How 'bout those Southern Miss Golden Eagles

[KenSmith]

#24 Southern Miss handed #6 Houston their first loss of the season in the Conference USA championship game today, and blasted them right out of their Sugar Bowl appearance.

Final score today: Southern Miss 49, Houston 28.

It's an impressive win for the Conference USA champion Golden Eagles.

Ironically, this is a very expensive win for Southern Miss. Had Houston won, they were guaranteed a spot in the Sugar Bowl and Conference USA would have received about $17 million as a result. USM's cut of that would have been well over a million dollars. By beating Houston, they won't see that money. Sucks, eh?

[Billy C1]

Originally Posted by KenSmith

#24 Southern Miss handed #6 Houston their first loss of the season in the Conference USA championship game today, and blasted them right out of their Sugar Bowl appearance.

Final score today: Southern Miss 49, Houston 28.

It's an impressive win for the Conference USA champion Golden Eagles.

Ironically, this is a very expensive win for Southern Miss. Had Houston won, they were guaranteed a spot in the Sugar Bowl and Conference USA would have received about $17 million as a result. USM's cut of that would have been well over a million dollars. By beating Houston, they won't see that money. Sucks, eh?

Congrats to your (and I think, Brett Favre's) alma mater!!!!! Yeah, the financial result does suck.
Will the Bears contact either Favre or McNabb? Given a choice between those two, I'd have to go with Brett.
You noticed that "my Badgers" won the Big Ten Championship?

BillyC1

[kewljason]

Houston was overrated. They played nobody. Reminded me of the Houston team a few years back when Kevin Kolb (formerlly of my Eagles) was quarterback and ran up all kinds of magnificent stats. I think they beat Sisters of the Blind University by 6 touchdowns.

Congrats to your Southern Miss, Ken. Hope you bet the moneyline. They were 2 Td underdogs, no? That had to be +1000 or more moneyline (10-1)

[aslan]

Originally Posted by KenSmith

#24 Southern Miss handed #6 Houston their first loss of the season in the Conference USA championship game today, and blasted them right out of their Sugar Bowl appearance.

Final score today: Southern Miss 49, Houston 28.

It's an impressive win for the Conference USA champion Golden Eagles.

Ironically, this is a very expensive win for Southern Miss. Had Houston won, they were guaranteed a spot in the Sugar Bowl and Conference USA would have received about $17 million as a result. USM's cut of that would have been well over a million dollars. By beating Houston, they won't see that money. Sucks, eh?

Congratulations! Really bad how the money works.

[newbctr]

I had them on the M/L... it was only +12... so +355. It could have been up to +400 if you had gotten it early

[kewljason]

Originally Posted by newbctr

I had them on the M/L... it was only +12... so +355. It could have been up to +400 if you had gotten it early

That doesn't sound right to me, newbctr. Usually a touchdown dog in football is somewhere about +300 to +350. For example pro games this coming week Washington and KC are both getting 8.5 pts and the money lines are +350 and +380 respectively. A 2 TD dog, should be much more. Granted not +1000. That was wishful thinking, but at least +600 to +700ish. And I believe I saw Southern Miss at +14.5 during the week, because I was interested in the game thinking Houston were overrated, but in the end decide I wasn't familiar enough with southern Miss, so I laid off.

[newbctr]

key word there is "usally." Late action drove the line down to 12 (yes it had been higher) and the ML to below +400. Money lines aren't fixed based on lines, but are based on supply and demand. See the link below for the line movements.

Hope things are well buddy.

http://www.vegasinsider.com/college-...3-11/time/1200