It's College Football Season. Let's win Some Money

Thursday night officially starts the 2009 College football season. Thank God! In 2008 bigbadsportsdaddy.com was a documented 68% against the line in NCAA football! That's pretty good. Something you probably didn't know is I anonymously did the picks for bbsd. There it's out there in the open! I'm glad too. This year all my picks will be for free. I'll just ask you to shoot me an email if you are a winner this year and maybe take me out for a beer.

We have a slate full games on Thursday with the best of which being Oregon(14) at Boise State(16). Always remember to use a lot of caution in betting early in the season. The trends haven't been set yet. We really don't know what are betting on just yet. We can think we know all we want to but we really don't. Below are my picks for Thursday Night. Good Luck and Bet Smart

Utah State (0-0) at No. 18 Utah -20 (0-0). This is my favorite bet of the night. Utah won this game last year 58-10. The line is Utah -20. The Over/Under is 52. Did you watch the Sugar Bowl? Better yet did you watch any of the 3-9 Utah State Aggies games last year? Take Utah and if you want to parlay it with the over that looks safe too. Utah might take care of the 52 themselves.

North Texas (0-0) at Ball State-16.5 (0-0). Ball State won 12 in a row last year and were in the top 25 most of the year. If you total up the North Texas wins from the past 5 years you still don't come up with 12 wins. Take Ball State to cover at home. Both these teams like the over too. It's set at 59.5. Bet it at your own risk

And now to the only game that matters.

No. 14 Oregon (0-0) at No. 16 Boise State +4.5 (0-0). Oregon's offense looked great the end of the season against some decent teams. Boise State has shown us over and over they know how to win football games. It's opening night at home and they are a 4.5 point dog. I am going win Boise to cover and probably win out right.


Can I hit 68% again this year? You betcha! Saturday's pick will be posted early Friday Morning .

Happy College Football season. What a wonderful joyous time of the year!

Shaq vs is good!

OK Shaq vs is fun. It's ABC new show where Shaq goes around and challenges other athletes at their sports. The first episode he went with Big Ben Roethlisberger. It ran on a little long but watching him and Big Ben go at it was very entertaining.

The show starts with Shaq puling up to Ben's house to get to know him. The trash talk starts asap. Then a game of horse breaks out in Ben's backyard. Have to show you follow Shaq doing his football training with Charlie Batch. This would of been a great time for an 80's music montage. They announce the rules it's going to be a 7 on 7 game with Shaq and Been both quarterbacking a team.

Game ON!

Some Shaq haters like JCall will not like the show very much. There was plenty of cheese from the production trucks . Like the goofballs sitting at the desk like it was a legit sporting event. Overall it left you with a smile on your face. If ABC would of made it a half hour show and it would of been better. They drug it out just a little to much. If you missed it you can check it out on hulu.com now

Vick is an Eagle. That's great for Cowboys Fans

So Vick signed with the Eagles. The national media is all over this! Some even have the Eagles to the Super Bowl now. Ridiculous! Let's stop and think about it for a sec shall we? If you listened to the Racket last week on bigbadsportsdaddy.com Radio you know I called Vick to Philly. Now I am saying this will have no impact on the standings in NFC East!

Why no impact? He is a BACK UP QB that hasn't played in two years! That is why. I've read Andy Ried will find ways to get him on the field. Good luck with all that. Is he going to be your WR? How about the wildcat? How about the guy that holds the clip board. The latter is probably the best place for him. If you get lucky he's Jeff Hostetler. More then likely he's Kordell Stewart.


Has everyone forgot Vick wasn't that good before he was arrested? He is fast and has a good arm but he can't read a defense and is inaccurate. What do you want your QB to do run or throw on target? I don't care if you can throw 75 yards if you cant hit your wide receivers you are not going to win many games no matter how fast you are. He isn't a player to be scared of and hasn't been since college. 29 of the NFL teams knew this. One didn't.

Now Vick has been out of the league for two years and all of sudden he is supposed to be better? Am I missing something here? But wait if you listen to the National Media he is Philly's Savior.

Why did the Eagles sign Vick? For some reason they have been trying to get rid of McNabb for years. Why would you want a proven quarterback that knows how to win football games as your commander on the field? As a die hard Cowboys fan I hate to say it but McNabb is good, real good. Philly seems to hate him again for no reason. He has handled every bit of crap they can throw at him and still shows up and does his job well.

As soon as Vick was able to trade that orange jump suit for his Armani the Eagles were on the phone to his agent. Now that they have him it's over ESPN. Good for them. Aww that's cute. I was actually at a bar with a Eagles fan when the news broke and she got pissed. As she should.

Dear Andy Reid Please start Vick in both games against the Cowboys this year. Thank you!

The Eagles record before Vick 9-7. Their record after 9-7.