Beware of Ag

After 6 months of hiding out in my laboratory studying up on the 2011 College Football season, I decided it was time to unleash my alter-ego 'aka' Professor L-Train! Last Year was a great season! We saw two pre-season afterthoughts rise up and play for The BCS Championship.

This year we have old faces in new places and two new championship games to watch. However unstable it maybe The Big 10 with 11 teams and The Pac-10 with 12 teams will both have a true champion this year. Then there is the Big 12, who only has 10 teams and no championship game, but as a consolation prize they do have The Longhorn Network! I'll go more into that later this year. However, I digress, we need to keep moving on.

After all my off-season cramming I discovered there is one team that is off many people's radar that you should watch out for this year. That team is The Mighty Aggies of Texas A & M. As painful as it is for me to type this, the Aggies are my favorite to win The Big 12 Conference with 10 teams this year. Yes, even over The Sooners.

What wins Championships in football? A good defense and being able to run the football, right? There is no team in the Big 12 with a lighting bolt back like Cyrus Gray. That kid is boom goes the dynamite explosive! Cyrus was the first Aggie since '03 to rush for 1000 yards last year, including 223 vs. the Longhorns. Look for the Aggies to let their Senior Running Back shoulder most of the run load on offense. Gray will have plenty of help on the O attack with Senior Ryan Tannehill under center, and big 6'4" Jeff Fuller catching deep balls. Tannehill took over last season and lead A&M on a six game winning streak with upsets over Big 12 Powerhouses Texas & OU during that stretch.

As far as the D goes, Tim DeRuyter made his presence felt last season. He took the Aggies Defense from 105th to 55th overall. With the DeRuyter Super System in place, the Aggie D Men have really made good use of their spring practice time making packages even more complicated for the opposition to figure out. A&M does have to find first round NFL Draft pick Von Miller's replacement on the outside though.

When it's all said and done, a Mike Sherman lead A&M will win the Big 12 in 2011.

Before the hate mail starts coming in from you Longhorn & Sooner let me just say this:

Longhorns, it will take a season for your team to catch on to the new Offensive system. I do think the Horns will improve on the 7-5 disgrace from 2010 though. Maybe an Independence Bowl bid in December.

OU, you lost to the Aggies 33-19 last year. Scoreboard! Circle your calendars for November 5th in Norman when the Aggies come to town. It's going to be a barn-burner and the equivalent to The Big 12 with 10 teams Championship.

If you got a 2011 Big 12 take let me hear from you!

If you like hot Aggie girls kissing or goofy looking Aggie girls wearing nothing but a smile and A&M Jersey let me hear from you too.

It's @bigbadlarry on twitter or larry@bigbadsportsdaddy via email

Shoot OUT BANG BANG

It's Red River Shoot Out Week! Sorry that's what us old schoolers call it. ALL this PC crap has America calling it The Red River Rivalry now. What ever you call it you know It's Texas-OU Weekend!

This is the weekend when The Dallas Highways and Bi-Ways get invaded from the North and South! All those wild ass college kids come to town to get down! There are some crazy rumors floating around that their might be a football game in Dallas too.

Texans are preparing for the game from Brownsville to Lewisville by buying kegs, renting margarita machines,and marinating their finest meats and cleaning their grills. Okies are adjusting their antennas on their double wides. No one bother to tell them they don't work anymore.

All this Red River Shoot Out talk got me to thinking If this were the Old West and there was a shoot out going down I would be Doc Holiday and The College Football betting line would be Ike Clanton! I would be Jesse James and my bookie would be Sandra Bullock ;) I am your freaking Huckleberry!

My name is Larry Stanley aka Professor L-Train and I am 9-3-1 against the spread in 2010. This is all documented on The Biggest Badest Sportyest Website in the world! http://www.bigbadsportsdaddy.com.

You can also catch my podcast the Sports Daddys on BBSD's Radio Page. New shows go up every Wednesday but you can download it then put it on your ipod and listen whenever you want. You now how it all works.

DRAW! Here are this weeks best bets!

Indiana +10 over Michigan
Before the season started I picked the Hoosiers to have a breakout year. They started off 3-0 and are better then most people think. The only problem is no one pays attention to their games. That all changes this Saturday when Denard Robinson brings his Heisman campaign and his Wolverines to Memorial Stadium in lovely Bloomington, Indiana. The eyes of the College football world will certainly glance at this box score and see just how good Indiana is. Michigan may win but it won't be by 10. Expect this game to remind you of a Billy the Kid Lincoln County Shoot out. Over trends are like this: Mich 9-4 Indiana is 7-2-2.

The Over Under is 65 bet Indiana and the Over

Alabama - 8 over Florida

Listen up Alligator Dave it's time to face the facts that Florida isn't as mighty as it once was. You can say The Tide got exposed last week against the Hogs if you want. I say all that did was poke a hornets nest. The Razorbacks not the Gators are the 2nd best team in the SEC. Look for Saban's Outlaws to put it on em. Bet Bama Tide





Oklahoma -3.5 over Texas

I am a Texas Longhorn fan and I never pick their games. This week I make an exception as I want my fellow Horns to save a penny or two. The horns have been way to inconsistent in 2010 to bet them. I am not betting this game but the only way to bet it is Sooners -3.5. Damn typing that I feel like Pat Garrett just shot me in the back.

Stanford +7 over Oregon

This maybe the game of the week! This would be like a gun fight between Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp. Andrew Luck's Lynch Mob heads north on a mission. Look for Stanford D to be the difference in this game. Not that they will be much of a difference but just enough to get them the win outright. The O/U is 64.5 bet the over and watch these two break 90!



NFL

So I haven't been so good in the NFL this year. I know it's been a season full of home dogs. I just haven't had the stones to pick many of them. My record on the season is 2-4 ATS. This week I like


Philly - 6 over The Redskins
Houston -3 over the Greatness
and
Denis Leary's Pats -1 over Flipper