Archive for Gambling
The Line: Cal -2 at Arizona
This opened at Pick’em, but some sportsbooks have moved the line up. I wasn’t terribly surprised with the line, given all the staistical indicators seem to point toward this game going either way. Why? Just look at Sagarin.
Sagarian has these teams on equal footing this week. Although they have California ranked at #15 and Arizona at [...]
The Last Lecture: California
Okay, this was supposed to be posted on EDSBS, but Orson Swindle was too busy being mesmerized by a poster of Rick Neuheisel that declared his monopoly on the college blogosphere over. Keep in mind this was written about three weeks ago before the quarterback situation had been resolved, although I think it still carries [...]
Walk the Line: What Vegas Thinks About Cal and the Pac-10
I have a gambling problem. Not a gambling addiction (other than one bad incident that I deserved, I’ve been fairly frugal with my betting habits).
No, my problem is that I’m no good at gambling. I.e. I lose a lot of money. I seem to have terrible patterns at predicting who will win and even worse [...]
2008 Pac-10 Conference Odds
Doc Rivers as usual fouled up Game 3 by underusing Leon Powe (despite throttling Black Mamba here), so we’re not discussing the NBA today. Let’s move back to the pigskin.
Thanks to VegasWatch, we now have our Pac-10 championship odds.
USC
-300
ASU
+400
Oregon
+600
Cal
+800
UCLA
+800
Arizona
+2000
Washington
+2000
Stanford
+3000
Oregon St.
+5000
Washington St.
+5000
Well, that certainly isn’t terribly surprising. 2007 was a flux year [...]
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