Protect Your Unit Week 6 Results

(DISCLAIMER: This contest is for entertainment purposes only. No actual money is being wagered.)

Just when it looked like lrdnorman had the contest won with last week’s 3-way hit for $2160, bullmartin matches with an $1800 hit of his own. What was the magic play, you ask?

• Over 43.0 points in the Boston College-Clemson game.
• Over 51.0 points in the Navy-Houston game.
• Over 53.0 points in the Rutgers-Michigan game.

And boy howdy, did he hit that. Clemson hit the over by themselves, Navy and Houston each nearly did, and Michigan against RutgBWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH. On the 100th anniversary of Georgia Tech-Cumberland, 78-0 sets a modern standard for beatdowns between teams in the same TV rights deal conference.

Part of the reason for that 222-0 score in 1916 was Georgia Tech’s coach John Heisman making a statement that his team shouldn’t be playing such outmatched opposition. One wonders if Jim Harbaugh was making a similar point. Especially considering Michigan faked into a two-point conversion. For the second year in a row.

And I just adore that photo of the Rutgers mascot indifferently guarding the national championship trophy. You can tell from his body language that the score is about 43-0 already, and he knows he’s the butt of the joke. It could be worse; all those years ago, Rutgers could have picked a mascot whose face isn’t covered.

OK, enough piling on Rutgers. On to this week’s standings:

There weren’t a lot of degenerate bets this week, so I’ll give Floyd’s Money Team Degenerate Bet of the Week to lrdnorman, for betting on Air Force-Wyoming. Any Wyoming game is a good candidate for this. Also, he deserves a consolation prize for making a big wager on SMU to beat Tulsa outright, and watching the ponies blow it in overtime. That would have put him over $2000 fake dollars.

The Randolph and Mortimer Spite Bet of the Week was a team effort. Practically everyone bet on Tulane to beat C. Florida. We’re a spiteful bunch.

Once again, the action starts on Wednesday, with Appalachian State-Louisiana-Lafayette. Two AAC weeknight games, Navy-East Carolina on Thursday and Memphis-Tulane on Friday. Also on Friday: Mississippi State-BYU (the Bulldogs are getting their frequent flier miles this year), San Diego State-Fresno State, and Duke-Louisville. That last one would be quite a game if this were February.

The two big national games are Ohio State-Wisconsin and Alabama-Tennessee.

Other AAC games: UConn is at USF, in a game that is traditionally close and low-scoring; Tulsa at Houston, in a rematch of another famous beatdown, the 100-6 job I wrote about previously; and Temple is at C. Florida.