Here is how the "Presystem" has done so far: 8-0
Jan 29th "Pre" System: 6-0
#293 Samford -6.5, LOST by 19 (system win)
#184 Miami (OH) -6.5, LOST by 5 (system win)
#226 Bowling Green -7.5 won by 5 (system win)
#259 Portland St. -9, won by 6 (system win)
#180 Penn -9, won by 2 in OT (system win)
#295 Eastern Illinois -7, LOST by 10 (system win)
Jan 30th "Pre" System: 1-0
#236 Illinois State -6.5, won by 2 in OT (system win)
Jan 31st - NO PLAYS
Feb 1st - NO PLAYS
Feb 2nd "Pre" System 1-0
#203 Southern Illinois -8, LOST by 21 (system win)
Also - the "almost" plays are above .500 as well
Here are today's system plays:
Feb 3rd: PLAY AGAINST #201 Middle Tenn St -12.5
SYSTEM PLAY: UL Monroe +12.5
PLAY AGAINST #189 Western Kentucky -10.5
SYSTEM PLAY: South Alabama +10.5
PLAY AGAINST #278 Tenn Chatt -12.5
SYSTEM PLAY: Georgia Southern +12.5
Normally, all of our system plays aren't very attractive and when you wait, you normally get a better line. That being said, I think you might consider grabbing South Alabama and Georgia Southern sooner rather than later as I don't think these lines will move our way (but I could certainly be wrong). I do think that if you wait to get Monroe, you will probably be able to get atleast +13 (and maybe even better than that)
We do have a few "almost" "pre" "system" plays that you might want to consider and look more closely at:
REPEAT THESE ARE NOT PRESYSTEM PLAYS - just ones that were kind of close so you might want to look at them:
#151 Detroit -11 against Illinois Chicago
#282 Troy -4 against Florida International
#150 Idaho -5.5 against San Jose St
LET ME REPEAT ONE MORE TIME - I would bet the three presystem plays without hesitation and the less you look at those three games the better off you will be. As I am sure someone will come into this thread and warn us "to be careful" betting one (or all) of these crappy teams - hahahaha
I would, however, look closely at the three "almost" pressystem plays to see if the above mentioned teams are getting too much credit for being at home (Troy) or getting too much credit for winning the previous matchup (Detroit).
Lastly, I would suggest that you look at the Sac St/Portland game. If you remember Sac St was a presystem play last Saturday and fell behind by 20+ points in the first half and were down as many as I believe 26 or so before posting a miraculous 56 2nd half points to get us a relatively easy cover. Now Sac St is -1 at home in the rematch 5 days later which begs the question, did they find something out that they can exploit in this matchup or are they getting too much credit for being at home and for miraculously catching fire from the field and making the score way more respectable than it should have been? It really seems like there is an angle here that we should exploit.
I'll be around tomorrow periodically throughout the day to discuss, we are all in this together