PLAYING WITH HOUSE MONEY: 2-0-1 ON THURSDAY (16-11-1 ytd)

  SNL has every intention of bragging incessantly about last night’s winners.  However, after last night’s USF game, there exists a need to comment on the USF fan base following last night’s loss to Pitt. 

For starters, there is little doubt that the USF crowd (in which every man, woman and child is holding a beer) has a convicted felon ratio of 1 in 3.  Seriously, the mascot for USF should be the “Bench warrant.”  SNL can’t help but be reminded of the Orange Bowl crowd (back in the days (when Da’ U fielded a football team). You know, ”grills,” gold chains with UZI’s dangling from them, that sorta thing.  Every E-SPIN camera that looked to the crowd caught drunk 20-somethings tossing girls in the air, silly mardi gras beads, gotees, tatts-seriously, does this school turn anyone away?  SNL was seriously wondering if there was a recruiting booth for the ”Gangster Disciples” outside the stadium.

You should know SNL has no personal grudge against USF and, has a ton of respoect for the coaching staff, but that crowd is an embarassment.  Sorry for the rant-now, let’s make some money….

Those of you who followed SNL yesterday were led to the promised land-which makes SNL your “Moses” in a figurative sense.  SNL’s success also brought back fond memories of an anti-trust class in law school, during which SNL sat in the back row and studied CFB lines, stats and trends.  Yes friends, it was in the hallowed halls of UF’s College of Law that SNL perfected the art of handicapping.  Which segues into another interesting nugget. 

SNL has hit something in the range of 71% of his picks in weeks 5 through 12 over the last three years.  Which means that those of you blessed (or cursed) with a strident affect, stand to be rewarded in the coming weeks.  Even better, we are playing with house money by virtue of last night’s sweep, so here’s another winner:

BYU (-29/58o) v. Utah State:  The Latter Day Saints seem to have it all these days, teenage wives, happy kids, a very good football team-and the feds haven’t raided the compound to boot.  On the gridiron, the ethnically homogenous Cougars have outscored their last 2 opponents 103-0. 

Utah St., conversely, has lost only 1 game by less than 38, a 27-17 loss at UNLV.  Utah St. did manage get into the “W” column last week by beating Idaho (who lost 70-0 to Arizona).  Still, Utah St. remains horrible and BYU remains good.  For those of you who lack a cerebral cortex, here’s the equation:  BYU = Very Good:  Utah St. = Very Bad:  Therefore, BYU greater than Utah St. (by more than 29).

Lay the heavy road chalk with impunity and as always, thoughts or insight are welcome. 

-So Sayeth the Shepherd