Super Bowl Best Bet; Saturday Recaps
Saturday was an amazingly busy day in and out of the Tuley’s Takes home office with tons of sports betting action leading us toward the Super Bowl on Sunday. We were also busy entering prop contests and buying “squares” while also following all the action in the other sports, including our first love of horse racing.
I went on VSiN’s “Live Bet Saturday” show at 2:30 p.m. PT and reported that the Westgate, Circa and South Point sportsbooks had dropped from Eagles -1.5 to -1. Host Ben Wilson literally interrupted my comments to tell us that his odds screen had lit up red with Westgate moving to pick-’em. During the afternoon, the South Point also went to pick before both went back to Eagles -1 the rest of the night and that became the consensus as Super Bowl Eve came to a close. The Over/Under was also trending toward 51.5 with the Wynn and Treasure Island going to 52..
We’ll see what happens with both the side and total in the morning and in the hours leading up to the 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT kickoff. I’ll be giving updates every hour or two on my Twitter feed @ViewFromVegas
As for my personal action (and our posted plays in these daily columns) on Saturday, I won my Best Bet on our NHL First-Period Over parlay on Canucks-Red Wings 1P Over -175/Flames-Sabres 1P Over -165 that paid off at +152. The Red Wings scored two goals in the first 2:35 of the game with the Canucks to easily win that leg while the Sabres took just over 12.5 minutes to get their second goal against the Flames to get us the cash. We lost our top CBB pick on Portland +11.5 vs. Saint Mary’s as Portland stayed close (trailing just 39-38 at halftime, but the Gaels pulled away in the second half to win 81-64 and cover the spread. At least we won our second CBB play on Indiana +3 at Michigan as the Hoosiers pulled the 62-61 outright upset to get us the split and keep us ahead on the day. Let’s recap the rest of Saturday’s (full-game) action, and then get to our Best Bets on Sunday, which will also be discussed in further detail in the return of our official “takes” column from a week ago Wednesday. But we’ll list those as well as another NHL 1P Over play for earlier Sunday as we don’t have any basketball plays.Saturday Recaps
CBB: Missouri upset No. 6 Tennessee 86-85 as 12.5-point road underdog and +630 on the money line. Stanford upset No. 4 Arizona 88-79 as 7.5-point home dog and 270 on the money line. Oklahoma State upset No. 11 Iowa State 64-56 as 6-point road dog and +220 on ML. No. 8 Virginia beat Duke 69-62 in OT and ended up covering as 6-point home fave. No. 18 Indiana rallied to beat Michigan 62-61 as 3-point road dog. In the only game between Top 20 teams, No. 14 Baylor beat No. 17 TCU 72-68, covering as 2-point road fave.