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Early Line now +7

Postby Duke Blue Blood » Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:58 pm

Line opened at +4.5 and has already increased to +7.

We one two close games to one average D-1 AA team and one decent D-1 team and now we are favored by 7 AWAY at a Pac-10 School. Anyone else think this is odd?

WSU must be AWFUL!!!

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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby ThadFilms » Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:00 am

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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby MustangLaxer » Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:04 am

Duke Blue Blood wrote:Line opened at +4.5 and has already increased to +7.

We one two close games to one average D-1 AA team and one decent D-1 team and now we are favored by 7 AWAY at a Pac-10 School. Anyone else think this is odd?

WSU must be AWFUL!!!

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we won two close games?

if we are favored the line would be -7...

we opened at -4.5 and now were favored by -7
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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby ponyscott » Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:06 am

so are we favored here?
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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby Duke Blue Blood » Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:12 am

Lines are done with the home team with the + or -. We are favored, so it would be SMU -7. Since it is at WSU, they show it as WSU +7.

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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby Get_Some_Ponies » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:36 am

+/ - has nothing to do with the home team. If your team is a + you are the underdog. SMU +7 means that Vegas thinks the scare is SMU 7, Washington St. 0 at kickoff. SMY is the dog, WSU is the favorite and WSU will need to win by more than a touchdown to cover.
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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby ponyte » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:51 am

This link implies that SMU is favored by either 4.5 or 7 points. I don't bet so I may not be reading this correctly.

http://www.vegasinsider.com/college-foo ... ime/1700#L
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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby smupony94 » Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:26 am

ponyte wrote:This link implies that SMU is favored by either 4.5 or 7 points. I don't bet so I may not be reading this correctly.

http://www.vegasinsider.com/college-foo ... ime/1700#L


For that one SMU is favored by 4.5 points
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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby smupony94 » Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:28 am

This one has not come out but check later

http://www.lasvegas.com/gaming/sportsline_ncaaf.html

And Duke in your excitement you put a plus instead of a minus
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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby RedTapestry » Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:30 am

Not to state the obvious, but all this means to me is that SMU fans aren't gamblers and Vegas has no hope of attracting us. And apparently they expect trouble attracting disillusioned Wazzu fans.
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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby George S. Patton » Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:14 am

Please fix the headline to make this -7 and not +7. Again to piggyback on 94, -7 means we are favored. +7 means we are the underdog.
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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby ponyte » Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:34 am

Leave it as is. I would rather be the underdog (or at least the illusion on this board).
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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby jtstang » Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:53 am

All this tells me is we have not been favored in so long the fans have forgotten what that line looks like.
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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby PK » Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:57 am

jtstang wrote:All this tells me is we have not been favored in so long the fans have forgotten what that line looks like.

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Re: Early Line now +7

Postby jkflamebo » Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:27 am

SMU opened at -4.5 and is now -7. The books got a lot of action on SMU and want more action on wash state. I wouldn't think the line would go too much further at this point.
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