last minute monday night play

Packers/Vikings OVER 37   1 star

   this line has been coming down from 40 for no real reason other than public perception of the vikings great defense.  the packers should be able to air it out and the vikes have plenty of weapons. this game should be in the low 40's.....

NFL Week 1

Opening week appears to be a tough card:

Bengals -1 ---> 1 star.     ravens going with a division 1 -aa starting qb flacco

Bills -1      ---> 1 star     seahawaks very banged up and bills made some nice additions on Defense

Teaser --->  Lions +3 1/2  & Saints + 3 1/2     1 star   (6 1/2 point 2 team teaser)

            Falcons starting rookie Qb Ryan  

            Very Big Game for Saints after last year opened 0-4   added some key ingredients 

                  in offseason which should help them get back to top of NFC south

This week has been tough to analyze with all the uncertainty.   some handicapping thoughts that came into play:

   -   how are jags dealing with Collier's shooting 

   -  everyone n the mother is betting dallas . line has jumped from -4.5 to -6 which is a big

        move in the nfl. derek anderson coming off concussion. jamal lewis might not start. but              dallas also loses newman (cb) in the secondary . leaning to over 48 1/2

    

  all in all there is just too much uncertainty to make any big plays this week.  there will be many more opportunities in the near future.......   good luck!

Hedgie Saturday College football

The Hedgie is traveling out west and will only make one play on a west coast game. 

Stanford +14.5  at Arizona State      1 star

   Stanford got blasted last season 41-3 and returns a solid team with confidence coming off last week's victory while Az State has lost some good players from last season. This game will be closer than the books think

Hedgie Releases first pick of the season...

Tonight the NFL opens with Giants hosting the Skins at 7pm. The eskins looked horrendous in the preseason as they adjusted to their new head coach and new system. the last 2 games they were outscored 71-6. The Giants struggled themselves with the loss of 5 defensive starters from their superbowl unit. Vegas opened the Gmen as 3.5 point favorites which thehedgie thought was low. The line has since been bet up to -4.5 which looks like the right side.....

But the hedgie will be patient tonight and instead maybe another play it likes more.....

The GAMECOCKS of South Carolina seek revenge at Vanderbilt tonight. Vandy dealt them a sneaky blow last season whcih styarted a 5 game skid foir them. the Cocks return 7 starters on offense and 10 on defense and look poised to be one of spurrier's better teams. Even after a pathetically slow start last week vs NC State the cocks shook off 4 ints from QB Beecher to cruise to a 34-0 victory.

This week the Ole Ball Coach starts the right QB in Chris Smelly and the Cocks roll early and get revenge

South Carolina - 10 2 stars

Football is back and The Hedgie is ready with a new look ! With GOLD at $806 an ounce it may be time to consider fillings like Marshaw Lynch

In the past followers have been occassionally frustrated when the site would not get picks up in a timely manner for kickoffs....the hedgie is constantly scouting teams and games. this means that posting picks to the site while traveling was always hard. well, that is now fixed ! posts will occur regularly now. for example, if the hedgie is traveling to new orleans and has turbulence due to hurricane gustav and passes by the saints plane en route to indianapolis you may see a posted pick or just random thought now when the hedgie's plane lands. this will be realtime so that you can capitalize on the lines before they move.
this year the hedgie will focus on 1-3 college games and 3 nfl games each week.
It's going to be a golden year!

final four

Hedgie sitting on a 26-21 star weighted record will play it safe this weekend:

UCLA +2 just 1 star