Div. 1-AA

[Eli Blue]

Lines at 5 Dimes sportsbook (only place)

I posted last year as Evin and we did pretty well.
I changed my name because I chnged email and lost login info.

Let's give it a go:


Cornell -10 at Bucknell
Last year Cornell dominated game for 24-7 win.
Cornell on upswing and have been practicing since early August and should be ready to roll.
Cornell 2-deep O-line averages 6-4, 293; D-line averages 6-1, 247. Big for this league w/ a couple of blue chips.
Defense awesome over last 2 years.
Very good coach and program renews.

Cornell 28 Bucknell 7

Colgate- 12 hosting Dartmouth.
Dartmouth is the only team I can think of where knowing most starters are returning is very bad news.
Colgate is 14-2 against Dartmouth and 5-0 at Andy Kerr (pronounced "Carr") Stadium. Game is in revenge and Colgate played OK against veteran Mass Minutemen team at Amherst.

Colgate 27 Dartmouth 12

Penn travels to Lafayette Leopards -1
Penn ended very poorly last year and hasn't settled on QB.
Leopards have two road wins under belt and will win at home.

Lafatette 20, Penn 13

Harvard -19 hosting Holy Cross

Holy Cross is down this year and Harvard can score with QB Liam O'Hagan and RB Cliff Dawson, Harvard's leading rusher ever through only his junior year. Dawson could run for record day Saturday. Harvard expected to win Ivies, but I'll lean to Brown for repeat.

Harvard 42 HC 13

Lehigh is +3 hosting Princeton?

wrong team favored: Lehigh 24 Princeton 18
Lehigh has very good passing and running QB and has beat Princeton 4 straight.
I see nothing changing.

Yale -9.5 hosting San Diego Torreros
Torreros have very good QB and Yale has young secondary.
I think Yale wins and covers but not confident.
Pass

Fordham pic at Columbia

Columbia 10 Fordham 9
Each team suffers "Zockley Syndrome"
Both play zockley like s***!
Pass

Brown -27 hosting Georgetown, Ky.
Huh? Never heard of these hillbilly Hoyas!
Pass.

Best bets: Cornell, Colgate, Harvard

 

[Mr Hockey]

I agree with you on a few of the games especially Lehigh. The wrong team is favored in that matchup for sure.

Princeton has dominated the series going 36-11-2 but Lehigh has won the last 7. The biggest factors I see working in Lehigh's favor is game speed conditioning as they have 2 games under the belt.

Princeton is also starting an entirely new offensive line. Last season their OL featured 5 seniors & this year is alot of mix & matching with players moving from other positions.

Lehigh should be able to take this opener by 7-10 points.

Look out for Pinnacle to start having the Ivy games up along with the rest of the 1AA later this week. I read elsewhere that BetUs offers 1AA lines. I signed up there the other day. No lines are up as of yet & there is always Catalina.

GL this weekend

 

[Jimboski]

Eli;

Great to see somebody focusing on these secondary schools. And not so great to see not much interest (not many hits). Most prefer playing on the BIG name teams and televised stuff. I believe you can do VERY well at these type schools and last year I gave these type teams "a go" and did pretty good. I also learned to (for me anyway) steer clear of those Ivy League teams. They seemed to be most unpredictable. But, the - Richmonds, Moorehead States, McNeese States, Texas States, Hamptons, etc. types are where I think you can do very well if you don't mind putting the effort into studying them. That part is tough with the limited info. about them on the Net and anywhere else. Check out http://www.i-aa.org/

I haven't had the time to study them this yr. yet and been holding my own with A1ers so far which is why I haven't started, but I'll be visiting you again.

GL

 

[Mr Hockey]

Great post Jim, I agree with your opinion about wagering on these games. Over the last few seasons, I've dedicated a majority of my action to the 1AA-II-III games as the lines are easy to exploit.

Do you post at AnyGivenSunday?

 

[Jimboski]

Thanks, Mr. H.

No, but I will pay them a visit JUST to read what's there. ESP. if there are 1AA-II-III players. I'm really not into posting that much, almost never tail anybody. BUT, I sho will read posters stuff if it will help me catch up to what's going on at these second level schools. Have to believe that the consistancy (you know, from year to year) is not there like it is with the A1ers.

Post away, Mr. Hockey.