Gameday Ditch: Christian’s UCLA Picks
Yeah we're comin' to your ci-tay.
The Ducks do battle with Chip Kelly’s Bruins at 12:30 today, and if you wanna put a little bang in your ying yang, come along.
The record shows that we are still in a bit of a slump when it comes to the tickets, but nobody is anywhere near to tilt here. We’re responsibly playing within ourselves, we’re thinking clearly, and we’re gonna come out on the other side of this having grown as better people and as better bettors.
Christian’s week-in-review:
Official Picks:
Ducks, Team Total, Over 34.5 - Miss
Season Record: (3-4) + Leans: (5-4)
Christian believed that the Ducks would find a way to score a medium amount of points against a bad Cal team, but they only managed to score a little less than a medium amount of points against a bad Cal team. So we lost that bet.
No big deal. We’ve been falling behind schedule, but Mario loves big stages and big games, and so does Christian.
In Pasadena today, the Ducks are underdogs (by a point) for the first time since Columbus.
And Mr. Vitale’s words to me when he saw this board were simple, yet decisive:
“Ducks by 90.”
Now, I’m not a highly literal man—I’m not about to seek out a bookie to give me the Ducks -89.5—but it is easy to decipher exactly what that text means.
The Ducks are road dogs to a two-loss UCLA team.
ESPN College Gameday is there for the game.
The whole world has lost faith in Oregon slowly each week since the Ohio State win.
And this is where we win them back.
This is the big romantic gesture where Mario Cristobal ‘Say Anything’s the college football world all over again in prime time.
Sure, after winning a big game like this, he might go on to just squeak past UDub, Wazzu, and Oregon State by a touchdown or less each, but at least he would have flashed his big game instincts again.
It’s not super sexy, and it’s only -105, but it’s a bet that a guy who is 3-4 on the year is more than happy to make.
Take Cristobal today. Take the Ducks ML.
Go Ducks.
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