclined to follow the advice of a fellow fan of the D, I'm gonna have to take NC State at +3 1/2 over said Tigers.

Wait...does that count? Or am I in the clear because I'm betting against Clemson? :D
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darn you, clemson!!!

 
lol, I'm confused. (Somebody call the New York Times!)

So...I thought that Clemson was favored by 3 1/2, so I figured that if I took NC State and they either won or lost by only a field goal I would win the pick. So then Clemson only won by a point (14-13), and I thought I was golden like Kent Brockman. Am I an idiot, or did I actually pick correctly? (The first question is rhetorical. The answer is yes, regardless of whether I picked correctly or not.)

 
808Husker in KCMO said:
Sorry, bro... just missed your pick.
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Wait, so if I take NC State when Clemson is favored by 3 1/2 and Clemson wins by 1 I lose? I never ever wager, so I'm a complete novice with this stuff...I apologize for my ignorance. Can you explain how that works to me though? My brain is refusing to allow me to see this clearly for some reason...I'm still convinced I actually picked correctly.

Did I read the line wrong? Was NC State actually favored or something?

EDIT: I'm just baffled because I always thought the line meant that if one team is favored by, say, seven points or something and you take them (the favorite) and they win by 6, then you lose the bet, right? They had to win by 8 points or more to cover, right? And consequently, if you take a team that is on the other end, say they are going against a team that is favored by four points and the underdog loses but only by a field goal, I thought that meant that by taking the underdog you could actually lose the game but still win the bet because the favored team didn't cover.

Both killer cacti and sd'sker both chimed in yesterday, and they saw it the same way you did 808Husker, so I gotta believe I'm wrong here. I just don't understand why.

 
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i will take oklahoma over texas a&m with a 3 point spread.

also like mizzou over ttu with a 4 point spread.

and even navy upsetting the 3 point spread and beating east carolina.
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should have taken navy. oops.

 
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808Husker in KCMO said:
Sorry, bro... just missed your pick.
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Wait, so if I take NC State when Clemson is favored by 3 1/2 and Clemson wins by 1 I lose? I never ever wager, so I'm a complete novice with this stuff...I apologize for my ignorance. Can you explain how that works to me though? My brain is refusing to allow me to see this clearly for some reason...I'm still convinced I actually picked correctly.

Did I read the line wrong? Was NC State actually favored or something?

EDIT: I'm just baffled because I always thought the line meant that if one team is favored by, say, seven points or something and you take them (the favorite) and they win by 6, then you lose the bet, right? They had to win by 8 points or more to cover, right? And consequently, if you take a team that is on the other end, say they are going against a team that is favored by four points and the underdog loses but only by a field goal, I thought that meant that by taking the underdog you could actually lose the game but still win the bet because the favored team didn't cover.

Both killer cacti and sd'sker both chimed in yesterday, and they saw it the same way you did 808Husker, so I gotta believe I'm wrong here. I just don't understand why.
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Just looked again. You lost.

The line read Clemson +3.5 This means that NC State must win by more than 3.5 for your bet to pay off.

The reason I was so confused is that you bet NC State +3.5 If that WAS the line, you would have won. Unfortunately, You picked NC State and they lost. Even if they would have won by 3, you still would have lost.

 
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808Husker in KCMO said:
Nebula said:
808Husker in KCMO said:
Sorry, bro... just missed your pick.
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Wait, so if I take NC State when Clemson is favored by 3 1/2 and Clemson wins by 1 I lose? I never ever wager, so I'm a complete novice with this stuff...I apologize for my ignorance. Can you explain how that works to me though? My brain is refusing to allow me to see this clearly for some reason...I'm still convinced I actually picked correctly.

Did I read the line wrong? Was NC State actually favored or something?

EDIT: I'm just baffled because I always thought the line meant that if one team is favored by, say, seven points or something and you take them (the favorite) and they win by 6, then you lose the bet, right? They had to win by 8 points or more to cover, right? And consequently, if you take a team that is on the other end, say they are going against a team that is favored by four points and the underdog loses but only by a field goal, I thought that meant that by taking the underdog you could actually lose the game but still win the bet because the favored team didn't cover.

Both killer cacti and sd'sker both chimed in yesterday, and they saw it the same way you did 808Husker, so I gotta believe I'm wrong here. I just don't understand why.
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Just looked again. You lost.

The line read Clemson +3.5 This means that NC State must win by more than 3.5 for your bet to pay off.

The reason I was so confused is that you bet NC State +3.5 If that WAS the line, you would have won. Unfortunately, You picked NC State and they lost. Even if they would have won by 3, you still would have lost.
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:facepalm:

Gotcha. I didn't know how to read it...I thought that meant Clemson was favored, not NC State. Thanks for the help, much appreciated.

 
http://currentlines.net/ncaa_football.htm

OK, so I'm looking at this at the top of the page. So does that mean that, in the game above Clemson and NC State, that Maryland was favored by 8 over Miami, at Miami? That doesn't seem right...

Or three down from the Clemson game, the Iowa vs Indiana game. Iowa has the 17 in front of it like Clemson had the 3 1/2 in front of it...so that means it was actually Iowa at +17? That doesn't seem right...

What am I missing here? I think the line actually WAS Clemson -3 1/2.

Sorry to keep harping on this, I'll shut up.

 
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