OT: PAC 12 Week 5: Ka-ching, or Off we go, into the wild black yonder

I mean, c’mon: the only thing ID has going for it is the cool name (the Vandals). Talent-wise they’re the OTHER San Jose of the WAC. If you can’t drub these guys at least 17 pts worth o’ senseless on a nice weather-neutral Oct. day in Charlottesville…

OSU @ No. 25 ASU [-18]
Easiest bet o’ the week. The Punkin Eaters are now in Dante’s 4th circle of the Inferno and descending fast, while the Scum Devils ate SC for lunch last wk – and kinda liked the taste. This will get ugly early and Osweiler will go storky-berserk for 450 or 540 or sth as they beat the 18.

ASU 35-20. Yeah, this got ugly all right, as Osweiler triumphed in the Least INT Sweepstakes w/ only 3 (to Mannion’s 4) to win the Unbelievably Sloppy Bowl. And not cover. Key-ripes!

Zona @ SC [-12 ½]
Best sneak-bet o’ the week: Zona beats the 12.5. The Rubbers have started a 4-game sucking streak and the Zorros may be the best 1-3 team in the country after losses to 3 top 10 teams in a row. If somebody from the desert can run for 70 yds or sth, Foles will keep this close in the Coliseum.

SC 48-41, ka-ching, in "a game largely devoid of defense", haha. Antolin runs for 87 and Foles plays the whole 2nd half, incl. the final $ drive, to make me look psychic. Hey, I AM.

WSU @ CO [-3]
Tough call, and the kinda game where Wazoo used to kill me with alarming regularity: marginally better personnel match-ups but playing away. And an unfamiliar away venue at that. Can’t believe I’m doing this, but grit your teeth and take ‘em to beat the 3, with a big day for Lobbestael at high altitude.
 
Yup, Wazoo IS for real. Well, a lot realer than they’ve been in recent memory. Beat the 3 all right, and Lobbestael did indeed get a Rocky Mt. high, at 32-49/ 377/3/1. Nice job, fellas.

U Dub @ UT [-10]
OK, crapping all over BYU was a Good Thing – but not good enough to justify UT’s 10 here vs. the Dawgs, who put up 38 in Nebraska. Y’axe me, I think Price will make this a tough win for UT, sth def in the single digits.
 
U DUB 31-14. Thank Price (22-30/3/1) for this nice Ka-chinger, as UT doesn’t even beat, hee-hee, much less W. Boy are they mysterious. Again. Oh well, as long as they do it on somebody else’s dime.

UCLA @ No. 6 Snodfart [-21 ½]
A tougher call than it sounds, as I can see UCLA playing a good 1st half in PA, which they have had an annoying habit of doing more often than the talent diff should allow. But Luck will out, and STA will eventually cover – even though they’ll miss Skov sorely against this gun OFF.

STA 45-19. Played to form, with Luck throwing (and catching!) his way past a sticking-closer-early-than-they-oughtta Neuheisel team in the 2nd. The final ($) drive was a thing of beauty.

Regional Pick o’ the Wick: San Jose @ Colo St [-3 ½]
R U kidding me? San Jose sux and the Colonsters are a sort-of-OK team at home coming off a good away W. Bet ‘em big to beat this 3 ½ , even though it’s a trap game (B4 Boise on the 15th).

SJS 38-31. OK, you WEREN’T kidding me. My bad. San Jose ends its 16-game away losing streak and goes back-to-back W’s for the first time since ’08. ‘Scuse me while I beat my head against this wall. Which is how CO St. will feel, and rightly so, next week vs. Boise.

OK, two bad surprise parties. But hey, at 4-2 you shoulda still made some rubles.