* Illinois vs Missouri -13 1/2
Saturday at 11:30 Fox Sports Net
This is touted as a neutral site game since it's being staged in St. Louis. It's more of an almost-home game for the Missouri Tigers, whose fan base is going to pack the house, and a house it is: the indoor playpen that is Edward Jones Stadium. This would be a great site for a game if it was early November. Seems that being indoors at the end of summer just ain't right. That's the way the Illini are going to feel after Mizzou roughs 'em up at. The Tigers have a little more of everything. Zookwatch 2010 starts after this one.
**Northern Illinois @ Iowa State -2
Thursday at 7:00 p.m.
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| The Spartus football helmet clock, featuring"The Six O'Clock Earhole". |
***Southern Mississippi @ South Carolina -13
Thursday at 6:30 on ESPN
Southern Miss from Conference USA takes to the road for the opener against Steve Spurrier and the Gamecocks. It's a big step up in class for a mid-pack C-USA team against an above average SEC team, and the equation gets worse for SoMiss when the Spurrier factor is brought to bear. We may be doing a little last minute tap dance on this one---5 of SC's starters are under scrutiny for the hotel fiasco and could be unable to participate in the opener. Without that distraction, we're confident that the Gamecocks will cover in their home opener. If there's 5 guys missing, we're being pushed to bet on faith...and that doesn't pay the bills. Stay tuned.
****USC-19 @ Hawaii
Thursday night, 10 pm on ESPN
Four stars on a coach we find odious and a team that has had its sleazy side turned out for all the world to see. USC isn't going to be allowed to go to any bowl games this year as the NCAA punishes the current players for what Reggie Bush did years ago, so I'm figuring that USC wants to make every game a little more, um, memorable. So they're off to beautiful Hawaii ( a better destination than almost all the bowl games ) to begin the season by thrashing the locals. Big spread, bigger victory.
Games start Thursday evening. Enjoy the holiday.
3 comments:
Speaking of Toronto- Any thoughts on Toronto/Hamilton CLA game this Saturday? Another question- where the heck is Hamilton, Canada? :)
Ahhh, Hamilton...affectionately known as "The Anchor of Lake Ontario", the third leg in the Toronto-Buffalo-Hamilton Triangle, the stepping off point for Niagara Falls. You know what they say about Hamilton!!! i.e. "It ain't no Kitchener, eh?"
As for the game (you mean CFL?) 'tween the Toronto DustMites and the Hamilton WifeBeaters, I believe the spread on that is 9, which, when taken at the 2003 conversion rate of .65 per Canadian Loonie gives us an over/under somewhere near the 38th parallel. Did you know they even have something called CASCAR Racing in Canada? Why don't they just sue Bill France like everyone else and get NASCAR to hold a Sprint Cup Race in Canada? They could call it Stanley Cup Racing; big success for sure. With global warming proceeding apace, we're all going to be living up there when we admit the provinces as states, a move I'm told will occur at the same time as Notre Dame's enrollment into the Big 10, so timed by the U.S. and Canadian governments because everyone will be preoccupied.
OK?
Thanks for the clarification and pardon my Canadian geography and CFL ignorance. As the saying goes- Canada is America's Hat.
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