ARKANSAS @ MISSOURI: A Black Friday TROLL-SMASHING Special, from me to those who ENJOY Write-Ups!

Wow. I got guys bringing up posts from 2013!?? You dirty, dirty SOB for bringing that up round these parts...

Boy, I better not lose anymore. The "Marcin Gortat was gift-wrapped from the Suns to the Wizards" thread apparently is still alive and well in one poster's mind! How many others might be elsewhere?

Does anyone remember the "Michael Larsen Press your Luck" threads? I am going to bring him back. Michael Larsen will be back.

We'll win here. Too much turmoil in Mizzou and that has been a consistent theme after the protests, and after Lock took over. Not much has changed ....except for the Mizzou defense becoming abominable. I'll gladly lay 8 given that. GL with Auburn tomorrow. I hope they win outright. I'm sure you have a ton on Auburn given that gargantuan line!

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Quote Originally Posted by JROCK1966:

Mr. Bator was awesome.

Mr. Bator had great NBA angles, and the NBA is the toughest sport to cap of the big 4. He was partially responsible for changing the way I thought about the game, in that, I saw, through his posts, that I didn't need to take this strict empirical/statistical approach to win money off the sport.

Yes. You saw it.

54 points. To Middle Tennessee State....at home. Are you fu**ing kidding me?  I know, MTSU is 'good' this year. Yeah well, some programs just shouldn't beat others in high profile conferences on pride alone. That is why even Rutgers crushes teams like Howard.

Now you go up against Ark who has 4 losses. But who are those losses to? Bama, LSU, A&M and Auburn. NOTHING to be ashamed of.

Some of Missouri's losses are disgusting in comparison. And not necessarily the team, but the manner in which they lost, getting blown out by lowly offenses.

And what's worse about that MTSU game is that that was at the start of a two-game homestand. The next game typically is a great side, after reviewing, to back the team that just got embarrassed, in a bounce-back game at home the next week.

I knew Mizzou was too awful to trust even in that powerful spot.

So what did they do? Lose at home to Kentucky 35-21 as 7 point favorites. Imagine that! When a team loses like that, in that spot after hitting what is a symbolic rock-bottom, run away fast because they are in "Rutgers-land" where no amount of embarrassment can muster any pride to cover a spread.

Vanderbilt? They just lost to Missouri. They know how bad that makes their program look. How did they respond? They won 38-17 as 9.5 DOGS.

Think about that. Even lowly Vandy, who struggles mightly to score, dropped 38 on Ole Miss primarily because of how embarrassing the loss was the previous week and what a black stain it was on their program.

Missouri? Nothing. No response after the loss to MTSU, even at home. Just like Rutgers. That is why I was encouraging others to lay 4 TD's with Penn State on the road. They have no pride. Without any pride in your program, you can fail to cover any spread. 

Rutgers was down 14-0 to Howard as 40 point favorites by the way. You should have seen twitter. Now I'm wondering why I didn't cap this Maryland game.

wow great read scala impressive you should be sports writer I would read your column every day and I don't like reading

thanks for the pick I was looking forward to it its like Christmas morning every time I see you have pick for us

Thanks guys. All free. All the time. Risk, always a pleasure.

If you care, I have two more CFB games capped. I just have to write them up which I don't have the time to do right now.

Usually I do two CFB and one NFL but since I don't see much in the NFL this week and there is always more than enough good in CFB, I'll do three CFB plays this week. I know you think that may be too much but I can assure you, there is so much good out there in this sport. So good. IF I have time to write them up. I'll have to shorten the write-ups. Too much running around to do. Let's hit this first one and that will solidify the angles for the other two.