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So I'm listening to Bill Simmons' podcast and he has on Chad Millman, Vegas Insider.

Where: Glendale, AZ When: January 4th, 7:00 Central on ESPN Line History: Opened at 7 and has bounced between 7 and 7.5 since the open. Total is 54.5. Trips Rights' Blind Line: I made TCU a 10 point favorite.

Where: Shreveport, LA When: December 28, 4:00 Central on ESPN Line History: Opened at 7 but you can find 6.5's. Total is 67.

When a collection of unmotivated fast twitch muscles takes on a motivated cellular mass made up of mitochondria, grit, and want-to, who wins? I'd be interested from answers from anyone but Jimmy the Greek and Al Campanis. But that aside, we'll get to see a pretty good case study tonight in San Francisco when Boston College, the hard working Jesuit school, takes on one of college football's most talented and certainly best compensated

From Trips Rights' latest bowl game preview: The 2009 Meineke Car Care Bowl, for one year anyway, should be renamed Former Dallas Cowboy Defensive Coordinator sponsored by Baby Dolls Bowl.

I do this every year right after the bowl lines come out. It's as ritualistic as Scipio's use of bukkake tags in his team previews. Well, almost. I consider it the first step in my handicapping process and it serves the purpose of identifying my own gut feeling about line value. Call it the eyeball test for bowl capping. My next step is to go back and look at stats, matchups, X's

Quick post to provide links to the weekly updates. College Football Ratings and Adjusted Stats Homepage College Football EWP Ratings College Football Power Ratings Texas High School Football EWP Ratings Texas High School Football Power Ratings Also, if you're as big a degenerate as Trips right, the FLV sportsbook has posted the second round 5A and 4A games and they can be found on the open events

The weekly Barking Bets post has moved to its new home at Fading Las Vegas. This week's picks can be found here.

The ratings and stats pages are updated through Week 7. The numbers are starting to become more logical as the connection strength is greatly improved a few weeks into conference play. Texas' team page is here. At the bottom of the page you'll see a quick breakdown of Texas' schedule. 540+ yards against each non-conference opponent. 340- yards against each Big 12 opponent. The matchup analyzer is

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