PYU Week 3 Results: Walking In Memphis

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

Special teams disasters are always fun, so let’s start with a couple of those:

Mississippi State’s punt coverage kept the ball out of the end zone, but failed to down it completely, so Memphis’ Calvin Austin riskily picked it up and ran with it. Always play to the whistle, kids.

The second highlight is a defensive safety on a returned PAT attempt. But the timing was especially painful for Nebraska, who was giving heavily favored Oklahoma a close game, and was about to cut it to 14-10 going into the fourth quarter. This play increased the deficit from 4 to 7, and Oklahoma scored on its next possession, taking the field goal out of play for the rest of the game. Nebraska still covered easily, though. By the way, why doesn’t the NFL have this rule? They’re always trying to make PATs more interesting, so why not add this?

One more highlight:

Oh, Skip Holtz, you do continue to entertain us. But sadly, nobody in PYU benefitted from that play. LrdNorman had SMU, but was giving -10.5 points, wrecking a 3-way parlay. And GibbsAK had the over, which had already come in. The spite bet against Louisiana Tech, once a staple of weekly PYU plays, has gone by the wayside. But we still do have this one:

Oh, that never gets old. Not even if we lose to them 65-11 this year. And that Louisville game had its own crazy ending, which I’m sure you’ve seen the highlight of by now. This was a fun weekend for college football, even if it was devoid of any major plot twists.

This week’s results were all about big parlay wins in the evening:

In particular, the Fresno State-UCLA and BYU-Arizona State games made winners out several different players. speruche had four come in at once, for a windfall of 695.20. He won big on Georgia-South Carolina, and of all games, FAMU-USF. He got an extra half-point on FAMU, and a late touchdown by USF pushed the score to the over. mcgies852 won 430 all at once. ULhothot won by half a point in the Michigan State-Miami game.

There were also a lot of money line upsets this week:

Everyone won on Louisville, except the one Louisville fan. We really are a bunch of haters.

Noticeably absent from that list is BullsOnParade96, who won huge the first two weeks, but had an off week in Week 3. He had USF -22.5 against FAMU, which didn’t quite come in. The standings in the money race:

This week’s two big winners jump into first and second place. BullsOnParade96 isn’t that far behind, though, especially since he’s got 250 units tied up in futures bets. Actually, if you account for that, mcgies852 is actually in the lead; he speruche has no futures bets, and therefore no chance for a late-season windfall. There is no possiblity for a late-season loss, because the way I do the standings deducts the money bet on futures now. So if you lose that money, it won’t be deducted from you a second time. The standings page has totals that account for it both ways.

And the standings in the point race are:

Both speruche and mcgies had huge point totals this week, but first place was decided by barely 7 units. That’s a 5-point difference in the point standings, which could be huge. E-Dogg42 and ElliotMoore are the only players to score in all three weeks, and you can see them starting to move up the table. Anthonyvito gets on the board with 1 point.

Week 4 includes Notre Dame-Wisconsin and Texas A&M-Arkansas. In the AAC, USF’s challenging schedule continues with a trip to BYU. SMU plays its annual rivalry game with TCU. Navy-Houston is a conference game. UAB-Tulane and UTSA-Memphis could be conference games in the near future. Arkansas State-Tulsa probably won’t. Temple (Wagner) and East Carolina (Charleston Southern) host FCS teams, who have won 12 such games so far this year. The two other current AAC teams are off this week.