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Celebration? Where?
When the Dogs scored their first touchdown yesterday, there was no on-field celebration and there was very little cheering, because most of the Bulldog fans had long left the stadium. The TD came late in the 4th quarter and made the score 49-9!
 "We didn't talk about (the celebration) this week, but we saw it, we knew about it," Tim Tebow said. "It was all over the place. We knew about it.
For a team that had been building for Saturday's moment for, oh, about 365
days, the Gators dismantled the Bulldogs before 84,649 with cold, ruthless
efficiency and with surprisingly little obvious emotion. They didn't celebrate
anything until after the game, when they did their traditional post-game
routine of singing the fight song and the alma mater in front of the UF band.
That celebration did happen to occur in the same end zone where the Bulldogs
held their controversial celebration after their first touchdown a year ago.
The victory lifts the No. 5 Gators to 7-1 overall and 5-1 in the SEC.
Florida can clinch the conference's Eastern Division title with a win at
Vanderbilt on Saturday night. The Gators also remain solidly in the national
title hunt. In the last four games, the Gators have outscored the opposition
201 to 43, and will get a lot of national attention for Saturday's crushing of
preseason No. 1 Georgia.
"I admire this team," UF coach Urban Meyer said. "The
admiration is starting to get real strong. I told them I love them. All a coach
ever wants is a team to take a real professional approach. With all the
nonsense going around this whole week, it was awesome.
 "We have to get a team ready to go to Nashville next week. I know we're
competing to get to Atlanta. That's real important to us."
The Gators certainly looked like strong championship contenders Saturday.
Tebow rushed for three touchdowns and threw for two more. And the UF
defense, trampled in this game a year ago, forced four big turnovers that
helped turn a close game into perhaps the ultimate revenge rout.
"I thought (defensive coordinator Charlie Strong) called a brilliant
game and credit goes to the players for executing the plan," Meyer said.
"When you play great defense, you're going to win a bunch of football
games."
"I knew we had this in us," said senior wide receiver Louis
Murphy, whose 44-yard TD reception gave the Gators a 28-3 lead late in the
third quarter. "We've been getting better and better.
"Last year, everybody knew what happened. We didn't need anything to
motivate us. It was in the back of our minds and we came out and played our
hearts out. The best answer is to come out and play like this. We were ready,
we hit on all cylinders. I didn't see this coming, but I knew we had a chance
to do what we did tonight."
And best of all, let's not forget that all Lock Club members were heavy on the Gators and the Over was released at the Total Play of the Year!!!
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Posted by mrpickem on Sunday, November 02 @ 05:37:20 EST (7 reads)
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Gators Back in the Hunt
Gainesville, FL - Reigning Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow threw for 210 yards with two touchdown tosses to Percy Harvin, as the 11th- ranked Florida Gators annihilated the No. 4 LSU Tigers, 51-21, in a highly anticipated SEC battle.
The romp in the Swamp featured the past two National Champions, the first such meeting in college football since Notre Dame (1988 champs) defeated Miami-Florida (1989 champs) in 1990.
The Gators rattled off 21 straight second-half points to pull away for the victory. Tebow added a rushing touchdown for Florida (5-1, 3-1 SEC), which has won two straight since its lone loss to Ole Miss. Freshman Jeffrey Demps rushed for 129 yards and a score on just 10 carries for the Gators, who had lost three of the previous four in this rivalry.
 "It was a great win for us," Tebow said. "We knew it was a big game coming in. LSU is a very good team. We wanted to start strong and we did that. They rallied back and made it a game, but we responded with maturity and took over at the end."
Brandon Spikes led the Florida defense with five tackles and two interceptions, returning one 52 yards for a touchdown in the victory.
Jarrett Lee was rattled under center, hitting 23-of-38 passes for 209 yards with two touchdowns and a pair of interceptions for LSU (4-1, 2-1), which had a six-game winning streak, dating back to last season, snapped.
"UF played a great game," Lee said. "I made some misreads and their defense took advantage of them. They are an outstanding team on both sides of the ball. I thought we fought back well, but they were just too much in the end."
Charles Scott was held under 100 yards rushing for the first time in five games, netting just 35 yards on 12 carries. Richard Dickson hauled in six balls for 36 yards and a touchdown for the Tigers, who were outgained 475-321.
The defending champion Tigers finally came to life in the closing seconds of the first half, as Lee made consecutive completions of 24, 12 and 8 before a hook-and-lateral to Trindon Holliday put the ball on the Florida six. Two plays later Lee found Chris Mitchell in the right corner of the end zone to make it a 20-7 game at the break.
LSU appeared poised to make a game of it with a 12-play, nearly 6 1/2-minute drive coming out of the locker room. Andrew Hatch was under center and called his own number on an option play, pounding in a three-yard touchdown with 8:41 left in the third, but the Gators rattled off the next three touchdowns.
"We turned the ball over enough on offense," LSU head coach Les Miles said. "We did not control the ball in the first half. In the second half when they needed to score, they came down there. When we closed the game and made it a six point game, they turned it around and got seven."
Tebow hit Louis Murphy on a 37-yard completion to move the ball to the LSU two and went to his patented bootleg on the next play to waltz into the end zone for a 27-14 lead.
LSU quickly punted the ball back to Florida, and Demps took a handoff off the left side, using his deadly speed to motor for a 42-yard score.
The game was all but wrapped up after the first play of the fourth quarter, as Spikes stepped in front of a Lee pass and galloped past an LSU lineman for a 52-yard touchdown, giving Florida an untouchable 41-14 edge.
After a Tebow fumble, LSU got a little closer with a six-yard hookup between Lee and Dickson with 11:10 remaining in the game.
But a 25-yard field goal from Jonathan Phillips and a two-yard, cherry-on-top two-yard jaunt by Kestahn Moore at the two-minute mark put the finishing touches on a memorable Florida victory.
From the third play of scrimmage, the game appeared destined to end in a Gators victory. Tebow terribly underthrew his receiver on 3rd-and-12, but LSU safety Danny McCray tipped the errant throw directly into the arms of Harvin, who hauled in the deflection and burst into the end zone for a 70-yard TD.
After the Tigers went three-and-out, Florida made its way inside LSU's five yard line but only came away with a 20-yard Phillips field goal at the seven minute mark.
Again LSU failed to net a first down and Tebow answered with a seven-play, 41 yard drive that Harvin capped with a seven-yard reception on a perfectly run slant pattern.
Spikes put an exclamation point on the dominating opening 15 minutes by picking off Lee at LSU's 49.
"I want to thank the crowd tonight," Florida head coach Urban Meyer said. "That was as fine of a crowd as I have ever seen. I think that our team had the most well-rounded performance of the season. We were able to jump out to an early start against a great team with great football players. They're the reigning national champions."
Florida didn't score on the ensuing drive, but went to the ground game midway through the second. The 11-play drive stalled at the Tigers 17, but Phillips booted one through the uprights for a 20-0 Florida lead with 49 ticks left in the half.
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Posted by mrpickem on Sunday, October 12 @ 06:20:15 EDT (15 reads)
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UCLA / Tenny on Labor Day
The Bruins open the Rick Neuheisel era with a tough non-conference clash against Tennessee at the Rose Bowl.
Neuheisel, a former UCLA quarterback who has had head-coaching stops at
Colorado and Washington, inherits a squad that went a disappointing 6-7
last year (9-4 ATS). Despite a .500 record, the Bruins snuck into the
Las Vegas Bowl, where they lost to BYU 17-16, though they covered as a
six-point underdog even though coach Karl Dorrell was fired as coach
after the regular season. In the spread-cover versus BYU, UCLA enters
this season on a 4-0 ATS roll.
Phil Fulmer, who took over for Johnny Majors midway through the 1992
season, is entering his 17th year as head coach at Tennessee, which
went 10-4 last year (9-4-1 ATS). The Vols hit their stride down the
stretch, winning six of their last seven games (5-1-1 ATS), including a
21-17 New Year’s Day victory over Wisconsin as a 2½-point favorite in
the Outback Bowl.
UCLA is already thin at QB, with Pat Cowan (knee) out for the season
and Ben Olson (foot) likely out until midseason, leaving Neuheisel with
junior college transfer Kevin Craft under center. The Bruins have just
nine returning starters from a team that struggled to score last year,
being held to 16 points or less six times, including four games in
single digits. In fact, UCLA barely outscored its opponents last
season, averaging 22.4 ppg while allowing of 22.3.
As with UCLA, Tennessee will have a first-year starter at QB in
Jonathan Crompton, but 1,000-yard rusher Arian Foster and 1,000-yard
receiver Lucas Taylor return, as do four of five offensive linemen. The
Vols, playing in the perennially tough SEC, averaged 32.5 ppg last year
while allowing just a few points less at 27.3.
The Bruins are 16-4 ATS in their last 20 games at the Rose Bowl, and
they are on further positive pointspread runs of 6-0 as a home ‘dog,
4-0 against the SEC, 13-2-1 overall as a pup since 2004 and 19-7-1 in
September. The Volunteers are 14-2 SU in their last 16 season openers,
but both losses came in West Coast road games, at UCLA in 1994 and at
California last year. Tennessee sports ATS streaks of 4-0 in non-SEC
play and 5-2 in September.
For UCLA, the under is on runs of 4-0 overall, 4-0 at home and 6-2 in
non-conference action. The total also stayed low in six of Tennessee’s
final seven games in 2007.
The MAN sez, take UCLA +7 and UNDER 47
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Posted by mrpickem on Monday, September 01 @ 16:16:13 EDT (28 reads)
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Top Six MLB Runline Winners
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Minnesota Twins
Minnesota has been the runline player's best friend so far this year. Ron Gardenhire's troops figured to be an afterthought in the AL Central but instead, they trail the division-leading Chicago White Sox by just 1 ½ games going into Thursday's action. Because this club is consistently being underrated by the oddsmakers and underplayed by the betting public, the Twins are able to be successful versus the runline. While Minnesota is 59-48 straight up on the season, they top
the Covers.com runline charts in both W/L at 66-40 and dollars at +$2,479. Those figures are certainly helped along by the 34 wins the Twins have tallied as underdogs.
Florida Marlins
Another
team consistently underrated by both oddsmakers and bettors, owns the second-best runline record this season at 62-45 and ranks
fifth on the runline money list at +$1,006. The Marlins are hanging
tough in the NL East race, sitting just two games back of the
first-place New York Mets.
But many hardball observers are wondering how much longer Florida can
keep winning. The Marlins rank 26th in team ERA and 29th in team
fielding, and while five games over .500, have actually have been
outscored on the season.
Los
Angeles Angels
The
Angels own the best overall record in baseball at 67-40 and the best
road record at 36-19, and they top the Covers.com money list at at
+$1,887. But even with a 56-50 record versus the runline, it's a bit
surprising that L.A. ranks second on the runline money list at +1,834.
That means Angels backers are being given ample opportunity to take
advantage of some very favorable runline odds. L.A. has been, for the
most part, doing it with pitching while their offensive attack has
ranked in the bottom third among majors league clubs in most
categories. But the Angels added a big bat this week, trading for
slugger Mark Teixeira.
Bettors, however, will want to keep an eye on L.A. because an 11 ½-game
lead in the AL West could lead to the temptation to ease up down the
home stretch.
Chicago White Sox
Like
Minnesota, the White Sox were also expected to be non-factors in the AL
Central this season but manager Ozzie Guillen is cajoling this team
toward another division title, working with less than the best talent.
The ChiSox are 59-46 straight up and 60-45 versus the runline, the
third-best mark in the majors. Chicago also ranks third on the runline
money list at +$1,777. Guillen has been critical of his bats, but the
Sox rank in the top third in the majors in several key offensive
categories and rank second in team slugging. They also rank fifth in
team ERA and own one of the best run differentials, at +75 on the
season.
Chicago Cubs / Texas Rangers
The
Rangers own the fourth-best runline record in the majors at 60-47, but
because of the collective set of lines they've been tagged with, have
earned just +$28 for runline backers. And while Texas is also three
games above .500 outright, they've been outscored on the season by 32
runs. Meanwhile, the Cubs are 56-51 on the RL, which places them ninth
in those standings but rank fourth on the runline money chart at
+$1,147. And thanks to the second-highest scoring offense and the
sixth-best team ERA, the Cubbies own (by far) the best run differential
in the majors at +118.
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