Las Vegas Sun: Although it’s not designed for this purpose, the point spread, conveniently enough, at least roughly correlates with the perception and expectations of a football team. A team with a losing straight-up record but a strong showing against the spread can be seen as exceeding expectations — at least for a while. But post losing marks straight up and against the number, and it’s a good bet you’ll be considered a failure. Read entire story below.
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A prime example of why I can’t help but to laugh at the money-hungry bookies!
Yeah, I remember back in the 90’s, my friends and I had a bookie. Now I won some money on NFL games, partly due to the Cowboys, everytime I played a 10 team parlay, one team always screwed me up. Remember how big of a spread Florida always had? Every time I bet on them, they didnt cover. They could be favored by 63 over the University of Shane Corn’s brain cells, I would pass and they would cover. Let them be favored over FSU or whoever by whatever, I would take them and fall flat on my face. I’m glad I no longer play the spread, although my broke ass is tempted.
Most of the so called bookies decide their pick by who the bigger name in the match up is. At least that was the case when I followed the college football spread long ago. Surely these days it’s overran by the Vegas mafia, even more so than it was years ago.