UPDATED 09/26/21 Week 4 Final Results
Change at the top with TMC4 USC zooming to the top with 39,000, Mr and Mrs SteveG in second with 25,500, TrojanRJJ in third with 24,000 and San Diego Trojan just 500 back in fourth with 23,500. What do these people all have in common…..they did not bet on USC.
| Week Four Results of TDB Contest | ||||||
| Beginning Balance | 14,900.00 | Allen Wallace | ||||
| (1,000.00) | Loss | WIS -1.5 for 1000 | ||||
| (1,000.00) | Loss | USC -13.5 for 1000 | ||||
| 1,000.00 | Won | UCLA -6.5 for 1000 | ||||
| (1,000.00) | Loss | ORE -27.5 for 1000 | ||||
| (1,000.00) | Loss | UW -7.5. for 1000 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 11,900.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 20,100.00 | Chris | ||||
| (3,000.00) | Loss | USC -13.5 for 3000 | ||||
| (1,000.00) | Loss | stanford + 6.5 for 1000 | ||||
| (500.00) | Loss | Wisconsin -1.5 for 500 | ||||
| 500.00 | Won | Arizona +27.5 for 500 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 16,100.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 19,000.00 | TrojanRJJ | ||||
| 3,500.00 | Won | Oregon St. +13.5 for 3,500 | ||||
| 1,500.00 | Won | UCLA -6.5 for 1,500 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 24,000.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 22,000.00 | TMC4USC | ||||
| 17,000.00 | Win | Notre Dame +1.5 17,000 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 39,000.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 18,000.00 | sjvermont | ||||
| (3,000.00) | Loss | USC -13.5 for 3000 | ||||
| 1,000.00 | Won | California +7.5 for 1000 | ||||
| (500.00) | Loss | Oregon -27.5 for 500 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 15,500.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 19,000.00 | Jalenbuck1 | ||||
| 1,000.00 | Win | Notre Dame + 1.5 for 1000 | ||||
| (1,000.00) | Loss | Texas Tech + 11.5 for 1000 | ||||
| (1,000.00) | Loss | Utah -14.5 for 1000 | ||||
| (3,000.00) | Loss | USC -13.5 for 3000 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 15,000.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 30,000.00 | LaywerJohn | ||||
| (4,000.00) | Loss | SC -13 1/2 for 4000 | ||||
| (4,000.00) | Loss | Wisconsin -1.5 for 4000 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 22,000.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 16,500.00 | Troy5543 | ||||
| (1,000.00) | Loss | Stanford +6.5 for 1,000 | ||||
| (1,000.00) | Loss | Wisconsin -1.5 for 1,000 | ||||
| (2,000.00) | Loss | USC -13.5 for 2,000 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 12,500.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 19,500.00 | BUS83 | ||||
| (1,000.00) | Loss | Wisconsin -1.5 for 1000 | ||||
| (3,000.00) | Loss | Oregon -27.5 for 3000 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 15,500.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 20,500.00 | Mr&Mrs Steveg | ||||
| 5,000.00 | Win | Notre Dame +1.5 5000 | ||||
| 2,000.00 | Win | ucla -6.5 2000 | ||||
| (2,000.00) | Loss | USC -13.5 2000 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 25,500.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 13,500.00 | Satyrdancing | ||||
| 500.00 | Win | Texas -11.5 for 500 | ||||
| (500.00) | Loss | Utah -14.5 for 500 | ||||
| (500.00) | Loss | Oregon -27.5 for 500 | ||||
| (10,500.00) | Loss | USC -13.5 for 10,500 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 2,500.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 14,000.00 | Trojans562 | ||||
| 2,000.00 | Win | Notre Dame +1.5 for 2000 | ||||
| 3,000.00 | Win | Washington St +14.5 3000 | ||||
| 2,000.00 | Win | Arizona +27.5 for 2000 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 21,000.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 21,500.00 | San Diego Trojan | ||||
| 1,000.00 | Win | Notre Dame + 1.5 for 1000 | ||||
| 1,000.00 | Win | Texas -11.5 for 1000 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 23,500.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 18,400.00 | DubPar22 | ||||
| (2,500.00) | Loss | Wisconsin -1.5 for 2500 | ||||
| (2,000.00) | Loss | Utah -14.5 for 2000 | ||||
| 2,000.00 | Win | UCLA -6.5 for 2000 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 15,900.00 | |||||
| Beginning Balance | 20,000.00 | GoldenTrojan | ||||
| (5,000.00) | Loss | USC -13.5 FOR 5000 | ||||
| (2,000.00) | Loss | Wisconsin -1.5 for 2000 | ||||
| Ending Balance | 13,000.00 | |||||
UPDATED 9/24/21
Final Wagers Posted
Allen Wallace
WIS -1.5 for 1000
USC -13.5 for 1000
UCLA -6.5 for 1000
ORE -27.5 for 1000
UW -7.5. for 1000
Chris
USC -13.5 for 3000
stanford + 6.5 for 1000
Wisconsin -1.5 for 500
Arizona +27.5 for 500
TrojanRJJ
Oregon St. +13.5 for 3,500
UCLA -6.5 for 1,500
TMC4USC
Notre Dame +1.5 17,000
sjvermont
USC -13.5 for 3000
California +7.5 for 1000
Oregon -27.5 for 500
Jalenbuck1
Notre Dame + 1.5 for 1000
Texas Tech + 11.5 for 1000
Utah -14.5 for 1000
USC -13.5 for 3000
LaywerJohn
SC -13 1/2 for 4000
Wisconsin -1.5 for 4000
Troy5543
Stanford +6.5 for 1,000
Wisconsin -1.5 for 1,000
USC -13.5 for 2,000
BUS83
Wisconsin -1.5 for 1000
Oregon -27.5 for 3000
Mr&Mrs Steveg
Notre Dame +1.5 5000
ucla -6.5 2000
USC -13.5 2000
Satyrdancing
Texas -11.5 for 500
Utah -14.5 for 500
Oregon -27.5 for 500
USC -13.5 for 10,500
Trojans562
Notre Dame +1.5 for 2000
Washington St +14.5 3000
Arizona +27.5 for 2000
San Diego Trojan
Notre Dame + 1.5 for 1000
Texas -11.5 for 1000
DubPar22
Wisconsin -1.5 for 2500
Utah -14.5 for 2000
UCLA -6.5 for 2000
GoldenTrojan
USC -13.5 FOR 5000
Wisconsin -1.5 for 2000
These are the games for Week 4 of the Contest.
Corrected Ucla/Stanford game odds – 9/20/2021 1220pm.
Important Clarification: Your wagers are not locked in until Friday at Noon PT. You may change any submitted wager prior to that time.
Notre Dame +1.5 at Wisconsin -1.5 9am Fox
Texas Tech +11.5 at Texas -11.5 9am ABC
Washington St +14.5 at Utah -14.5 1130am P12
Ucla -6.5 at Stanford +6.5 3pm P12
California +7.5 at Washington -7.5 630pm P12
Arizona +27.5 at Oregon -27.5 7pm ESPN
Colorado +14.5 at Arizona St -14.5 730pm ESPNU
Oregon St +13.5 at USC -13.5 730pm FS1
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The favorites were 6-2 Saturday and the 2 that lost, lost big time and were my picks.😫 Only 3 of the 6 winning favorites covered the points. I need a come back this week.
Me too. I may have to try some new tactics. Don’t ask me what those might be, however. It might help though if I stopped betting on USC this season.
👌
Now UTAH gets a bye week to help prepare for USC in the Coliseum on Oct. 9.
Congrats to TMC4USC (17,000 units and back in the game), and to Mr&MrsSteveG (5000) for staying true to their Notre Dame bets. The Irish sure needed that extra 1 1/2 to 6 1/2 betting points to beat the Badgers, right? I did not watch the game, but other than ND owning the line of scrimmage, the new Wisconsin quarterback was not nearly as good as the castoff Wisconsin quarterback, who happened to be the ND quarterback. Ironic…
It is so much easier to handle a loss of a bet when it is in units and not dollars!.
I hated picking ND. I can’t stand that team, school, coach, mascot, etc but this one felt to me like an easy win just like UM over UW 2 weeks ago. Plus if they lost, I’d be down to my last 5,000 points but content with the knowledge that the Irish lost. So it really was a win/win proposition for me. I guess best case scenario would have been a one point Badger win…oh well. On to next week.
From YahooSports.com: Notre Dame vs Wisconsin Week 4 of the college football season is here and bettors are making their positions known. We’ve got some intriguing games on the docket as conference play begins for many teams. Which games are receiving the most action at BetMGM? Two top-20 teams go head-to-head at Soldier Field in Chicago, as the Wisconsin Badgers are currently 6.5-point favorites over the higher-rated Fighting Irish. Despite the underdog role, it hasn’t prevented bettors from flocking to Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish are the most popular side on the slate in terms of number of bets placed.… Read more »
USC -13.5 FOR 5000 UNITS
Wisconsin -1.5 for 2000 units
Oregon St. +13.5 for 3,500
UCLA -6.5 for 1,500
USC -13.5 for 3000
California +7.5 for 1000
Oregon -27.5 for 500
Wisconsin -1.5 for 2500
Utah -14.5 for 2000
UCLA -6.5 for 2000
Notre Dame + 1.5 for 1000
Texas Tech + 11.5 for 1000
Utah -14.5 for 1000
USC -13.5 for 3000
WIS -1.5 for 1000
USC -13.5 for 1000
UCLA -6.5 for 1000
ORE -27.5 for 1000
UW -7.5. for 1000
Notre Dame +1.5 for 2000
Washington St +14.5 for 3000
Arizona +27.5 for 2000
I am going against the strategy of betting only 1 game a week. Wisconsin moving up to a 6 1/2 point favorite when it started at only 1 1/2 (and where OUR betting line still stands) the Badgers look too inviting to stay away. Betting is always 50-50, but if one has confidence in his/her team approaching 60%, then go with it. Besides, this is the game of the week, and Badgers’ fans are wild about Saturday with Notre Dame. Wisconsin plays football, even though we don’t pay much attention to them. They almost beat the 1963 SC footballers for… Read more »
Just to be clear, you are adding this Wisconsin wager to make a total of two picks this week?
Yes, please.
Wisconsin -1.5 for 1000
Oregon -27.5 for 3000
Fight On!
Texas -11.5 for 500
Utah -14.5 for 500
Oregon -27.5 for 500
USC -13.5 for 10,500
Fight On!
TMC4USC, you got robbed. You only got 1 1/2 points on Notre Dame, whereas the betting line now has the Fighting Irish as a 6 1/2 point ‘dog. I cannot recall a line changing that much… And the line on SC has moved from 13 1/2 to 12, probably because of their 2 quarterbacks being banged up.
The amount of money being bet on Notre Dame weighs heavily on the odds. Bookmakers have to cover their rears. I still cannot figure out how WI is favored over ND, yet ranked several spots below them.
How true.
Betting lines are dictated by the public.
Rankings are compiled by either the coaches, or the press.
That’s why they differ IMO.
I appreciate the “heads up” on the changing betting line but I’m sticking with my pick. .
Stanford +6.5 for 1,000
Wisconsin -1.5 for 1,000
USC -13.5 for 2,000
Notre Dame +1.5 5000
ucla -6.5 2000
USC -13.5 2000
USC -13.5 for 3000
stanford + 6.5 for 1000
Wisconsin -1.5 for 500
Arizona +27.5 for 500
I had a brother that was the biggest bookie in the Long Beach area for years. He made a fortune on the football cards and always told me to never play them. So here I am in the contest and it sure is bringing back old memories. We are playing so my wife can learn how to understand the odds, the O/U, and why they change. If we win great, if not it keeps us interested for the entire day watching games we are “invested” in. Just cannot figure out why Wisconsin is favored over ND. I hate betting on… Read more »
I would not say the Badgers are the home team, Steveg, since the game is at Soldier Field, Chicago, a mere 2-hour drive from Notre Dame. What I hear is that ND considers this a transitional year with a lot of talented but young players. And The Irish have a discarded Wisconsin quarterback leading them. However, Wisconsin has not played that great, so this is a tough game to dissect and is the most interesting game of the weekend.
Looking at WI losing to Penn St and beating EMich by 28 with a bye in week 3, Notre Dame squeaking by a fired up FSU by 3, Toledo by 3, and Perdue by 14 if I was making the odds I would have the Irish favored.
So, Week 1. I place 4 small bets on games that I felt pretty good about and lost all 4. Week 2, I throw caution to the wind and choose just one game. I bet big. I won big. Week 3, six games with low bets and lost all 6. Obviously I have to adopt my Week 2 strategy. So here it goes. Notre Dame +1.5 17,000
No sure bets this week, but SC has to be the most relieved team in America after the Stanford debacle and getting cured at Washington St. 13 1/2 points is a lot to give up, but I bet the Trojans ride this momentum streak for at least another week.
SC -13 1/2 for 4000
Anyone watching Peyton& Eli on MNF. Peyton is a natural for TV. Check out the show in ESPN2. I think you will find it entertaining.
Peyton has always been good on TV and I do enjoy the brother act as well. Btw: Aaron Rogers just doesn’t look like he is interested in the game.
He is a different dude. But he can play QB. The fact he only has one SB win shows how hard it is to get one.
I watched it last night. It was great. Sitting in my living room watching a game with guys who have forgot more about football than I will ever know. Their guests, Gronkowski, Farve! Dissecting the game. Great stories, kidding back and forth. The only NFL game I will watch from now on.
By the way Peyton and Cooper did the College Bowl quiz show, which USC came in 2nd to Columbia, beating Alabama and UCLA (twice) to get to the finals. Cooper Manning has a dry humor like Eli. Peyton is just a talker.
Notre Dame + 1.5 for 1000 units
Texas -11.5 for 1000 units
Say hey, John, sucla should read Minus 6 1/2 as the favorite. First of all, there was controversy regarding my bet of 15,000 last week. I figured besides the Hawaii game, SC-Washington St was the best lock of the week. But later I heard it was pouring at the stadium, so I would have liked to get out from under such a large bet, but I knew the AW/John Contest Rules did not allow that….. Still, I vented to John: “It is the eve of SC v Washington State, and since it is raining, I would like to withdraw my… Read more »
Thank you for catching my mistake on the Ucla game, I have updated the point spread on my post.
I used Bobby Singer’s book on blackjack to help pay my way through USC.
Beautiful. As for me I broke even with the blackjack playing, which in a sense is “winning,” but I quit shortly after graduating SC when in New Jersey I had a 5% advantage and I lost 5 $100 bets in a row. I figured it was time to look for another way to make a living.
As you can no doubt attest to, it is extremely difficult to win and when you play like this, it is a job; there was no having fun playing, no socializing at the table, no free drinks, never took a comp because I viewed it as a distraction. Before I sat down at a table I made sure that I had enough bank to cover 20 straight losses, if I didn’t then I did not play. Sounds to me that you were more of a high-roller than I was, my bets were limited to $5.00 with the goal to win… Read more »
You’re jogging my memories, John– I got thrown out of a couple of casinos when they presumed I was counting, even if it was a $5 table. If I felt free of supervision I would bet $5 90% of the time, waiting for that 5% advantage to pop up every once in a while, so I could hit them with a $100 bet… And one time the deck was so pro-player and not dealer, that I successfully took the insurance bet, usually a very poor bet, 3 times in a row and was thrown out… Aaaaah, those were the days… Read more »
Hey guys, thanks for all you do. Just curious, Bovada has UCLA minus 6 against Stanford, and I’ve seen some Vegas odds of UCLA -4. Just checking to see if your number was right. Certainly affects how I would bet. Thanks
Thanks, I corrected the odds on the Ucla game. I got my + – reversed.