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The $ix Rack (SEASON 2!) Presented by Trav: Week 10

A wiseman once said that traveling makes you modest and it turns out he wasn’t making it up. Whether we blame this one on jetlag, me taking like 10 minutes to make my picks, or whatever else, I think it’s safe to say we can consider last week’s 1-5 showing an anomaly and let’s get ready to move onto Week 10. That’s right, we’re into the double digits, people. Hard to believe but we’re essentially at midfield here. 

A $ix Rack of college football tidbits:

  1. The first college football playoff rankings have dropped. If you find yourself caring about a Week 10 College Football rankings, please reconsider priorities in your life. These things always have a way of working themselves out. And don’t tell this guy Auburn is out of the running just yet.

2. Our playoff prediction (in some order) continues to look spot on considering the way we expect things to shake out after the dust settles: 1. Alabama 2. Georgia 3. Ohio State 4. Cincinnati

3. Syracuse (8-1) and UTSA (7-1) remain top dogs ATS. (Spoiler alert: Wait ‘til you see who was dumb enough to pick UTSA to lose outright this week.)

4. Gary Patterson is out at TCU. You should be zero percent surprised when he takes another job next year. 

5. The new Heisman front runner is Kenneth Walker III. A fun fact for you: he initially committed to Kent State on Oct 8, 2018 but then flipped to Wake Forest two months later. Kent State! How do these things happen?

6. Another fun fact: Pitt safety John Petrishen is currently in his seventh season of college football. His bio would be a short story but they touched on his 4 years at Penn State like it was a summer internship. 

A $ix Rack of NFL tidbits:

  1. Thanks to Cooper Rush’s heroics, the Cowboys remain the only team in the NFL or college football still perfect against the spread: 7-0. The Redskins meanwhile are now a league worst 1-7 ATS. 

2. After failing to do so week 1, the Packers have reeled off 7 straight victories and (more importantly) covered the spread in every contest. Now let’s see what they can do with Jordan Love.

3. After losing to the Saints, the Bucs are now 0-4 ATS on the road. And their SB opponent last year, the Chiefs, are 0-4 ATS at home. 

4. Not sure if anyone else stumbled upon this or not, but an unnamed Broncos player spilled the beans on one underlying reason the Broncos traded away Von Miller: a dispute over his Halloween party. And Noah Fant confirmed this yesterday.

5. On FanDuel, the Bills are now Super Bowl favorites and Josh Allen is the favorite for League MVP. 

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Regardless, and taking the Derrick Henry injury and Von Miller trade into consideration, we are sticking with our super bowl pick: Ravens vs. Rams. 

6. And last (but not least), the new leader in the clubhouse for video of the year is now the video of Jameis dancing in the locker room post-knee destruction.

Now, let’s get to last week’s piss poor showing. 

WEEK 9 RE$ULTS

1. Oregon State -1.5 (vs. California)

LOSER

I hate being let down and the Beavers let me down here. You know you prob didn’t do your best when you make Chase Garbers look like Joe Montana. 

2. Boise State -2.5 (vs. Colorado State)

🚨WINNER🚨

Phew. Thank goodness for the Broncos or this would have been one rough week. 

3. Coastal Carolina -18 (vs Troy)

LOSER

This was pretty rough to watch. Not just figuratively, but literally as well. It came on at like 1:30 on a Thursday afternoon in Hawaii. 

4. Stanford -2.5 (vs. Washington)

LOSER

I genuinely don’t know what happened in the Pac-12 this weekend but I think the literal opposite of what I anticipated in every game happened. Utah smacking UCLA. Washington State’s replacement coaches beating up on Herm and the boys. 0-win Arizona hanging some ungodly amount of points on USC and only losing by a TD. And Stanford trying to help Jimmy Lake keep his job. 

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5. Texas vs. Baylor OVER 61

LOSER

Evidently we forgot all about the “Who’s got the biggest hose?” competition in the second quarter when these two combined to score 0 points. 

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6. Lions +3.5 (vs. Eagles)

LOSER

Turns out I’m a sucker just like everyone else. 

Week 9 Long Shot Moneylines

Miami +340 (vs. Pitt)

🚨WINNER🚨

PSU +700 (vs. Ohio State)

LOSER

It took a questionable goal line call to get us back on track with a LSML win, but we’ll take it. And make it three weeks in a row now that I have no comment on the PSU game. 

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WEEK 10 WINNER$:

1. Michigan State -2.5 (vs. Purdue)

Sparty 6-1-1 ATS, yet I haven’t touched a single line of theirs because I’ve been scared to do so. But that ends this weekend. This line seems like it’s probably a TD off, and I’m all about it.

2. Kentucky PICK ‘EM (vs. Tennessee)

The Wildcats always win when I pick against them and I’m just curious to see how they do when I pick them to win. Truthfully, I just love a solid pick ’em game and Kentucky is undefeated at home this year with wins over Florida, Missouri, and LSU. This is obviously a rivalry game and I think they jump out to an early lead and hang on late. 

3. Baylor -6.5 (vs. TCU)

Baylor is 6-2 ATS this year while TCU (now without a true head coach) enters this game covering the spread in only 1 of 8 games played this year.

4. Air Force vs. Army UNDER 37 points

There is an outrageous military academies opposing each other hitting the under stat out there and I don’t remember exactly what it is, but just know that this game will go under like they almost all do. 

5. Georgia vs. Missouri UNDER 59.5

Missouri will score like 10 and I don’t think Georgia scores 50. In fact, they have only scored more than 40 points twice (against UAB and Vandy) and they didn’t break 37 points in October. Our guy, Austin Mock, has this projected total closer to 52-53 points so consider me part of the #MockFlock this week.

6. Raiders -2.5 (vs. Giants)

I don’t know what this is all about but I can promise you the Raiders are a field goal better than the Giants. Side note: if you exclude Eli’s 2 Super Bowl runs, are Eli and Daniel Jones the same person?

Week 10 1:1 Parlay (+125)

  • Ohio State -700 (vs Nebraska)
  • Louisiana -550 (vs GA State)
  • Dolphins -250 (vs Texans)
  • Colts -500 (vs Jets)

Can’t wait to see who spoils it this week. 

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Week 10 Long Shot Moneylines

MTSU (vs. Western Kentucky) +550

Rutgers (vs. Wisconsin) +470

UTEP (vs. UTSA) +375

I just need one of these to hit and I don’t care which one. Let me compare it to a conversation I have with my buddy about what kind of girl he’s interested in:

Buddy: “What color is her hair?”

Me: “Eh, it’s kind of a blondeish, but it…”

Buddy: “Doesn’t matter.”

It doesn’t matter which one, but please (please please) give me one football gods. 

SEASON TOTALS (W – L – PUSH)

LAST WEEK: 1-5-0

ALL WEEKS: 37-27-2 (57.8%)

LONG SHOT MONEYLINES: 4-15-0 (-8.7 units)

1:1’s: 3-5-0

COLLEGE GAMEDAY PICKS: 5-2

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