November 16th, 2017 at 3:30 PM ^
2007 Stanford-USC was in that neighborhood.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:33 PM ^
Florida was favored against Charleston Southern by 73 points in 2009.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:04 PM ^
"Ummm, okay guys...we're gonna start the second string."
November 16th, 2017 at 4:31 PM ^
In the late 60's OSU was a 51 pt favorite over Illinois. I took the points and lost. It remains the best bet I ever made.
November 16th, 2017 at 9:25 PM ^
he didn't actually "see it" (the spread) in the late 60's. So he may be factually correct in the OP.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:38 PM ^
you are spot on that it was a 41 point spread.
It remains the largest upset in CFB history by documented point spread.
November 16th, 2017 at 6:17 PM ^
set the new mark in Sept by beating UNLV despite a 43 spread or something.
Edit: https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/cam-newtons-brother-lea…
November 16th, 2017 at 9:00 PM ^
Most sources don’t accept FBS vs FCS point spreads. I know ESPN won’t even list the spreads.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:32 PM ^
Urban always runs the score up in these type of games to overinflate the value of his team. When December comes, the playoff committee will be saying look how much they beat Rutgers, Nebraska, Maryland, UNLV, and Illinois by.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:35 PM ^
would like just one chance to throat punch that punk Urban Liar
November 16th, 2017 at 3:50 PM ^
I think you have some anger issues.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:56 PM ^
Gordon Gee? Is that you?
November 16th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
Don't do that. Either of the things you said there.
Dude is a hell of a coach, as much as I hate it. He's also been fairly classy since coming to OSU. Respect where due, dude. And jouvenile nick names are just that.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:55 PM ^
Relax dude he doesn't like a rival coach, not shocking. It's not like he put a real hit out on him. Fairly classy u say? Ring.... yeah that was my wife she needs me to pick up some milk. Classy you say? Don't worry Mikey your RB coach will never leave you, let alone tomorrow.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:33 PM ^
College co-eds anyone?
November 16th, 2017 at 3:59 PM ^
don't feel like I hate Urban Meyer as much as I should based on the way a lot of people seem to feel about him. He just hasn't done anything that I really remember that has personally made me dislike him. I hate Ohio State, so don't like their coach, but nothing more than that. I can't think of one thing he has said or done regarding Michigan that I have found offensive, sarcastic, in poor taste, anything. In fact, he is often very complimentary regarding Michigan (kind of more so than he should be based on the results).
November 16th, 2017 at 4:47 PM ^
Meyer has been fairly classy towards us since he's been in Columbus. He displays hella respect for The Rivalry
November 16th, 2017 at 5:26 PM ^
Agreed. I just get sick of the dumb names that just make us look like cretins.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:41 PM ^
Old school Nebraska would play nobody (Big 8 and Troy) and run up the score to look better than they were. At least Urban plays Oklahoma and the B1G. He still deserves a throat punch.
BTW--change the title to something more appropriate before you get negged for uninformative.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:32 PM ^
Ohio st is not going to play hard after they are up 21-0 four minutes in. They will rest to get ready for us.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:39 PM ^
will play hard. Starters will get an early hook.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:33 PM ^
...we need an over-confident bunch of suckeyes coming to the
Big House.
then we will
...SHOCK THE WORLD !!!!
Go Blue !!
November 16th, 2017 at 3:37 PM ^
Hope Illinois thumps them good!
November 16th, 2017 at 8:49 PM ^
It’s all part of the plan.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
Get out with the impish O$U and Suckeyes...
November 16th, 2017 at 3:58 PM ^
He can't help himself. He would write with emojis if he could.
November 16th, 2017 at 6:14 PM ^
Buck the Fuckeyes.
November 16th, 2017 at 8:45 PM ^
I think my wife threw it out two moves ago.
November 17th, 2017 at 6:20 AM ^
I still have my shirt that says that. Bought it after a game one year. I can't bring myself to throw it out or wear it.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:39 PM ^
As a better myself, I may bet on Illinois with the points... my theory is OSU will purposely play poorly and not come close to covering, because Urban Meyer (to his respect) has an excellent track-record after bad games where they dominate the following week. ... Let's hope that's not how it plays out, though, of course.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:42 PM ^
I wonder what the money line is on Illinois
November 16th, 2017 at 3:43 PM ^
Bovada doesn't even have one listed.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
That spread & over/under combination results in a Vegas expected score of about 47-6.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:56 PM ^
You’re not totally wrong but, The spread actually has nothing to do with how much vegas thinks a team will win by. When vegas puts out a spread they’re putting out a number with the goal of getting equal amounts of motivation net on both sides. If vegas is able to get even money on both sides they cannot lose bc of the juice. The spread gets adjusted as money comes in throughout the week. If you have a good set of power ratings you can really find an edge in certain games. It’s all mathematics.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:47 PM ^
the spread usually ends up being a highly accurate prediction of how much a given team wins by. So while you are correct that the line is set in an attempt to get equal money on both sides, the results in essentially the same thing.
Hence saying "Vegas expected score" is correct if you consider "Vegas" to be the betting market that bookies simply react to as opposed the bookies setting the lines according to their expectations (which they don't necessarily do in the end, as you point out).
November 16th, 2017 at 4:59 PM ^
about sports gambling. Vegas doesn't really set the line, the gamblers do. So the line really represents the "publicly expected outcome' rather than something driven by bookie opinion or inside knowledge. The margins where you win is where you know better than the informed public.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
I'd take those points.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
Poor Lovie lol
November 17th, 2017 at 2:32 AM ^
I read recently just how bad a situation he walked into at Illinois following four years of Tim Beckmann.
Though I don't remember the exact #'s, under Beckmann the Illini never had a recruiting class above middle-of-the-pack MAC level, with the highest ranked class of his four being ranked 53rd in FBS (Division I). Follow that with a hastily thrown together class when Lovie was hired to replace interim coach Bill Cubit, and that essentially means Lovie started out with the smoldering remnants of five straight disastrous recruiting classes.
Now I'm not at all a Lovie Smith fan---after all, he coached the hated Chicago Bears---but very few coaches would be able to win immediately with the mess he inherited.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:58 PM ^
Urban can't let the voters see anything other than a total annihilation. This dog might die.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
Any time you see a spread that enormous, bet on the dog!
November 16th, 2017 at 3:58 PM ^
From the very first moment I heard he'd been hired I thought that it was another stupid move by Illinois, and nothing has happened since to make me think otherwise.
November 16th, 2017 at 9:12 PM ^
Hiring fairly successful former NFL coaches is rarely a stupid move. The problem is, it’s still Illinois. He hasn’t had the time yet to make much of an impact, but it’s Illinois. He can only do so much in year two.
November 16th, 2017 at 11:27 PM ^
Dave Wannstedt, Bill Callahan, Jim Mora, Al Groh, Mike Riley are more the rule than the exception. I know Charlie Weis was never a head coach in the NFL, but he tried to position himself as being as knowledgeable as one. The number of NFL guys with little or no college coaching experience who made a successful transition to the college game is extremely small.
Smith hadn't coached in college for twenty years when the Bears hired him, and that means he had virtually no real contacts in high schools for recruiting. He was reasonably successful with the Bears but failed at Tampa Bay, and I don't think his name or reputation was sufficiently golden to automatically make HS kids want to play for him based on his resume. Coaching pros is very different from coaching 19-yr old kids too.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:06 PM ^
I thought this was about Rutgers.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:06 PM ^
Predicted score of 48-6, which some nasty shade thrown at Michigan State, claiming that Illinois is better than they are by a field goal.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:49 PM ^
47.25 - 6.25. Even Brian doesn't predict scores that crazy.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:25 PM ^
Hope our rival pulls a Iowa on our(real) rival
November 16th, 2017 at 4:40 PM ^
poor thread title. couldn't tell if you meant Rutgers or Ill.