LUNAR EVENT DRAWS FAUNA INSIDE LOCAL FOOTBALL VENUE
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania (UPI)…Monday night saw the appearance of November’s first full moon, known as a “Beaver Moon”, as it is called by the Farmers’ Almanac because it represents the time of year when beavers start to hunker-down in their dams just ahead of the colder months. State College fans and citizens have since renamed the occurrence to the Beaver Stadium Moon after watching flurries of said-mammals enter and occupy the nearby collegiate gridiron. School officials are working closely with animal control officers and wildlife enthusiasts from across the state to clear the field before the Nittany Lions’ next home-game in two weeks.
Our 1-4 (29-30, .491, 0-fer-4 on totals) tally last Saturday sent us scurryin’ with the rest of the vermin to the protection of a dam within the noted-structure. We’re foraging to grab as many twigs and tree-branches as we can find to fortify our fitty-yard-line shelter with...
THE WEBER KID’S 2020 WEEK 14 FORECAST
(Hopin’ to stay outta’ “down-and-dissonance"!)
SAT. DEC. 5
#1 Alabama @ LSU (“under 67 ½): While we readily-acknowledge ‘Bama could cover this number alone, having pasted Kentucky 63-3 recently, Bayou Bengals defense hasn’t been horrible of late (48 at Auburn notwithstanding), but the offense has suffered a power-outage since losing starting QB Myles Brennan a few Saturdays ago, posting just 45 total points the past three games. Meanwhile, Tide stop-squad has seemingly returned to traditionally-stout form, with no opponent marking more than 17 over its past four matches. If Joan Jett sang a song about Russian-meddling in the Yellowhammer State submissions during the presidential election, would we hear...”Krimson Tide and Klover...voter and voter...”??!! Alabama 44 LSU 10
#3 Ohio State (-24) over MICHIGAN STATE: It’s certainly not our preference to give big points, but this is the first of two selections this week to “lay the lumber”. Ironically, Spartans have beaten two of the three ranked-teams they’ve faced. Michigan’s demise speaks for itself, but Northwestern was uncharacteristically-careless with the ball. Buckeyes take the field under live-fire conditions having completed just four contests and are prolly fortunate to still be in Queen Quad of the CFB rankings this week and may need some style-points here to stave-off Texas A&M and Florida. MSU losses by 42 at Iowa and by 24 vs. Indy give us hope for an OSU cover...Ohio State 49 Least Lancing 17
#13 OKLAHOMA (-22) over Baylor: Bears’ largest loss to-date came at Texas by 11 and BU played well in 38-31 defeat at now-#12 Iowa State, but come into this one having been in a pair of one-point games the past three weeks, the latter of which was a 32-31 win over K-State on the strength of a field goal as time expired after rallying from a 9-point hole in the 4th Quarter. Sooners spent an off-week reveling in the four-TD Bedlam victory over rival Cowpokes and look like they’ve righted the wagon, winning and covering past five contests since a 1-2 start. The D has improved as well, relinquishing an average of 16 ppg over last four. Bears had won ATS in 10 of 14 roadies entering the 2020 campaign, but are just 2-2 at the moment. OK squeaked by BU last year by 3 in Waco, but smacked the Bears by 33 here in 2018...
Oklahoma 51 Ursa Minor 20
#22 Tulsa @ NAVY (“over 49 ½”): We like the drop from 51 ½! Middies are 6-2 “over” and we’re not havin’ any of Week 13’s 10-7 vs. Memphis! Swabbies show defense allowing 33.6 ppg, even accounting for last week’s Herd contest. Of concern are Navy’s out-puts of single-digits in three of eight appearances. Ironically, Tulsa has illuminated the bulbs fer 33.6 points per game on offense, excluding 7 at Oklahoma State beginning the season. Golden Hurricane has defeated two of three Top 25 foes and Marc Lawrence’s Playbook.Com RPR of 4 (on offense)/124 (on defense) screams “over”. Tulsa has major-revenge in its corner, having gone down three consecutive years, so minus-11 wouldn’t be outta’ da’ question. Last trio of contests have ended in totals of 52, 66 and 62. USN has struggled in wake of big depth-chart losses from 2019’s 11-2 club. Navy, unlike, academy-counterparts Army and Air Force, are nowhere near rushing for typical Top 5 pace, therefore foreboding more possessions on both sides and creating more scoring-chances. Boat People, with no bowl viable, could even rest some starters ahead of contest at Army...Tropical Depression 37 Navy 23
Stanford (+11 ½) over #23 WASHINGTON: More or less, we’re applyin’ da’ same logic we used in going against Baylor above. Huskies got into the EZ for winning-score with about a half-minute remaining to edge Utah after overcoming 21-point-deficit at the intermission. BTW, we offer our gratitude to the Trees for last Saturday’s efforts (see our “Black Shirt”-segment below). Huskies are mediocre 9-9 ATS as home-chalk the past three-plus seasons and have distraction of ranked-Drakes on-deck. Marc Lawence’s Playbook.Com has Cardinal as a “mission-team” off 4-8 tally for 2019, though Palo Alto didn’t notch first SU and ATS victory until last week following 0-2 SU/ATS versus Oregon and Colorado. Joint 4-2 “under” may warrant a play on “under 50 ½"...UDUB 27 Stanford 20
BETWEEN THE HASHMARKS
BTW, our spies say, at night, the beavers gather around campfires, drinking coffee and eating beans from canteen cups, while discussing Vindy’s Picks! In addition, upon learning of the effort to remove the woodland creatures from the location, your humble narrator went-all William Wallace from Mel’ Gibson’s Braveheart and shouted, “They may take our dams, but they’ll never take...our freedommmmmm!” (Self-referring to the Employee Assistance Program as we speak!)
In related news, a giant sarcastic raspberry to the Alma Mater for notching its first victory on the year, just preceding the celestial spectacle, by besting the Wolverines 27-17. Staying within travel-restrictions fer “bubble” purposes, da’ Nitwit Lions will remain in Ann Arbor until further notice and will play Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan, putting them in position to potentially face Buffalo (who crushed Kent State [+9] 70-41, handing us our only “best bet” loss this week) in the MAC Championship game!
In a follow-up to our Week 13 lead story, we expect cruise-liners, which will serve as off-shore homes to clubs not actually on the court practicing or playing and likely to be supplied by Royal Caribbean, Carnival and Disney Princess, to create conflict over who gets to stay on the more-masculinely named vessels!
Not long ago, we caught a stat that the AP Top 5 had gone 7-17 ATS against unranked clubs to that point of the 2020 season. Since then, ‘Bama and Clemson covered, while Texas A&M did not, bringing that record to 9-18. Each of this week’s qualifiers face unranked-opponents. Stay tuned!
Last week, then-#4 Virginia hoops team fell 61-60 to the Don Juans of San Franscisco. Not-far-removed from Round-of-64 defeat vs. #16-seed University of Milton Bradley College in the 2018 NCAA Tournament, Wahoos have legally-changed their mascots from “Cavaliers” to “Chandeliers”, “Case-of-Beers", “Disappears” and “Guineveres”!
In February, former Hoosiers coach Bob Knight returned courtside at Assembly Hall, for the first-time since 2000, fer Indiana’s contest against Purdue and launched his grandchild’s folding high-chair onto da’ hardwood following a missed-call by officials!
The Maui Invitational hoops tournament was completed earlier this week...in Asheville, North Carolina! The home to the UNC-Asheville Bulldogs was in short-supply on pig roasts, palm trees and pineapple, but the participating squads had their choice of some lovely cabins in the Blue Ridge Mountains! No word yet as to whether players could “catch a wave” on the nearby French Broad or Swannanoa Rivers!
Black Shirt: This week’s Awesome Apparel goes to Stanford DE Thomas Booker for blocking what woulda’ been a game-tying XP with a minute to play, keeping the contest at Cal from going to OT and a very-likely “over 54”, cashing one of our three Week 13 “best bets”. Honorable mention to Central Michigan K Marshall Meeder (“Enimem”?!) for contributing 11 cumulative points (5 coming in the final 4:34) on 3 FGs (one from 51-yards) and 2 XP to help the Chippies (-7) win by 8 over EMU (another one of our three successful “best bets”)!
Shoppe Talk: The Shorthorns of Texas return to the Shoppe at 1-4 (.200) after conspiring with Iowa State to finish well-beneath 57, contrary to our choice of “over”!
Vindy’s Bowl Predictions Week 14 Best Bets: Last Week: 3-1 Season: 30-12 (.714)
Boston College +6 over VIRGINIA, RUTGERS +11 over Penn State, Florida Atlantic +2 ½ over JOJA’ SUDDEN, Colorado State @ SAN DIEGO STATE “under 47”
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