Behind The Betting Lines
 Oct
18 2003
By Wilson King
Football Sports Betting - Inside the football
betting lines
Making money never hurt so much. Week
after week, the public refuses to come to play, forcing us to
grind out modest wins. This college football Saturday was no
different. It felt like we spent the entire day standing in
line to buy 999,999 lottery tickets for a chance to win a
$1,000,000 jackpot. In the end, we came out winners, but it’s
tough to feel good about it.
This week continued a disturbing of
general apathy as our handle was down from the previous week,
and there were few major decisions on the day. As a matter of
fact, we saw virtually no action in the early games and our
first major decision did not come until the late afternoon games
kicked off. So, we were forced to sit around with our fingers
on our triggers and our rockets in our pockets waiting for some
action.
Things picked up as the late games featured
a few marquee matchups and the proverbial sure bets. After
breaking even on the little action we saw earlier in the day,
things started to get interesting as the public came to play as
if they were someone other than the public.
Despite the fact that most folks could not
find Akron on a map, let alone tell you what a Zip is, they
liked the University of Akron at home against Central Florida.
Their hunch paid off as Akron protected their home field
advantage and delivered a sizable win.
In a bit of a sexier matchup, assuming that
it is even possible to use “Lou Holtz” and “sexy” in the same
sentence, the public was all over LSU on the road against South
Carolina. While this SEC contest was certainly got more
national attention than the Akron/CFU showdown, the result was
was the same for us. LSU stewed and simmered the Gamecocks,
handing us the our largest loss on the day.
Fortunately for us, the public refused to
bet big; therefore, as the old adage goes, they could not win
big, and these two decisions did not hurt us as bad as they
could have. Given the fact that those losses were mitigated by
Memphis, New Mexico, Missouri and Virginia covers, the day was
profitable, albeit painful.
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