Does the Howard Game Make Scott Van Pelt's "Bad Beats" Segment?

[RU848789]

With the early spread being 34.5-35.5, as per an earlier thread on this and with the final spread being 38.5 this game was a classic case where, with an actual spread of 37 there were likely folks who won on both sides of the moving spread, which is like the Holy Grail of gambling. In addition, those who had Howard and 34.5 or 35.5 or even 36.5 points (given the moving spread, I'm sure there were points in-between the initial spread of 34.5 and the final spread of 38.5), who just took a terrible beating on the last play of the game.

And to make it worse, this was on a final RU possession after Howard tried to score with a minute or so left, rather than running the clock out and turned the ball over on downs to RU - and then RU also didn't kneel the last minute out, but ran plays and scored that final TD on the last play of the game, which started with 7 seconds left! I have to believe this game makes SVP's bad beat$ segment with Stanford Steve. I find those to often be entertaining and sometimes hilarious. And by the way, the bad beat also goes for the over/under which opened at 48 and ended up at 50.5 and that last TD brought the total to 51, torpedoing those how bet the under. It's also the first time I can recall Schiano not running the clock out when up several TDs and under a minute left - hopefully he cashed in, lol (kidding).

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...pread: Rutgers,Howard over/under: 50.5 points

 

[RU848789]

Lots of chatter out there about the bad beat angle and RU running up the score. The first link discusses the bad beat, with an angle I forgot to mention last night, i.e., not going for the XP, since some services had the over/under at 51.5 (not 50.5), so that XP would've made the difference for many and same thing for the point spread, which some had at 38, so again, that XP would've made a difference.

The second link is from Jerry Carino's article on whether RU ran up the score, as many believe, including quotes from the Howard coach who says as much, with Schiano disagreeing, of course. For me, the fact that Howard used its TO's on that last possession with under a minute left is more important, since they could've easily run out the clock and their using the TO's implied that the game wasn't over, so RU running two running plays with its subs, who wanted reps, wasn't a case of running up the score.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2024/08/rutgers-howard-bad-beat-season-opener

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2024/08/rutgers-howard-bad-beat-season-opener

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Lots of chatter out there about the bad beat angle and RU running up the score. The first link discusses the bad beat, with an angle I forgot to mention last night, i.e., not going for the XP, since some services had the over/under at 51.5 (not 50.5), so that XP would've made the difference for many and same thing for the point spread, which some had at 38, so again, that XP would've made a difference.

The second link is from Jerry Carino's article on whether RU ran up the score, as many believe, including quotes from the Howard coach who says as much, with Schiano disagreeing, of course. For me, the fact that Howard used its TO's on that last possession with under a minute left is more important, since they could've easily run out the clock and their using the TO's implied that the game wasn't over, so RU running two running plays with its subs, who wanted reps, wasn't a case of running out the clock.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2024/08/rutgers-howard-bad-beat-season-opener

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2024/08/rutgers-howard-bad-beat-season-opener

yes.. the timeouts and earlier, foregoing a FG attempt to fail on 4th down.. that smacked of watching teh scoreboard for reasons other than winning the game. No wonder Howard's head coach was overly concerned about the final score.. maybe he should be looked at for teh betting angle.. not Schiano.

 

[LotusAggressor]

Legalized sports gambling is starting to make commentary about the games unwatchable.

 

[Rutgers Chris]

There’s a bigger bad beat already…

Why DraftKings voided all Arkansas bets after 70-0 victory

Always check the house rules

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