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FLV Bets Week 11: “Jump Into My Nightmare the Water’s Warm” Edition

With little to no value on the horizon until the bowl season, Vegas Kyle has invoked the intelligent capper’s best friend—get out when the edge...
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FLV Week 11 College Football Betting

Vegas Kyle said he might be done with college football as it gets harder to find true value later in the season because Vegas tightens up their...
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Vegas Kyle College Football Week 8 Card

Locked in: Oklahoma -3 (-115) over Missouri Nebraska -3 (-120) over Oklahoma State georgia -4 kent state -2 boston college...
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Vegas Kyle College Football Week 7 Card

Overall Record - 45-19-1 Week 1: 8-5 Week 2: 11-3 Week 3: 4-4 Week 4: 11-2 Week 5: 5-2 Week 6: 6-3-1 Locked In : Temple -14.5 Akron...
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Week 5 Recaps and Bet Grades

Recaps for week 5 　 Georgia -2.5 loser grade D minus I had a chance to cash in this one but never felt like it was the right side. I thought while georgia made the bigger plays...
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Vegas Kyle College Football Week 6 Card

Lines just came out so go for it. ohio -5.5 cuse +11 auburn -8.5 miss st -2.5 niu -1.5 wmichigan +7 -120 arkansas -7 miami...
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Week 4 Play Grades and Recaps

South Carolina +3 --Loser -- GRADE F-plus ( is there such a thing ?) I actually had a lot wrong about this game which I will get into. First lets get the spurrier decision to...
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Vegas Kyle College Football Week 5 Card

Will give thoughts later just getting them posted so you can attack if so inclined. Locked in: Buffalo +9.5 Kent st +3 -120 Notre Dame...
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Grading Week 3 Bets with Recaps

Nebraska -4 winner Grade A + --21 first downs to 13. 533 yards to 246. 8.2 yards per play to 4.1 yards per play. Won’t waste any more of our time discussing it as that pretty much...
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Week 4 Card, so far

Overall 23-12 week 1 8-5 week 2 11-3 week 3 4-4 Happy with how i capped last week. USC fumbled instead of taking a knee to lose one bet and i lost another on a 99 yard td drive...
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Week 2 Recaps and Bet Grades

week 1 8-5 week 2 11-3 Week 2 recaps and grades. This should be fun since it was such a good week. The past weekend actually reminded me of something about my personal...
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Time to post week 3 bets so far

Here we go .. lots of favorites to start Navy -3 Troy -3 uconn -4 usc -15 west virginia -13.5 Nebraska -4 Since the FLV Tools aren't working unless you are logged off, I...
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2009 College Football Ratings and Stats First Release

The teams are connected strongly enough for all the ratings and stat adjustments to stabilize. As always at this point of the season, keep in mind...
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Barking Bets: Week Six, Enter Huck’s Supercomputer

Well week 5 was certainly one to remember and could have been even better had CSU not crapped the second half bed. A double digit first half lead...
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FLV Bets: Week 9

Well, we came back down to earth for a mediocre 3-3 record, but we still managed profitability by hitting two two unit plays for a nice 1 unit cash minus juice. I'm not sure how New...
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Introducing the Fading Las Vegas Sportsbook

Fading Las Vegas would like to introduce our newest feature: The Fading Las Vegas Sportsbook. Please let me know any issues you have or any...
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FLV Bets: Week 10

Another ho hum 3-3 but the good news is we hit on more big bets than we lost so the weekend was at least profitable. Had San Jose State been able to tackle the third string running...
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Top Five Motivational Angles

Coaching angles, motivational spots, and intangibles are so important when capping games played by 18-22 year olds especially when you get to bowl season. If a 2 TD favorite doesn't...
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Bowl Betting Ten Commandments With Commentary

Here's a pretty handy list from prominent Vegas handicapper Andrew Iskoe on the bowl season. My comments underneath each commandment are in bold. ...
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Computer Model Forecasting – The Next Level

To this point, my computer model has been based only on scores of games with no attention paid to the contributing statistical performances. Just...
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New Mexico, St. Petersburg, and New Orleans Bowls – Computer Model Review

In my last post I explained the additional information we'll be publishing for bowl season. Basically, each matchup will be forecasted based not...
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Bowl Preview 2: Knights of St. Peter are Scarlet

St. Petersburg Bowl --Game will be played in St. Petersburg Florida Rutgers vs. Central Florida Location Edge -- Significant edge to Central...
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Bowl Preview 1: The New Mexico Bowl

As titilating a matchup as the age old green chile vs. red chile debate, the Fresno State Bulldogs square off against the Fighting Fennis Dembos of...
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Bowl Preview 4: Las Vegas Bowl- Beavers Frolic Near Hoover Dam

Las Vegas Bowl --Game will be played at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. Oregon State Beavers vs. BYU Cougars Location Edge-- Edge to BYU The...
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Bowl Preview 5: Poinsettia Bowl

Ah, the Mexican Christmas Flower Bowl. As a kid who grew up in El Paso, this is a wheelhouse game for me. But more importantly, we'll get to see a rematch between the Mountain West...
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FLV NFL Bets – Christmas Edition

This is long overdue but with this damn holiday getting in the way of our college bowl betting, I thought today would be a good time to begin looking at NFL betting. College...
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Bowl Preview 6: The Hawaii Bowl

Action junkies unite. The only football wagering event of the day takes place when the SMU Mustangs take on the Nevada fighting Fazekas tonight. On to the numbers. Where:...
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Bowl Preview 7: Little Caesars Bowl

A 9-4 Frank Solich led Ohio team faces off against the 6-6 Marshall Thundering Randy Mosses in a bowl game today. It's called the Little Caesars...
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Bowl Preview 8: Meineke Car Care Bowl

The 2009 Meineke Car Care Bowl, for one year anyway, should be renamed Former Dallas Cowboy Defensive Coordinator sponsored by Baby Dolls Bowl. The...
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FLV NFL Bets – Week 16

I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority here but I've always loved betting on the NFL more than college. College always seemed so random and unpredictable. I guess betting on 19 year...
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Bowl Preview 10: HenryJames Hotels Music City Bowl

Where: Nashville, TN When: December 27, 7:30 Central on ESPN Line History: Opened at 7 down to 6.5. Total is 53. Trips Rights' Blind Line:...
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Bowl Preview 11: Advocare V100 Independence Bowl

Where: Shreveport, LA When: December 28, 4:00 Central on ESPN Line History: Opened at 7 but you can find 6.5's. Total is 67. Trips Rights'...
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Bowl Preview 12: Champs Sports Bowl

Where: Orlando, FL When: December 29, 7:00 Central on ESPN Line History: Opened at 2 but up to 3.5 now. Total is 57. Trips Rights' Blind...
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Bowl Preview 29: The Fiesta Bowl

Here at FLV bets, we're coming off of a huge 6 unit profit Friday and Saturday in college football and a big day in the Niffel Sunday with dick's...
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College Football Wagering: There’s No Place Like Home

With the College Football Season getting closer, it is time to start preparing for the upcoming season as a winning bettor. Sure that means raiding...
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Wagering on Spots? You Betcha: Three To Keep an Eye On

As we look over the schedules of the upcoming season, it is a good time to look at situational spots that will be very favorable or unfavorable for...
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Thursday Night, Opening Night of College Football: How the line looks by Pure Power Rating

Some Power Rating lines for the September 2 games week 1. This does not account for matchups so these would not necessarily be my final lines for...
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College Football: Florida, Ohio State, Other Teams and the Vanilla Factor

One thing that is unique to week one betting in college football is the superior team going vanilla against a lesser in order to hide scheme from...
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Added A Bet: Did You Guess Panthers?

I went ahead and added Pittsburgh +3.5 to my rather extensive betting card for week 1. This is how my week 1 card looks so far. The first...
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Why I Bet On The Troy Trojans

As some of you who have read me in past seasons may know, I tend to get carried away with detail sometimes when I make my writeups. This year I will try and get away from that a tad...
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Florida Gators Will Cover The Spread Against the Miami Ohio Redhawks

Why I think the Florida Gators cover the -30.5 against Miami Ohio. Before I get into the game I want to give the Redhawks some credit …...
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Wisconsin Will Have No Power Outage This Time

Why I played wisconsin -14 and would play up to -20.5 along with the concerns. -Wisconsin fans will outnumber rebel fans in the...

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It’s here. My picks will be out tomorrow today. Check out Scipio’s preview of the Texas/Oakland game here. Trips also has one here. They are both must read and fall under my same thinking that Texas has no problem covering the 9 against Oakland.

My Picks

A thread for the masses to discuss the greatness of Championship Week and all the wages that go with it.

For some reason the Big 12 and Big East lines aren’t out yet. Texas will be a 16 pt fave or so tomorrow over OU. Not sure i would

Monday

Kansas State +9.5 at Texas – 2 or maybe 3 units on Kansas State. This one is a gift unfortunately.

Tuesday

Okie St -2 at home vs Baylor – I don’t trust Baylor to go into Stillwater and get a win. They should have a letdown after their

Wednesday’s Slate:

Kansas State at Nebraska -1

Notre Dame at Providence +3.5

Michigan only getting 3.5 at home to Wisconsin is curiously low. Also taking a look at Tech +1.5 at home against Colorado although I want to see if Singletary is playing, even though they didn’t need him to win

Getting off to a late start this week and we missed a crazy Monday game where Kansas St really beat down the newly minted #1 Kansas Jayhawks.

Usually I am all over home conference dogs in a rivalry game but I was doubtful that the Wildcats still had a performance like

It’s Rivalry Week for college basketball. Sort of a boring last week but there is much promise for the week ahead. We have UNC/Duke, Texas/OU, tOSU/Wisky and Pitt @ Nova. There is nothing really of interest for Monday but there are plenty of picks to come. Texas fans probably won’t

Last week was a crazy fantastic week of college basketball that’s got me drooling for March. Seventeen ranked teams lost last week including 7 top 10 squads (with Syracuse and Nova losing twice).

Monday 1/31

Texas -1 @ Texas ATM – All of that shakeup last week has led to

Tuesday 1/25

KU @ Colorado + 7 - Home conference dog in a tough venue (elevation wise, crowd will be 50/50). I am hoping the CU’s loss to a terrible OU team doesn’t signal the return to earth for this CU team. I am thinking that it just tells us what

Green Bay -3 over Pittsburgh. Over/Under is 46. Props to come.

This will probably creep to 2 before it’s all said and done. I’m pretty surprised that Green Bay is giving the full 3 right off the bat.

A thread for discussion on college basketball bets. We’ll keep one up per week and can just add bets and post them here as we see value. Might start tweeting picks as well so follow us at @FadingLasVegas. Hopefully VK makes it back for some college bball