We have gone from -4.5 to -2.5 on Fan Duel. Its my understanding Isaac Smith and Booth are not playing in the bowl. I assume Tony Mitchell is out as well. Has anyone heard of others?
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We have gone from -4.5 to -2.5 on Fan Duel. Its my understanding Isaac Smith and Booth are not playing in the bowl. I assume Tony Mitchell is out as well. Has anyone heard of others?
On espn bet, it opened at 3 and still there
will we see guys in the 2 deep in the mayo bowl who haven't gotten much PT due to the portal defections?
I wish I knew.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pancho
Why would Smith not be playing?Quote:
Originally Posted by HoopsDawg
Recovering from surgery/injuryQuote:
Originally Posted by BlackSailsDawg
I mean you will see Gayten more than usual. Outside of that I really do not know. We seem to be pretty good from an opt out standpoint or losing anyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pancho
Depending on how things shake out with Evans and Thompson?s waiver, and probably regardless tbh, I think you will see Ayden have a much larger role. John David Baker is working hard to bring him back to Ole Miss.
Defensively we are going to need some guys to step up in the back end. With Mitchell not with the team and Issac and Manning not playing, you are going to have to have some guys really step up in the back end. Oddly enough, Burnside screwed himself going into the portal because he could have put some tape up in this game for teams. That more and more tells me someone has gotten into his ear and his mother?s ear and told them he could play WR somewhere next year.
Yikes. I forgot about Manning not playing. So who does that leave at S.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
I wouldnt bet on us with the Secondary we are throwing out there for this game and a 48% passer at QB
KT is gonna demolish their DQuote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
We need KT to show up and show out!
Bet the over!
Non-playoff bowl teams are SO different from the teams that played all regular season that I'm not sure how anyone could bet on anything with any confidence. These bowl games are the true meaning of a "crap shoot".
There?s money to be made if you can figure out opt outs and/or motivation. Ole Miss last year was a good example over Duke. Darts last game + multiple Duke opt outs.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
Well UNLV wasn't/ Playing a team that just fired it's coach for "Other Things"/ UNLV looked like a 3 ring circus out there. Hell they tackled themselves. Then USM looked like they were going to win and WKU puts in the 2nd stringer and they whipped their butts. Bowls are hard to figure out, even the CFP.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoopsDawg
Yep. I had the Cal ML last night
Mullen factor.Quote:
Originally Posted by parabrave
Some coaches treat bowls as a reward/vacation. Other coaches play to win. I never bet against Iowa in a bowl game for example.
Mullen starts his vacation in early November every year.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoopsDawg
Along with conducting job fairs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leeshouldveflanked
where he looking to go this time?Quote:
Originally Posted by Leeshouldveflanked
There were some rumors about him talking to Arkansas and Kentucky.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pancho
FWIW...
Wake Forest is losing 15 dudes to the portal. Two key WRs and a TE that contributed.
This will be (Roster Size) a 70 vs 70 game or so?
Michigan is looking a Todd Monken, a dude MSU would not want and USM got shafted-by. That's pretty much a trash hire, wow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pancho
Dan Mullen's agent should give them a call. They obviously don't have candidates or standards in Michigan. "Give my boy a chance, we'll sign a 1-year contract and win a Big10 or bust in 2026." Just don't pull Hevesy from his job a Homedepot. That boy needs to stock shelves and stay away from football fields.
Search seems to be turning to Kyle Whittingham.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer
Also, John is at Lowe?s. And FWIW, we have not fielded an O Line as good as 17 since. For all his faults, he could put 5 guys together and get every bit of talent out of them. I would take John back tomorrow. We may not get any 5 stars but our line would be MILES better immediately.
We ain't getting 5-stars anywayQuote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
It's more of a mental check out. The regular season is too long for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pancho
Seems like Manning is playingQuote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
It opened at -2.5 and is now at -3 to -3.5 on all major books except Fan Duel where it's -2.5.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoopsDawg
Wake Forest has a nice Defense #26 in Total Defense and 39 in scoring defense. MSU is 3rd Tier in Defense.
MSU scores more offensively.
Wake got a nice win versus SMU, shut down the ponies in the second half and pulled a very unlikely last second 50-yard FG win. Brutal for SMU. Similar win vs UVA with punt return TD and two long FG for a 16-9 win
He also had some lines like 2015. If he was that good he wouldn't be at Lowe's right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
MSU fans think a lot higher of Dan than everyone else in America does.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer
Because a program like State cannot do any better than Dan Mullen. Geoff Levvy is a prime example.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
Dan Mullen took a big ole s-h-i-t on MSU when he left.
Dan's QB at UNLV is in the portal. The MWC POY is reported to be a Tennessee target.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
This is the kind of Portal kid I would love to get. But people are going to bid this dude up like the new Pavia or Chambliss. He will make more next season than he probably will be worth to the NFL.
But.....there are a lot of people who think much more highly of him than you and some others on here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
I just wish two things for Dan/TheDogs......That 14 team didn’t fall apart against Bama and then get embarrassed by om when if they could have won they had a great argument for the playoffs. Still don’t understand the def cord situation the end of that year. Also DM leaving the VERY YEAR he could have really beaten some folks......oh well.....it is what it is....
Appears to be more in my boat than the other.Quote:
Originally Posted by AROB44
Lost to GT but had them beat most of the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer
That's your opinion. Not sure what Dan did to you, but he was here 9 years which is about the life of a coach at one school. Plus he's the best coach we've had in the past 70 years (except for JWS).Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
I can tell you what Dan did. He shopped himself every season. His wife talked trash about Starkville. When he had the #1 team in America, he wanted out. So no.. He did not give us 9 years. He gave us a half ass effort and bolted as soon as he found another job FOR THE SAME PAY we offered him.Quote:
Originally Posted by AROB44
There are no excuses for what he did when we were #1. His mind was not on finishing the season. It was on "I'm outta here".