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Now I just was on a cruise. Couldn't get to the internet, but unfortunately for 20% of people I am back on the show. Maybe I don't know. I don't know where Kramer was rooting for, but so this you sound like someone being incredibly defensive. The first of all, the survey was about should I even do a show? Yes. Well, one of the options was is the show better without Sean, correct? The four options where you debt 100 100 emoji better without Sean. Yeah, sure, better than nothing. No, won't be the same and show sucks without Sean. So I included all four options. I included a strongly agree, strongly disagree option. A little bit surprised at the feedback, if I'm being completely honest. And if you listen to the show, Sean, you would see there was a fairly coherent defense laid out of you by me. So yes, I don't want to hear it. You did play at the seed by going Hey guys, is the show better without Sean? That was one of the questions. So that being said, I got some positive feedback. I also received some negative feedback. And so as it turns out, much like this great country, not everyone can agree, Sean, joining us on the line to talk all things, college, football, the original. Now I got I got I'm dealing with two Benedict's one Benedict Kramer now Benedict Dundee. I mean, Colby, was he were you working both sides of this poll question as well? What the hell's going on here? No, but I agree that four. I mean, look, it's Viva La Mexico. I know you had a great time there and shout out to XFL Ryan over there. Garage certified. Let's go. Look, can you pass me the Phillips head Kramer? Kramer is calling from a garage in Florida. It's funny you say that because I did have a hard time finding a Phillips head earlier today. I was doing a little bit in a little bit of handiwork. No big deal. But yeah, I was I was not finding my way around the garage. Well, Colby, how would you? I know Kramer doesn't celebrate holidays, but how was your Christmas? Merry Christmas, Colby. Well, Christmas came just a couple days ago when the pussy packed to show, you know, showed up in in Annapolis and look for ECU. It's not a rivalry unless the ref is bleeding on the way out. All right. That gave I did catch a couple, a couple of chunks that gave that was, that was crazy. And shout out to us. Pretty good, pretty good run here. I hit both my locks, my dog and my T's. Colby hit a lock and dog and a T's. I think we're our Kramer. Were you not on Kramer went against ECU? And I, and if you're wondering why Colorado shit the bed, I mean, we have to blame Kramer for finally, finally hops on the bandwagon with coach Prime and it's, it's way too late. I did not, I did not go against ECU. But yeah, that was a, you know what we were lied to. We were lied to by these. We're going to play, whether it's the coach prime in Colorado, we're going to finish the season. Cam Ward, what a despicable. I mean, you're playing for the fucking pop tart trophy, bro. I mean, have some dignity. Cam is really weird move. Yeah, it reminds me of one time I was playing a Wreck League basketball game and a guy was at the free throw line and just left. He was shooting and there was in the middle of two free throws and he just left the game. Is this from the infamous team where you had, you lost a hundred to zero? No, no, I'm talking about like when I was a, when I was a child, but a hundred to zero. That was almost me. I almost pulled a cam ward, but hey, it was 96 and it wasn't a zero. We lost by 96 points and I would like the good people out there to know that I scored 84% of my team's points. So, yes, we're still lost by 96 though. Yeah. Cam Ward, are you concerned as a giant fan? Well, you're not going to get him anymore, right? Bring it up the sore subject. It's not a sore subject. This is actually, I mean, Colby, you would have a good comment on this. Any ball know or might have a good comment on that. It is amazing to me how everyone is penciling in Shader and Cam Ward as top two picks. That's the one thing that's coming out of this whole week 17, unnecessary conversation and discourse is that everyone's assuming these two guys are going to be top two picks. I don't think so. I'm not, I mean, it's certainly he's not going to like a lot. There's going to be a lot of tape of me being critical of a quarterback who might be on the New York Giants, but why what makes you? I mean, everything I've heard is Shader, Cam Ward and Travis Hunter are going to be the top three picks. And inevitably, if you're close in a quarterback, you end up going in the top five, top 10. There's always a run on quarterbacks. You what makes it like who, who would be above a Cam Ward, a should do or Sanders or Travis Hunter? I mean, Colby would tell you there's a decent amount of defensive lineman prospects this year. There's a decent amount of defensive back prospects. I, I, I mean, look, at this time of year, we always think there's going to be interesting stuff going on in the draft and it generally drastically changes. There's a guy named Carson Beck that screams New York Giants. He, he, what a loser. I mean, that's, that's the thing is, I mean, can you really look at this quarterback class top to bottom and say this isn't one of the weaker classes we've ever seen period as someone who's watched a lot of college football and considering how many guys we have in this class who have played for more years than maybe we typically have seen in the past. There, there's not, I mean, Cam Ward's a dog. I get that. But guess what? If the first thing I want to say about you is you're a dog and then you sit out for the second half, kind of a bitch move and kind of a bitch move because you're trying to make people think you're a dog by playing in the bowl game. I'd say the same thing about the, the Colorado situation. It'll a little bit different, but same thing. Like don't try to create this facade unrelated to that. I mean, watch them play, Sean. These are not the same level of prospects that we said that we are seeing in Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, Drake may. So that's my take on it. I don't know. I think those guys can be good in the NFL, depending on the team. I agree. I think they can be good. I'm just saying they're not on the same level as those guys. I just, I just, yeah, probably. Yeah. Do you inevitably know quarterbacks to your point? Yeah. Maybe they're not as good a prospect, but I still think Shadur and Ken Ward are going to get so much hype coming into the process that they will be going top five. I would be shocked if both of them weren't top five picks. I was looking for that. I'm looking for that pick or that bet. I want to be able to, like I have, I would love to fade both the quarterbacks going in the top three, top five. Wow. That's crazy. I mean, I suppose we'll see what happens, but we've had this, I mean, we haven't had it like this, but we've had years before. I mean, Justin Fields was a easily a better college player. To me, similar level prospect, maybe a Shadur Sanders when you, when you compare him side by side. No, I disagree. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe not. I'm just saying like look what happened with a guy like Justin Fields. He falls down the board a little bit and maybe it's not that he's, you know, maybe it's not Shadur is not good on the whiteboard, but maybe there's something else that forces that. And honestly, it's not Shadur that I think is going to slip. I think Cam wards. The guy who's going to slip. I disagree with the comparison, but I essentially, Shadur Sanders is way more accurate of a passer in the fields. Yeah. Like, I don't see the comparisons besides the complexion, which I know that the York Giants are paying attention to winning. I mean, that matters. Like the, like your, your actual credentials in college, not just that you, you had a lot of hype. You got a lot of YouTube subscribers, like actual credentials and, and stats you put up in college. How about your boy, Mike Vick? He's coaching now. Same with the Sean Jackson. Mike Vick, Sean Jackson being a coach is pretty insane. I mean, Mike Vick, I, Mike Vick, I understand it. And maybe he's, you know, he seems to have changed his approach to life and did a bunch of public speaking. And I can see how kids being really excited to play for him, but Sean Jackson never struck me as a guy who had his shit together. And that'll be interesting to see if he can coach a team. I, I, I, they're in the same conference too. So they're going to play each other. I would say this, Vick is set up for success. He has the connections. He went, he's from that area. I think what, you know, whatever it takes to steal a couple of local kids from the 757 to stick around to me, Vick, Vick is like, and also, you know, go listen, I think this is serious for him. Like I'm not, you know, not that it's not for all these guys, but I think he's been doing some stuff to get ready for this. So I don't think this is going to be a complete gimmick. And I think he's going to have some good, some really good assistance on his staff. So he was the, he was the head coach of the Atlanta legends for pre-season. Yeah, there you go. And then when the season started, he declined to coach. What, what, why do you think that was they weren't going to pay him? Yeah. What happened? It's checked in cash. What, what, what was the reason he called? I forget. I know we really had an office and offices bullshit. I didn't have a man. Who was the quarterback? I feel like it was like a Sims. I feel like he had a Sims as a quarterback. And he was just like, no, I'm good. But yeah, that, that league, it wouldn't surprise me if they also didn't cut him a check. So, but we were hyped. I remember we did the preseason episode. I said, Michael, Vick is the coach of the Atlanta legends, fake news. We, we found out when they kicked off that year. Such a great name for a team. It's very much like they just went down the strip club drag in Atlanta and said, cool legends. Let's go with that. Magic city. They play at magic city. All right. Let's get to the picks. We got college football playoffs and we got a bunch of dumb bowl games. I did boots on the ground in the Rose Bowl area was seeing a bunch of Ohio state fans already hanging out traveling, getting ready for the game. Call Kramer. What's our first game? Oh, yeah, you know, that's going to be annoying too. Cause I don't want to say too many things about a team with an enormous fan base, but Ohio state is the is probably one of the worst large fan base fans out there. So shout out to Marbon for the podcast audience out there not watching live at 1149 Eastern time. It's time for a dab. So hopefully it's not perform work for you. But if it is, don't be a pussy. First up, we're heading to Tampa, we're heading to Tampa, Florida. And we're starting up with games on Tuesday. So Tuesday morning, not very far from where I am right now and not very long from where we talk right now, nine hours from now, Tampa, Florida, Alabama and Michigan. What is this? This is almost like a classic bowl game here, Colby. I'm only, I'm going to assume this is the gas parilla bowl, 13 and a half points. This is when I think about the teams that are playing in this game, I think Tampa is a city of fun. Alabama fans like fun Michigan fans, just incredibly uptight people from the north. I'm already giving Alabama the home crowd minus 13 and a half tells me we're going to have some interesting news with the roster. I'm seeing this now at 15, 15 and a half. We're hearing interesting news about the roster in real time. 43 and a half is the total. Tell me about it. I'm trying to learn why it would jump that many points that, that, that quick because these lines were put together, you know, maybe an hour ago. But yeah, I don't know. Maybe just a bunch of money came in on Bama, but yeah, there's a bunch of optouts. I mean, Jalen Milro saying he's playing a slew of other guys. How do we not know that like nine hours before kickoff? That's great. I mean, it's just great coverage that we have going on. I will say this though, as much as I should in these bowl games too, they did deliver this year as far as great games. Yeah. I mean, there's like how many overtime games were like one possession games? It's kind of, I feel like almost every game has been like that. But yeah, they still are a complete mess. And that drives me crazy. When these coaches play conservative in these fucking bowl games, it's go for it. It's for down in a meaningless bowl game. What are you doing? Why are you playing for a third overtime? Pat in our doozy. That's a hard line. It was doing an Iowa. I get Iowa loves punting, but come on. Farron's just live a little. You're, you're, you're, you know, you're playing with it. It's like free play the bowl. The Iowa one. It's like your, this is, this is what you do. You know what I mean? Like you're on vacation. Live a little. You're on a bowl game. I'll take the points. I'm still trying to understand why it jumped up that many points, but look, you got, you know, both their backs are out for this game. Donovan Edwards and Mullins for Michigan, but Michigan's defense is still in pretty decent shape. I know Alabama says though, though, those guys are going to play. They still have a lot of guy. Alabama is incredibly thin at wide receiver. Yes, Ryan Williams and Bernard are going to play. But after that, a lot of their other reserves have left their one, a good defensive lineman, a starting cornerback, Devontae Smith, not playing. I just think it's a little steep for Alabama. It wasn't that great this year. And I know Michigan is offensively challenged, and they have about eight opt outs. I just think it's a little steep. So I'll take the points in Michigan, even though it's a revenge game from a year ago for both the coach and you know, he was the Washington head coach last year. They lost the natty. And also Jalen Milro played like shit in that Michigan game a year ago, but it's just a little too steep. Alabama wins, but Michigan covers. Yeah, I'm with you. Give me the 15 and a half. This is and I, yeah, I think Michigan, you know, got a little pride back knocking off Ohio state, building on something maybe here a little bit going in the next season. I can see them kind of getting up for this game on and having some confidence going in the next season. Like if they knock off Michigan in a bowl game, I think they're, they're feeling pretty good about themselves. Meanwhile, Alabama is still in the bitching mode about not getting into the playoff. I like feeding those teams. So I'll take the 15 and a half. Kramer, what are you doing? Real quick apologies. The lawyers have reached out. Of course, the gas billable was Florida verse to lane where Colby and I nailed it, laying the big number with Florida. This is of course the, uh, really a quest bowl, which is a company that makes security possible. You want to, this is definitely a shell company. Listen to this one guys. Really a quest gray matter is a technology independent AI driven platform designed to contain threats across multiple tools with a single action. The fuck are we talking about? What does this have to do with college football? I, I am out of control. And then, uh, yeah, how do you not take Michigan here? I, I mean, it's you that have some crazy in, I mean, I guess Alabama. Maybe if you're a devour, you got to do something. You didn't make the playoff. They expanded the 12 teams. You're real asshole. You got real long off season. So I can see that angle. Yeah. Give me a, how do you not take Michigan? Michigan, like exactly the same team is Oklahoma. Offensively challenge, great defense. Oklahoma destroyed Alabama and granted that was in Norman, but I'll take, I'll just think, I think it's too many points. Yeah, I'm with you. All right. Next up, uh, this is, let's see 11 a.m. I'm guessing on a Tuesday, the 31st El Paso, Texas. We're talking, and by the way, there was a request that I go off the rails with a full Louisville segment on the solo pod did not get to it. I dropped the bag. I am sorry. Louisville land two here, minus one 30 as they take on the Huskies. Utah, Washington plus one 10 49 and a half is the total Colby, uh, the sun ball. By the way, this is like the best. I apologize. I skipped over that one. You, you love this sun ball? This is your favorite. Best stadium, best stadium in the country, maybe, uh, it's up there for if you're going to catch a football game here, it's just fucking perfect. Um, uh, both teams, you know, Tyler Shuck, starting quarterback for Louisville, opting out, um, looking forward to being a six round draft pick and Brooks, uh, starting wide out as well as, uh, Murray Harg, Huggins, Bruce, another white out that gets some play, uh, they're out. They opted out defensive and Ashton Gillette opted out cornerback Quincy Riley opted out and then Washington. Um, yeah, well, Rogers was benched. I'm assuming he's, uh, he could play maybe I'm curious if he's going to play or not. If not, it's going to be demand Williams, who I think is named the starting quarterback. But, um, Steve Belichick is gone on the defensive side of things and they've had some guys hit the portal. Uh, big one being, uh, Belichick brought with him linebacker Camore house played a lot for them. Um, starting left tackle and starting left guard also, uh, hit the portal. Uh, you know what, I, this is one where I just take braum like Brahms had quarterbacks go down at Purdue and Western Kentucky and Louisville in the past. And I just feel like, yeah, okay, maybe there's a tiny drop off, but I just feel like their system kind of just has guys that can put up big numbers. So I'll trust the coach here. Give me Louisville minus one in El Paso, Texas. Mm. I think it's, I think we're calling it minus two Colby, but, uh, I don't know. Washington has it looked great. And with all these guys missing both sides. I guess you just take Louisville and hope for the best, but, uh, this is definitely not going in lack potential. Uh, but yeah, I'll take Louisville lay in the points. Call Kramer. What are you doing? Did you know this is not only Colby's favorite bowl, the sun bowl, but it's the Tony, the tiger sun, so they're, they're sponsoring. It's great. They're sponsoring a bowl game with a mascot of a cereal. This, this is some next level marketing. Now, now, I mean, they got to do, they got to do fun stuff with Tony, the tiger, like the pop tart bowl was fun because the pop tarts are ripping their tops off. They're hopping into the toaster. We need Tony, the tiger doing fun stuff. There should be a, there should be a hot tub in the end zone with, uh, it's not really hot, but it's, it's, it's a bowl of cereal, a big ass bowl of cereal. All right. There you go. I was thinking we just see Tony, the tiger with just a little bit of, uh, aggressive, uh, sexual, innuendos towards ladies on the sideline. That could also work. Did you El Paso near the border? So, uh, you know, you run some, uh, fentanyl across across the border. The sun bowl had a sense of humor. They'd have some people run out of a hole in the ground and just, just haven't just get a USA chant going as, as they get tackled by some like, uh, Marines jumping out of helicopters. Did you know that in 1940, the sun bowl, the sun bowl, um, set a record for the lowest scoring game in the history of college football, a zero zero tie between the Arizona state teachers from Tempe. Oh, I'm sorry. The Arizona state, that's there's a stage. Yeah. At Tempe, they were called the Bulldogs at the time versus the Catholic university cardinals. Times were, and this is when football was good Colby. This is the way better than today's day and age. Um, but, uh, you know, the sun bowl. Guys, have you just spent some time Google imaging this stadium? It's no, flawless, flawless, so many gets rock hard. See, you know, the rock formation. El Paso is the greatest. What's the problem is in El Paso in August and September? It's like 120 degrees Colby. What this bowl game has delivered multiple snow games. It's a sneaky cold spot in Texas around this time of year. Uh, the Washington state, Miami was in the snow a few years back. West Virginia, Oklahoma state was in the snow. So, uh, it's, it's, yeah, in the summer, it's like a hundred, but it gets super cold in the, in the winter too. And, uh, Colby, of course, you remember 1974, a freak snowstorm followed by extremely warm temperatures caused all this steam, uh, which they dubbed the fog bowl. Uh, you know, who can forget these great moments at the sun, but I just imagine Colby fires up what there must be an equivalent of just old crappy stadiums, porn hub. It's like the, like the classic tab. Like give me the 70s shit. The original sun bowl spot is back when muff was popular. That's, that's the kind of stadium Colby likes if, if, uh, like you guys should really look at this. It's a high school stadium. Now I'm drawing a blank on it, but, uh, on the name, but it is, uh, the original sun bowl spot. If you Google image it, it's a high school stadium there and it's fucking incredible. It like imagine, uh, like the Smithsonian meets football. Like, wait, you, I love how you act like your audience has a mental image of the Smithsonian queued up in their brain, like, oh, like the Smithsonian. Come on. These are, these are, you know, I'm a good general. They don't, they don't have museum layouts memorized. I'm going to send you a link right now, Kramer, to, uh, to, to, to, to, to put up here. Uh, once I find the name of this high school stadium again, it's fucking incredible though. So stadiums there are just incredible. You know, Colby, coming down from the upper deck, it reminded me so much of the Guggenheim. Just beautiful, beautiful Spyro. All right. So the way they, the, the South stands, uh, are set offset by the light and it's just, you know, it's just picturesque. I mean, the mountains framing the stadium. It really, I mean, I mean, we have Galileo and his, I mean, you, you make fun of it, but that actually, that's why the Rose Bowl, they purposely have the, they pretty much hijacked college football based on the sun going down, uh, at a certain time over them, over the mountains there that you, that you reside in, Sean, beautiful, beautiful mid-century appeal, Sean. Beautiful, majestic. So wait, where are we all on Louisville? I'm on Louisville. Yeah, you guys are on some other weird, uh, mangled per pronunciation. All right. Next up. Oh, hello. Um, interesting. I did not know about this. I may or may not be in the vicinity of Orlando tomorrow at noon, uh, today, on the Disney World ride. Not going to Disney World might be going to see the game cocks. See you're fighting a line. I know. Uh, I'll, I'll think of the world. No, no, we're getting closer though. It's some place that's like an upside down building. I don't know. My nephew really wants to go there. Um, anyway, South Carol. Oh, well, he, oh, it's funny. You're in past pro shop does seem awesome. Um, and my nephew does love bass bro shop. So there, there is potential there. In fact, he, he's, uh, I was, I was scared given him a little tour of the merch store. See what he liked. The, uh, orange on camo popped out to him. So, you know, it's that kind of crowd, uh, game cocks, fighting a line. I, uh, Brent Bielama getting 10 points against Shane Beamer, beamer, uh, minus 400 on the money line. Wow. Plus 304 the fighting a line. I, 49 and a half is the total seems so long ago that Brent Bielama was coaching linebackers for Joe judge on the New York football giants. Colby, what's the opt out situation? Uh, I just sent to the link to, uh, I mean, if you could post that thing, that thing is so fucking gorgeous. Every big time, like we should play the, like, what is this? There's super goal. There should be a super bowl played there. Um, El Paso high school football stadium. It's, it's absolutely incredible. And it used to be the host of the sun bowl before the sun bowl was built. Um, a long, long time ago, uh, it's one of the greatest things to ever hit planet earth. Um, do you, are you able to throw this thing up there? I'm throwing it up. Colby. I know this means a lot to you. It's, it's football 101 man. It is football 101. It's beautiful. It's like Indiana Jones played football. Get that middle photo there and dive into both middle photos. I mean, if you can get, yeah, get a little closer there. Like that third, that the fourth, the third and fourth one over. Oh man, dude. Look at that fucking thing. Look at that fucking thing. It's like the, it's like the, uh, look at that. Look at that right there. Click on that one right there. Look at that. It does look like, uh, the Washington money or the, uh, pantheon. Yeah. Dude. It's, and it's right there, right at the stadium and they played the sun bowl their way back in the day. It was fucking incredible. I believe they're renovating this thing, man. I think I read an article this past year that's renovating this. People watch professional football and a lot of fans show up. So they could not fit the Super Bowl. That's corporate money, right? That's like a game of all time. That's just, that's just AT&T. Given their, given their, their, their co-workers tickets, right? Um, even the chat reminding us about, uh, the, uh, Huskies over you and say, yeah, all over, uh, buddy, uh, more there. So nice cash. Um, I would have been nice to know that North Carolina's going to start a running back and quarterback. No, come on. You know, UNC was always going to be a disaster still video of the UNC player, like standing, uh, after the game was over, just like watching the other team celebrate. And then someone's like, Hey, dude, it's a readingless bowl game. Maybe he's a red sock fan. Maybe he's thinking about Jim Rice sitting dingers, but, um, uh, as far as this game here, uh, look, this is a better, this is actually a pretty damn good bowl game, I feel like, uh, considering that both teams probably just what one game outside of the, the playoffs here. Um, South Carolina has got a few guys out. Rocket Sanders opted out defensive and Kyle canard who was a beast, uh, opted out as well. And, uh, there's a couple unknowns. Obviously they lost their, uh, their coordinator too. Um, they're, they're OC. Meanwhile, Illinois, their starting right guard is originally hit the portal, but he says he's still going to play. So there's that. Um, and then they lost a tight end Henry Boyer to Kentucky and receiver, Pat Bryant opted out. Um, there could be others. We just don't know, but, uh, look, I'll tell you this, man, I think everyone's reading these clippings about South Carolina. I think Illinois is pretty darn good football team. You look at their losses, a lot of close losses. Um, I like the align. I plus the points here and I think it's, I think it's just sprinkle that money line, 10 point dog there, nine and a half point dog. Sprinkle that money line. I'm with Colby. Give me, uh, give me, uh, Brett Bealma there with 10 points. That's way too much. Uh, just cause I think Illinois, they have just as much to play force for South Carolina. And I think in, in like a neutral situation where, where is South Carolina 10 points better and a neutral? I don't see that. So yeah, I'll happily take Illinois. Uh, give me, yeah, give me Bealam on the points. The cheese citrus bowl. Now, uh, I don't think it really matters, but, and I appreciate that this isn't some sort of shell company that's going to be, uh, AI driven blah, but no one's eating cheese. It's and an orange at the same time. That's a very strange combination. Maybe we could like all the bowl, brushing your, brushing your teeth and eating, uh, drinking orange juice. It's yeah, you're right. Citrus and cheese is not like, it's, it's not exactly a combination you're putting together all the time. I, I'd love to talk to the, uh, marketing whiz who put this together. And by the way, it used to be called the tangerine bowl, but tangerine's not very popular. So in 1983, they changed it to the citrus bowl, uh, to, you know, bring in lemons, oranges, grapefruit, limes, all that good stuff. Anyway, uh, not a lemon, Brent Piedlmo and the fighting line. I take the, there's some money line potential right here as much as I love Shane beamer. Hey, if you're going to be hitting down on some money lines, some teasers, some parlays, you know where you got to go. My bookie dot ag use that promo code SGP. And everyone always asks me, Sean, who's your bookie? I'll tell you my bookie is it's my bookie. 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But this one stood out to me because this is the first game we're talking about where the bet splits do not match the favorite being the chalk side. The bets are coming in on LSU here Colby, um, explain the situation. Baylor has zero opt outs as far as I know, um, which I mean, they're red hot. They played the end of the season. They were really hot now. LSU, uh, starting wide receiver C.J. Daniels is now at Miami starting safety. Sage Ryan is now at Ole Miss, uh, linebacker DeShawn Womack also at Ole Miss, um, they lost their backup. The Vandy transfer. And, uh, yeah, they have a slew of opt outs, major burns at the safety spot. Kyron Lacey, receiver spot, Mason Taylor at the tight end spot. Both tackles are out. And look, you know, Smire, uh, will play since he's returning next year, but, um, good luck without that offensive line. I wouldn't, if I was him, I'd be like, I'm joking. I would play, but, um, give me Baylor. Yeah. No, this is interesting, especially if you factor in the bedding splits, because it was minus two and a half. And then Baylor's gone up to three and a half. But Ryan say you're saying the bedding volume is still on LSU. So per and obviously there's plenty of very sharp people on the internet that will tell you the reason that bets splits are flawed is that you, it's not a point in time sample. So you don't know what, what percentage of the bets were taken at what number. But yeah, no, it's, uh, 70 30, basically for bets and handle, uh, per, per the draft king splits the circus splits. Let's, uh, let's pull those up. Uh, so yeah, circa has Baylor catching 61% of the bets at 81% of the handle. So perhaps a pros versus Joe's contest here. I, we have to take Baylor. We're, we're pros. We're not Joe's. And, uh, and, uh, I was wrong and open to Baylor was getting two and a half. So tremendous swing. Um, and if there's people back in LSU at that price, I think that's crazy. So yeah, Baylor all day. And I'm pretty sure, and this is, this is probably like three or four day old data, but pretty sure just chasing steam this year in bowl season has been pretty profitable. Like to the tune of 65 plus percent. You just follow the move. Brian Kelly doesn't seem like a player's coach. Dude, this, I mean, he has now been caught multiple times on camera, telling recruits that he's going to replace them in the portal. Like that's insane. You're saying that to kids on the sideline. You're, you must be a huge prick. Like he, he must be just like, when does he retire? How many over under two seasons Colby at LSU? Oh, no. I think, I think he'll stay in the game, but he's not going to be at LSU. I think he'll end up, you know, coaching, I don't know, Cincinnati, you get her something. I don't know. Um, but does he have two more years of football at LSU? No, no. Why do these guys take these jobs? Is it all? They're just crazy narcissists and they all assume they can just do a good job. Yeah. Why not stick it out at Notre Dame? It seemed like a good gig for. I don't think he read the landscape very well of like just the changing college football world Notre Dame, but then it was, you know, Notre Dame almost has an auto bit into the play field, a competitive team. So yeah, he really fucked up. So everyone on Baylor, now we got a real game though. We do have a real game. And I don't know if I mentioned it, but the last game was a, it's not exciting. It was the Texas bull brought to you by Kinders, just a barbecue company. I mean, come on, very basic, get a barbecue sauce in Texas. All right. Next up, we got the another 430 game here out in Arizona, a little left coast activity playoff game number one. I kind of like where they put these games. It's going to fit nicely into my day. Hopefully if it's nicely in the year day, Penn State laying a big number here against Boise, plus 340 on the money line for Boise minus 12 for Penn State, 53 and a half is the total. Just out of the, out of respect for the college football playoff, I'm not going to call this by by the bowl game. I'm going to call this a quarter final game between Penn State and Boise State. That's how we do it. Colby. No opt outs, right? No opt outs. I was hoping this would kick off at eight o'clock, like the Ohio State Georgia game did a couple years ago, where remember that the field goal was missed by Ohio State exactly as the ball dropped. Yeah, what are they doing? Why would they run? That's a perfect connection of like having your game and exactly at the ball drop. So they're, they're starting at seven 30 now. Don't like that move, but I'm all over Boise, man. I mean, Boise in the points, um, Penn State's a team that has lived on the edge all year, you know, whether it was a bowling green game, whether it was the USC game where they definitely should have lost that game or or Minnesota, the Minnesota game, a fake punt, a nice fake punt call, but like those teams to me are all not very good. And Boise has proven this for about 25 years that if you play big games, they don't fuck around. They show up to these big games. Uh, so I think they, I think, hey, they're being in Arizona. I think, believe it or not, I think Boise might have a little bit of a crowd edge. Um, they travel well. Remember they play there. They'll be at Oklahoma in this exact stadium with with Adrian Peterson and your boy, Sam Bradford. Um, yeah, I think, I think Penn State will represent there's a lot of Pennsylvania transplants living in Arizona. There's a lot of, uh, snowbirds already posts from these ghosts. Penn State fans are already posted up in Arizona. So I think it'll be a decent turnout for Penn State. Well, I, I think like, uh, you know, just in general, getting away. I mean, if you go back and watch the SMU game, like, Penn State was not moving the ball on that defense. If it wasn't for these pick sixes, uh, specifically in the first half, and then the game was out of touch or at a reach in the second half, but, uh, I think Boise can do it, do some things match up wise that, uh, you know, just don't turn the ball over and you'll be fine. Ashton Jainty's electric cam camper was a, was a very good receiver in the big 10 a year ago. Uh, love their tight end. I think they, they can challenge them. I love also, uh, Madsen's legs. I think he could be an X factor the way he could run the ball. He scored three touchdowns in the past four games. So give me the points. And I think this is a ball game here. So, um, all right, a couple of things to go through here. One, did you, do you know why the Fiesta ball was created? Colby. Uh, just, uh, Rich pricks wanted a ball game. The Western athletic conference, uh, at the time, Wyoming and Arizona had failed to receive bids from bowl games after winning. So they literally created a bowl game in Arizona. So the WAC champion could have a automatic bid. Wow. Kind of loser origins here. Um, that being said, I also wonder, you know, does, is the average Penn State grad making enough money to make, you know, multiple trips here. Maybe they see the points spread. They say, Oh, I'll wait till next week to go to the game. I do. I am with you a little bit Colby in terms of the crowd. It has my crowd reading didn't matter much in the first game for what it's worth. But neutral sites maybe matter a little bit more. Let's talk about that for a second because, um, college football once again, didn't really think this through. And, uh, there, uh, there, the tickets are not doing well for, for Penn State, I believe. Um, in general, I don't think they're doing well. And a lot of it has to do with if they think Penn State's adult with a different why spend money to go to Arizona. If next week you're going to be somewhere else. Um, exactly. Boise. I think the fans realized we, this is our one. This is, you know, we've been to this game before 20 years ago or however long ago, 17, 18 years ago. Uh, you know, this is a spotlight game. It's not that far of a flight. So I think Boise will have the crowd. Yeah, it doesn't matter if they got the crowd. They don't have Drew Aller. That Boise State doesn't have Drew Aller. They got that Ashton Jean T, but, uh, you know how to play Jean T, you can slow him down. Uh, Jean T's good, but I, I, I struggle, you know, maybe breaks off a couple, but this Penn State team, I'm telling you is good with the exception of Ohio State, which always has their number. They're going to be a tough out and, uh, yeah, Penn State rolls. This is, it's going to be, uh, let's see, what does Benedict Dan told him at 3824? That sounds about right. I'll cosign that prediction. Penn State's going to be able to move the ball on them. That tight end is unguardable for, um, for Penn State and it's going to be a bloodbath Penn State all day. Kramer, I assume you're going to keep your streak of, uh, picking dogs in the college football playoff alive and take Boise State here. Well, boy, and Boise State was on the, it was part of the portfolio. So I do have a nice juicy future. Caolia, none of my futures actually won games, but the couple that had buys are still alive. So shout out to me. I got two left. Boise State's one of them. I'm playing them on the money line here. I won 100% and with Colby. I think there, there is a chance that Boise has clearly has the crowd. And I also think there's a chance that Boise is just a better football team here. Boise, they're, Sean, you were, you were on the wrong side of it. We were at the Palazzo. You're screaming at the TV. Boise State should have beat Oregon. Yeah. And so, um, they didn't know we get that redemption. We get that rematch. It just takes a couple more rounds. Boise State. Let's go. And how many times? I mean, I think prior to that loss to Oregon where they probably should have won the game, they had, I think, beaten Oregon three or four times in the past 20 years, like they, they, Oregon had never beaten them. And they've proven this. They went to Atlanta and beat Georgia. They went to Florida state and beat Florida state. They beat Oklahoma in this very stadium when they were, you know, a top team in the country with a ton of NFL talent. So to me, like, I know, like, Oh, you're bringing up something 17 years ago, but this team's done it for like 20 some years. I don't think they're afraid of the moment. Agreed. You think sponsoring a college football playoff game or whatever that, whatever amount of money that check is, is worth it for a company like Burbo or VRBO? Absolutely not, right? One of the worst sponsorship opportunities. I mean, what, you know what, the Fiesta Bowl, it should be toastedos. Give me a, give me a corn chip. Give me something you can dip in salsa, something that would be toasted by the sun. It makes too much sense. And guess what you do at a Fiesta you have salsa. Yeah, you don't rent a home from their owner. That makes no sense for a Fiesta. Yeah, you know, and you don't have Nick Saban give you all these rules about your place. I like how Nick Saban's taking marketing or advertising deals where he plays the asshole. Yeah. Always got to know it, you know, you got to do what you know. Excuse me. All right. Let's head over to New Year's Day. Remember, start writing 2025. It's a little bit of a habit to kick that year. Chick-fil-A peach bowl. We're talking Texas and Arizona State and in beautiful Georgia, Texas is laying another big number here minus 13 minus 500 on the Moneyline Arizona State forts up plus 360. 51 and a half is the total. I know there's been a little bit of back and forth with the quarterbacks in the media, but one of these teams has Cam Scataboo and one of them doesn't. Forks up, baby. Colby, why are you taking Texas play my music shot? Oh, no. What? I'm con like in my contract, I believe it. SGP. I don't you guys have that framed up on the wall. Over there, um, my, my contract says I can never take Texas. So go sundown, but, but, but Texas wins 42 17. Oh man. He's just laying out. He's laying it out right. Right. He didn't even give us the courtesy of giving out the Texas pick on Pally side or on Twitter or one of these is the college experience. He just ate Spitz right in our face and tells us it's raining. I don't want you taking me to court. I don't want you taking me to court saying it says in this contract, you can never take Texas. All right. So I, I talk to my legal team and I, I walk that fine line of saying Arizona State is my pick. Texas wins 42 17. No way. What does that even mean Arizona State is Arizona State's kind of went out right. Let's go. This team has, I mean, these other teams that are coming in as big dogs. Sure, they have a story, but man, this team has a story and they have momentum. They have multiple ways they can win. They've shown you that a Boise State, I feel like can be a bit one-dimensional. Whereas Arizona State has multiple ways to win and they're going up against a fraudulent Texas team that's just dying to give one of these games away. And how do you beat Texas? You beat them with cam scataboo, a guy who literally has a giant chip on his shoulder. The Arizona State's going to win this game. Feel very confident about that. Let's go Texas. This is a bad matchup guys for Arizona State. It's a bad matchup, man. Arizona State's a that team that's called lightning in a bottle. I hate them having the bye week, especially we were just in Tempe. You can't avoid a cocktail in a good time, right? And then yeah, Texas has the best offensive line in the country probably. Arizona State has faced nothing even close to this on the schedule. I also think Texas is defensive line could be an issue. And another thing is Jordan Tyson, their best wide out is out for the season. So I'm afraid that they're going to not going to be able to take the top off the defense there. And yeah, but I took Arizona State to win the game, but Texas wins 42 to 17. I don't understand. You keep saying that you keep saying I'm going to take one team to win and then I'm going to pick Texas to win by. Yeah, Colby, you also brought up the receiver being out against Iowa State. And that's true. Yeah, true. But Iowa State's a lot different than Texas defensively. Look, ghosts on devils. If they win, I told you so. I'm putting I'm making Colby's pick, Texas. You can't you can't get away with this double picket. I'm putting it on Texas, only in lane 12 of Texas. You're welcome, American. According to the the circa, the 53% of the bets on Texas, but 82% of the money on Arizona State Sean. So look at Colby being a true public Joe donkey over here. Hey, I haven't watched Arizona State in a while. They can't be as good as Texas. All right. Of course, I'm on Arizona State. Colby, I'm very disappointed in you. These people. What are you? It's like you're there's a hostage situation here, Sean. He's like, he's trying to blink at us like something bad is going on in the background. And again, for those that will be in the building, Chick-fil-A will be serving beautiful and tasty chicken sandwiches. Cause it's not a Sunday. Shout out to them. All right. Well, also on Wednesday, nice day of a nice, really nice day of college football. We got Ohio State and Oregon. Some, some are saying this should be the national championship game. It's in beautiful Pasadena, California, the Rose Bowl. I've heard people call it the granddaddy of them all. As Colby mentioned, the reason they started at two o'clock. Wait a second. Is this time right? Yes, two o'clock, right? Two o'clock p.m. on the West Coast. Yes. The reason they started this time is they, I believe the end of the third quarter, start of the fourth quarter has to include the sun setting. I mean, talk about in all time, just the elitist move. We're going to include the movement of the fucking planets and sun in our bowl game rider that you can, for some reason, it's so powerful. The playoff still is bending over and letting it slide right in. Ohio State minus two and a half, minus 130 on the Moneyline 55 and a half is the total. I mean, I understand why this number would be where it is. We watched them play. We watched them play in a home game for Oregon. This is now a neutral site situation. It's a neutral site situation. Both teams have some level of familiarity with. So you can't even throw that in. Yeah, I don't know. I'm curious to hear your takes Colby. I'm assuming no opt outs. No opt outs and I'm all over the Buckeyes here. For several reasons, I think they're kind of, you know, I think that what they've been through over the past couple of weeks, the Michigan loss and then that blowout winning against Tennessee has been healthy for them. I think they kind of feel like they're playing with house money in a way because they, you know, the scrutiny that came there, you see this, I feel like with a lot of championship teams where they have this run where the coaches, you know, is he going to be out? You know, and then when you add in the fact that you get them away from Austin, where I used to bar 10 very close to at a Hilton Hotel, very close to the Rose Bowl. And I think Ohio State will have the crowd. I think Ohio State will be like 60 40 over Oregon. Yeah, I mean, I was, you know, went out to eat in Pasadena earlier tonight and it was, it was pretty heavy Ohio State just by cursory glance. But I mean, everything that Colby says, plus the revenge factor. I think, I think Ryan Day and this team have a chip on their shoulder and they're fired up like they, to your point, like they put a whooping on, on Tennessee in that first game of the playoff and, you know, after the after they basically lost to Michigan, where everyone thought like, oh, the season's over, Ryan Day, fire him now. But now it's like, oh, wait, hey, we're in the college football playoff. We could still win the national championship. Good energy for them. And yeah, how can I picked them in a in Oregon when they played there? That was foolish. But I think this is finally when Oregon hits the wall. And look, Chip Kelly, you know, who knows the Rose Bowl better than Chip Kelly, coached there for a bunch of years. That was their home team. I liked them on grass. I think getting Oregon, you know, away from Austin. I know they play outdoors, but I'm saying like, I just think it's a good spot for Ohio State. The line even reflects it. And I think Will Howard will have just, just be able to play as, but I think there's no pressure on them anymore. Like, he knows they got the win against Tennessee. You know, day, I feel like has kind of the fans have backed off a little bit. And I feel like they're in a great spot for that. And like you mentioned, I like the revenge angle. When you really go back and watch that game, you know, they were in a couple of dumb plays here or there. And Ohio State wins that game. Now you get this thing in Pasadena there with that pussy ass Dylan Gabriel. Bullshit, bullshit, a bullshit, a broke slide. Here we go. Well, that's why, I mean, you could have just started and ended the handicap there, call me. We didn't need all your fancy talk with the every, all these other reasons. Yeah. You know, they say like, you know, in that NC State, you see, you're like, this is how terrible is this for the sport? No, it's actually awesome for the sport. Just like me looking forward to a Dylan Gabriel, potentially getting knocked out of the game. Looking forward to it. Let's go. Someone please do it. Ohio State, please knock him out of the game. Oh, yeah. Man from podcasting for putting bounties on guys. $50 college experience, merch gift card, anyone who takes about Ryan Day, can't beat Michigan or Oregon that you have to update the same. Oh, really? Yes. I think we all know we've been to the Rose Bowl. I don't think a fan base can influence that stadium. I don't think it gets, it's not possible to get that noisy in that stadium. It's just not one of these. It was, it was constructed before we were trying to make the decibel level as loud as possible. So I'm not, I think they'll be decent representation. I certainly agree with you. I would imagine there'll be more Ohio State fans, but I'm not sure it matters. And terrified of the angles you guys pointed out, which is a team that has literally, somehow, their fan base hates them. They still made the playoff and they might have the best roster. But I have to take Oregon here. I have, I. Oh, what about the psychology here of like Oregon winning a useless big 10 championship? They already hoisted a trophy. You know, they thought they were pulling it. They got the one number one seed in the playoffs and they get dealt this. I think there's a psychology there thinking that, oh, they've done so much and then Ohio State's coming in all big and bad about the fuck them up. There's also the element of like, look what they look at the disrespect that we got. We have not lost the game this year. And so yeah, I mean, I can spend the motivational thing both ways, terrified that we might get another peak outcome. I'd also say that I don't know if the grass, the grass kind of hurts both teams in the same way. I mean, maybe you're right. The, the trenches, Oregon's always a pussy team. So, I mean, you know, like, that's their game, you know, not as much this year. I mean, I agree with you, planning has changed it a little bit, but no, and they have any team that has Dylan Gabriel, you play pussyball. And I, and I do want Ryan Day to kind of win the national championship, just to create this weird, like perplexing moment for Ohio State fans where they're like, Oh, shit. So 10 year extension. That's like, he goes from getting fired to being there forever. Now I'm taking Oregon. I'm, I'm going to let my West Coast bias continue. I'm going to let my dog bias continue and two and a half. It's college football, Sean. I'm not worried about that old that age old adage that you take the two and a half and you lay the three and a half. Last of the playoff games. We're heading to, and by the way, the bet splits on that one. 50 50 split on the bets. 70 30 split on the money in favor of Ohio State. So maybe you guys are on to something there. Last one, we head over to the all state sugar bowl. Shout out to insurance companies for having enough money to sponsor a bowl game. Real tick move Notre Dame, Georgia. This kind of is the game I'm most interested in watching. If I'm being completely honest, five 45 on New Year's Day down in New Orleans, Georgia, of course, in SEC country here laying one and a half against Notre Dame. 44 and a half is the total. Obviously Georgia, like almost to a comical point has lied about the injury status of their quarterback because they didn't want anyone to get them out of the playoff. So guys, you were automatically and you don't have to lie about it anymore. They can't take you out of the playoff just. So we're not, I assume we're not getting the quarterback Colby. And I watched this team play with a guy who looked exactly like the kind of guy who can come in, run around a little bit, do some fun stuff and but this Georgia team ain't it. And I'm a little surprised to see Notre Dame as the dog here because when I watched, I was not a huge Notre Dame guy, I watched the team like I became a believer in Marcus Freeman. I like the edgy hat at after the game with Signeti basically being like fuck off, bro. I like the way that his team was playing with grit, physicality. Riley Leonard has, you know, come all the way around, I'm bought in on him like in this dream moment as a kid being a Notre Dame fan wanting to live this moment out. I love Notre Dame as a dog here. This is crazy. Colby, no opt outs, right? No opt outs, but they have some major injury. I mean, this is what makes this game kind of must watch to me in a way is just the Georgia with your backup quarterback, Georgia's had, you know, several receivers kicked off the team. And that's what I'm saying, like you're the depth chart, you're going deep on the depth chart here and Notre Dame, you know, obviously their star corner was out for the season earlier in the year in Morrison and they got hit with the injury bug in that Indiana game with from a couple guys there, their star defensive lineman. So it's a very intriguing match up in that vein, but I'm with you. I think Notre Dame has shown up and I think the better quarterback is clearly Riley Leonard. I think he protects the ball pretty pretty well. Like the interception through against Indiana was a flukish interception deflected the line of scrimmage. And I think his legs could also be another weapon in this game. I think also Notre Dame defense is really good. Al Golden's defense is good against an unproven quarterback. The only thing that really scares me is Kirby Smart with three weeks to prep, which I think he's probably the best coach in the country with three weeks to prep. But I just think Notre Dame is in a better spot, your team health and Jeremiah love, I think, could be him and between him and Riley Leonard's legs. All the difference. Give me the Irish by a field goal. Let's go. Yeah. I mean, I remember watching the pregame and, you know, here in the report that they gave Riley Leonard the green light to like run and basically they were holding them back in the regular season. But now that it's playoff time, they let him loose. And I think that gives their offense another element to your point. I also think I also believe Notre Dame can turn over whatever George ends up doing a quarterback. So I think that's a nice plus for them. So yeah, I think I like Notre Dame in this spot. Give me Notre Dame all day. Consensus discord is on Georgia. Juicy teaser like here. I get Notre Dame up to seven and a half. All right, New Year's day is over. We head over to the January 2nd, aka Thursday, 4 30 p.m. on the West Coast, we're heading to Jacksonville, Florida, where there's nothing better than the random bowl games. They play like super late in the season. And you're kind of like, wow, okay, we get a Duke Ole Miss game here. I wonder what Lane Kiffin's going to be up to. I'm sure he's going to be chattering on the social media during the college football playoff, depending on the outcomes. But it will his team show up in this game minus 17 plus 550 for Duke Colby 51 and a half is the total. What's the opt out situation here? Yeah, I think we should lock up Ole Miss here because it looks like, you know, this is unfortunate. The ACC is having a horrible bowl season anyway, but like, so Ole Miss is players for the most part. There's a couple of opt outs, Jordan Moore and Chandler Rivers, their corner. So why was he, Jordan Moore and corner Chandler Rivers for Duke are opting out for Ole Miss? It seems like their, their guys are going to play like Walter Nolan and Jared Ivy. I wonder if their NIL is attached to that. I'm not sure Chris Paul, their linebackers opting out, but majority of that team is playing. And when you look at Duke, they're starting quarterback Malik Murphy is now at Oregon State. They're one of their other quarterbacks has bounced to Charlotte, who you would think maybe would play. Grayson Loft is that is star Thomas. They're running back. That was a pretty good player this year for them. He's in the portal and gone. And like I said, with their star wide out Jordan Moore out, it's just asking a lot for Duke in general, like Duke plus 17 to me in the regular season would be like, okay, maybe I'll take the 17 to be closer game, but I think this is a bloodbath. I think Kiffin wants to prove a point too. I think this is going to be something like 45 to six or something. So why is the ACC been so bad in these bowl games? I think it's a mix of everything. Hey, I think the conference probably is not that great, but also it's a mix of everything. Just bad timing. Like Carolina's whole team is in the portal. Bad matchups too. You know, like, what's one thing that always favors the SEC in these bowl games is they're playing pretty much home games in a lot of these situations. But also some of it is just Pat Nardusi fucking it up. You know what I mean? Like the pit had no business losing that game, but I'd say some of the other ones look at North Carolina. It's the situation. It's like, okay, they had all this Georgia Tech had so many guys in the portal. We were all over Vandy because they're taking on Diego Pavio, but also part of that handicap was Georgia Tech had Vandy didn't have key guys gone. Georgia Tech did. So I'd say kind of a mix of all that. Yeah, I'm with, I'm with you on the narrative of Lane. What I mean, it's going to lose a lot of X followers. If he doesn't back up his, all the shit talking about how they should have been in the playoffs. Yeah, she should have been in the playoffs. So yeah, I'll take all this with the big number. Kramer, what are you doing? I have a Virginia Tech has played a handful of gator bowls over the year. There's nothing that says electricity like the gator bowl crowd. They did used to play this one, I believe, on New Year's Eve, even maybe them pushing this bull back feels like a disrespectful time for the gator bowl. I would let's see. So I'm going to lay the points. I do think you have to follow this kind of stuff and just lay the big numbers. We've seen it be pretty successful so far in bowl season. But are we so I think the situation with the ACC is like it's a combination of the kids think they need to go somewhere else because of the conference status, which is also leading to these like the serious opt out situation. So and it's like a weird conference in that it still has a high level of talent that, you know, like you have that mix of you have a lot of drafted guys still coming out of the conference. You have a lot of guys who probably think they can be doing better because so many of the teams in the ACC relatively suck this year. And so yeah, I think that's the answer to the question. Because what the like Duke, if we told you before the year, Duke's going to be one of the opt out teams in bowl season, you're like fuck off. That's silly. But I understand they kind of sent Malik Murphy pack and I think they didn't really they wanted a better quarterback. So in a way, you know, some of that might be on them. I don't know how true that is, but that's just from my insider that they were looking for a better quarterback. So Reddit thing about the you're mentioned about the NIL having some sort of like, not contractual obligation to play, but it sounds like they are basically putting bonuses in. So yeah, you don't have to play in this game. But if you play in this game, you get a, you know, additional lump sum payment at the end of the year, which I mean, if you're a kid, are you really sitting out of a sitting at a game where you can get a 10 grand check or whatever it might be? Let's see. I'm a kid. I'll play every football game you could play. I agree. I would, you know what I was doing today in the beach Colby. I was playing football. I was playing football with some kid. We had some random kids involved. They didn't really know how to throw or catch, but they were running around. It was, it was very American. You would have loved it. Colby, you could have coached the offensive line. Fan. Did you run the triple? We had one team had to. They could. They ran a flexbone. All right. Hey, underdog fantasy.com promo credit. GPN. If you haven't signed up there, what are you waiting for? But on a nice run here with the show picks, let's keep it going. Knock on wood. Colby, what do we like for underdog fantasy college football? Let's go to that Boise State Penn State game. You mentioned him before Tyler Warren. I like to call him John Reagan's 2.0 because he reminds me of John Reagan's with his phone with his phone number with his jersey number and and just the fact he also plays full back some his number. Sorry. I got to go back into it, but I believe it was like 75 and a half receiving yards. Yep. Look, last week he was, you know, he actually didn't do much because the game script, like when you get, when you get three, essentially almost three pick sixes to start the game, you're going to be a little conservative offensively. I think he's hired in 75 and a half passing or receiving yards. I think, you know, he's the one guy that I think if, if the Penn State game get does get off the rails and Boise loses by double digits, it's probably due to Tyler Warren just destroying them. I don't know if they have an answer for him. So give me the higher on that and the other side of it. I think Maddox Madsen is a gamer. This is a kid that beat out five star quarterback, the transfer from USC. I think higher than 168 and a half passing yards. I like Boise's passing game. I think it's actually low key underrated. He might throw a couple 50, 50 balls to get intercepted, but that's okay. Give me the higher than 168 and a half passing yards. I think he can, he can have a pretty good day in the air. All right. So Madsen higher 168 and a half and Tyler Warren higher 75 and a half underdog fantasy.com promo code S G P N. I mean, I, I went badly. You know, we were some of us were sour on Boise State this year before the year because we thought Malachi Nelson was soft and we were worried that he was going to be a soft ass quarterback and we wanted to go against him. It turns out it didn't even get the job. I mean, so we were right. I mean, we were kind of right and wrong at the same. I mean, right process, wrong outcome. Next up, you know, maybe a bowl game you could have played earlier in the season. We're now on, was this Friday, January 3rd, 1 p.m. on the west coast. We're in Dallas, Texas. For a North Texas, Texas state match up here where Texas state is laying for 14 minus 500 on the money line, plus three 60 for the mean green 60 and a half is the total in the serve pro first responder bowl. Shout out. We love first responders here on the sports gambling podcast. I don't have a comment on serve pro, but I think they will help you clean up your shit. Yeah, Bobby, a lot of opt outs here. This game is intriguing for many reasons. Eric Morris, the head coach in North Texas, he was the head coach in Carnar word from 2018 to 2021. He's the one that brought in camward. And when he left in Carnar word, they hired GJ Kenny, who's now the Texas state head coach. They both run Mike Leach's air raid. And it's so a lot of familiarity here. Which should be intriguing opt out wise, you know, I think the bigger thing is the transfer portal in this matchup. You have, they're starting running back for Texas state Ishmael Motties. Now at Arizona, their right tackle, Alex Harky's had Oregon starting corner is now at Michigan state and Josh Eaton. Also, they're starting defensive tackle Terry Webb has gone about defensive tackles. I'm sorry, are gone. Actually, a third one that got 318 snaps as well. Their left guard Nash Jones did opt out. That's the lone one that opted out for Texas state. Meanwhile, North Texas starting quarterback Chandler Morris, who's been about it. He's been, where was he at? Oklahoma. He was at TCU. He was at North Texas. Now he's going to Virginia to be to light some tiki torches. He's gone starting wide receiver DT Sheffield. Now at Rutgers, starting tight in Oscar ham and is at Oregon state starting center. He's a beast. Tyler Mercer's at Kansas with Lance Leipold and their left, starting left guard is injured. There's some other guys too that didn't, that hit the portal, but they're kind of reserves, kind of makes it a shit fest here. But I just think Texas state's been a little bit of a disappointment this year. It's a big number. They both run the same stuff. Give me more Texas. It's also in Dallas, which dented to Dallas is about 40 minutes where it's Sam Marcus a little further. So give me more Texas state within this number. I think they have more motivation. I'm, it's a classic steam play for me. I mean, this opened at seven and a half Texas state, all the way up to 14. That to me is all you need to know. If the line moves six and a half points, it probably didn't move enough. So I'll take Texas state. The Bobcats get it done, get the big Kramer. What are you doing? I mean, Colby's got a great handicap for a normal bowl game, but you got to follow the steam. Colby's going to be really pissed off. I would have picked them if I knew and that's they already know Colby. That's where the steam's coming from. Like it. Right. Another Friday night game. It's my Virginia Tech Hokies, Minnesota, the gophers, they're rowing the boat, maybe through some mayonnaise as we're talking about the Duke's Mayo bowl in Charlotte, North Carolina, AKA ACC country, old ACC country when it was the only the Atlantic coast. Minnesota land seven and a half minus 280 on the money line, tech plus 230 42 and a half is the total coach, pry leading in total sham of an operation. Uh, guys are going, guys are going in the portal out of the portal. Hope you're using lube. Mike Vick's coming for your job, bro. We'll get penetration. You can't wait to see him. You can't wait to see him dunked in Mayo, huh? I mean, he will be very attractive looking in that greasy Mayo. I'll looped up. I mean, they get a tan you'll get after putting some Mayo on your skin. What's happening there, man? What's happening though? Your whole defense is starting at SEC schools, I feel like. Um, uh, so in the, in the portal, they lost, uh, you know, starting corner, uh, to LSU, they're starting safety to Missouri, uh, uh, guys that are going to play in the NFL, a linebacker to Vandy linebacker to UCF. Um, they also lost their starting center to LSU, their left tackle to Auburn. And then they have five opt-outs, including Jalen Lane, and I like Jalen Lane, but like, dude, you're like a six round traffic. I don't understand it. Um, uh, so five opt-outs at Tooten. It could be a six opt-out. I think he's going to play. Uh, and then you look and the fire, the defensive coordinator. So you got Sean Quinn serving as the DC. Then you have, uh, Minnesota, which seems to be way more intact, but even they have a few situations here, like they're starting right tackle. Philip Daniels went to Ohio State. Um, they have, uh, they have about four or five opt-outs to, uh, mainly on the line of scrimmage, offensive line, a defensive line in corner Justin Wally. Um, this is just simple. I just think Minnesota's better than Virginia Tech. And, uh, I'll take Minnesota. Yeah, Virginia Tech sucks. The program sucks. Sorry, Ryan. Uh, and Minnesota opened at like two and a half. They're all the way up to seven and a half gophers roll row of the boat, baby. All day. Kramer, what are you doing? Well, Colby, let me, let me update you on some information. And the reason my pick is also Minnesota because Tooten's out. He, he's already opted out. So I mean, uh, this is the heart and soul. Your generation, uh, this gen, it's not our generation because our generation's passed that, but what a bunch of losers. I will say this. The one positive I've taken out of just kind of scraping through hokey news this week, you know, who's back in the booth and we'll be wearing a heads up. Bud Foster, Bud Foster. No shit. So, you know, maybe coach Pri is calling the Hail Mary, which is okay. I'm not doing a great job. Time to hire Bud Foster back as the defensive coordinator. Cause if he does that, I'm back in. I'm in Bud Foster's back in the building. I, it's one more. That's a one year lease from me. I'll tell you that. My donation check right back in the mail. Uh, but yeah, give me the, well, yeah, give me the gophers. You can't without too. And you can't take the Hokies. Dude, they have nobody. I don't want to put it. What's the NIL situation? I thought they'd be able to keep the defensive players. I thought they had money. Uh, but the, I would say the fan base is saying is that the athletic director is a fucking clown. Uh, I would say that it's a lot of, a lot of hatred towards the athletic director right now. All right. Let's head out to the Bahamas. Cause you know, nothing says college football season coming to an end. Then Steve Levy calling the Bahamas bowl, eight AM on the West coast, Saturday, January 4th buffalo, minus two and a half, minus one 35 on the money line, Liberty plus one 15, 15 and a half is the total. Let's keep an eye on that. Liberty private jet. What do they have to down in the Bahamas other than playing a football game here? Colby, give us the skinny. Well, I'm a bit terrified of, uh, I watched that follow up documentary and the chances of him, having a player, fuck his wife while he jerks off in the corner in the Bahamas seems very likely. Um, so that's interesting there, but, uh, but, uh, but, uh, look, when you have your head coach, Jamie Chadwell, who actually says, do we even care? Um, that might be an issue. Uh, they're starting quarterback. Caden Salter's now at Colorado. They're starting left guard, Jordan White's now at Vanderbilt. They're starting right tackle Xavier Gray's at Northwestern. They also lost some guys on the defensive side of the ball. They're going to have Ryan Berger start at quarterback. Now I will say this burger did start some games there at App State, but I look at Buffalo and Pete Lembo and you're in year one at Buffalo, just a great year and, uh, they lost their kicker to Texas tech. Um, but I feel like every other player is going to play. And I just think the momentum of Buffalo all year has been a very fun story. I'm all over Buffalo minus two and a half here. I think it's a smash spot. Yeah. Buffalo is the play and, uh, I've been doing some market handicap and over here, uh, one, I like, I like flavored liberty to your point called me also Buffalo solid year. But again, Buffalo opened as the dog closes the favorite. I think just seeing that alone is enough to put me on the bowls, baby. Horns up laying the two and a half to Colby's point earlier. I think they might be taking a trip out to international waters at some point during their time down in the Bahamas. Take care of some business. Uh, all right. Um, I figured we would just talk. Oh, I'm on Buffalo. I'm with you. Uh, not only you following the steam, you're talking about a Mac, a Mac team going down the Mac, the Mac is showing up in this ball season. Well, and I believe they've shown up in this bowl, particularly again, like you're coming down into a great situation against a team that is just, I mean, it's a vacation. It's going to be a hilarious, this will be a blowout, locked potential talking about it in real time. Didn't have time for the pre production meeting, uh, today, but Colby, what the fuck is a mount union north central game that we're talking about here? Houston, Texas, uh, playing host on Sunday. They're playing this at five p.m. on a Sunday. Are they not aware of the NFL? Are they not aware of the NFL? What? And this is like division four. This is division three, buddy. Mount union, uh, has been fantastic for many, many years. And yeah, look, here's a chance to watch real football with a real kickoff. Um, and it's outdoors, right? So you got that. Um, and, uh, yeah, this is the D three national championship, um, real playoff to 32 teams in this playoff. Uh, they crown a champion. They hoist the trophy and, um, curious, you know, I know, I know you guys have been watching it closely, this playoff race. And, uh, but to me, mountain union is the team that has just historically been, you know, uh, just the bread and butter of the D three, but north central. They just beat a team by 60 plus points. So I'm riding with north central to get this thing done against the blue blood known as mount union. Let's go call me. I have a trivia question for you. What's that? Mount you, the mount union purple Raiders, a football Wikipedia page list three teams as their rivals. Who are they? Oh, so it's got to be someone locally. Cause my first thought would be one is north central Cardinals in Chicago, huh? So going all the way up there. Okay. Cause I would assume that their rivals would be, uh, would be in the state of Ohio. Okay. So you have that. Um, okay. Well, that kind of throws me off. Give me a Pennsylvania team. Give me like, give me a, or no, how about, no, I, you know what it is? I bet you it's Wisconsin white water. Awesome. That's one of them. And John Carroll blue streaks, whatever the fuck that is. Uh, that sounds like something that happens in your pants after you have the, uh, the per, the perp, or the blue cotton candy at the carnival. The john, the john Carroll blue streaks. Like, oh, uh, anyway, uh, yeah, I guess I'll take, uh, we, which side are you on? Colby? I think north central is going to get the upset here. Uh, you know, mountain union. Uh, what's a Jeff Dart? He's like 55 and two as a head coach. I know this is handicap and one on one north central just had their Super Bowl. They went a, a conference game by 60 points. They're celebrating all week. Those north central kids. They don't know what it's like. They don't have the blue blood of JP contenders. Like Mount Union, Mount Union all day. They roll. Mount union, uh, 2020 national champion, 2021 national champion, 2022 national champion, 2023 national champion, 2024 national champion. Oh, they've been dominant for a long time, man. I mean, you can go back even before that, you know, Matt Campbell, the Iowa state coach was, that was a great player there for them. They've had, they've had guys actually reach the NFL and stuff too. Like they, they're like Ohio state of the D three ranks there. Um, should be a great game though. Tune in guys, I'll make sure to send you the link. Yeah, get us that stream. I'll, uh, I'll, I'll need to make sure I watch that is the, I was, I was going into a rabbit hole with Mount Union after looking at all their conference championship wins. Not interested. Give me Mount Union. I guess to, to continue, uh, dominance, paid Colby. Anyway, uh, and somehow, I mean, what a, what a closer we go from division three to division FCS north Dakota state, Montana state. Oh, someone's got some sort of, uh, meeting or something. Frisco, Texas, Montana state laying three 56 and a half is the total. This game is being played on Monday at four p.m. Smart. There's no Monday night football in the NFL this week. So very smart by the FCS. So they should talk to division three. Why don't they play division three right before this on Monday? Have a Monday double header. People would actually watch division three football. If you division three wants, wants to know who the real ones are. But I mean, think about this. What if you had the Monday night, you're right. You're right. First Monday night where the NFL doesn't play games, you have division three division two and FCS national championships. They should do that. They should do that. If we had a, uh, championship Monday, boom, we solved it. I did watch. If only we had Richard Nixon back back in offense, uh, to correct this, you know, he was questionable in many other areas, but his foot, what he did for the sport of football was pretty key. Um, uh, this game's awesome though, man. Both these teams, Sean better than Virginia Tech. Um, and, uh, Montana state is laying three. Um, I, I, I think North Dakota States team here. I think they're going to Cam Miller's been in college forever. I know Tommy Mullah it's been balling out with Montana state, but I think North Dakota state, they do just enough offensively that defense is good. You saw them against Colorado to open the season, almost beat the buffs. The last time they played North Dakota state one by one, 35, 34. And that was, uh, a year ago, uh, give me the bison to money line play. Don't even take the points. Money line. Let's go. This is in, in Frisco, Texas. Is it at Jerry was the world? No, it's, it, this is at their, uh, the Toyota stadium. They keep it outdoors too. Shout out to the FCS much better than the FBS. Um, and, uh, yeah, let's go. Bison. This is tough because I love this Montana state team. Um, yeah, and, uh, yeah, I'm going to go Montana state. I, I think they're too good. I get the, I get the love for North Dakota state, but if they're not in a dome, they're not quite the same team. So yeah, give me, uh, give me a Montana state. Is he basing that play on Carson Wentz? Yeah, of course. Carson line. That's all you need to know. Think about what could have been different call me. If, if Patrick Mahomes sits out and we get a Carson Wentz game, Shawn would have bet on it. Carson Wentz would have won, won him money. And now maybe he's taking North Dakota state and this, this, this, the Carson Wentz game this week. It's a little different, though. It's not quite the same. I, that was going to be an electric moment. Carson Wentz coming in in a meaningful game. Now it's just against a guy named Bonex. Uh, give me North Dakota state. Come on. What are we doing here? All right. Time for the lack dog and teas and bonus luck brought to you by rhythms, sports, give them a package that comms such RITHMM. Get in over there. Sign up today. Start building your own college football, betting models, college basketball models, NFL props, uh, just so many ways to win. Great way to get started. Sports, give them a package that comms such RITHMM Kramer. What do you got? All right. Lock number one Notre Dame really stood out to me. Bad number. Don't understand it at all. A dog. I mean, you're telling me I can get a juicy ass plus 340 to fade Drew Aller and take Boise State a good ass football team. Yes, please. By the way, Arizona State honorable, uh, mention there, because you get to fade SARC at a very similar price. Uh, lock number two, give me Buffalo minus the two and a half. Take some action going down to the Bahamas. Shout out Steve Levy for the teas. Ole Miss down to minus 11. I think we're going to take Illinois up to 16. And let's tease Baylor around the two and a half. All righty, uh, for me, plus two and a half for bail, just for the, for those driving Baylor plus two and a half. So you're teasing, uh, teasing through a zero there through the key number of zero. Okay. Uh, let's see. Lock number one. Give me a Penn State lay in the 12. Lock number two, give me, uh, Ohio State lane. Uh, what is it? Two and a half. Yeah. And then, uh, for my dog, give me Arizona State on the Moneyline Cam Scatamoo. It's going to win us some money plus 360 on the Moneyline. Uh, for the teas. Oh, this is interesting teas. Uh, Notre Dame up seven and a half. Um, Minnesota down to minus one. One and a half. Um, all right. And then, uh, let's see. Last but not least trying to pull a Colby. Yeah, making up numbers. Uh, Texas State down to eight. Colby, what do you got? Uh, let's lock up Ohio State minus two and a half. Smart man, Colby. I also love Ole Miss. My 17 is a smash play. Um, so we're doing two locks or three. Two. Okay. The dog is, uh, well, it's Illinois. Illinois is going to upset South Carolina. Give me the ally and I. And may I interest you in a, uh, Illinois Boise State, North Dakota State. Brown, Robin. So what do you got for your parlay? Oh, yeah. Uh, what do you have for your teas? Did you ever get? Sorry. I forgot about the teas. I got excited. No, the dog. I told you it was Illinois. Um, the teas, let's go, uh, Michigan up to 21 and a half. Okay. Let's go Minnesota down to one and a half. Okay. And, uh, give me old mess down to 11. All right. And what do you, what are you talking parlay? Parlay, I was going to say the ally and I on the money line with Boise on the money line with North Dakota State on the money line. Let's fucking go. It's Colby parlay. I want no part of, uh, I will give out a quick parlay, Sean parlay. And that is, uh, Illinois on the money line and Arizona State on the money line. That's all you need. Mass a payout. Kramer, do you want to give out a parlay? Uh, yeah. Boise State and Arizona State money line. If you want to get crazy, do all four dogs in the college football playoff. I'm running it back. It didn't turn out well last week, but I'm running it back. All four dogs. Can't, will dogs go? Oh, and eight in the club. Listen, if I, if I play craps and I, and I have a bad session, I don't change the way I play the game. Chad to the chat pointing out this is, uh, they love the visual here. Every stage of beard growth. Uh, yeah, we're like brushing nesting dolls of, uh, beard growth, small, medium and large. All right. Uh, good times everyone. Thank you for tuning in. As always, make sure you check out the college experience. Toss us a like hit that subscribe button. Always appreciate the positive reviews. And of course, thank you for participating in the sports gambling pockets for sports. Give them a pocket. Some show on the second of the money green. He's Ryan. Shout out to my cohost for a partial episode on the Monday night up, uh, with easy because we absolutely slay it. Kramer, let it ride. [inaudible]
The guys (@GamblingPodcast) give out their best bets when it comes to college football playoff picks. Additionally they're joined by Colby Dant (@TheColbyD) from The College Experience to talk college football best bets when it comes to bowl game picks.