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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
Oracle, You better hurry and get down before the line goes up. They are already taking action at Pinnacle. The line opened at OSU -4.5. Now the line is up to OSU -5.
Just the fact that the line is so much lower than all you guys thought makes me like USC. When everyone thinks that a team is going to be an 8 point favorite and they only open as a 4.5 point favorite, I have to figure that the oddsmaker is sharper than the public. Haven't you noticed that when a line is way too low and the favorite looks like easy money, it usually turns out to be a sucker bet?
By the way, I haven't watched either team play this year, so I have no idea who is better.
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Rup the odds on a game like this are set a little differently. Lots of sucker money and once a year betting money comes in, and when you have a team with a following like USC participating, they'd take their share of money regardless of how good they were and the opponent was.
I've seen both teams play, and no way in hell would OSU have lost to Oregon State, not even their 2nd string would lose to Oregon State.
They are getting an unexplained free pass on that game as compared to Florida and Michigan who lost road games to Auburn and Ohio St respectively.
OSU is just so much better in the trenches and they will flat out exhaust USC.