By Josh Parcell
In the least surprising news ever, the latest Top 25 polls completely overreacted to an historic weekend of college football. You know who never overreacts? Vegas. While teams are rising and falling 10 or more spots in the traditional polls thanks to shocking upsets, Vegas’ futures odds to win the national championship has a much [...]
It's been a rough month in the Parcell household. I thought Week 3 was where it all would around. After a 3-8 start, things took a turn for the worse last Saturday. For the second time in three weeks, I nailed my Thursday night bet only to go winless on Saturday. This month has been so bad [...]
This week's edition of Take Your Pick comes from Charlotte, North Carolina -- my new home. I'm hoping a change of scenery will bring me good karma, because lord knows I need it. Let me quickly recap how my gambling season has gone so far. For those of you who take joy from other people's [...]
I’m writing this week’s gambling guide from a dark, misty corner of my parents’ basement. I had to move back home after losing all five picks last Saturday. Serves me right for getting cocky after hitting on Texas A&M +11 ½ on Thursday night.This won’t keep me down, no. There are hot streaks just as [...]
You guys, we made it. It’s game day, and despite the fact that I jumped the gun with a pint-sized wager on the Georgia State-Abilene Christian contest Wednesday night (I lost), it’s time to start handing out some completely amateur but undeniably successful betting advice.Last season I won more than 60% of my picks against [...]
It’s here! The regular season is almost in the books and conference championship weekend is about to be the LeGarrette Blount to our Byron Hout. If the last few weeks are any indication, tomorrow is going to be a wild day that will give us at least a game or two that won’t go the [...]
After two straight weeks of hitting on so many picks it was almost unfair, last week we came crashing back down to earth. I split last week’s picks right down the middle, going 7-7 against the spread. I was almost too embarrassed to make my picks this week after having the whole “South Carolina is [...]
