Pretty good start , a couple wins late but large handful of losses brought a nice few week run in CFB to an end. Some teams with QB issues had nothing , some flourished. Texas had a middle slip screen wide open for a TD at 0-0 kid didn't catch it and al he needed to do was sprint to the end zone if he caught it. Nothing , literally went right after that in the first half. LSU looked good after winning games with MEH performances, WVU was awful , and K-State showed up. That conference is very unpredictable. if you look at the games adn results it makes little sense at times. Baylor with a blowout win for us scoring near 60? Utah UNDER was easy as it looked, because of Utah's defense but they can't score more than 7 on TCU at home? Oregon State was a good teaser leg with Tennessee [Also UNDER in that one was nice} but didn't cover the 7 losing by 8. Profitable season overall with a key being riding some teams { Army Ole Miss early, and going against the Troy's and the Air Force's lol} Doing more totals in volume and they have been near 55 percent. NFL last few weeks has been pretty good and today there are a handful I like .
Liberty could be undefeated losing two really tough close games by a combined 4 points to UA and Berlin. Region 3 getting the Olentangy' makes the regions lopsided no doubt. Coffman playing Liberty so well gave some hope for the Rocks possibly, but it looks more flukey now, but then again they did fairly well vs. Orange and if not for the fatal flaw of just not having the speed to NOT give up big plays they may have won. Last two weeks? Not competitive.
Possibly not a football school at this point heading to the future, and if you want to cite well they went to a regional final just last year? Well it was a weaker region won by a 5 loss team, and the Rocks beat only one team with a strong resume, in Berlin and they caught some breaks in that one, most notably Berlin missing their best most valuable player QB - SS Brewster a three year starter. Just seems that at all levels in Dublin their counterparts in other districts are surpassing them in the sport of football. A long time top 3 program in CO is now on a 22-24 jag after the 2020 COVID season, where they lost a close one to Liberty fumbling an exchange when they were possibly going in for the winning score in round three of the play-offs. Were 3-1 vs. Liberty after that result heading into this season, played them well but Liberty seems pretty solid going forward as does UA and Orange. Davidson program is in better shape than the Rocks. Bradley is playing a lot of young kids and will have more talent than they will. Next year will not be good by every indication. Who will be the coach? Stokes staying seems very remote. Unless it's for the paycheck and they let him speak motivationally instead of teach he will be a well below 500 coach here overall after a couple more years. Would he be OK with that if he's making enough money? Stokes doesn't seem to be money oriented and says the most important thing actually isn't winning games but the process and improvement developing good habits relentlessly pursing that growth etc. , but the janitors in the school talk to him every day and love him and think he is the best coach to ever ply his trade in Dublin district history know more about football and program building than most of us. They hated Crabtree as a coach and though him weak. We will see what they say about it.
Liberty and Davidson game showed one team was maybe nervous and was just turning it over making big mistakes and lost the game like Tewxas did last night and just wasn't ready for that big a game. Late first half barrage of turnovers = disaster and game over really. Davidson got no points despite moving it pretty well early. Rematch maybe a different story. Region 3 will be very interesting no doubt. Gahanna wining without Ward at QB easily running the ball down the Grovers throat was impressive. Lions like other top programs in CO have some good young talent and program momentum. Some other programs are going in the other direction. It happens. They will be swallowed whole by the haves as we have seen the gap widen noticeably the last few years. Pasteur's lines show this and many weeks there are more spreads in the 20's and 30's than single digits. As we have noted, Grove City stepping up in class hasn't gone well and we saw it coming. Going against Westland is not a good proposition. LOL. Incredible season for them after years of futility.
Troy's and Michigan season win total plays that were pretty large will cash. Pitt I thought would struggle is much better than thought by most. OSU should win out and I think they are better than Texas and Georgia is coming on and OSU -Georgia title game prop is in play for us. Oregon is very good, but let's see how they do on a neutral or away. Wolverines were overrated from the jump as we noted and it could get worse adn OSU should beat this team by 3 scores . At Penn State will provide a few flurries of doubt but over 60 Bucks should win by at least 10 in Happy Valley. Nebraska improved but nightmarish afternoon may linger. Indiana is legit , can they move it vs. the Buckeyes? Probably some, but not enough. Only giving up 7 yesterday was the surprise or more of a surprise no question.
Eagles -3. Over Philly .
Colts Dolphins to be on the higher scoring side .
Dolphins and Lions getting teased over 7-8 points .
Seattle RB Kenneth Walker over yardage props
at football) and Mifflin (no hope whatsoever) — you can flip a coin on how good they’ll be from one year to the next.