Thoughts on NFL Week 2, College Football

 A record of 1-3 wasn’t the way I wanted to start the season, but losing $10.34 wasn’t too damaging. I’ll try not to whine about losses on here, but losing with the Steelers and the Ravens by a total of 2 points was frikkin’ brutal. I also put too much on the “same game parlay” – throwing my winnings of $14.40 from the summer, dabbling in baseball and losing with Kansas State. I want to talk about strategy on this site, and though I thought the parlay had a very reasonable chance to win, it should have been a much smaller bet considering that my biggest bet of the week was $25 on Dallas. The Cowboys covered and brought in $29.06 with a profit boost. Pittsburgh lost me $10, and Baltimore choked away $15.

I didn’t touch college football last week, because some of the spreads were just a joke. They brag about all the great matchups on Labor Day weekend, then go right back to playing a lot of slop games. Even this week, Penn State, considered a title contender, is playing Villanova – in football! This is after playing Nevada and Florida International. Next week they play Oregon, and I’m pretty sure the fun’s over. I may have a pick or two in college football this week.

I want to get into “scale” as I go forward with this blog. It’s important for readers if you end up following my picks or someone else’s picks. Despite my record on The “Ink” and last week, I’m right at my highest profit level with gambling. My goal is to push my minimum bets to higher levels. For football, that means going from about $10 to $15 up to maybe $25. Those are very conservative numbers based on where I’m at with my “bank roll” for gambling. I only mention it so that readers understand the type of value I’m putting on my picks.

I don’t have any picks as I write around noon on Friday. Right now, Dallas -5.5 at home against the Giants, Detroit -5.5 also at home facing the Chicago, and Minnesota -4.5 at home versus Atlanta, are possibilities in the NFL. In college, I’m looking at Oregon -27.5 at Northwestern, Oklahoma -23.5 at Temple, and Miami -17.5 at home versus South Florida. None of these are picks yet. I’ll either post again here on the blog or on my social media pages with official picks.

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