The J-Dub Gambling Challenge 2019: Week 12 – “The Winning Team”
You don’t need to tell me the “square peg in round hole” nature of using a baseball movie to discuss gambling on college football. But 1952’s “The Winning Team” offers too many linear comparisons despite the difference in sport, because this movie essentially is a thinly-disguised biography of Hall-of-Fame pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander.
For starters, we have a guy named after a president being portrayed by a future commander-in-chief. If there is one occupation on earth which fundamentally understands gambling, it’s politics. Face it, every single thing a politician does is an exercise in risk versus reward. Alexander’s sojourn through life is a tale of a meteoric rise. reaching the pinnacle of success, followed by the fall from grace, the refusal to abandon hope, which allows for the chance to mount a comeback and achieve redemption, all woven around good old-fashioned alcoholism. Don’t even try to tell me that doesn’t sound exactly like gambling…
The unifying thing about gambling is that it exists in nearly every culture on earth, and even a few on “Star Trek.” But for some reason, wagering on college football is mostly a “white-bread” endeavor. Let’s be honest, is there anything more “Wonder” white-bread than Ronald Reagan and Doris Day in 1952? I’m not a white guy, but in the 4th grade I knew a kid named Grover, and I would have voted voted for Reagan if I would have been old enough.
As far as the business of the challenge is concerned, last week saw another win with a net profit of $935, which brings the bankroll for the season to $7,398.
So, let’s win another one for “The Gipper”…let’s get ready to gamble…
LEGAL DISCLAIMER (mandated by our very own Small Town Pizza Lawyer):
Thanks to the Supreme Court, gambling is no longer illegal at Bushwood, sir. However, the Supreme Court can’t really help me unless one of them is willing to keep Mrs. J-Dub from braining me with a cast-iron skillet if she found out how many dimes I’m dropping on college football. That means that as far as she knows, all wagers are mythical in nature and this is in no way, shape, or form a gambling advice column. In other words, if you lose your own “real” money, that’s nobody’s fault but yours, so don’t yell at me when we meet at the plasma center on Monday.
- Alabama (-17.5) at Mississippi State O/U 61 $75 Alabama
- Florida (-7) at Missouri O/U 50.5 $75 Florida, $75 Under
- Indiana at Penn State (-14) O/U 54.5 $100 Penn State
- Memphis (-10.5) at Houston O/U 68.5 $125 Memphis
- Navy at Notre Dame (-7) O/U 54 $250 Notre Dame
- Virginia Tech (-5.5) at Georgia Tech O/U 50.5 $100 Virginia Tech
- Georgia (-7) at Auburn O/U 40.5 $100 Georgia, $100 Over
- Texas at Iowa State (-7) O/U 66 $50 Texas, $50 Under
- West Virginia at Kansas State (-14) O/U 47.5 $75 Kansas State
- South Carolina at Texas A&M (-11) O/U 50.5 $150 Texas A&M
- Oklahoma (-10) at Baylor O/U 67.5 $100 Baylor, $100 Over
The Dubsism College Football Heavyweight Champ Bet:
Ohio State (-52.5) at Rutgers O/U 61.5 $50 Over
J-Dub’s Payday of the Week:
Minnesota at Iowa (-3) O/U 44
$250 Minnesota, $250 Over
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