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yellojktHere we are again, time for weekend chores, BBQ, and college football. First up, Utah was stunned by Utah State 27-20 (OT) last night in Romney Stadium (!) in Logan. Inauspicious start to the season for the Utes. What do we have going on today of interest to ATiM-ers. . .
New Hampshire is at Minnesota (New Hampshire has a football team??) Can’t find a line on this game, but I’m guessing that the Golden Gophers are favored to win (of course, I would have guessed that about Utah, too). [Update: And Minnesota wins in a blowout, 44 – 7]
UCF is at ohio state university (line: osu, spread 19) Go, Knights! [Update: osu wins it 31 – 16. There’s always next week. . .]
Penn State is at Virginia (line: Virginia, spread 6.5) [Update: Virginia wins it in the last minute 17 – 16]
Maine is at Boston College (No line is available–anyone know why this would be?) [Update: BC also wins in a blowout, 34 – 3]
Purdue is at Notre Dame (line: Notre Dame, spread 14) [Update: Notre Dame wins it with a field goal with 7 seconds left on the clock: 20 – 17] The luck of the Irish!
Air Force is in The Big House (line: UM, spread 21.5) Having watched AF play Utah for years, I think this will be a tighter game than that–AF is much faster than most teams that don’t play them regularly bargain for. Of course, UM is also probably pretty jacked up after their loss to Alabama last week. [Update: Michigan wins 31 – 25. Again, knew it would be a closer game than predicted.]
USC is at Syracuse (line: USC, spread 27) They’re playing in East Rutherford, NJ. Hmmmm. [Update: USC 42, Syracuse 29]
MSU is at Central Michigan (line: MSU, spread 20) Go State!! [Update: MSU wins 41 – 7. Sorry, Aunt Nan!]
USF is at Nevada (line: Nevada, spread 1.5) Sounds like this may be the game to watch–CBS at 3:30 EDT. [Update: WOW! USF wins it 32 – 31 in a nail-biter]
Wisconsin is at Oregon State (line: UW, spread 7.0) Badgers vs Beavers [Update: OSU wins 10 – 7]
Presbyterian is at Georgia Tech (No line available) Is there some sort of history here, yello, or is this a one-off? [Update: GT smushes its pre-ACC patsy 59 – 3]
Florida A&M is at Oklahoma (line: Oklahoma, spread 0.0) Huh? [Update: OK beats the spread 69 – 13]
New Mexico is going to be smushed at UT (line: Texas, spread 39.0) [Update: Yep, UT smushed NM 45 – 0]
OK State is at Arizona (line: OSU, spread 11.5) What do you think, McWing? Could the ‘Cats surprise us? [Update: McWing! They KILLED!!!! Arizona 59, OSU 38–good game Wildcats!!]
Did I forget anybody? Happy Saturday, all!
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All Things in Moderation 
Presbyterian is just this year’s pre-ACC season patsy. When I was at GT, we lost to Furman in our home opener. Things have improved since then.
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In the I thought so department, when I saw this headline, I immediately thought Israel Iraq or Iran:
“French investigators travel to UK to probe killings”
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/08/world/europe/france-shooting-probe/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
It turns out that the British papers are far ahead on the story:
“He fled Iraq as a boy, settled in Surrey and was spied on by the Special Branch: The extraordinary life of the engineer victim at the centre of the Alps shooting ”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199513/Saad-Al-Hilli-shooting-French-Alps-Extraordinary-life-engineer-victim.html?ITO=1490
So I guess the investigator in charge of the murders is by now already running into a number of closed doors in his effort to uncover the truth.
Looks like the brother has been set up to take the fall by somebody.
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“Nearly seventeen years after O.J. Simpson walked away from his murder trial a free man, a prosecutor at the center of the case has alleged that the lead defense lawyer tampered with a crucial piece of evidence.
Former Los Angeles deputy district attorney Christopher Darden on Thursday accused Simpson defense lawyer, the late Johnnie Cochran, of “manipulating” one of the infamous gloves that the prosecution said linked Simpson to the grisly double murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.”
http://news.yahoo.com/ex-prosecutor-claims-o-j-simpson-attorney-tampered-060643680.html
You will never ever see a more incompetent group brought together in one courtroom in a major case, than Darden, Marcia Clark, and Judge Ito. The fact that Darden taught law school both before and after the Simpson case was a prime example of the idea that those who can, do, and those who can’t, teach.
Ito on the other hand turned his own courtroom into the worst judicial circus I have even seen in a criminal case. He’s an example of a different maixm, a judge is just an attorney who had a friend close to the governor.
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Saw the end of the Arizona State-Illinois game last night.
I hate the idea that in college football they have an independent officlal doing booth reviews on his own say so.
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“OK State is at Arizona (line: OSU, spread 11.5) What do you think, McWing? Could the ‘Cats surprise us?”
They never fail to fail. 🙂
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I for one am not happy to see your reported spread on the OU game. Sooner fans have accepted for many years that they never cover the spread. If they don’t cover a 0 spread, they will lose. As ragged as they looked in their opener, anything is possible. That said, BOOMER SOONER. (What an embarrassingly stupid chant, outdone only I think by Soooeee Pig.)
IMHO, OK State will surprise a lot of folks this year.
Continuing my provincial theme here a bit, even though not in the Big 12 any more I look forward to MO playing GA. I realize MO is not ranked (and admittedly know nothing about them yet this year), but historically they have pulled off a lot of upsets and play tougher than many expect. And I consider GA to be about as reliable as OU. Any line on this one?
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McWing:
I thought that’d be your answer! 🙂
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Hi, okie!
Line on the Georgia-Mizzou game is Georgia, with a spread of 2.0.
Edit: and I’m still puzzling over how any game can have a 0 point spread if there’s a favorite. I mean, it’s got to be at least one point, doesn’t it?
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Hi, Michi. Thanks for the info. A 2 pt spread for a team ranked #7 v an unranked team? That’s some home field advantage!
I actually watched some/most of the Utah game last night and wondered if you were a fan of either team.
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Michi, it’s been a long time since I put any money on a football game. But it seems to me there were occasions, and I suppose the OU game could be one, where it was expected to be such a blowout they didn’t even have a published spread. Anybody more versed in this?
banned, wouldn’t it have been interesting if we had been on ATiM during the Simpson trial? I wonder if there would have been any disagreement about it, especially given the novelty of DNA evidence at that time.
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Michi:
The PSU line is probably too small given their poor performance last week. USF is up for a very short week — game in NV today then on Thursday against Rutgers.
UNH definitely has a football program — the Chicago Bears have drafted two of them: Jerry Azumah and Corey Graham.
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mike;
This will be a comeback victory for PSU, probably by double figures.
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okie:
I think that Georgia still has a bunch of defensive guys on suspension.
I should have been rooting for Utah, but (OK, Mark, I’m going to spill the beans!) I was really rooting for USU. Their football program has been hosed over the last couple of years and I wanted to see them get a big win.
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Mike:
UNH definitely has a football program — the Chicago Bears have drafted two of them: Jerry Azumah and Corey Graham.
Just goes to show how provincial I am. I’ve always thought that real collegiate football was played only in the Midwest! 🙂
[ducking bottles and such being thrown by the SEC, Big East and ACC crowd]
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Michi, you’re right about the GA suspensions. I forgot about that. [refills coffee cup]
And I certainly hope you’re counting the Big 12 teams in your definition of the Midwest. Otherwise, you really are in trouble.
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I kid, okie, I kid.
Although it is true that in Texas they really only excel at the HS game.
[mark’s still not here, right???]
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banned:
This will be a comeback victory for PSU
I hope so, but I’m not convinced that Matt McGloin is going to be good enough to carry the load for the offense now that Silas Redd is tearing it up for USC.
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Since you’re kidding, the bottle thrown will be empty and plastic.
Would anybody object to putting an EV projection counter on one of our sidebars? I know electoral-vote.com has them available. Would prefer Nate Silver but I wouldn’t know how to embed it so it just shows a simple map/graphic and automatically updates.
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I, for one, wouldn’t mind (and I would also like Nate’s if possible), but I think that’s going to take Scott or Kevin getting into the Widgets and figuring it out. I took a quick look, and nothing obvious jumped out at me as far as an easy way to do it. Maybe if I get bored I’ll spend more time exploring.
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I’ll try putting up the e-v.com one since it looks easy. If someone objects or figures something better, they can take it down.
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okie:
I’ve done that just now. Have a look and let me know what you think.
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Yes, I saw it when I went there. It’s the same one I picked. Since it’s only there for a couple of months, I wonder if we could move it up? Not sure where though.
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I like it. Thanks.
Edit: It’s squished. We need a narrower size.
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okie:
I can put it under the Quotation for the Day for now. If there is an objection, we can move it somewhere else.
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I like it under the quote.
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Better?
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Thanks, Mike! Perfection itself! No wonder you went into science.
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UCF just tied up OSU (10-10) with just under 7 mins in 1st half. I guess it’s time to tune in.
Edited to correct blond factor
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Okie, no problem! I had a quick look at Nate’s site and it doesn’t look like you can embed his charts/maps easily. I’ll have another look when I get home tonight.
Second missed FG by PSU. Another sequela of the Sandusky affair — PSU’s Groza semifinalist from last year (Anthony Fera) transferred to UT.
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Very nice, you two!
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I wonder if no widget at 538 is intentional, or if he might have one if we emailed and asked nicely.
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So VA takes the lead 10-7 early in the 2nd half, and Ohio State comes roaring back to 31-10 in the 3rd quarter.
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Comment eliminated by me. Some of the trolls on PL are beyond the pale. . .
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okie:
I think NYT is keeping a tight rein on Nate’s proprietary data/analysis to make us go to his site (keep the page views and subscriptions up).
PSU misses another FG, but somehow scores a TD. Defense has 4 takeaways, keeping them in the game.
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mike:
he finally made a FG after missing 3 and 1 PAT
give O’Brien kudos for hanging in there with the kid
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I’ve never been a PSU fan so am ambivalent about this game, but I switched to it a while back. Now I’m rooting for them for no reason other than I don’t want that kicker to be the “goat.”
Va is down 6 with just under 3 min to go and just made a big gain on a screen play.
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psu secondary sucks
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kid missed another FG, peen stsate loses
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PSU’s secondary isn’t as bad as the kicker. 4 missed FGs, none longer than 42 yds, 1 missed PAT.
But, hey, PSU covered the spread …
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it’s going to be a very trying year.
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Very annoying–ESPN3 isn’t working right now.
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Michi, so that means you’re missing which game?
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Everything except Notre Dame, which is streaming on NBC. 😦
Most sadly, of course, MSU – CMU (although MSU is up 14 – 0 with 3:37 left in the half).
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You only get ESPN3? Sorry, I’m a bit ignorant about this because I only have very basic cable. But I’m getting 6 games on TV right now, one of which is the ND game. I’m more than a bit annoyed because it’s looking like I may not be able to see OU live except on PPV, which I will not do on principle.
I’m off to do a bit of cooking. Later . . .
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No TV. Just what streams, and last year ESPN3 worked great–so far, at least, they aren’t scheduling as many games on it as they did. Could just because the games this week aren’t that, well, compelling.
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I don’t know if they’re showing this on the broadcast or not, but on the stream they’re actually showing the band at halftime of the ND game! Yea!!!!
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Michi, rent a freakin’ TV for 5 months.
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okie–I’m too cheap! 🙂
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Must have been quite some storm in NJ–I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a football game delayed before once it was in play.
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You were right ’bout Air Force. They did not roll over.
Why did Savannah State schedule Oklahoma State [0-84] and Florida State [0-35 at the quarter], back-to-back?
‘Cuse holding its own against USC, so far.
Oregon State [the weak one] is going to beat Wisconsin.
K.St. wiped out Miami [FL]. Watch K. St. this year.
Ha! A&M led at halftime last year in so many games they lost. They needed a conditioning coach. Still do. Lost the momentum to FL end of game.
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AARRGGHH! No OU game aired in my market except PPV. Capitalist bastards!
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After an inauspicious start, USF came back with 2 TDs in the 4th to squeak out a win over NV. Offense was good, defense got better after the 1st Q.
Don’t know what’s going on up in TLH, but the FSU game is delayed right now too.
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BTW, I hope that safety from Tulane recovers quickly.
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BTW, I hope that safety from Tulane recovers quickly.
You and me both, Mike.
Hell of a game that USF played, too!
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okie:
Capitalist bastards, indeed! You’re up 14 – 0 at the end of the first quarter, if that helps.
[mark must not have read my trash talking upthread. shhhhhh]
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Mark–
Are you and Roseanne going out for the game again this week? I see it’s on your beloved Longhorn Network again.
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Quite a few upsets considering we’re still pretty much in cupcake time of the season.
I would love to cheat and edit out my previous comments about Mizzou and OK State. Now the entire world knows why I have not put money on a football game in a very long time. 🙂
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Nice game for the Cats. I wish it were a conference game though. Thanks Michi!
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A couple days late, but MIT, 28-21 over Becker.
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What is Becker?
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AFAIK, it is a small college in MA, out near Worcester.
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