Thanks to Grandmaster Sports Handicapper Joe Duffy, CEO of OffshoreInsiders.com, the top sports betting site in the world, sharp players continue to roll led by Alabama Birmingham this afternoon.
However, thanks to Phil Steele of Northcoast Sports, the sportsbooks recovered some of their losses.
Steele feel into the ultimate sucker bet, gifting the bookmakers with his Game of the Month a Boston College team shut out by the clearly superior Virginia Tech team. “Phil is the nutty professor in handicapping,” said Cy McCormick of the online betting syndicate and the power of 620 sports services behind every selection, the MasterLockLine. “He had great info, but no idea how to use it.”
Professional gamblers raked in the profits with this report from Joe Duffy of GodsTips.
Wise Guy pick is on:
UAB +14 Tennessee
If this is not a sandwich game, there is not such thing. Tennessee has just played Oregon and Florida, both Top 10 teams. The next two weeks are at LSU and at Georgia. They finally get an off week, then play Alabama.
How the heck can the Vols get all fired up for this game? Now they play a team that is sky high. The Blazers have already proven they can be dangerous with their second-half rally to beat Troy last week on the last play of the game, a 44-yard touchdown pass. They trailed 23-0 in the first half before coming back to win 34-33.
What a building block game for Alabama-Birmingham. Coach Neil Callaway inherited a struggling UAB team low on experience, and the Blazers have gone from winning just two games in 2007, his first year as coach, to winning five games last year.
“I know their two coordinators and their head coach very well, and I have a lot of respect for them,” Dooley said. “They’re four years into their program. This is what you see your fourth year: they’ve got a deep team, they have 17 starters returning and they’ve played in these kind of games so they’re not going to be starry-eyed.”
The Blazers had just 63 scholarship players in 2007, a situation Dooley can commiserate with now. The Vols have 76 scholarship players after awarding a few to walk-on players at the begging of the season.
Several starters are out with injuries, leaving a thin offensive line that’s struggled to both protect Simms and open holes for running backs Tauren Poole and David Oku and an undersized defensive line that couldn’t stop Florida’s passing game.
That doesn’t bode well for facing Ellis, who came off the bench against Troy after starter David Isabelle struggled. Ellis completed 23 of 37 for 360 yards and three touchdowns in three quarters.
Duffy reports that Sunday is the biggest NFL betting card this year.