Another 2-1 day has us up 1.3 units on the week going into the weekend. Nothing to brag about YET but a big Fri, Sat, Sun is coming!
Cross Sport:
7:10 EST
Magic ML / Cavs ML / Bucks ML / USC ML (-105) 🥇
It’s always risky taking the big moneylines in the NBA in the day and age of legal sports betting because they really like to keep us on our toes with “ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN ANY DAY OF THE WEEK”
With that said, we’ve got the Magic, Cavs, & Bucks all at home against really shitty teams tonight and although these games might not all be blowouts like the popular opinion is, I still see all 3 of these teams winning straight up at home on a Friday night.
Then we add USC to win who is a weird team ranked as high as 11 but have list 4 of their last 5. Howeve 3 of those losses were by 3 points or less including 3 point losses to #4 Penn St and #18 Michigan.
Rutgers comes in riding a 3 game losing streak and they’ve benefited from a light and home schedule to this point in the season.
MLB:
8:08 EST
Mookie Betts 2+ Total Bases (+120) 🥈
Mookie has great history vs Cole from his days with the Red Sox. He’s 7 for 17 (.412) against him and he puts the ball in play vs him with just 1 strikeout in 17 at bats.
Betts has been on a TEAR since the announcers kept talking shit about his prolonged postseason struggles but he’s had 2+ total bases in 4 of his last 6 and he’s had 2, 6, & 8 total bases in his last 3 games.
Game 1 Stats
I’m not betting a side or total on Game 1 but here are some stats if you want to dabble:
Gerrit Cole starting for Yankees - Mookie, Freemen, Kike Hernandez are the only guys who have ever done anything vs Cole, the rest of the lineup has struggled mightily even Ohtani is just 4 for 20 against him.
Jack Flaherty starting for Dodgers - He got rocked for 8 runs in 3 innings his last time out but they claim he was under the weather.
Yankees lineup doesn’t have a lot of history against him. Rizzo has hit him hard 9 for 21 with 3 HR but Soto is just 1 for 9 and neither Judge or Stanton have ever faced him.
Both bullpens have been lights out with Yankees 2.56 and Dodgers 3.16 ERA in the Postseason.
CFB:
10:30 EST
Boise St / UNLV OVER (63.5) 🥉
Boise St ranks 2nd in points per game with 45 and UNLV ranks 12th in points per game with 38.8.
Boise St has gone over 63.5 in 4 of their last 5 games and UNLV has gone over 63.5 in 3 of their last 4 games.
Defensively, UNLV has allowed 25, 34, & 44 in their last 3 days vs worse offenses than Boise St. Boise St has allowed 30 & 24 to Utah St and Washington St.
Boise St will lean on leading rusher Ashton Jeanty who is on pace to have one of the highest rushing yards season in College Football history on pace for 2,496 and Barry Sanders had 2,628.