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3* Winnipeg -4.5 (CFL)
3* Car/Pitt under 6.5 goals
3* Missouri -3 (Saturday play posted on Monday)
Missouri -3
The line is Mo. -3 (-115) at Olympic and -3.5 (-103) at Pinnacle on Monday night. Texas Tech has been an offensive machine with Graham Harrell at QB throwing the ball (mainly to Michael Crabtree). The Tigers have played well vs. TT lately, winning 38-21 in Lubbock last year and blowing out Mo. 62-31 at Missouri in 2003 (Brad Smith and BJ Symons were the QB's).
Missouri is off a loss at Oklahoma and they were only able to rush for 57 yards, well below their average of 195. RB Tony Temple missed the Okla. game and is probable this week.
Here is what the Tiger coach said of Temple, "He's our catalyst on the offense," Pinkel said. "He likes to run the football well and he does. That's definitely going to be a huge bonus to have him back."
The Tigers are 9-1 ATS in their last 10 home games (this is Homecoming!) while TT is just 3-8 ATS in their last 11 vs. winning teams.
Here are the scores to Mo. at home:
Western Mich 52-24
ILL State 52-24
Nebraska 41-6
Mo. has won by an avg. of 36-14 in their last 10 at home with 16 rushing TD's to only 7 for the opponents and outscored the opposing teams 20-7 in the first half and outgained them 4933 to 2944 (yards).
TT has not played Oklahoma and Texas yet but have put up points:
at SMU 49-9
UTEP 45-31
at Rice 59-24
at Okla State (lost) 49-45
NW State 75-7
Iowa State 42-17
Tx A&M 35-7
Missouri could have a letdown after their loss on the road but they played well and did not have Temple available and now go home to face a team that passes well while Mo. can run and pass well. Missouri outran TT 474 yards to 91 in the last game at Mo.
The Tigers have only played one good team at home and that was Nebraska and that win is not as glorious as it looked a few weeks back. Also, the Tigers have a good QB named Chase Daniel and he can run and pass. Even the backup QB is named Chase (Patton).
Let's hope the Missouri Tigers jump out to an early lead and the Red Raiders "chase" them all day and never catch them.
Missouri -3
ATS Lock Club
3 units on Louisville (-3) over Connecticut, 8:00pmET