PYU Week 7 Results: Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness

(DISCLAIMER: This game is for entertainment purposes only. No actual money is being wagered. Good thing for me.)

Louisiana-Monroe, a 30-point underdog at home against Liberty, scored 28 points in the third quarter, and then won the game on a 53-yard field goal.

This is relevant to our story because the weekly point winners are:

There’s not an extra digit there. The once-again first-place bullsonparade96 won 4,011.50 units this week. This was this the big play:

Only twice in PYU’s modern era (since 2013), has a player ended a season with a grand total of 4,000 units (lrdnorman and bullmartin in 2016). With one bet, bullsonparade96 won that amount in a week. And he’s done this twice now. Late in 2020, a combination of large parlay wins resulted in a week where he won 4,098.53. His total for this week was actually 4,011.50, because he lost 200 on two other plays. So he didn’t quite break his own record. And guess whose fault that was?

If USF had beaten Tulsa outright, this would have been a win of 72.50 instead of a loss of 25, which would made his weekly total big enough to break his own record.

But it could have been worse. We could have lost to Tulsa like this:

The quarterback of Division III Wisconsin-Platteville took a knee, when he meant to spike the ball so his team could kick a last-second field goal. Oops.

It was a week for backdoor covers:

• ULhothot had a parlay wrecked by a meaningless 50-yard touchdown pass, with 31 seconds to go, in the Akron-Miami of Ohio game. He had under 54, and this made the final score 34-21.
• On the flip side, Kentucky went on a 22-play, 75-yard, 11-plus minute drive to score a meaningless last-second touchdown against Georgia. The game ended 30-13. Maybe they just wanted to prove they could do it: Georgia’s defense has given up 3, 7, 13, 0, 0, and 10 points in its first six games. This touchdown affected several plays, and turned a parlay loss into a win for Gym399:

• Several people had the Under 66 in the Marshall-North Texas game. Marshall led 42-7 into the fourth quarter, but three cheap late touchdowns made it 49-21. This broke another three-way parlay, this time for e-dogg42.

As you can see from the list of weekly winners above, a lot of players had big weeks. Here’s the list of all the 50-unit or more wins, other than those already mentioned:

Point standings:

Bullsonparade96 has been #1 in three weeks, and has 0 points the rest of the season. But that moved him back into the point lead, ahead of speruche who has had more consistent success.

Money standings:

Unsurprisingly, bullsonparade96 jumps back into the lead. But it’s also the time of year when we have to start discussing the Sudden Death bet. defdans nearly made a big comeback this week:

But Army got the cheap late touchdown, not Wisconsin. So he is now below one unit, which means he is technically out of units. I put an extra .09 units in defdans’ account so he would have exactly 1 unit left, and can bet it on an AAC game as per Rule 11:

The week after you run out of money, you must successfully pick one AAC game against the spread. If you win the bet, you get a $500 loan to continue playing in future weeks. If you build this amount to over $1000, you will then “repay” the loan by having the $500 deducted from your new balance. If you push the bet or lose, you are out of the game. Only one sudden death bet per customer. If you lose the entire extra $500, you are out of the game.

Also, anyone else who is under 250 total units may bet it all on one game, if desired. Currently, this is only undercoverbull at 83.76.

Keep in mind that, even if you do run out of units and lose the Sudden Death bet, it is possible to get back into the game through futures bets, if you made any. And both these players have some good ones lined up:

Moving on to Week 8: there are no games between nationally ranked teams, though Wisconsin-Purdue, Clemson-Pittsburgh, and LSU-Mississippi are close. The AAC is similarly devoid of major matchups: Cincinnati, now #2 in the country, is at Navy; Tulane is at #21 SMU; Memphis at Central Florida to see whose season goes even further down the tubes; East Carolina plays Houston; Temple goes to USF; and Tulsa is off.